The Sigma Corporation is pleased to announce the launch of the new ELECTRONIC FLASH EF-530 DG SUPER.EF-530 DG SUPER features a powerful Guide Number of 53 and is designed to work with the latest TTL auto exposure systems of all popular manufacturers’ digital SLR cameras. Among the advanced features of this flash are modeling flash function, multi pulse flash, TTL wireless flash, FP (high speed) flash, rear-curtain Synchro flash and manual flash mode which allows the photographer to set the flash power level by up to eight stops.

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A very fantastic composition, and what I love the most is the emotion and the mood from this fantastic photograph
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Rezo, originally uploaded by tabu.

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A while ago, photographer Yvon Bourque sent me a copy of his book about the Pentax K10D and asked me what I thought about it. In the past month, I also happened to start writing a review of my own K10D that I received not long ago (my tales are coming soon) and I was pretty sure I knew everything about it, inside and out. Well, then I opened up Yvon's book. Without a doubt, he had captured in writing just about everything I had already put together in my mind after days of exploring the possibilities of the camera. And he had fished up experiences I hadn't even gotten to, yet, like using an M42 adapter for old screwmount Takumar lenses. Better still, he even compared the various kinds of M42 adapters most people use. My kind of guy!


My gut feeling tells me that if you're in the market for a K10D, when you're picking out the things you really need to get with the camera (like a new 4GB SDHC memory card, an extra battery pack, microfibre cloths, and a rocket blower), you ought to order this $19.95 book, too.

About The Book

Old hats with Pentax cameras will appreciate that the book...

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

-Marya Mannes