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Canon has yet to comment on media reports that it plans to start producing digital SLR lenses in Taiwan because it has no more room at its factories in Japan.
‘Canon plans to install additional production lines at the existing factory for assembling DSLR camera lenses and aims to suppress production costs by installing automated equipment,’ states an article in Japanese trade publication, Pen News Weekly.

Canon to boost DSLR camera lens production

This certainly seems interesting, an online version of Photoshop called Photoshop Express. An interesting idea and will show off the power of online applications. How will packages such as Elements and Paint Shop Pro respond?

And of course this is the trial phase so it’s free, but what will be the final cost when all is said and done? We’ll see where “Express” fits in within the Photoshop family since we already have the scaled down “Elements” package.

But it looks like a cool idea!

The Sigma Corporation is pleased to announce the launch of the new large aperture 50mm F1.4 EX DG HSM standard lens.
Large aperture, standard prime lens has superior peripheral brightness and corrects sagittal coma flare.

• Standard lens with large maximum aperture of F1.4
• Creates sharp images with high contrast and ensures superior peripheral brightness
• Incorporates molded glass aspherical lens, perfectly correcting coma aberration and creating superior image quality
• Super multi-layer lens coating reduces flare and ghosting
• Hyper Sonic Motor (HSM) ensuring silent, high-speed AF

This is a large aperture prime lens with a standard focal length of 50mm, ideal for all digital SLR cameras. This lens has superior peripheral brightness even at the maximum aperture and corrects a possible sagittal coma flare. This lens is perfectly suited for a wide range of subjects enabling outstanding, sharply defined images against a nicely blurred background. The fast, F1.4 aperture makes this lens desirable for use with Digital SLR cameras. This lens effectively becomes an 80mm medium telephoto lens on digital cameras with APS-C size image sensors. The optimum optical design and molded glass aspherical lens elements provide excellent correction for all types of aberrations. The super multi-layer lens coating reduces flare and ghosting. Superior optical performance is also ensured throughout the focusing range. This lens has a minimum focusing distance of 45cm (17.7”) and has maximum magnification of 1:7.4. It creates a very attractive blur, even when a small aperture is used.

This lens incorporates HSM (Hyper Sonic Motor), which ensures a quiet and high-speed AF as well as full-time manual focus override.

50mm F1.4 EX DG HSM

Fittings: Sigma, Canon, Nikon, Pentax*, Sony*

*If the camera body does not support HSM, auto focus will not be available.