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A Test in Photography (with answer key)

Award-winning author of "The Living with Nature Handbook" (Gintong Aklat Award 2003) and "Living with Nature in Our Times" (National Book Award 2008). former Director, National Food Authority. and Consultant on food and agriculture, Senate of the Philippines. Outstanding Teacher in the Philippines (Commission on Higher Education - CHED 2002). professor, University of Santo Tomas.

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Panasonic lenses firmware upgrade announced

13.09.11
The lenses that can be added to the video line-up now include the 14mm pancake lens, the 8mm fisheye lens and the 45-200mm zoom lenses. Panasonic has announced a new firmware upgrade for its Lumix G series lenses, allowing for seven new lenses to be added to the video line-up. Firmware upgrade The firmware upgrade is available now from the Panasonic website, and means the following lenses can now be considered as part of the HD Lenses of Lumix G Micro System line-up:. Recently, Panasonic also announced a new "X" range of lenses which included power zooms for silent zooming while recording video. Lumix G 14mm f/2. 5 ASPH Lumix G Vario 45-200mm f/4. 0-5. As part of the kit package of the GF2 and GF3, the 14mm comes as standard, while the 14-42mm is the standard lens that is supplied with the G3.
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Olympus PEN E-PL1: Interchangeable Lenses

With a basic point-and-shoot camera, you get one lens built into the camera. One lens, thats it. And its likely a small lens, which doesnt allow a ...

Olympus XZ-1 review

Unlike the Canon G12 and Nikon P7000, the Olympus XZ-1 doesn't have an optical viewfinder built-in, though given the pokey nature of the Canon and Nikon units, this isn't that much of a hardship. With the exception of the APS-C format models from Sigma and Leica (and Fuji in the next few weeks), the Olympus XZ-1 has the largest sensor of the popular enthusiast-level compact camera collection, with a 1/1. This is only matched by the Panasonic LX5, while the Canon G12, Nikon P7000 and Ricoh GRD III have 1/1. There is, however, a port that allows an optional electronic viewfinder (EVF) to be attached and mounted in the Olympus XZ-1's hotshoe. A larger sensor should give the Olympus camera an advantage as it often allows for bigger photosites, which usually means less image noise. In the absence of a viewfinder, images are composed on the XZ-1's 3-inch 610,000 dot LCD screen....

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