Sigma has just announced a new large aperture lens, the 50mm F1.4 EX DG HSM, available in Nikon, Canon, Pentax, Sony and, of course, Sigma mount.

This lens is designed to be compatible both with full frame and APS-C format cameras, and offers some features that will certainly be of interest for our passionate photographers, like

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Instructables has just published a cool tutorial to build a remote shutter release for your beloved digital camera:
Make a remote shutter release for your canon digital camera (and some other brands such as Pentax, Sony, and some Nikons) for about 3 bucks in under 5 minutes.
If you enjoy DIY,

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Two interesting new releases from Sony: Alpha 300 and Alpha 350.

Here’s a small comparison sheet of the two cameras.

Sony Alpha 300
Sony Alpha 350

Sensor
10.2 million pixels, 1.5x crop factor
14.2 million pixels, 1.5x crop factor

Lens mount
Sony alpha, Minolta A-type

Shutter speed
30s - 1/4000s

Sensitivity
ISO 100-3200

LCD
2,7″ tilting LCD, 230K pixel, with live view

Anti-dust mechanism

Memory type
Compact flash

Weight
582g

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