February 27, 2010
NIkon 70-200mm F2.8 VRII Reviewed on Dpreview
Dpreview.com has just released a new review about the Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm F/2.8 VR II lens, that many Nikon photographer have waited to buy this lens when it comes out. Nikon has invested a lot efforts in order to become a leader in the DSLR market, and to compete against Canon. We can see more rugged and professional amateur DSLR cameras and new high optical quality lenses, that came out this year (2010). Some of the lenses were announced on PMA 2010. The Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 VRII is the replacement for the older 70-200mm VR lens, that was already an excellent professional zoom lens.
By reading dpreview's Nikkor 70-200mm VR II review, you can see that the new zoom lens does not disappoints. The lens was announced back in July 2009, and many photographer were waiting to read a professional unbiased review about this new anticipated lens. The older AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8G ED VR lens was already 7 years old.
Sigma New Website Design - Looks more professional
Sigma has update its website design to give it a more professional and updated look. SigmaPhoto.com website has also incorporated a new Lens finder search application, which helps the visitor/photographer, find the right lens for its needs (choose camera system, ASP-C/Full frame, Skill Level, Special user, technology). As you know, Sigma has a large variety of great optical quality lenses, and it keeps expanding its selection over the years, so a search engine like this is a welcomed feature. The design take a more contrasty approach with colors like black ,red and white, which give the website a more 'PRO' look then before.
If you have seen Sigma's SD14 or SD15 camera's mini-sites, you should probably know what I am talking about. Those mini-sites are well designed with a very dramatic color and shadows effects to reflect the new path that Sigma aims to. Some news across the web suggests that Sony will be using the same Foveon technology that allows the camera to capture all the color spectrum (RGB) to its Foveon sensor for each pixel, instead of just one, either Green, Blue or Red in Bayer snesor. If Sony will launch such sensor, it will probably 'kill' Sigma's SD DSLR cameras range, petty. But It seems that Sigma continues to make new innovations and try to keep up with the stiff competition. Because Sigma is a large Lens manufacturer, it has its financial back to support some loses (if there are), in the DSLR section.
You can see that the new design is suppose to tell us something. Probably that Sigma will invest in new technologies and want to become a real player in the digital SLR field and SLR Lenses in the near future. At least let us hope so.
If you have seen Sigma's SD14 or SD15 camera's mini-sites, you should probably know what I am talking about. Those mini-sites are well designed with a very dramatic color and shadows effects to reflect the new path that Sigma aims to. Some news across the web suggests that Sony will be using the same Foveon technology that allows the camera to capture all the color spectrum (RGB) to its Foveon sensor for each pixel, instead of just one, either Green, Blue or Red in Bayer snesor. If Sony will launch such sensor, it will probably 'kill' Sigma's SD DSLR cameras range, petty. But It seems that Sigma continues to make new innovations and try to keep up with the stiff competition. Because Sigma is a large Lens manufacturer, it has its financial back to support some loses (if there are), in the DSLR section.
You can see that the new design is suppose to tell us something. Probably that Sigma will invest in new technologies and want to become a real player in the digital SLR field and SLR Lenses in the near future. At least let us hope so.