In March 2012 Canon published a list of the countries where the Speedlite 600EX-RT and ST-E3-RT Speedlite Transmitter can be used. It is all about where you can use devices using 2.4 GHz ISM bands.

The countries:

Australia ,Austria, Belgium, Brunei, Bulgaria, Canada, Cayman Islands, China, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Malta, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam.

Canon Speedlite 600EX-RT price check: B&H Photo, Adorama, Amazon USA, Amazon Canada, Canon Canada, Canon USACanon ST-E3-RT Speedlite Transmitter: B&H Photo, Adorama, Amazon USA, Amazon Canada, Canon Canada, Canon USA [via pixsylated]

DxO Optics 8.1.2 has been released. Among many new features, support for the Canon EOS 6D (price & specs) has been added (in the Elite version of the software). Around 300 new camera and lens combinations have been added to the DxO Optics Modules library, there are now of 10,000 available Optics Modules.

DxO Optics Pro achieved the goal it set in early 2012 to have 10,000 DxO Optics Modules available by the end of 2012. Developed in the laboratory using an exclusive calibration process, DxO Optics Modules contain tens of thousands of data points about the intrinsic characteristics and flaws of each camera and lens. This database, unique in the entire world, allows DxO Optics Pro to automatically correct all the optical flaws in RAW and JPEG images – distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberrations, lens softness – with an unrivaled level of quality.

Read the announcement here.

• CanonWatch Readers Work: see what you can do with a Canon EOS 5D Mark III (price & specs) and a GoPro HD2, by Jussi Hellsten, watch it below…
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B&H has a Canon EF Cinema kit with the following lenses in stock: Canon CN-E 24mm T1.5 L F, Canon CN-E 50mm T1.3 L F Cine, Canon CN-E 85mm T1.3 L F Cine Lens. The price of the kit is, well, $14,220 (click here).

• Prime Lenses for EF-Mount Cinema Cameras
• Three Key Focal Lengths (25, 50, 85mm)
• Very Fast T1.3 & T1.5 Maximum Apertures
• Each Lens Has a Rounded 11 Blade Iris
• Matching Physical Dimensions
• Designed for 4K Resolution
• Excellent Low Light Capability

BCN Inc., has released the final market shares percentages of the 2012 sales in Japan. These are the results of the digital video and camera market:

Digital camera (integrated lens)
Canon 17.6
Sony Corporation 16.5
Nikon Corporation 14.1
Digital camera (SLR)
Canon 52.7
Nikon Corporation 35.1
Sony Corporation 7.1
Digital camera (SLR mirror-less)
Olympus 29.8
Panasonic 23.3
Sony Corporation 20.1
Digital video camera
Sony Corporation 40.2
Panasonic 24.8
JVC Kenwood 18.2

Canon doesn’t rank among he first three for MILC shares. Blame the AF of the Canon EOS M. And in Europe and the US? Check the Amazon rankings:

US ranking (Click here).
DE ranking (Click here).
UK ranking (Click here).
FR ranking (Click here).

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