Monday, August 25, 2008

Camera rumors


The next four weeks will have many camera announcements as we near Photokina in Germany in late September.
And it seems there will be several very interesting cameras. A couple of important upgrades from Canon, possibly a rangefinder from Nikon, and for sure the eagerly anticipated Nikon D90, which looks kewl. I like that it looks like it is compact. (In fact it looks like it will be not much larger than the D40, which is fantastic.)
And a 3200 ISO setting is most welcome. It seems it will also be the first DSLR to do video.

There'll also be a new kit lens for it, a 18-105 mm with stabilization. If this lens is in the new higher optical quality that many new lenses in the past year have been*, then that's highly interesting. A compact, high-quality all round kit in one.

*It seems to me that there has been a quantum leap in optical engeneering in the past couple of years. New lenses are coming out that are far better than anything has been in their respective classes before.

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