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Pentax adds a new digital compact camera to its RZ series. Featuring a slim, lightweight body, the Pentax Optio RZ18 offers a powerful 18x optical zoom lens covering focal lengths from 25mm wide angle to 450mm super-telephoto.

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Canon has updated their venerable 70-200mm f/2.8 professional zoom lens making one of Canons best even better.
The new Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM zoom lens has improved optics, increased durability, enhanced image stabilization, a shorter minimum focus distance and faster auto focus.

The Sigma Corporation is pleased to announce the new 70-300mm F4-5.6 DG OS. This telephoto zoom lens incorporates Sigmas original OS (Optical Stabiliser) function and is housed in a compact construction.

The OS function offers the use of shutter speeds approximately 4 stops slower than would otherwise be possible. It makes telephoto shooting easy for many types of photography such as sport and nature.
For Sony and Pentax mount, the built-in OS function of this lens can be used even if the camera body is equipped with an anti-shake function. As compensation for camera shake is visible in the view finder, the photographer can easily check for accurate focus and ensure there is no subject movement.

Leica DG Macro-Elmarit 45mm / F2.8 ASPH. / MEGA O.I.S. lens : Panasonic also unveiled a new macro lens of world renowned Leica name Leica DG Macro-Elmarit 45mm / F2.8 ASPH. / MEGA O.I.S. (35mm camera equivalent: 90mm) for another member of the Panasonic Lumix G Micro System.
Awaited long from enthusiastic photographers worldwide, the new Leica DG Macro-Elmarit 45mm / F2.8 ASPH. / MEGA O.I.S. lens boasts a superb image quality with minimum distortion, chromatic aberrations as well as ghosts and flares that passes a stringent Leica standard to goes beyond their expectations. more...

Panasonic unveils a new pancake interchangeable lens called the Lumix G 20mm / F1.7 ASPH. (35mm camera equivalent: 40mm) as a new member of the Lumix G Micro System.

The new Panasonic Lumix G 20mm / F1.7 ASPH. pancake lens features a dramatic compactness and light weight despite its F1.7 brightness allowing a beautiful soft focus for photos to be even more impressive. Comprising of seven lenses in 5 groups, the new Panasonic lens system uses two aspherical lenses most effectively to minimize both distortion and chromatic aberrations, achieving super high resolution corner to corner.