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One of the main advantages of mirrorless camera designs such as those pioneered with Olympus and Panasonic's Micro Four Thirds format is that they allow more compact bodies and lenses than would be the case with a standard SLR camera. There's only so much that can be done, though, and longer lenses can be fairly bulky even for mirrorless models. At the CP+ show last February, Kenko Tokina previewed a new Micro Four Thirds lens that uses another technique to help trim the fat: a catadioptric design. It's something of a mouthful, but in layman's terms, uses mirrors to both increase the...
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