[This page was updated August, 2022] Please note that some of the rebated items may not be ones we stock, and may not even be on our website. In addition, we likely won’t bother mentioning some rebates for products that our store very rarely gets asked for, such as the lower end consumer DSLR or mirrorless offerings,…
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Dear customers! COVID-19 HEALTH AND SAFETY PROTOCOLS (updated: June 16th, 2022) With restrictions being lifted almost everywhere, and since the majority of our customers are no longer wearing masks, we have finally reconfigured the store to a near pre-COVID layout. Most of the Plexiglas shields are gone, the entry chute is no more, and most…
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Exactly 42 years ago today, another event affecting much of western Canada and the US occurred, one that encouraged people to mask up for safety too! No it was not a global pandemic, rather Mount St. Helens in Washington State erupted explosively on the morning of May 18, 1980 and sent volcanic ash clouds to…
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I recently have had a number of questions regarding how to geotag images you shoot. Image geotagging refers to attaching GPS coordinates (longitude, latitude and even altitude or direction sometimes) to an image’s EXIF data, so that at a later date you can see exactly where you took those photos. It is most convenient when…
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From April 22nd to May 31st, you can save significantly on Laowa macro lenses! Laowa has got to be one of the best third-party, manual focus lens manufacturers out there. So far, every lens I’ve tried from the company has been superb and quality control has been top-notch. To date, we’ve not had any complaints…
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Following is a copy of Nikon’s exciting April 14th press release, detailing a firmware update that will provide some major enhancements to the already amazingly good Z 9 body. In addition there will be AF updates to the Z 6II and Z 7II, as well as a new MC-N10 Remote Grip… To get on our…
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Who made up that title!? Trust hard drives? Ha! NEVER! Never, ever trust a single hard-drive to keep your data, your images or your documents secure. In fact, don’t even trust an SSD (solid-state-drive) since they too can fail. I’ve had it happen myself. Recently, an 8-month old SanDisk Extreme Pro external SSD drive failed here at…
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Since my first SLR film camera, a Minolta X700 purchased on a trip to Germany in 1984, I fell in love with the ease of control offered by shooting in aperture priority mode. In all the cameras since then, save my large format 4×5 cameras, or panoramic medium format cameras, I have always used aperture…
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With DxO’s recent update to their PhotoLab software, it now supports raw files from Fujifilm’s X-Trans sensor equipped cameras, so I finally took the opportunity to download a trial version, mainly to test out their “Deep Prime” noise reduction (NR) module. Well, I have to say that the tests left me immensely impressed, so much…
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I recently had an opportunity to work with a preproduction sample of the new Fujinon XF 33mm f/1.4 R LM WR, thanks to our local Fujifilm sales rep. This new lens could be considered a replacement for the venerable XF 35mm f/1.4 R, the original fast “normal” prime from back when the X-Pro1 first came…
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