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Lensbaby Wide-Angle Conversion lenses

Ilse Jurrien
Photokina report
Thursday 21st, September 2006
Posted by: Ilse Jurrien

Lensbabies launches the new Lensbaby accessory lenses, a Lensbaby Wide Angle/Macro Conversion Lens and a Lensbaby Wide Angle/Telephoto Lens kit. Most notable about the new wide angle accessory lens is that it is optimized for use with the Lensbaby - no other wide angle accessory on the market preserves the size of the sweet spot of focus the way the Lensbaby wide angle lens does. When a photographer uses an industry standard wide angle conversion lens with a Lensbaby it shrinks the size of the Sweet Spot. The shrinking Sweet Spot makes it harder to shoot wide open at f/2.0 or f/2.8, because the Sweet Spot reduces to quite a small percentage of the photo. Our new Lensbaby wide angle conversion lenses solve the problem of the shrinking Sweet Spot.

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Pentax DA 70mm F2.4 Limited lens

Posted by: Nic Rossmüller Thursday 14th, September 2006

An Interchangeable Medium-Telephoto Lens for Pentax Digital SLR Cameras, Featuring Ultra-Thin Pancake Design and High-Quality Visual Description Corporation is pleased to announce the introduction of the smc Pentax-DA 70mm F2.4 Limited lens, designed for exclusive use with its digital SLR cameras and featuring an ultra-thin design and uni-focal, medium-telephoto optics. With its medium-telephoto perspective, this new lens is ideal for portrait and landscape photography. Its high-performance optics not only assures outstanding image quality, but also provides distinctive visual expression. The materials used for this lens have been carefully selected for optimum holding comfort and operability.

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Where there is one market booming, the digital SLR market, we find automatically an increasing demand for digital SLR lenses. A SLR lens is an optical lens or assembly of lenses used in conjunction with a digital reflex body to capture digital images of objects on flash memory cards. Besides the manufacturers of the digital SLR bodies who are producing a diverse range of SLR lenses and introduced before and during the Photokina 2006 their latest lenses for DSLR cameras, there a multiple manufacturers who are specialized in producing SLR lenses for certain brands. The increasing demand of digital SLR products is good news for SLR lens manufacturer and even after many years of SLR lens production innovations are still made in the developing of SLR lenses. Bookmark the special Photokina 2006 report to make sure you will get the latest SLR lens information from the show floor.