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Canon are showing a teaser for a new DSLR. Of course, I’m hoping this is going to be the 5D replacement but we should find out in the next couple of weeks.

Panasonic have announced they intend to release a replacement for the L10 (their 4:3s camera) on the 12th of September.

Could this be the first Micro 4:3s model? Could this be a rendering of the camera? Unlikely since it’s not a DSLR but it would not surprise me if it’s something like this but with an EVF added.

We’ll soon see that they have planned though.

O2 UK have announced the release date for the iPhone G3 on Pay-As-You-Go. It will be available direct from them, Carphone Warehouse and Apple stores as of the 16th of September.

The prices are pretty high at £350 and £400 for the 8 and 16Gb versions but it does include 12 months of ‘unlimited’ Internet usage. After that, you can continue this for £10 per month. The effective price is therefore more like £230 and £280.…

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I have a couple of 500Gb Lacie “Big Disks” that I used to use for backup (I’m moving over to a Drobo now). These two Lacie drives had worked faultlessly for about 3 years but a few months back one started to cause me problems.

The symptoms were the drive clicking on and off or spinning up of its own accord. This would frequently cause OSX to show a “Device Disconnected” error. This was quite worrying…

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There’s a piece on street photography in a less well visited area of China on Luminous Landscape’s site.

There are some really nice shots of the changes to and the intimate details of the city, as well as the local countryside.

The shots are taken mainly with a Leica M6 and a Bessa R2a. It’s well worth a look.

We’ll it’s been an ongoing saga with my Canon 40D and its intermittent “Err99″. I’d thought the issue had gone away because I’d not seen the message for several weeks, despite regular use of the camera.

However, about 3 weeks ago during a shoot on a sunny day it returned and with a vengeance. The problem occurred about 12 times in a couple of hundred shots - a much higher percentage than before.

The decision to phone…

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DPReview has posted sample images from the 50D and some sample images / videos from the D90.

The images from the 50D are pretty good, especially considering the 50% jump in mega-pixels. The 1600 ISO image of a copper plate showing a ship is remarkably free from noise while still retaining plenty of detail.

There’s no 1600 ISO image for the D90 but there are two 3200 ISO ones. Personally, I think these two images (crocodile &…

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Adobe has posted a ‘reminder’ page for a webcast about Creative Studio 4. You enter your name and email, they post you a reminder of the webcast which is set for the 23rd.

I’ve added user bookmarking buttons to the blog today. These appear on the blog posting lists (standard, search and archive) as well the bottom of each individual posting.

Pressing them allows you to submit the post to any of the 4 services - digg, reedit, delicious and/or stumbleupon. The first 3 require you to have an account to make the submission but stumbleupon seems to allow anyone to add pages.

Implementation with digg.com

If you are implementing digg.com…

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Samsung have announced that they are going to make a new camera system using a APS-C sensor, interchangeable lenses and use a smaller body than a DSLR.

It sounds a lot like the Micro 4:3 system but they are reputedly going to use the sensor from the GX-20. This is definitely not a 4:3 system sensor.

Why they would decide not to go with the 4:3 system is unclear. Surely it would be better to have a…

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