Sigma 12-24mm f/4.5-5.6 II DG HSM Lens

https://www.photoreview.com.au/reviews/lenses/full-frame/sigma-12-24mm-f45-56-ii-dg-hsm-lens/

An ultra-wide zoom lens for digital SLR cameras with both ‘full frame’ and APS-C sized sensors.As is apparent by its name, Sigma’s 12-24mm f/4.5-5.6 II DG HSM is a second-generation product that updates the popular 12-24mm f/4.5-5.6 EX DG ASP HSM that was introduced in 2002. Interestingly, its RRP in Australia is just over $250 lower than the MSRP posted on Sigma Corporation’s US website, which makes this lens excellent value for money for Australians.

Pentax Q

https://www.photoreview.com.au/reviews/advanced-compact-cameras/interchangeable-lens/pentax-q/

The most pocketable interchangeable-lens camera available provides a wealth of creative shooting effects.With the new Pentax Q, this innovative camera manufacturer has once again challenged convention by producing the smallest, lightest interchangeable-lens camera system currently available. Although the Pentax Q isn’t a retread of the company’s 1979 Auto 110 SLR camera, its designers have applied many of the same principles to give users a similar set of controls and functions to the company’s larger DSLRs.

SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash Card

https://www.photoreview.com.au/reviews/peripherals/storage-peripherals/sandisk-extreme-iii-compactflash-card/

Our first memory card review looks at SanDisk’s Extreme III CompactFlash card, which is designed for professional photographers who work in extreme conditions and claims to offer high-speed viewing and downloading of shots plus the ability to recover accidentally deleted pictures. For our tests, we used two totally different DSLR cameras – the Nikon D2X, which claims to be one of the fastest cameras on the market and the comparatively sluggish Canon EOS 300D.

Nikon Coolwalker MSV-01

https://www.photoreview.com.au/reviews/peripherals/storage-peripherals/nikon-coolwalker-msv-01/

Nikon’s Coolwalker is an attractive looking, thoughtfully engineered, portable storage device with plenty of features to please photographers. Designed to work with CompactFlash cards and Microdrives, it can accept other card types via a CF adapter and the card slot has a slide-up cover to prevent ingress of detritus. Its 30GB hard disk can store approximately 10,000 high-resolution JPEG images from a 6-megapixel camera and the 2.5-inch, 117,600 pixel colour TFT LCD screen allows images to be viewed anywhere.