Olympus has released its first consumer interchangeable SLR ultra zoom lens, the Zuiko Digital 18-180mm (36-360mm equivalent), as part of its family of interchangeable Zuiko Digital Specific lenses for the Olympus E-System.

The new 10x optical ultra zoom lens offers a long focal length of up to 180mm, providing...

Lensbabies has developed a second entry in its line of selective-focus SLR camera lenses. Lensbaby 2 and the Original Lensbaby bring one area of a photo into sharp focus, surrounded by graduated blur, glowing highlights and prismatic color distortions. Photographers can move the sharp area around the photo by bending the flexible lens tubing.

Lensbaby 2 features an f/2.0 aperture setting in addition to the original’s f/2.8, f/4.0, f/5.6 and f/8.0. The new Lensbaby also has a coated, high refractive index, a low-dispersion optical glass doublet, and minimal diffusion even at the f/2.0 aperture setting. Its levitating magnetic aperture system, which uses...

p>Nikon has introduced two compact, lightweight, affordable lenses for use with digital SLRs. The AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED is a 3x standard-zoom Nikkor, offering an 18-55mm focal-length range, with a picture angle equivalent to a 27-82.5mm lens in 35mm format. The AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G ED has a 3.6x 55-200mm focal range and a zoom performance of 55-200mm, providing a picture angle equivalent to an 82.5-300mm lens in 35mm format.

The 18-55mm lens features one ED glass element and one hybrid aspherical lens for...

Olympus has introduced three interchangeable, fixed-aperture, wide zoom lenses designed for use with its E-System digital SLR cameras. The new digital-specific B lenses include the Zuiko Digital ED 14-35mm f/2.0, the Zuiko Digital ED 35-100mm f/2.0 and the Zuiko Digital ED 90-250mm f/2.8.

The 14-35mm f/2.0 (28-70mm equivalent) and the ED 35-100mm f/2.0 (70-200mm equivalent) lenses feature apertures of f/2.0 over the full zoom range, which are intended to...

The Original Lensbaby is a flexible camera lens that creates an area of focus surrounded by a graduated blur, with greater versatility, convenience, creative control and new effects. The unique imagery is particularly attractive for portrait, wedding, product and fashion photographers.

An image created by a Lensbaby has a circular area of sharp focus. The photographer can move the in-focus area by bending the flexible lens tubing in any direction. The farther from this sharp area, the greater the...