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Video: Hands-On With The Fotodiox Vizelex Rhinocam
This gadget promises huge resolution, medium format style images from a Sony NEX camera, but can it deliver?
Camera Test: Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH3 Interchangeable-Lens Compact
Could Panasonic's new "small" camera be the best ILC yet?
New Gear: Phantom Flex4K Camera Brings 4k Video at 1000fps
You might be limited to a five-second burst, but at 1000fps that's still an huge amount of high-speed footage

From the Buying Guide

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SLR: World-Class Glass

The joys of shooting both wide and close, or from a distance, with Pentax's unique fisheye zoom lenses.
- By Herbert Keppler on December 16, 2008
We've produced every possible useful interchangeable lens," the head of a major camera and lens maker told me. "Name one we haven't." I immediately countered, "A fisheye zoom."
He laughed and was joined by a number of the other top executives of the company. Who would want such a lens?
But one executive seemed more thoughtful. "Not a bad idea," he whispered.
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Camera Test: Fujifilm Finepix F30

This 6MP digicam seems designed for the photographer who wants a lot of big-camera functions and performance in a small package.
- By Jack Howard on December 16, 2008
There's nothing about the design of the 6-megapixel Fujifilm Finepix F30 ($340 street) that screams "look at me!"
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Screen Tester: Pantone Huey Monitor Calibrator

Color Control made simple
- By Pop Photo Staff on December 16, 2008
Calibrating and profiling your computer monitor used to require an advanced degree.
Now, the new Huey from Pantone/GretagMacbeth ($80, street) makes it a no-brainer. This light, compact, and inexpensive colorimeter could pay for itself by helping your printer match the image on your monitor, but it goes further.
The Huey also compensates for changes in the ambient light-great if you edit photos on a mobile computer or in an office with a view.
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Film Now

New Tungsten-balanced print film from Kodak neutralizes hot lights.
- By Russell Hart on December 16, 2008
Medium- and large- format photographers who use color negative film have always had a choice denied to like-minded 35mm shooters: film emulsion balanced either for daylight, to shoot by natural light and strobe, or for tungsten, to shoot by existing incandescent and "hot" studio light. There were no such thing as tungsten-balanced 35mm color negatives. (Slides are another story.)
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Camera Review: Pentax Optio A10

Images shaken, but not blurred.
- By Bill Schiffner on December 16, 2008
Not to be confused with the way secret agent 007 James Bond likes his martinis, the Optio A10 from Pentax sports an impressive shake reduction system that really helps stabilize your shooting.
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High 5: Optical Filters

Five must-have optical filters for every shooter's kit.
- By Pop Photo Staff on December 16, 2008
Haze or UV
Often used to protect lens surfaces, haze filters can remove upt o 75 percent of ultraviolent light, a contributing element to the blush cast that can rob distant landscapes of color and contrast. If you shoot a lot of scenics and you're rough on lenses, get a haze (or UV) filter. We used the HOYA Haze UV (0) ($21, street). for info:www.thkphoto.com; 800-421-1141.
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Cool Gear

Love the latest Lumix, sharpen your scans, flash photos on your rims, and more.
- By Pop Photo Staff on December 16, 2008
Bright Star
Lenscaps are de rigueur with EVFs, but when was the last time you met a point-and-shoot with a big, bright lens that warranted one? The Panasonic DMC-TZ1's Leica lens does, and with its pronounced finger grip, this camera may remind you of an old-fashioned compact rangefinder (albeit without the optical viewfinder, but the LCD can be adjusted for bright sunlight). We had a lot of fun making stop-motion videos with the "Flip Book" mode. You can read the full test and check out our attempt at stop-motion at www.popphoto.com
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Lens Test: Nikon 105mm f/2.8G VR AF-S

Stop the shake with this rock-solid player.
- By Julia Silber on December 16, 2008
One of the most useful and praised lenses in Nikon history, the 105mm f/2.8 manual focus Micro-Nikkor of 1984 sired a line of high-speed close-up/portrait lenses, each growing in capability, size, and weight-up to this new 105mm f/2.8 ($830, street). But it goes its predecessors one better with the addition of Vibration Reduction (VR).
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Lens Test: Canon 60mm f/2.8 Macro EF-S USM AF

This 60mm macro is supremely suited to nature or product close-ups, as well as portraiture and low-light work.
- By Julia Silber on December 16, 2008
Canon's first true macro EF-S (digital-only) lens, the new 60mm f/2.8 ($385, street) gives EOS Digital Rebel, 20D, and 30D owners the same magnifying power (1:1) and about the same field of view (96mm equivalent) as its 100mm f/2.8 EF macro gives full-frame shooters. But it's more than a half-pound lighter and $85 less expensive.
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Hands On: Nikon D80 DSLR

Psst -- want a D200 at nearly half the price?
- By Dan Richards on December 16, 2008
If the Nikon D70 of 2004 was The Camera Nikon Had To Make, the new D80 is the Camera Nikon Absolutely Had To Make. Fine though the 6-megapixel D70 (later D70s) was, it was looking ever more dated next to newer 8MP and 10MP digital SLRs from Canon, Olympus, and Sony.
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