Olympus Korea announced the launch of its top level DSLR camera ‘E-3’ and its new DSLR lenses in Korea market.

The E-3 has a 10.1M Live MOS sensor along with Olympus’ TruePic III digital processing engine. Fitted with 11 AF Full Twin Cross Sensor, the E-3 Digital SLR delivers the best AF speed in the world with the new Zuiko Digital Specific SWD 12-60mm lens. Supporting 5 frames-per-second nonstop shooting and 1/8000 second top shutter speed, it features a dual-axis swivel 2.5-inch Live View LCD covering all the viewing angles from low to high and side to side.

Fujifilm launched Finepix S8000fd which is a 8MP digital camera with an 18x optical zoom lens and a 3x digital zomm. This super zoom camera offers an equivalent focal range of 27 to 486mm stabilization, and featues face detection tehnology. The S8000fd has a 2.5 inch LCD screen and is powered by four AA Batteries.

I sometimes indulge myself in photography and my camera is always with me. When the light conditions are good and I find something good first thing I look for are the camera batteries and most of the time what happens that I find them dead and the camera can’t even take single shot and that too without flash. Not because they were not recharged, but because of not use and kept charged for few days, they loose the charge. Alkaline battery can be used here but after taking some shots, they also go down and cannot be recharged (who said? shh… u can do it few times!) and they become unusable. Sanyo has come up with a product called eneloop which is a Ni-MH rechargeable battery and it comes pre- charged. Just buy it and start using it. Once dead, charge it again and keep it for later use. This battery has longer charge retaining capacity and that’s why best for home use and one can charge the battery at leisure, keep it aside and find it fully charged when needed. Unfortunately this battery is still not available in my city but as soon as they are available I’ll will try it with my camera and see if works like the company claims or not.

What’s Macro photography btw? Simple you must have seen insanely enlarged images of simple objects making it look awesome. Here’s an example of such image:

Great ! This is possible by use of powerful camera zoom lens, good camera (oops! too pricy) and professional hands. Here I’ll tell you how you can gear yourself to shoot these macro photographs without burning a hole in your pocket and need of learning photography. These are the few things that you will require; most probably you would be already having at least one of them:
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