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mega large format....

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jacobsen1

05-17-2012

112mp with DR so well it can get the sun and stars exposed in the same frame...

B&W only, but yeah, I still want to see it made. It's even cooled.

yeah, and it's 95mm x 95mm...

(that's still not "full frame" for 4x5 though!

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apparently if they get enough response to this via social media they're going to try to make one for normal people to use..

http://www.specinst.com/Tech_Notes.html

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so they added a 180° tilt screen for the narcissists and a flash (that can bounce) and USB charging. The last 2 are pretty cool. The funny thing is they've redesigned the 18-200 to be smaller, I'm sure that has nothing to do with tamron making a version of that lens for NEX. On the one hand the first three changes are pretty nice, but on the other they can't even catch up with NEX7 or lens releases and they're making new options?

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Russia presents highest resolution image of Earth

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danm

05-16-2012

A timelapse of Planet Earth from Electro-L, a geostationary satellite orbiting 40000km above the Earth. The satellite creates a 121 megapixel image every 30 minutes with four visible and infrared light wavelengths. The infrared light appears orange in these images, and shows vegetation. The images were obtained beginning on May 14th, 2011 and end on May 20th. The images are the largest whole disk images of our planet, the resolution is 1 kilometer per pixel. The images are "masked" by ...

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5D mark IIIs in stock at B&H, BODY ONLY!!!

by

jacobsen1

05-15-2012

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...6000/KBID/6913

they were nice enough to link to my review when they put this on FB too.

★★★Back in Stock! Canon 5D Mark III (Body Only) ★★★ http://bhpho.to/wWrhqG

Our friend Ben Jacobsen put together this review of the Canon 5D Mark III with great photo examples and video - http://bhpho.to/HsrbbT ...

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