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The Canon 5D Mark III turns 10 this month and Lensrentals is celebrating the anniversary by comparing the classic Canon DSLR against a modern, top-of-the-line camera to see just how far cameras have come in the last decade. The competition? The Fujifilm GFX 100S. There’s no question which camera is better. New cameras come out with better image sensors, faster shooting speeds and more powerful chips every year. The GFX 100S ticks all these boxes and then some. However, is performance really that important? Does the GFX 100S, with its larger 102MP sensor, phase-detection autofocus,...
The new Mac Studio is the mid-range standalone desktop computer that many Apple users have been asking for. All product photography by DL Cade After many months of speculation and some very accurate leaks, Apple finally unveiled the “professional Mac Mini” that many of us have been waiting for. It’s about three times thicker and several times more powerful than the Mac mini, and it’s called the Mac Studio. Released alongside the M1 Ultra Apple Silicon SOC that sports 20 CPU cores, up to 64 GPU cores, and up to 128GB of RAM, the Mac Studio is capable of delivering more...
The Apple Studio Display is an excellent 5K monitor with a bunch of extra features that you won’t find in most of the 27-inch monitors on the market. All product photography by DL Cade The Studio Display – Apple’s new 27-inch, 5K monitor that was released alongside the new Mac Studio desktop – is one of the most difficult displays I’ve had to review. On the one hand, the price tag is sky-high for a 27-inch 5K panel that ‘only’ promises coverage of the DCI-P3 gamut and is basically incompatible with Widows. On the other hand, it’s extremely color accurate,...
Cinema lens manufacturer Cooke Optics has announced a new series of smaller, lighter lenses all with a maximum T1.4 aperture and an imaging circle to cover full frame sensors. The S8/i series will comprise 16 lenses by the end of the year, and unusually 7 of those will be ready for pre-ordering straight away. [embedded content] To accommodate these new lenses and to allow them to be ready for immediate ordering Cooke has expanded its factory to include a new assembly facility in its home town of Leicester in the UK. The new plant and new assembly staff will make it possible for the company...
Lensbaby has announced the Soft Focus II optic, a new 50mm lens in Lensbaby’s Optic Swap System. The Soft Focus II is a new-and-improved version of one of the earliest members of the Optic Swap System. The new version improves upon its predecessor by adding a 12-blade manually adjustable internal aperture to the drop-in magnetic aperture system. The lens has an F2.5-22 aperture range. When shot at its faster apertures, the lens offers a narrow, flat field of focus and produces soft, dreamy images. The center region becomes much sharper as you stop down, while the corners remain quite...
The Slow Mo Guys are back at it with more slow motion video. This time, the crew have recorded popping a giant bubble at 50,000 frames per second. How ‘giant’ are we talking? The bubble is large enough for Slow Mo Guys team member Dan to be completely encased. Gavin and Daniel started recording at 1,000 fps using the Phantom Flex4K. The Flex4K is designed for cinematic applications, so while it doesn’t offer the same speed capabilities as some of Phantom’s other high speed cameras, the footage is 4K and looks excellent. After having their fill of 4K 1,000 fps footage,...
[embedded content] Sony cameras do a lot right, but there’s still room for improvement. We discuss some of our favorite things about Alpha cameras, as well as areas where they need some course correction. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. The Asus ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED is one of the most versatile creator laptops we’ve tested. This laptop combines top-tier performance and portability with an excellent RGB OLED display and some ingenious design cues that put it a step above the rest. The Panasonic GH6 is the latest in the...
Last week, Apple announced the Mac Studio, a new desktop computer lineup that more or less splits the difference between the company’s existing Mac Mini and Mac Pro desktops. While the future of the Mac Pro lineup remains uncertain as Apple continues its transition to its proprietary silicon, the Mac Studio, at least on paper, seems ready to deliver on the needs of creators of all kinds. But what Mac Studio build will be best for your needs? And do you even need a Mac Studio at all? We’ll try to answer all that and more below. While photographers and videographers both fall under the...
I’m excited to introduce another new writer from our expanding team at Photography Life. Please give a warm welcome to Alex Coleman! Alex impressed us with his wide range of high-quality photos of a huge variety of subjects. You’ve seen his articles on night photography, real estate, and lenses – now here he is to introduce himself. Hi, I’m Alex Coleman. I’m excited to be joining the Photography Life team. I was first inspired to take up photography while traveling over 15 years ago. Since then, I’ve continued to enjoy photography as both a hobby and a profession, with travel,...
Camera lenses can be divided into two broad groups: prime lenses and zoom lenses. Prime lenses, which offer a single focal length and can’t zoom in or out, may seem to be inherently less useful than zoom lenses, but that’s not necessarily the case. Prime lenses can offer a wide range of benefits, and in this guide, we’ll break down what you should know about prime lenses and why you should consider adding prime lenses to your bag. Table of Contents What Are Prime Lenses? Prime lenses are best understood by looking at the difference between a prime lens and a zoom (explained in detail here:...
Do you want to shape and create content for the largest audience of photography and video enthusiasts in the world? DPReview has several open roles across our Editorial and Business teams, some of which are location independent. We’ve summarized our current openings below – we can’t wait to hear from you! Features EditorPart-time, location flexible (US) As a Features Editor, you will work with DPReview’s Managing Editor to develop and publish feature-length articles for DPReview.com. Working with a team of freelance writers and content creators, you will commission...
ON1 has announced ON1 Resize AI, a new application that leverages the power of artificial intelligence to produce higher-quality, sharper photo enlargements than ON1’s previous resizing software, including ON1 Resize, which is powered by Genuine Fractals. ON1 calls Resize AI ‘the biggest improvement in resize history.’ ON1 Resize AI, which is available as standalone software or as a plugin, uses machine learning technology to recreate the details in your image that typically get lost during enlargement. When enlarging photos in other applications, the software uses...
Cosina has been on a roll the past few weeks, having launched a collection of lenses back in February and a pair of 40mm F2.8 primes for Leica cameras yesterday. Today, the company continues its release with the announcement of a new Voigtländer Nokton 23mm F1.2 manual focus lens for Fujifilm X-mount camera systems. The manual lens, which offers a ~35mm full-frame equivalent field of view (and F1.8 equivalent aperture), is constructed of 10 elements in six groups, including one double-sided aspherical element and two low-dispersion elements. Cosina says the optical construction is ‘optimized...
M.Zuiko ED 40-150mm F2.8 Pro @ 120mm | F2.8 | 1/800 | ISO 12,800 (darkened ~1.0EV)Processed using Adobe Camera Raw (Luminance NR 15)Photo: Richard Butler The OM-1 has generated a lot of interest on the site, but I’ve seen a number of comments suggesting it’s a minor update to the last OM-D E-M1 models. To a degree this is understandable, its most prominent features – subject recognition AF, a range of multi-shot computational modes and a (nominally) 20MP sensor – sound familiar. But it’s a camera based on a Stacked CMOS sensor, and one that uses four sub-pixels to deliver...
[embedded content] In this video, Dan Watson of LearningCameras.com walks us through Sony’s trio of compact G prime lenses for full-frame E-mount cameras. The 24mm F2.8 G, 40mm F2.5 G, and 50mm F2.5 G have a lightweight design that makes them convenient for casual and on-the-move photographers. Their nearly identical size also makes them a good choice for gimbal shooters; all three lenses weigh roughly 170g and share the same 49mm filter thread. See them in action as Dan puts them to use on a shoot for a high-end sports car. This is sponsored content, created with the support of Sony....
Today, we’d like you to offer a warm welcome to Photography Life’s newest writer, Jason Polak! Jason is a wildlife photographer and mathematician from Canada whose great articles and photos you’ve seen grace the homepage these past few weeks. Here’s a bit from Jason about his journey as a photographer. Myself My first memories of photography are childhood fragments of disposable and automatic film cameras. With those, I mostly just wandered around looking for delightful patterns, and I probably only ever shot ten rolls of film in my life. (I can shoot that many images in a day now.) Once,...
Today, we’d like you to offer a warm welcome to Photography Life’s newest writer, Jason Polak! Jason is a wildlife photographer and mathematician from Canada whose great articles and photos you’ve seen grace the homepage these past few weeks. Here’s a bit from Jason about his journey as a photographer. Myself My first memories of photography are childhood fragments of disposable and automatic film cameras. With those, I mostly just wandered around looking for delightful patterns, and I probably only ever shot ten rolls of film in my life. (I can shoot that many images in a day now.) Once,...
The Pentax DA* 300mm F4 ED(IF) SDM lens has gone to space. Ricoh Imaging Japan announced that its 300mm F4 lens for APS-C cameras has been installed in the Kitsune 6U CubeSat satellite as a shooting lens. Kitsune was about the Antares rocket launched from Virginia last month. The rocket successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS). Kitsune 6U will collect ground sensor data and perform high-resolution imaging of the Earth’s surface. A standard Pentax DA* 300mm F4 lens Kitsune 6U is a relatively small satellite developed by the HAK consortium, which includes Harada...
Flashpoint, a house brand of Adorama, has announced the release of a cleverly collapsable octabank, the Glow ParaSnap. This new modifier features a unique folding design and offers quick speedring changes for easy changes on the go. The stand-out feature of the Glow ParaSnap SoftBox is a clever snap-into-place design that makes it as simple as possible to get the modifier built and onto your light source as quickly as possible. The modifier comes pre-built and to get started – both the first time and every time after – all you need to do is pull back one half of the modifier and...
Chinese optics manufacturer Yongnuo has announced its latest autofocus lens, the 85mm F1.8 for Nikon Z-mount cameras. Unfortunately, the lens’ release appears to be limited to China, for now. The lens is constructed of nine elements in eight groups, including one low-dispersion element and one high-refractive element. It uses a seven-blade aperture diaphragm, has an aperture range of F1.8 through F22, uses a 58mm front filter thread and has a minimum focusing distance of 80cm (31.5”). Since the lens offers autofocus functionality, the focus ring can also double as a control ring for...
The Asus ProArt Studiobook 16 is a sleek and powerful creator laptop with a gorgeous OLED display and some interesting design touches. All product photography by DL Cade The Asus Studiobook 16 OLED is one of the best creator laptops we’ve had the chance to review. Not because it has a next-generation CPU (it doesn’t) or the most powerful GPU (wrong again). It doesn’t sport a super bright miniLED display, it’s not HDR certified, and the AMD Ryzen version we’re testing here doesn’t even have Thunderbolt. So why do we love it so much? Because it delivers a...
What’s better: micro four thirds or APS-C? Are these two sensor formats at odds? Could any question spark an internet argument more quickly than comparing sensor sizes? There is no doubt that there are advantages and disadvantages of each. Today, I would like to talk about why I (gasp) choose to shoot with both formats. And perhaps surprisingly, my reasons have very little to do with sensor size. Table of Contents A Little Bit About the Formats Of course, the most obvious difference between APS-C and micro four thirds is sensor size. You can get an idea for this difference from this image,...
So far in this series, I’ve talked about compositional elements, their weights and how to use their properties to balance the composition by imagining a balance of torques around the middle axis of an image. I also discussed balancing of negative space, the perception of subject direction and the lead room given to match this direction. I ended the last article with the image below, and asked the readers to guess what I dislike about it. Let’s have another look: The snowy Goðafoss Waterfall, Iceland Canon 5D3, Tamron 24-70mm F2.8, 30 sec, F13, ISO100 It appears as though...
[embedded content] Editor’s note: There is NSFW language in the above video, as well as in the full video below. Keep that in mind before and while viewing these. For our ‘Wooden Niccolls’ series we recreate episodes from Hollywood films on a budget using consumer camera gear. This time around, we used the Panasonic GH6 and Vazen anamorphic lenses to recreate a scene from the movie ‘The Nice Guys’ starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling. Let us know how we did, and whether our dynamic duo have futures as Hollywood stars. Want to see a behind the scenes look at...
Last year, I wrote an article about finding subjects to photograph when there isn’t anything obvious to shoot. That’s a common situation in photography: not enough good subjects. Sometimes, however, the opposite is true, where there’s an abundance of good subjects and not enough time to photograph them all. It sounds like a good problem to have, and of course it’s better than the alternative. But it’s still a problem that can lead to missed opportunities and a lack of success from your shoot. I’ve had my share of failures in promising locations because I waste time, stop putting thought into...
[embedded content] Filters are essential accessories, but most filter holder systems slow you down and add bulk to your camera bag. The H&Y RevoRing magnetic filter system looks like a great solution, but how does it perform in the real world? Chris and Jordan have been using the RevoRing system for weeks and they have some opinions. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. The Panasonic GH6 is the latest in the company’s line of video-focused Micro Four Thirds cameras. It brings a new, 25MP sensor and 10-bit 4K capture at up to 120p....
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and the University of Hong Kong have developed StyleNeRF, a 3D-aware generative model trained on unstructured 2D images that synthesizes high-resolution images with a high level of multi-view consistency. Compared to existing approaches, which either struggle to synthesize high-resolution images with fine details or produce 3D-inconsistent artifacts, StyleNeRF integrates its neural radiance field (NeRF) into a style-based generator. By employing this approach, StyleNeRF delivers improved render efficiency and better consistency with 3D...
Aside from he new paint job, the lenses remain unchanged from their black and silver counterparts. Below is a brief synopsis of each of the lenses’ respective specifications. TTArtisan 17mm F1.4 The TTArtisan 17mm F1.4 lens is constructed of nine elements in eight groups, has a minimum focusing distance of 20cm (7.9”), uses a 40.5mm front filter thread and has a 10-blade aperture diaphragm with an aperture range of F1.4 through F16. The lens weighs around 248g (8.8oz) and retails for $118 on its own. TTArtisan 35mm F1.4 The TTArtisan 35mm F1.4 lens is constructed of seven elements in six...
The Lomographic Society has announced new Lomography scanning kits, the DigitaLIZA+ and DigitaLIZA Max. The new Max kit comes with everything you need to start scanning film using your smartphone, including film holders, an adjustable stand and a backlight. The DigitaLIZA+ and Max promise ‘truly versatile and accessible’ film scanning in a simple workflow. Beginners and experienced scanners alike can quickly scan 35mm and 120 format negatives with a smartphone or digital camera. You can also scan special format negatives with the new kits, including overlapping exposures,...
Canon has filed a new patent in Japan that aims to reduce the vibrations caused by a mechanical shutter. Japanese patent application number 2022-039332 outlines the issue of shutter shock and proposes a novel design that uses electromagnets to increase the precision of shutter position and control the shutter’s speed to reduce shutter shock. When translated, the patent states that the issue the patent aims to solve is, ‘In the imaging device, the vibration generated by the shutter is difficult to propagate to other parts, and the shutter is positioned with high accuracy.’...
Optics manufacturer Irix has announced the release of a stills version of its 21mm prime lens, the 21mm F1.4. As with the other lenses in Irix’s cine and stills lineups, this lens remains optically unchanged from its cine counterpart, with the only difference being the external design and more traditional focus ring. Illustration of the optical construction of the 21mm F1.4 lens. This full-frame lens is constructed of 15 elements in 11 groups, including four ultra-low dispersion elements, four high-reflectance elements and two aspherical elements. Irix says the optical construction limits...
Ricoh has announced Ricoh GR IIIx Urban Edition Special Limited Kit, a limited-edition version of the GR IIIx. In addition to a new paint job, the camera will also be getting new exposure and focus modes, both of which will make their way to the standard GR IIIx via firmware update when this special-edition kit gets released next month. Starting with the external changes, the GR IIIx Urban Edition Special Limited Kit features a metallic gray finish, a blue ring around the lens barrel and a collection of matching accessories. Specifically, Ricoh is including an accompanying leather hand strap...
Recently, winners and runners up were announced for the annual World Nature Photography Awards (WNPAs). Entries were received from 20 countries all over the globe. Amos Nachoum, from the United States, received the title of Grand Prize Winner and $1,000 in cash for his image of a leopard seal about to capture and eat a Gentoo penguin. Nachoum waited for hours on an Antarctic peninsula for a low tide to come in – when seals typically search for their prey. 2021 winners and Silver plus Bronze (2nd and 3rd place) photos for all 13 categories can be found on the WNPA site. Entries for the 2022...
The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust announced the Endurance22 Expedition has successfully located the wreck of Endurance, the ship of famous explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. The ship was crushed by ice and sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915. While the amazing discovery may not strictly be photography news, the Endurance22 Expedition has shared some amazing underwater photos and 4K footage. A century after Shackleton’s death, his famous ship was found 3,008 meters (1.87 mi) beneath the surface of the Weddell Sea. The ship was found within the expedition team’s defined search area,...
Venus Optics has announced the release of the world’s widest Super35 rectilinear prime lens, the Laowa 7.5mm T2.9 Zero-D Cine. This lens, which is fully manual, has a roughly 12mm full-frame equivalent focal length and offers a 123-degree angle of view when captured with a Super35 frame. It’s constructed of 16 elements in 10 groups, including two extra-low dispersion (ED) elements and two aspherical elements. It features a seven-blade aperture diaphragm, has a minimum focusing distance of 25cm (9.8”) and uses a 77mm front filter thread with an T-stop range of T2.9 through T22. The lens...
[embedded content] It’s been a long wait, but Sigma is finally releasing lenses in Fujifilm’s X-Mount. Interestingly, it started with three compact F1.4 primes which compete directly with some of Fujifilm’s offerings. How do they compare in terms of quality and price? DPReview TV’s Chris Niccolls has the answers. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. View DPReview’s Sigma 16mm F1.4 sample gallery View DPReview’s Sigma 30mm F1.4 sample gallery View DPReview’s Sigma 56mm F1.4 sample gallery Gear in this story...
Capture One has announced its development roadmap for the rest of 2022. Capture One’s product suite includes Capture One Pro on desktop, its flagship app, plus Capture One Live and Capture One for iPad. Each piece will work seamlessly with the others, promising a flexible, collaborative workflow across multiple devices. The roadmap is the latest in a series of steps Capture One has taken to be more transparent with its users. ‘It’s been a big year for Capture One, and we’re looking forward to an even bolder one in 2022,’ said Rafael Orta, CEO, Capture One....
While the iPhone SE and iPad Air updates were modest at best, Apple’s computer-oriented announcements were far more substantial. Apple kicked the event off by showcasing its new M1 Ultra chipset and then showed off the device it will first be available in, the Mac Studio. Paired with the new Mac Studio desktop is the Studio Display, a new 27” 5K display that’s effectively an iMac without the internals. M1 Ultra The new M1 Ultra is Apple’s latest—and last—chipset in Apple’s M1 lineup, which also includes the M1, M1 Pro and M1 Max. While Apple’s M1 Max, which debuted in the latest MacBook Pro...
Today, at its ‘Peek Performance’ event, Apple unveiled a collection of new and improved products, including a new iPhone SE as well as an updated iPad Air that brings the company’s powerful M1 chipset to the Air lineup. iPhone SE The first new product from Apple is a new iPhone SE 5G, an entry-level option who want the latest iOS device without breaking the bank. The device remains largely unchanged from its predecessor on the outside, but inside is a different story. The first difference is the chipset. Now, the iPhone SE has an A15 Bionic inside—the same found in Apple’s iPhone 13 model...
A month ago, Samsung announced three new Galaxy S22 series smartphones, including the redesigned S22 Ultra. The trio of smartphones offer a wide array of features and specs. The top-end S22 Ultra features a large 6.8-inch display and looks – and works – much like Samsung’s Note series. However, looks can be deceiving. Is the S22 Ultra more of the same for Samsung, or are there interesting novelties under the hood? The repair gurus at iFixit have taken apart the new Galaxy S22 and the flagship S22 Ultra to see what’s really going on with Samsung’s latest smartphones. Looking...
Recently, the winners and honorable mentions were announced for the 11th annual Mobile Photography Awards (MPA). Every year, the MPAs showcase the best images taken and edited with a mobile phone or tablet. 5,500 photos from 90 countries were submitted. Winning and honorable mentioned images from the MPAs are regularly featured at themed exhibits in cities all over the world including Melbourne, Toronto and San Francisco. Liu KunKun was awarded the Grand Prize Winner for his consistent set of intriguing images. ‘He has a great mastery of geometry and perspective and taken together with...
Canon Inc. has published its Corporate Strategy Conference 2022 presentation materials, revealing a number of interesting tidbits about the company’s past fiscal year and what it intends to do going forwards as part of its growth strategy. Under the headline ‘2021 Results and Future Growth Strategy,’ Canon says part of its ‘Growth Strategy’ is to ‘develop imaging business centered on optical technology.’ Specifically, Canon says it wants to expand the scale of its optical technology by ‘cultivat[ing] new users’ and ‘develop[ing] new products.’ As a result, it hopes to target one trillion yen...
Astronomers from NOIRLab have captured a stunning photo of the NGC 1566 spiral galaxy at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The spiral galaxy is colloquially known as the Spanish Dancer due to its beautiful spiral pattern. To capture the highly detailed new image, astronomers used the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope. The telescope was commissioned in 1974 and is named in honor of Puerto Rican astronomer Victor Manuel Blanco. ‘The DECam focal plane consists of a science array of sixty-two 2048 X 4096 CCDs. Additionally there are...
Schematic showing how different colored light is absorbed by the layered quantum dot photodetector. Researchers in the US and Korea are developing three-layered sensors based on quantum dots that promise low-cost, flexible, high-dynamic range sensors without the need for demosaicing. Quantum dots are nano-scale semiconducting crystals whose size and composition can be used to ‘tune’ the frequency of light they absorb or emit. Researchers at Northwestern University, Illinois, and three South Korean universities have published their findings in the journal Advanced Materials. The research...
Big claims were reported for the capabilities of the new OM System OM-1, and we now have Adobe Camera Raw support, allowing us to check those claims in our standard test scene. The company briefed that the OM-1 offered a 2EV improvement in noise performance and a 1EV improvement in dynamic range. However, these claims did not appear in such striking terms in the press release about the camera, where the only reference to a two stop improvement in noise referred to the multi-shot high res mode (where re-sampling the scene and combing the results improves noise and, as a consequence, dynamic...
LEGO Ideas is a website that allows users to submit ideas for LEGO sets. If an idea gets enough support, it can become an official LEGO set, with the original designer receiving a small portion of the royalties. Minibrick Productions has submitted a design for a Polaroid OneStep SX-80 instant camera, complete with a working viewfinder and ‘film’ slot. It’s not the first time we’ve seen a camera pop up on LEGO Ideas. Last summer, we highlighted a LEGO design for a 1914 Ur-Leica camera submitted by a user named Pandis Pandus. The LEGO Polaroid OneStep nails the overall...
[embedded content] For years, Chris and Jordan have produced their ‘Wooden Niccolls’ series where they attempt to recreate Hollywood movie scenes with consumer mirrorless cameras. In their latest project, they’re joined by a small crew to craft a scene from Shane Black’s film The Nice Guys. Watch as our team battles with small magazines, doors that open the wrong way and attempting Russell Crowe’s distinctive voice! Huge thanks to our talented crew: Levi Holwell, Kaitlyn Kerr and Alex Mitchell. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV...
Last month, cloud storage and data backup company Backblaze released its 2021 Annual Report for hard drive failure rates. Like in previous years, the report focused on failure rates for hard disk drives (HDD). However, yesterday, for the first time, Backblaze released a special follow-up to its 2021 Annual Report focused on solid-state drives (SSD). Looking first at the standard report on HDD storage, Backblaze ended 2021 with a total of 203,928 data drives under its management. All the data drives use HDD technology. This venerable storage technology stores and retrieves digital data using...
Harman Technology, the company responsible for manufacturing Ilford photographic film, paper and chemicals has announced it will be raising its prices later this month in response to supply chain constraints. As reported by Kosmo Foto, Ilford and Kentmere-branded film, photographic paper and processing chemicals will increase in price starting March 14. However, not all products will see their prices increase. According to the document sent to dealers earlier this week, Ilford Delta 3200 will see a 3% increase, while HP5 Plus will increase 7%. Prices for some of Ilford’s more specialized...
Leica is back again with another special-edition camera, this time giving its Q2 Monochrom camera the ‘Reporter’ treatment its given its original Q2 and M10-P cameras. As with nearly every limited-edition Leica model, the Q2 Monochrom Reporter remains entirely unchanged from its predecessor on the inside. Notably, the camera still has a full-frame 47MP sensor designed specifically for monochrome photography. Leica says this monochrome sensor can capture up to two additional stops of dynamic range (13EV vs 11EV) compared to its Bayer-laden counterpart. In front of the sensor is the same...
For this week’s installment of Film Friday, we’re featuring an article from The Stereoscopy Blog, as shared on 35mmc, that serves as an introduction to stereoscopic photography — oftentimes referred to as as 3D photography. Stereoscopic still life taken with a 120 Sputnik stereo camera After a brief introduction to what The Stereoscopy Blog is about, Rebecca (from The Stereoscopy Blog) breaks down the basics of analog stereoscopic photography: what it is, where it came from, what its use-cases are and, arguably most importantly, how to get started in capturing your own stereoscopic images if...
The Annual Photography Awards (APA) has announced the Overall and category winners for its 2021 competition. A total of 1,564 photographers from 54 countries entered their work in a collection of categories, including abstract, architecture, landscape, photojournalism, portrait, street and fine art, as well as an overall ‘Photographer of the Year.’ Martin Stranka won the title of Photographer of the Year 2021 for his series ‘Boyhood,’ which came with a $1,000 cash prize. Eight other category winners received a $500 cash prize. The winning entries were selected from a...
Over at Scan of the Month, the team uses computed tomography scanning, an imaging technique often reserved for medical settings, to photograph the internal components of well-known consumer products, including LEGO, Apple AirPods and a Nintendo handheld video game systems, such as the original Game Boy, Game Boy Advance and Nintendo Switch. The featured product in February was instant cameras. Scan of the Month looked at three iconic instant cameras, the Polaroid 600 AF, Polaroid Go and Fujifilm Instax. Instant film cameras have a long history. Polaroid launched its first camera, the Model...
Introduction The 12-40mm F2.8 II Pro and 40-150mm F4 Pro aren’t the first lenses to appear with ‘OM System’ branding, but they give a bit of an insight into OM Digital Solutions’ thinking about the system, its strengths, and where it’s going. We’ve had a chance to handle and use the lenses a little bit and are going to take a look at what they are and what they offer. Gear in this story We are retrieving offers for your location, please refresh the page to see the prices. The Panasonic GH6 is the latest in the company’s line of video-focused Micro...
Samsung continues to push for newer and faster storage for photographers. Its most recent release in the form of the Samsung PRO Plus SD cards is specifically designed for professional photographers seeking weather-proof, fast and reliable storage over the older UHS-I interface. This “Pro Approved” product is supposed to deliver maximum sequential read and write speeds of 160 MB/sec and 120 MB/sec, while being able to support 4K video recording, making it an ideal solution for both photo and videography needs. We decided to test this card out and see if it lives up to its expectations. Table...
Apple has confirmed it will be holding a product launch event six days from now, on March 8, 2022. Apple doesn’t tease, let alone specify, what product lines will be updated, but if recent rumors from trusted insiders are anything to go by we can expect to see a new entry-level iPhone, an updated iPad Air and at least one new Mac computer. Peek performance. March 8th. See you there. #AppleEvent pic.twitter.com/cEKMq7BuBh — Greg Joswiak (@gregjoz) March 2, 2022 Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who is known for his usually-reliable insights on what Apple is working on and releasing, suggests we’ll be...
[embedded content] Apple’s Mac Mini is one of the smaller all-in-one computers you’ll find on the market. But, if this latest video from YouTuber Quinn Nelson from Snazzy Labs is anything to go by, Apple could manage to shrink the device even further. Since the M1 Mac Mini was released, Nelson said he’s wanted to tear one down to see what’s inside and determine whether or not it’s possible to further shrink the compact desktop computer. While it’s taken a while to achieve what he set out to do, the ‘Mac Mini Mini’ is alive and well, showing just how much smaller Apple could make future Mac...
Gavin and Dan of The Slow Mo Guys are back to their typical slow mo fun. This time, the crew overloaded capacitors and recorded the results at a blisteringly fast 187,500 frames per second. When slowed down for presentation, that’s about 7500 times slower than you can see with your naked eye. The camera of choice is the Phantom TMX 7510. The crew used the same camera last summer to record glass shattering at 800,000 fps. To achieve 187,500 fps speed, the Phantom TMX 7510 must record at 1280 x 320 resolution. You can shoot even faster as you decrease vertical resolution, up to 1.75M...
[embedded content] It’s been an exciting time for Micro Four Thirds, and we’re seeing a lot of questions about the new OM Systems OM-1 and Panasonic GH6. Chris and Jordan take a few minutes to answer some of them in front of a (lit, for a change) fireplace. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. Gear in this story Panasonic LUMIX GH6, 25.2MP Mirrorless Micro Four Thirds Camera with Unlimited C4K/4K 4:2:2 10-bit Video Recording, 7.5-Stop 5-Axis Dual Image Stabilizer – DC-GH6BODY $2,199.99 Shop now Panasonic LUMIX GH6, 25.2MP Mirrorless...
The GH6 is the most recent in Panasonic’s video-centric line of cameras for the Micro Four Thirds system, dating back to the original GH1 in 2009. Since then, the GH series has come a long way, evolving into a very mature, widely used system. According to Panasonic, its goal with the GH6 was to combine the best attributes of its two predecessors, the GH5 and GH5S, into a single camera. In particular, this meant a camera with a higher resolution sensor, like the GH5, but which could still deliver greater dynamic range, like the GH5S. The price of the GH6 even falls between the launch...
[embedded content] Photographer Doug Mills has photographed the last seven presidents, including the current president, Joe Biden. During that time, dating back to Ronald Reagan’s presidency in the 1980s, Mills has photographed many key moments during his four decades on the job. Mills currently works for The New York Times, where he’s been since 2002. Before that, Mills served as chief photographer for The Associated Press in Washington for 15 years. He’s also earned a pair of Pulitzer prizes for his photojournalism, including for photography during Bill Clinton’s...
Chinese lens manufacturer Venus Optics has introduced a new range of four cinema lenses for the Micro Four Thirds system. Three of the lenses are rehoused versions of existing focal lengths, while the new 6mm T2.1 becomes the widest rectilinear focal length for the mount. The range comprises: Laowa 6mm T2.1 Zero-D MFT Cine Laowa 10mm T2.1 Zero-D MFT Cine Laowa 17mm T1.9 MFT Cine Laowa 50mm T2.9 Macro APO MFT Cine The two wider lenses use the company’s Zero-D label which in the past has indicated that curvilinear distortion will be very successfully controlled, while the 50mm T2.9 is perhaps...
The James Webb Space Telescope has reached another milestone on its path to becoming a fully-operational observatory. NASA has announced that the Webb team has ‘successfully worked through the second and third out of seven total phases of mirror alignment.’ The team will now commence making smaller adjustments to the positions of Webb’s 18 primary mirror segments. The news comes only a few weeks after NASA announced that the James Webb Space Telescope saw its first star using all of its primary mirror segments. That announcement came shortly after the telescope detected its...
POCO, an independent sub-brand of Xiaomi, has announced the global launch of the competitively-priced POCO X4 Pro 5G and POCO M4 Pro smartphones during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2022. The displays are a key difference between the X4 Pro 5G and the M4 Pro smartphones. The X4 Pro 5G includes a 6.67″ AMOLED DotDisplay screen with a 120Hz refresh rate. The M4 Pro has a smaller 6.43″ AMOLED DotDisplay screen with a 90Hz refresh rate. The X4 Pro 5G has a 360Hz sampling rate, up from 240Hz on its predecessor, while the M4 Pro has a 180Hz sampling rate. The X4 Pro 5G can display...
Chinese Optics manufacture Kamlan has announced, at CP+ 2022, the details of its first lens designed for full-frame sensors, a new 55mm F1.4 lens that will be available for Canon RF, Nikon Z and Sony E mount camera systems. The manual focus lens is constructed of eight elements in six groups, uses a 13-blade aperture diaphragm, has an aperture range of F1.4 through F16 and has a minimum focusing distance of 30cm (11.8”). Based on the sole image KamLan has shared, it appears as thoguht he lens will have knurled focus and aperture rings. A KamLan production line worker poring over a 50mm F/1.1...
The Associated Press (AP), which sells non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of its photojournalism, recently canceled the sale of a video clip depicting migrants crowded together on a raft. This move comes after the independent global news organization received criticism for profiting from human suffering. The AP has an NFT marketplace, powered by blockchain provider Xooa, that launched this year. An NFT is a digital asset stored on a blockchain, on an encrypted ledger, making it unique to its owner. The marketplace offers images, including some Pulitzer Prize-winning photos, and video clips taken by...
Over the past week, DPReview news editor Gannon Burgett has captured a collection of images with Irix’s 30mm F1.4 Dragonfly lens mounted to his Canon EOS R (via Canon’s EF-RF mount adapter). This gallery is a subset of those images. Irix’s 30mm F1.4 lens is available for Canon EF, Nikon F and Pentax K mounts for $675, but can be adapted to various mirrorless mounts via adapters. The lens is manual focus, but does feature electrical contacts that allows you to control the lens’ aperture via your camera and transfers EXIF information from the lens to the camera body. Check out the images to...
As I began better exploring the woodlands of Eastern Pennsylvania, I came to realize that photographing grand vistas which would stop people in their tracks, in the same manner as is found in the western states, would not be possible. The grandest vistas in Pennsylvania are hilly overlooks, often speckled throughout with a small town or two, along with trails made up by highways. There are no giant mountains to train your eye on, nor are there any great sand dunes to find abstract formations within. At best, we have waterfalls, which are great subjects to find abstract patterns within. But...
So far in this series, I’ve talked about compositional elements, their weights and how to use their properties to balance the composition by imagining a balance of torques around the middle axis of an image. I also discussed balancing of negative space. But even all this doesn’t give us a full picture of the factors that should affect compositional arrangement. This time, I intend to talk about another placement consideration which has a lot of impact on my own compositions: lead room. Is this iceberg ‘facing’ any direction? What is it in its properties or shape that...
[embedded content] The Panasonic GH6 is clearly the best Micro Four Thirds camera for video shooters, but how does it compare to the full frame S1H? Does Jordan Drake have a new favorite camera? Is it too cold to go outside in Canada? All these questions will be answered. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. Gear in this story The Lumix DC-GH6 is the latest video-centric hybrid Micro Four Thirds camera from Panasonic that brings a slew of new and improved features and specifications over its four-year-old predecessor, the GH5S. Despite plans to have...
Cosina has announced four new manual focus, metal barrel Voigtlander prime lenses for Nikon Z and Fujifilm X mounts, plus a new lens adapter. The Voigtlander APO-Lanthar 50mm F2 Aspherical lens is a full-frame standard prime lens for Nikon Z mount. The APO in the name refers to the lens’s apochromatic design, which promises to eliminate aberrations and deliver clean, high-resolution images, even when shooting with the lens wide open at F2. The lens includes 10 lens elements across 8 groups and incorporates a 12-bladed aperture diaphragm. Voigtlander APO-Lanthar 50mm F2 for Nikon Z The...
Five years is a long time. I asked my six year old and he agreed. That’s how long it’s been since Panasonic released the GH5, which I would argue is one of the most important digital cameras ever released. It brought 10-bit video recording to the masses and, for me, it was the first mirrorless camera that truly felt like a replacement for a professional cinema camera. Unlimited recording in most modes, waveforms, vector scopes, shutter angles… These were the conveniences many professional videographers and cinematographers would pay a huge premium to have access to. Now, suddenly, they were...
The new camera system covers formats from 6×6 to 6×12 | Photo by Chroma Cameras Steve Lloyd, founder of Chroma Cameras, has unveiled a pair of modular medium format film cameras designed to shoot 6×9 and 6×12 format film photographs. As exclusively detailed on Kosmo Foto, the 6×9 camera, called the Six9, can also shoot 6×6 images, while the 6×12 camera, called the Six12, can capture 6×9 and 6×6 through the use of swappable film holders. ‘There are two models of my new camera. One is a native 6×9 format (with magnetic inserts for 6×6), and the other is 6×12...
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Especially in these interesting times. Olympus transferred its imaging business to financial investor Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) on January 1, 2021. November 2021 Sony stops production of APS-C models of the A series, the favorable legacy model A7 II and the A7c. January 2022 Canon communicates plans to close its only manufacturing facility in China. In late January 2022, Canon communicates a price increase of up to USD 200 for a variety of lenses. The global sales decline has now reached dimensions that will further accelerate a market shakeout. For the development of year 2019 (before...
The World Photography Organisation has announced the Professional Finalists and Shortlisted photographs for its Sony World Photography Awards 2022 photo competition. The competition is now in its 15th year and, in World Photography Organisation’s own words, ‘rewards remarkable series of works both for technical skill and an original approach to contemporary subjects.’ This year, more than 340,000 images from 211 countries and territories were submitted, with over 156,000 of those being entered into the Professional competition—the most ever in the competition’s history. Of those images, the...
In December, smartphone manufacturer Oppo announced the successful development of its neural processing unit (NPU). The 6nm chipset, MariSilicon X, includes the NPU, an image signal processor (ISP) and a custom memory architecture. The chip promises to improve the imaging capabilities of mobile photography, including a 20-bit HDR pipeline. Oppo has now announced the Find X5 Pro flagship smartphone, its first smartphone equipped with the MariSilicon X Imaging NPU. Image courtesy of Oppo. The MariSilicon X chipset can process up to 18 trillion int8 operations per second, (TOPS) at a rate of...
I had all of my camera bodies (40D, 5DII and 7D) purchased second hand on ebay, the most expensive one (5DII) I had examined before buying since the (private) seller lived only 10 km away from my home.No regrets here on any of those cameras. Regarding my lenses, there are three primes and three zooms that I bought on ebay from private sellers, only one of them (a 70-200 f4 L IS USM, my first purchase) was old and used and has focusing issues in certain situations, so I probably paid more for it than it was worth. Yet I don’t regret it, since it is a fantastic lens anyway, though...
On the 35th anniversary of Canon’s EOS line, the company has announced two new RF-mount super-telephoto lenses: the RF 800mm F5.6 L IS USM and RF 1200mm F8 L IS USM. While these lenses are similar in name to their EF counterparts, both lenses feature new optical constructions and weigh quite a bit less. Starting first with the similarities between the 800mm F5.6 and 1200mm F8, both lenses feature two focus presets for quickly switching between specific focus distances, use nine-blade aperture diaphragms, offer weathersealing and feature a flourine coating on the front-most elements to help...
Next month, Canon will celebrate the 35th anniversary of the company’s EOS System, which made its debut in March 1987 when Canon launched the EOS 650 SLR and three EF lenses: the 50mm F1.8, the 35–70mm F3.5–4.5 and the EF 35–105mm F3.5–4.5. The EOS branding serves dual purpose, as an acronym for Electro Optical System and as a tribute to Eos, a Titaness and the goddess of the dawn in Greek mythology. Since the launch of the EOS System, Canon has released dozens of SLR, DSLR and mirrorless, and over 100 lenses for its EF and RF lens mounts. Canon’s EOS EF lens mount was the first...
iQOO, a sub-brand of Vivo, has announced the international release of its latest flagship smartphones, the iQOO 9 series. The iQOO series includes the iQOO 9, iQOO 9 Pro and iQOO 9 SE, and each of the three smartphones promise big performance gains over their predecessors. The iQOO brand has traditionally focused on gaming smartphones, and the iQOO 9 series doubles down on performance. The iQOO 9 and 9 Pro include Samsung’s V6 UFS 3.1 memory chip, which promises faster file transfers, and an extended RAM 2.0 feature allows apps to run simultaneously with minimum lag. The iQOO 9 series...
The Panasonic Lumix DC-GH6 has a ‘dual gain’ sensor, but not in the sense you’re likely to have encountered before. The Panasonic GH6 features a mode called Dynamic Range Boost which the company says is based on a sensor that features ‘dual output gain.’ This mode is always engaged in stills shooting mode, making it the first time we’ve seen dual output gain on a stills camera. Given the widespread adoptions of the similar-sounding ‘dual gain’ sensor design, we thought this would be a good time to look at these systems and what they do. Why use...
CIPA has published its annual outlook, wherein it shares its outlook on the shipment of cameras, lenses and other photo-related products for the 2022 year. CIPA starts off by sharing the data for 2021, which showed total digital camera shipments, which include both compact cameras and interchangeable lens cameras, were down 5.9% year-over-year (YoY) in terms of units shipped. Isolate interchangeable lens cameras, however, and we actually get a .8% increase YoY in units shipped. While positive, it’s important to realize that the previous year, 2020, saw a dramatic decrease in camera sales...
It may be lacking an aperture ring, but the 56mm F1.4 DC DN makes a great match for the Fujifilm X-T4, in terms of size and balance. The arrival of Sigma’s 16mm, 30mm and 56mm F1.4 DC DN lenses is another step forward for the X-mount system. No matter how comprehensive Fujifilm makes its own lineup of lenses, it’s always beneficial to not have a system solely tied to one company’s vision of the system or dependent on its production priorities. Sigma joins Zeiss, Tamron, Tokina and Viltrox in supporting the system, giving Fujifilm users an increasing array of options. Sigma...
TTartisan has added yet another mount option for its 23mm F1.4 APS-C lens. Now, in addition to Canon EF-M, Fujifilm X, Micro Four Thirds, Nikon Z and Sony E mount versions, there is an L-mount model. Aside from very minor dimensional differences, the fully manual lens remains unchanged from its APS-C counterparts. It’s comprised of eight elements in six groups, including one low-dispersion element and three high-refractive index elements. Other features include a 10-blade aperture diaphragm and has a minimum focusing distance of 20cm (7.9”). TTArtisan doesn’t specify the exact dimensions of...
Canon China has posted a series of teasers for a new product announcement set to take place tomorrow, February 24, 2022. The promotional images, shared on Canon China’s official profile on social media platform Weibo, have been counting down the days until the new announcement, which will be livestreamed tomorrow, February 24, 2022, at 11am UTC. Aside from the countdown numbers, the only other visual information Canon provides is some gold dust and a red infinity sign that could also be interpreted as a horizontal ‘8.’ Whatever it is Canon plans to reveal, we should know by the end of the...
I just bought a 90D and discovered CR3 RAW files. Here is the problem. We typically go out on 3-4 day hunts and return with 400-500 images that need to be sorted and filed. For 16 years I’ve used Canon’s excellent Zoombrowser software. I know it was discontinued long time ago but it is perfect for comparing 30-40 images of the same bug and deleting the files that fall short. It was also used to add notes to the jpeg images. Zoombrowser does not recognize CR3 files. What do you guys use for sorting and managing CR3 files? I need software that can compare 2 jpeg images side by side...
Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki. Sigma’s ongoing Foveon full-frame sensor development project has run into many issues. In February 2020, Sigma announced that it was going back to the drawing board with its full-frame Foveon sensor and would be restarting development from scratch. About a year later, it announced it was fully engaged in research and development and asked for patience from its fans. Yesterday, Sigma released another update, sharing that the development of its full-frame Foveon sensor is still underway and that progress has been made. Sigma’s CEO, Kazuto Yamaki, writes,...
Tokina has announced the impending release of its new SZ 8mm F2.8 fisheye lens for Fujifilm X and Sony E-mount APS-C camera systems. The fully-manual lens is constructed of 11 elements in eight groups, including an unspecified number of multi-coated elements. It features a seven-blade aperture diaphragm, offers an aperture range of F2.8 through F22 with a clickless aperture ring and has a minimum focusing distance of 10cm (4”). Below is a promo video from Tokina: [embedded content] Below is a small sample gallery of low-resolution images, provided by Tokina: Both lenses measure 60mm (2.4”)...
A screenshot from the Field of Dreams field that was used as a testing ground for drone-use during MLB-sanctioned events. Major League Baseball (MLB) is continuing to adopt the use of drones for more than just scenic aerial shots from a distance during games. While last year’s ‘Field of Dreams’ game showcased the first efforts to implement drones into baseball coverage, this past weekend the MLB took its next step by testing out using a DJI Inspire 2 for TV coverage of a college tournament. For the test, the MLB used an Inspire 2, equipped with a Zenmuse X7 camera, to...
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N808PV says: Especially in these interesting times. Olympus transferred its imaging business to financial investor Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) on January 1, 2021. November 2021 Sony stops production of APS-C models of the A series, the favorable legacy model A7 II and the A7c. January 2022 Canon communicates plans to close its only manufacturing facility in China. In late January 2022, Canon communicates a price increase of up to USD 200 for a variety of lenses. The global sales decline has now reached dimensions that will further accelerate a market shakeout. For the development of year...
Megadap is a name you might not immediately recognize, with their product lineup consisting entirely of adapters. These adapters aren’t just your basic mounting rings, however. In the case of the MTZ11, the adapter brings autofocus to lenses that never had it: autofocusing Leica M lenses on Nikon Z cameras. This interesting technical accomplishment includes all the usual features of Nikon Z autofocus, like Eye AF and AF-C, with a huge range of Leica M lenses. Beyond that, even non-Leica-M lenses can be mounted to Nikon Z cameras with autofocus by combining the MTZ11 with additional adapters....
The Panasonic Lumix DC-GH6 is the latest in a line of high-end Micro Four Thirds video cameras. The GH6 can shoot a vast range of 4K-focused video modes, including slow-motion from 120 fps capture, full-sensor ‘open gate’/anamorphic shooting and capture in industry standard formats such as ProRes 422 and 422HQ. The GH6 is built around a sensor with parallel high and low-gain readouts to deliver a ‘Dynamic Range Boost’ mode that Panasonic says delivers more than 13 stops of dynamic range at higher ISO settings. It becomes the first GH camera to use the full VariCam...
[embedded content] The Panasonic Lumix GH6 is a massive upgrade over the now-legendary GH5. 5.7K/60P, 4K/120P and 100MP Handheld HiRes still are the headline features, but there’s a lot more for Chris and Jordan to talk about. Find out if this will become the DPReview TV camera of choice! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. Pre-production GH6 sample gallery from this episode Gear in this story Panasonic LUMIX GH6, 25.2MP Mirrorless Micro Four Thirds Camera with Unlimited C4K/4K 4:2:2 10-bit Video Recording, 7.5-Stop 5-Axis Dual Image...
Panasonic has finally raised the ceiling on Micro Four Thirds sensor resolution with their new 25MP GH6. Check out Chris Niccolls’ first shots taken with this new camera, in a variety of light levels. Want to learn more about this camera? Watch our hands-on review from DPReview TV. View our Panasonic GH6 sample gallery Gear in this story Panasonic LUMIX GH6, 25.2MP Mirrorless Micro Four Thirds Camera with Unlimited C4K/4K 4:2:2 10-bit Video Recording, 7.5-Stop 5-Axis Dual Image Stabilizer, 12-60mm F2.8-4.0 Leica Lens – DC-GH6LK $2,799.99 Shop now Panasonic LUMIX GH5M2, 20.3MP...
Panasonic has announced the Lumix DC-GH6, its latest video-centric Micro Four Thirds hybrid camera that features a new sensor, an upgraded image processor, improved in-body image stabilization and more. At the heart of the GH6 is a new 25.2MP CMOS sensor capable of capturing 14 frames per second (fps) in AF-S mode and internally recording 5.7K/30p video in Apple ProRes 422 HQ, a first for a Lumix camera. If you drop the resolution down to 4K, the GH6 can capture 10-bit 4:2:2 video at up to DCI 4K/60p, 10-bit 4:2:0 video at up to 4K/120p, and FHD video tops out at 1080/240p. Variable frame...
NONS has launched its latest camera, the NONS SL660. The SL660 is an interchangeable lens SLR analog instant camera. The camera has a passive EF mount and records images to the widely-available Instax Square film, which retails for around $20 for 20 exposures. If the ‘NONS’ brand sounds familiar, you may recall the company’s first camera, the SL42, which was the first instant camera to utilize an M42 lens mount. And like the SL42, the SL660 is launching on Kickstarter, where the campaign has already exceeded its modest $6,400 goal by over $40,000, as of the time of writing....
Sigma has announced the release of three new F1.4 prime lenses for Fujifilm X-mount camera systems. The 16mm F1.4 DC DN, 30mm F1.4 DC DN and 56mm F1.4 DC DN mark Sigma’s first offerings for Fujifilm’s APS-C interchangeable lens camera system and are nearly identical to their predecessors, which were previously released for Canon EF-M mount, L-mount, Micro Four Thirds and Sony E-mount cameras. All three of these lenses have been optimized for use with Fujifilm X-mount camera systems. Specifically, Sigma says the ‘control algorithm, including AF drive and communication speed optimization, has...
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[embedded content] We’ve spent some time with the OM-1, the first camera from OM Digital Solutions. It gets a lot right, but there are a few changes we’d love to see in future Micro Four Thirds cameras and lenses. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. Gear in this story We are retrieving offers for your location, please refresh the page to see the prices. Chris and Jordan are impressed with the new OM-1 Micro Four Thirds camera, but they have some advice for OM Digital Solutions after using the company’s newest flagship camera....
I just published a new video on our YouTube channel! And wow, I’ve wanted to say that for a while. Last year, I took a break from making videos to help run Photography Life, and now I finally had time again. Today’s video covers the best camera settings for landscape photography. Here it is: [embedded content] If you’d rather read about this topic than watch a video, most of the information is also covered in our written guide to the best camera settings in landscape photography. As I mention near the end of the video, we’re doing something special next time to celebrate reaching 75,000...
Improvements have been made to the Autel EVO Lite drone (pictured above). Last September, Autel announced the EVO Nano series, a sub-250g set of drones, and the EVO Lite series—a mid-level drone in the same class as DJI’s Air 2S. Today, the manufacturer has announced a firmware update, version 1.1.1, that adds features and fixes bugs to both lineups. The most notable update is the addition of video frame rates up to 50p (24/25/48/50p), manual focus control for most models and enhanced photo resolution in some models. If this sounds confusing, this is because there are four different...
The question I get asked most often is, ‘Which camera do you use personally?’ When people ask me this, I tell them in all seriousness, whatever the latest camera is this week. They never really find that to be a satisfying answer, but it’s absolutely true. In order to break the awkwardness, I’ll say something self-deprecating like ‘Well, I’m not a photographer, I just play one on TV,’ much to Jordan’s chagrin. He’s heard that one a hundred times. Truly, I enjoy taking photos. In fact, I take way more pictures for DPReview TV than I ever...
There is no doubt that the best gear for bird photography is shockingly expensive. For example, the latest generation 600mm f/4 comes in at about $13,000 US dollars whether you look at Nikon, Canon, or Sony – and that’s without a camera. More modest setups are not cheap either and are still on the level of used cars. Of course, this high end equipment does last a long time, and so over time the cost can end up being lower. However, the up front cost is prohibitive for many bird and wildlife shooters. So, can you shoot birds with really cheap lenses? In this post I hope to convince you that...
Blurring the background is one of the many ways to isolate or emphasize your subject. Do you need a special lens to do so? Absolutely not! In this article, we look at some of the ways you can get those creamy, beautiful backgrounds using almost any camera and lens. Chipmunk, Nikon D500 + 500mm f/5.6 Lens @ 500mm, ISO 3600, 1/640, f/5.6 Table of Contents Use a Wider Aperture A lens’s aperture is the adjustable opening that controls how much light enters the lens. It is specified by the f-number, like f/2.8, which is the ratio of the lens’s focal length to the visible size of the adjustable...
Winter can be a struggle for me. I long for idyllic, colorful autumn to continue unabated, but instead the land has taken on a stark barrenness. The joy and fun of the holidays is a distant memory. Springtime feels like a universe away. The shorter daylight hours and frequent overcast have me thirsty for light. I feel the beginnings of seasonal affective disorder setting in. Carbohydrates are calling my name. This, for me is the dead of winter. A fresh winter wonderland snowfall gets me out the doorNIKON Z 50 + NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR @ 44mm, ISO 100, 1/40, f/10.0 When these...
Real estate photography can be much more than just snapping some photos of interiors. Successfully capturing a property’s unique elements can challenge your skills as a photographer and as an editor. It’s this aspect of real estate photography that has made it my favorite subject as a professional photographer. If you’re trying to take better real estate photos, and operate a real estate photography business, there are some tips I recommend that can make a massive difference in the results and client experience. In this article, I’ll break down some of the major things I keep in mind when...
Since my earliest years as a photographer, I have been using accessories to trip the camera’s shutter without causing sharpness-robbing vibrations. In the film era, it was a threaded cable release, and in the digital camera age it has been a variety of electronic shutter releases that were compatible with the specific camera I was using. Today, I will review one of these electronic shutter releases – the Vello FreeWave Micro Wireless Remote – and see if it has enhanced my workflow effectiveness, and if it’s found a permanent place in my camera bag. The Vello FreeWave Micro is small enough to...
Every once in a great while, a company ‘invents the wheel’ with a product. What do I mean by that? I mean that the invented product is so functionally appropriate that it becomes a new standard. The Peak Design Capture Clip V3 is just like a wheel. It’s an uncomplicated, useful, and seemingly obvious solution to keep a photographer’s camera mounted on or close to their body. I think the most important yet overlooked gear in photography is the stuff that facilitates our jobs – not just the camera or lens themselves. That’s why this product works so well. It makes your camera immediately...
It was May of 2018 when my girlfriend, Melanie, and I made the decision to use my family’s cabin in northern Pennsylvania as a basecamp and travel to various state parks in New York for a week. This was the second year of what has since become our yearly vacations together, taking a week after our spring semester of college ends and going on a trip somewhere. The previous year, our first, was a camping trip to western Pennsylvania which was not well-planned nor was it photographically successful, a manner in which I was still using to measure my enjoyment. For the second trip, we wanted to...
Even if cell phone cameras keep improving and reach unimaginable levels of image quality, I’ll always carry around a larger, heavier, and more complex camera. Why is that? One word: lenses! An interchangeable lens camera opens up a vast world of photographic visions through a huge variety of optics. Choosing among the dozens and even hundreds of lenses can be confusing and intimidating, so in this beginner’s guide, I’ll explain the types of lenses available and what you should buy. Table of Contents What Does a Lens Do? A lens focuses light to form an image on the camera’s digital sensor or...
The Associated Press (AP) will launch a non-fungible token (NFT) photography marketplace, built by a blockchain provider called Xooa, on January 31st. NFT collectors will be able to purchase pieces of the news agency’s contemporary and historical photojournalism. Works from current and former photojournalists will be included in the initial collection, released over a series of weeks starting on the 31st, along with some Pulitzer Prize-winning images. ‘For 175 years AP’s journalists have recorded the world’s biggest stories, including through gripping and poignant images that...
As promised in a teaser shared two days ago, optics manufacturer Irix has announced a new 21mm T1.5 lens designed for full-frame camera systems. The Irix Cine 21mm T1.5 lens is constructed of 15 elements in 11 groups, including four extra-low dispersion elements, four high-refractive elements and two aspherical elements. This design produces a 43.3mm image circle compatible with sensors from full-frame all the way down to 1/3” sensors. The lens features a T1.5 through T16 aperture range, uses an 11-blade aperture diaphragm and has a minimum focusing distance of 30cm (11.8”). Both the...
Between short days, long nights, and a lot of bad weather here in Seattle, we’ve been working on a Canon EOS R3 sample gallery. So when the sun finally came out we hung out with climbers, ran around with dogs, and captured some high ISO nighttime shots in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood. This gallery includes photos taken with the Canon RF 24-70mm F2.8 and RF 70-200mm F2.8. We’re looking forward to more opportunities to shoot sports and action and will add images to this gallery as they become available, so stay tuned. If you want to see sports and action photos shot...
In this article, I’ll share the basics on how to film a timelapse video, no matter whether you’re a beginner or an experienced photographer. Time lapses are a very popular type of cinematography in which the frequency of the captured frames is much slower than the final video play speed. Along with its unique results, timelapse videography is also very user-friendly. Once you know the right techniques, you can make a time lapse with very basic tools like a smartphone, an action camera, or, for even better results, with a mirrorless/DSLR camera. Understanding Timelapse Videos To...
AF-S 80-400 no problem. AF-D only manual focus. FTZ 1 is being phased out. Needs attention when considering quick mounting solutions, like Arca Swiss or Manfrotto. Peak Design developed a combined adapter that works well, Others have followed suit at a cheaper price. If you only mount your camera on a tripod with the 80-400 then you will be using the lens mount, so no issue. If you are using Arca Swiss only then there are plenty of adapters that are small enough not to interfere with the mounting of the adapter. The FTZ II does not have these issues, but I believe is not bundled with a...
We’ve covered an extensive collection of NVIDIA Research projects here on DPReview over the years. One interesting tool we didn’t cover at launch, however, is GANverse3D. First shown off in April 2021, GANverse3D turns flat 2D images into ‘realistic 3D models that can be visualized and controlled in virtual environments.’ The tool could help architects, creators, game developers and designers. With just a single photo, someone could quickly add a 3D model to a mockup or render without needing any expertise or needing to spend extra time or money. Like Nvidia’s...
In posts shared across Canon USA’s social media profiles, the company revealed a new Cinema EOS camera system will be released at 7am (EST) on January 19, 2022. Alongside the phrase ‘it’s coming,’ which accompanied the teaser image, Canon says to be ‘ready for anything’ and to ‘stay tuned for the big announcement.’ While it might be futile to draw conclusions from the teaser, the use of the word ‘big’ and the rather substantial video tripod shown in the image suggests the camera might be on the larger side of things. However, that’s pure speculation and somewhat contradicts the rumors out...
Over the years, we’ve shared various power charging stations and solutions, but there will soon be a new product on the market that makes all the others look primitive by comparison. It’s called the PWRBOARD and, confusingly enough, it’s the first product by the company PWRBOARD, who showed off the device at CES 2022 this past week. The PWRBOARD is effectively a ‘smart’ pegboard that puts a new spin on modular charging. The device will come in two sizes — 23cm x 35cm (16.5” diagonally) and 33cm x 50cm (23” diagonally) — and consists of an array of holes wherein various types of battery...
Published Jan 11, 2022 | dpreview staff Chris and Jordan from DPReview TV recently published their full review of the Nikon Z fc. Check out their sample gallery, shot in sub-zero Canadian temperatures, to judge image quality from this retro-inspired camera yourself. Did you miss their review of the Nikon Z fc? If so, you can watch it here. View the Nikon Z fc sample gallery from DPReview TV Gear in this story The Nikon Z fc is a midrange ILC with the same eye-catching design as the company’s classic film cameras. It’s not just a good-looking camera, though: it’s quite...
Photos Members Group Since New Camera Purchase newfoundlander61 says: My Nikon D7200 is being replaced to due a drop and is not worth repairing. Would the Nikon Z50 w/adapter allow my current Nikon AF-S 80-400MM F/4.5-5.6G ED VR lense to autofocus. How would this setup if it does autofocus work for nature related photography (birds mainly) compared to my current setup with the Nikon D7200. I have considered buying another D7200 but that are few and far between here in southern Ontario. Thanks for any input. I am aware of the Nikon NIKKOR Z 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 VR S lense that would naturally...
The global chip shortage has had a lot of consequences. While we expected many products to be tough to find, some of the outcomes of the shortage are more surprising. For example, Canon puts chips in some of its ink and toner cartridges so that its printers can identify them as genuine cartridges. However, these chips are difficult to find so Canon has been manufacturing cartridges without the chips, leading to some printers identifying genuine cartridges as counterfeit. Canon Europe has issued a statement explaining the situation and providing users with instructions on how to bypass the...
DJI’s Mobile SDK (software development kit) for Android now works with their Air 2S, Mini 2, and Mini SE drones. An iOS update is expected shortly. This means that third-party developers such as Litchi, Dronelink, and DroneDeploy can update their apps to be compatible with these models. Each of these apps offer up features that can’t be found on DJI’s Fly app, which powers all three of these drones. Right now, the Mavic 3 is not supported. The ability to designate waypoints for regular flights, create mapping missions, and track plus follow subjects is currently not offered...
[embedded content] Lens manufacturer Irix has shared a teaser video showing off a new T1.5 cinema lens that is ‘ready to be seen’ on January 12th, 2022. Based on the limited information provided in the 23-second teaser video, we can see the Swiss-designed, Korean-made lens will offer an T-stop range of T1.5 through T16, have a nine-blade aperture diaphragm, use a 95mm diameter lens hood and have the usual 0.8 pitch mod gears for follow focus systems. Considering the lens features a similar design to Irix’s other cine lenses, it’s probably safe to assume it will use Irix’s patent-pending...
[embedded content] Fujifilm has announced the date of its next X Summit event, wherein the company will celebrate the 10-year anniversary of its X mount camera system and release its newest X Series camera. The event is set to take place online in May 2022 Yesterday, January 9th, was ten years to the day that Fujifilm announced its first mirrorless interchangeable lens camera (MILC), the X-Pro1. Alongside three lenses, the X-Pro1 the way for Fujifilm’s increasingly popular X Series, which now consists of 28 MILCs and three dozen lenses (if you count the XF1.4x TC WR and XF2x TC WR...
Published Jan 10, 2022 | Sponsored content, created with the support of Fujifilm [embedded content] The Fujifilm Fujinon XF 23mm and 33mm F1.4 R LM WR are high-quality prime lenses for the company’s APS-C X-mount mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras. Fast, versatile and weather-sealed, the XF 23mm and 33mm F1.4 provide focal lengths equivalent to 35mm and 50mm in full-frame terms, making them ideal for everyday photography. In this video, we join lifestyle and commercial photographer Christian Sorensen Hansen as he uses Fujifilm’s latest lenses to shoot documentary and fashion...
Cameras usually aren’t specced to shoot in very cold conditions. A small handful have a negative operating temperature (in Celsius at least), like the Nikon Z9 at -10° C / 14° F. Most others are rated for a pretty pedestrian 0° C / 32° F. But if you’re aware of the issues, you can work in temperatures colder than that. As someone who does a lot of landscape photography in winter, I’ve run into almost every common problem associated with working in the cold. It’s a rewarding time to take photos, and many subjects look amazing in the snow (see my guide to winter photography for more). But it...
An interesting viewpoint on Fagradalsfjall Volcano, Iceland, showing one of the vents in the center, sending rivers of lava in various directions. What makes this composition appealing? DJI Mavic 2 Pro, F7.1, 1/30 sec, pano stitch, April 2021. When it comes to landscape photography, composition reigns supreme as the single most important factor that determines the appeal of a shot. It’s a complicated subject, and people have different views and opinions about it. But over my career as a nature photographer, I’ve found that a few key ideas can summarize a big part of the...
Published Jan 8, 2022 | dpreview staff [embedded content] Chris and Jordan ventured into the frigid Canadian winter for their full review of the Nikon Z fc, earning Chris a beard full of ice. The good news? All those old-fashioned dials worked great with mittens. Watch this week’s episode to see their verdict on this retro-looking camera. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. Nikon Z fc sample gallery from this episode Gear in this story We recently got our hands on a production Nikon Z fc and we wasted no time taking it out and about in the...
[embedded content] With digital cameras, it’s all too easy to capture hundreds or even thousands of images. Shooting high-speed bursts of images is excellent when trying to capture the perfect moment, but you end up with many photos that you don’t need or want. If you don’t have a good workflow for culling images and making selects, your hard drive will be jam-packed with unwanted images in short order. National Geographic contributing photographer Steve Winter worked with WIRED on a new video that outlines the thought process of a professional photographer as he makes...
A couple of days after teasing its new OnePlus 10 Pro smartphone, OnePlus has fully unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, and the phone’s camera system isn’t quite as new as we had hoped. It turns out that the new device will feature a mostly similar triple camera array as the OnePlus 9 Pro. There are some minor differences with the overall camera hardware to discuss. The main, ultra-wide and telephoto cameras all include the same megapixel counts as last year’s model, 48MP, 50MP and 8MP, respectively. However, the ultra-wide camera is new. It includes the ability to...
A Sigma employee inspects finished elements before they’re installed into a lens and shipped to customers. This image was taken from our Sigma Aizu factory tour in 2019. If you think the likes of Sigma have been spared from the semiconductor shortage, think again. While Sigma hasn’t released any notices or announcement regarding the ongoing chip shortage, Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki has taken to Twitter to confirm semiconductor shortages have — and will continue to — affect production of some of its products. The information came from a quote tweet shared by Yamaki in response to a United...
Photo by: William Parkinson via USSR Photo, used with permission from Kosmo Foto. For this week’s installment of Film Friday, we’re featuring a psuedo-review of the 6TTL, a camera from Soviet manufacturer FED that went through a great deal of prototyping, but never made it to market amidst the collapse of the Soviet Union. This article is a summary of the full piece by Stephen Dowling on Kosmo Foto. In 1990, Soviet camera manufacturer FED started work on its next-generation rangefinder, a camera designed to take on its incredibly popular Leica M6 contemporary. Despite the Soviet Union being...
If you’ve spent time around wedding photographers, you’ve probably seen the camera straps I’m going to discuss in this article. HoldFast is a small company that makes a variety of (primarily) leather camera accessories. They take pride that all their gear is made at their facility in Oklahoma, USA. HoldFast’s flagship product is the Money Maker, which is a dual-strap system. Over the past several years, these straps have become quite popular, particularly among wedding photographers. However, they are hardly cheap at $230 for the baseline leather model. Is it worth the price?...
Moment, the company behind numerous photo accessories like filters, bags, cameras and much more, has announced the CineFlare Streak filter. The new filter is the ‘secret sauce for adding anamorphic-like flares to your footage without using a specialty lens.’ Rather than shelling out the money for a specialized anamorphic lens, something that Moment itself offers for mobile devices and drones, you can attach the new CineFlare Streak filter to a traditional camera lens on your mirrorless or DSLR camera and achieve a classic cinematic look in your photos and videos. The CineFlare...
The Rijksmuseum, located in the Netherlands, recently published the largest and most detailed image to date. The Dutch museum’s website now hosts a 717 gigapixel (717,000,000,000 pixels) rendition of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ (1642). Part of the ‘Operation Night Watch,’ the name given to this gigapixel undertaking, is to restore parts of the masterpiece that have been damaged and preserve the artwork in incredible detail. Starting in 2019, conservationists used a 100-megapixel Hasselblad H6D 400 MS-camera to create 8439 individual 5.5cm x 4.1cm...
Nikon has released a firmware update for its Z9 full-frame mirrorless camera that increases the camera’s burst length for dual-format capture, more than double the rate possible in the Z9’s 1.00 firmware. According to Nikon, firmware version 1.10 for the Nikon Z9 allows photographs to be captured at 20 frames per second (fps) for up to eight seconds when shooting in ‘NEF/RAW (high-efficiency★) + JPEG basic (large)’ mode. This is a five second increase from the previous firmware version. Of course, these stats come with caveats, with Nikon noting it conducted this test with a Nikkor Z 50mm...
The arrival of a full production sample of the Nikon Z9 at our Seattle offices just before Christmas last year coincided with a heavy snowfall and extended period of cold weather in the Pacific Northwest. But undaunted, we ventured out into the ice and snow, to capture images in a variety of (mostly very cold) environments in and around Seattle. In this gallery you’ll find images shot on various lenses, including the new Z 24-120mm F4 S and the Z 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 VR S, with and without the Z TC 1.4X teleconverter. This is a preliminary gallery, shot mostly during the holidays, so you...
Over the past few years, more and more camera manufacturers have added USB charging to their respective camera models. It’s not always easy to determine what chargers will work with a specific camera model, as Chris and Jordan noted in a recent DPReview episode, but if you’ve confirmed your camera can be charged over USB, we’ve taken the time to round up a few of the best power banks in various capacities to help you get the power you need on the go. For this roundup, we’ve chosen a few power banks across various capacity levels, as each range tends to increase in both size and price in a...
Over the past few years, more and more camera manufacturers have added USB charging to their respective camera models. It’s not always easy to determine what chargers will work with a specific camera model, as Chris and Jordan noted in a recent DPReview episode, but if you’ve confirmed your camera can be charged over USB, we’ve taken the time to round up a few of the best power banks in various capacities to help you get the power you need on the go. For this roundup, we’ve chosen a few power banks across various capacity levels, as each range tends to increase in both size and price in a...
[embedded content] A YouTube creator who goes by NASS revived video footage obtained from the Internet Archive, and colorized it with added sound, to reveal what California looked like almost a century ago. In the 2 clips, taken in the 1940s (above) and 1930s, respectively, viewers are taken on a tour of bustling areas including downtown Hollywood and Orange County’s Balboa Peninsula. The original clips are black and white with no sound. A scene from downtown LA has been colorized. While not accurate, it was added in for ambience. Software platforms such as Adobe have made colorizing...
At CES 2022, Razer has unveiled refreshes for its performance-oriented Blade notebooks. The Razer Blade 14, 15 and 17 feature new components and improvements, including the latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs, faster memory and faster Intel processors. The different sizes of the Razer Blade laptops include different improvements. The 15-inch and 17-inch models receive the latest 12th-generation Core H-series Intel processors. The larger two models have included 4K display options before, but the 4K display now has a 144Hz refresh rate, which is great for gaming. The Razer Blade 17 also...
[embedded content] Back in November, LEGO website Brickset released a very limited-edition ‘Vintage Camera’ set for Black Friday that could only be acquired by using VIP points awarded for making purchases on the site. While availability was scarce, YouTuber Wizard of Bricks managed to get their hands on one and subsequently created a tongue-in-cheek video ‘review’ of the 179-piece LEGO set. The six-minute video is a cheeky parody of the usual trends and stylizations of hands-on camera reviews seen on YouTube. It goes over the overall build of the LEGO set and highlights the entirely...
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has published four photos of Mars captured during the Tianwen-1 Mars mission. The Tianwen-1 probe released a camera that captured photos of the orbiter above Mars. It’s a unique and impressive view and the first full photo of the orbiter in space. As of now, the Tianwen-1 spacecraft is around 350 million kilometers (217 million miles) from Earth. Since launching in July 2020, the spacecraft has traveled 475 million km (295 million mi) and entered Mars’s orbit in February 2021. In March, we published the first images that the CNSA...
Published Jan 5, 2022 | dpreview staff [embedded content] It’s a brand new year! That means it’s time for Chris and Jordan to look into their crystal ball and predict all the big camera news of 2022 – before it happens. Find out what products and trends they expect to see in the coming year. Editor’s note: Jordan had a minor microphone mishap shortly after filming began that went unnoticed until later. We apologize in advance for some minor audio issues. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. The Nikon Z 24-70mm F2.8 S is an...
Published Jan 5, 2022 | dpreview staff Product of the Year 2021: the results The final round of voting has closed and a winner has been chosen in our annual Readers’ Choice Awards! Beginning in December, DPR readers picked their favorite cameras, zoom lenses and prime lenses released in 2021. The winners of that initial round of voting were then pitted against each other for the title of Product of the Year. Take a look and see which products came out on top. Gear in this story A plane crash leaves the mirrorless flagships overexposed to the dynamic range of elements. Will Canon, Nikon...
Today at CES 2022, Skydio, a California-based drone manufacturer, announced a new, enhanced version of its autonomous and obstacle-avoiding Skydio 2 model. Skydio 2+, released a little over 2 years after its predecessor, offers up improved flight range, longer flight time, a Skydio Care program, and a new Keyframe mode. The latter is aimed at cinematographers and creatives. The Skydio 2+ is equipped with two pop-up antennas, found on the top-front arms of the aircraft, and a 5GHz Wi-Fi radio for connectivity at longer distances. Skydio claims you’ll now be able to fly up to 3...
Dell has announced the XPS 13 Plus, a revamped version of its XPS 13 lineup that features an intriguing new design, an updated OLED display and Intel’s new 12th-generation processors. Dell’s XPS 13 lineup has cemented itself as the sleek and stylish laptops in the company’s expansive lineup. This year, however, Dell has taken it to a new level with a much more minimal design highlighted by a ‘capacitive touch function row’ and a ‘haptic ForcePad.’ The new ‘capacitive touch function row’ eschews physical keys for touch-sensitive buttons that control the function (Fn) row and media controls....
Last March, OnePlus teamed up with Hasselblad for its new OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro smartphones. OnePlus has announced its new flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 10 Pro 5G, and it features a redesigned Hasselblad camera array. The OnePlus 9 series phones kicked off a three-year partnership between OnePlus and Hasselblad, with Hasselblad co-developing OnePlus’s next-generation camera systems. The OnePlus 9 benefited from the relationship primarily through its Natural Color Calibration and Hasselblad Camera for Mobile software. The new OnePlus 10 Pro instead features an all-new camera system and...
Digital lens corrections, once seen as a way to keep lens size and cost down, are now an inherent part of the design of pro-grade optics, such as Nikon’s Z 24-70mm F2.8 S Technology moves forward, sometimes in incremental steps, other times in leaps and bounds. What’s not always easy to recognize is the point at which everything has changed so much that your existing way of working no longer makes sense or, at least, is no longer optimal. That’s the point we feel we’ve reached with our approach to processing images when we’re assessing lenses. And, having...
For the past year or so, my main camera for landscape photography hasn’t been one of the newest high-resolution mirrorless cameras that I spend so much time writing about. Nor has it been an ol’ reliable DSLR. Instead, I’ve been using large format film, especially a 4×5 camera. When other photographers see the camera, they usually say something like “Wow, old-school!” But that’s only partly correct. On one hand, 4×5 cameras are the definition of old-school photographic technology. They’ve existed in some form since about the 1830s. Yet they’re still made today with the most current...
Xiaomi has unveiled its latest flagship smartphones, the Xiaomi 12 and Xiaomi 12 Pro. While the smartphones are currently exclusive to China, limiting their appeal to a worldwide audience, the phones are worth discussing because the features are quite interesting and may hint at what customers in the US and Europe can expect from future international Xiaomi models. The Xiaomi 12 series phones are powered by the latest Snapdragon 8 chips, feature impressive OLED panels, some interesting camera specs, and features, and very fast 120W charging (at least for the 12 Pro model). The Snapdragon 8...
Optics and accessory manufacturer Viltrox has announced a new 13mm F1.4 autofocus lens for Fujifilm X-mount camera systems. The lens, which offers a roughly 20mm full-frame equivalent focal length, is expected to ship in February. The Viltrox 13mm F1.4 AF is constructed of 14 elements in 11 groups. It has a minimum focusing distance of 22cm (8.7”), uses a stepping motor (STM) to drive the internal focusing mechanism, features a nine-blade aperture diaphragm and uses a 67mm front filter thread. As for measurements, the lens comes in at 74mm (2.9”) in diameter, 90mm (3.5”) long and weighs 420g...
Note the size of the 135mm F1.8 lens (center, no red ring) compared to Samyang’s AF 24-70mm F2.8 lens for Sony E-mount cameras. To celebrate the turn of the new year, optics manufacturer Samyang published a video showcasing a collection of its lenses followed by a brief display of digital fireworks. While it might seem like your usual marketing post to ring in the new year, it turns out Samyang snuck in a little teaser for a forthcoming lens. Although not nearly as clear as the ‘135 / 1.8 FE’ test, it appears that ‘AF’ precedes that text, pointing towards this...
Introduction Nikon’s Nikkor Z 24-70mm F2.8 S is a fast standard zoom lens for the company’s Z-mount mirrorless cameras. With a focal range of 24-70mm on FX-format bodies or 36-105mm equivalent on DX-format bodies, it’s well-suited to everything from landscapes and street photography to portraits, weddings and event photography. It can also serve double-duty as an impromptu macro lens in a pinch and is quite well-suited to video capture, making it a pretty versatile all-rounder. Available since April 2019, list pricing is set at $2299.95. All images edited in Adobe Camera...
One of the quieter revolutions in digital image quality has been dynamic range. The days of picking between highlight detail and shadow detail are gone; almost any modern camera can capture both simultaneously with ease. But even though this capability is remarkable, it’s also easy to overuse. Unnecessarily Expanding Your Dynamic Range Most HDR photos I see don’t need to be HDR. You know the ones. The sky is darker than the foreground, and everything floats in the image with unnatural glowing colors. The entire scene looks flat somehow. The highlights aren’t allowed to be highlights, and the...
[embedded content] A plane crash leaves the mirrorless flagships overexposed to the dynamic range of elements. Will Canon, Nikon & Sony come to their sensors and group together to weather the aberrations ahead, or will they cannibalize one another? Watch this week’s episode with Chris and Jordan to find out! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. Gear in this story Senior Editor Barnaby Britton is a fan of extreme low-light imaging – something that the Nikon Z9 makes easy. Click through to learn more about why the Z9 is his favorite...
PetaPixel is reporting that GNARBOX appears to be dead. The GNARBOX 2.0 SSD launched on Kickstarter in 2018 and let users back up photos and videos in the field, review and rough-cut footage, cull and edit images, show selects and more. It’s more than a portable hard drive. Or, at least, it was. The company has apparently gone dark, which leaves existing customers looking for support — and the required app — in the lurch. Without the app, which has been removed from the App Store, new customers can’t actually use all the features that the device promises. We’ve contacted...
At the end of last year, 2021 felt as though it could represent a fresh start after a tumultuous year that saw COVID-19 impact nearly every facet of our lives (and the photography industry). As it turns out, despite the widespread availability of safe vaccines (in much if not all of the world), not much was different in 2021. Between the numerous COVID-19 variants, supply chain constraints and the global chip shortage, 2021 almost seems to blur together with 2020. Still, many new products were announced and even if some were delayed, much progress has been made by nearly every company in the...
Lightning is a widespread atmospheric event. Per the Met Office in the UK, there are three million flashes of lightning every day on Earth, or about 44 strikes per second. Despite this, scientists haven’t been able to conclude how exactly lightning forms inside a thundercloud. That could be changing though, with the help of new video recorded by a team of researchers. In 2018, a very important lightning bolt flashed overhead the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope array in the Netherlands. These telescopes made detailed recordings that were just recently processed. A new paper...
Hello all , I just bought a 5DSr body and a sigma 60-600 S lens and have taken about 40 pictures without problems – this evening I was taking of a kingfisher bird and the auto focus stopped working and now I can’t seem to get it to take a picture on any setting I have tried everything – plenty battery life still – on / off / lens off and on ……. Just cannot get it to work and starting to worry , lens and body brand new Hugo in Zambia Hello all , I just bought a 5DSr body and a sigma 60-600 S lens and have taken about 40 pictures without problems – this evening I was...
Darktable 3.8.0 is now available. The latest version of the open-source photography workflow application and RAW developer adds new features, UI improvements, editing tools, improved file support and more. The list of additions and changes is lengthy, so we’ll only be discussing the highlights in this news article. If you’d like more information about the latest Github release, click here. The keyboard shortcut system has been reworked in version 3.8.0. You can now control darktable with external devices, such as MIDI devices and game controllers. Standard keyboard/mouse...
Photos Members Group Since Happy new year 2022 Hugo Firx says: Hello all , I just bought a 5DSr body and a sigma 60-600 S lens and have taken about 40 pictures without problems – this evening I was taking of a kingfisher bird and the auto focus stopped working and now I can’t seem to get it to take a picture on any setting I have tried everything – plenty battery life still – on / off / lens off and on ……. Just cannot get it to work and starting to worry , lens and body brand new Hugo in Zambia 15 hours ago (permalink) mujahidgrw says: heizzsih41: I HOPENEW CAMERA WILL GIVE...
[embedded content] You may have heard the classic Crowded House song ‘Four Seasons In One Day.’ Now, there is a video that displays the changing of all four seasons through a brilliant series of transitions. Using a Mavic 2 Pro and third-party app Litchi, Arvids Baranovs chose about 30 distinctive locations in Latvia—from winding rivers to National Parks—and put his aerial hyperlapse skills to use so he could illustrate the changing of seasons. ‘The change of seasons is such a self-evident phenomenon that we take it for granted yet we struggle to catch it in the act. Look...
Accessory and optics manufacturer Viltrox has announced a new Canon EF- to Sony E-mount adapter with a built-in OLED display, full autofocus support and EXIF data transfer capabilities. The EF-E5 Smart Mount Adapter, as Viltrox refers to it, is a fifth-generation adapter that improves upon its predecessors with new features as well as a built-in OLED display that shows the focal length, aperture and focus mode of the attached lens. The adapter supports full autofocus capabilities of EF lenses on Sony E-mount cameras, with a clever dial on the side of the adapter for switching between phase...
TTartisan is bringing its 90mm F1.25 lens, previously only available for Leica M mount cameras, to five other lens mounts. Now, the ultrafast prime will be available for Canon RF, Fujifilm GFX, Leica L, Nikon Z and Sony E mount camera systems. As with the M-mount version, all five versions for other mounts are constructed of 11 elements in seven groups, including two high-refractive elements. Other features include a 77mm front filter thread, a 10-blade aperture diaphragm, an aperture range of F1.25 through F16, a clicked aperture ring and it has a minimum focusing distance of 1m (3.3’)....
Published Dec 29, 2021 | dpreview staff [embedded content] In this week’s episode, Chris and Jordan head to The Camera Store to buy the cheapest digital stills and video cameras they can find, and challenge themselves to shoot an entire episode with what they end up with. One of them has a better time with this experiment than the other… Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. Gear in this story While film nostalgia reaches an all-time high, Seattle-based pro photographer Sofi Lee is turning back to ‘digicams’ made between 2008...
Rishi Sanyal Though we haven’t tested the Z9’s accuracy of Eye AF, we generally found that Nikon’s Eye AF (Z7/II, recent firmware) was: The most eager to find eyes/faces in a scene, leading to many false positives Tended to front-focus. We surmise Nikon’s machine learning-based approach was trained in a looser manner, with less stringent criteria. Sony/Canon are conservative but with fewer false positives. WIth the Z9, though, things have advanced considerably. It is able to identify faces / eyes in the scene far smaller than either Sony or Canon, though this aligns...
Update (Tuesday, December 28): Canon provided a statement to DPReview regarding Fujio Mitarai’s comment. We have added it to the bottom of the article. In an interview with the Yomiuri Shimbun, a major newspaper in Japan, Canon CEO, President and Chairman, Fujio Mitarai, confirmed the EOS-1D X Mark III will be the company’s last flagship DSLR camera as the company continues its transition to mirrorless systems. The interview, which was first spotted by Y.M.Cinema Magazine, was part of a longer article regarding the overall state of the camera market and its rapid switch to mirrorless...
Lead image: An artist’s interpretation of a rogue planet with the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex in the background. Credit: Bordeaux University / ESO. A team of astronomers have discovered at least 70 new rogue planets. There may even be up to 170 rogue, or free-floating planets (FFPs). It’s the largest group of rogue planets discovered at once. The new study outlining the research has been published in Nature Astronomy. The first author, Núria Miret-Roig, is an astronomer at the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux, France and the University of Vienna, Austria. Miret-Roig...
Venus Optics has released the Laowa Argus 45mm F0.95 FF, its latest full-frame lens in its growing Argus series that also includes its Argus 35mm F0.95 FF and Argus 33mm F0.95 CF APO lenses. The 45mm manual lens is constructed of 13 elements in nine groups, including one aspherical element, one extra-low dispersion element and three utra-high-refractive index elements. If features a 15-blade aperture diaphragm, has an aperture range of F0.95 through F16, uses a 72mm front filter thread and has a minimum focusing distance of 50cm (19.7”). [embedded content] The Laowa Argus 45mm F0.95 features...
To call 2021 an innovative year for the camera industry is an understatement. Now, you could point out that 2021 was a year of relatively few product releases, hampered by numerous supply chain issues, and you’d be correct. However, what the industry lacked in quantity, it certainly made up for with quality. The Nikon Z9 became not only the first Nikon flagship camera to rely on an electronic shutter, but also took DPReview’s ‘Product of the Year’ award. Canon revived its Eye-Control autofocus, with a completely redesigned system, unlike anything we’ve seen...
Optics manufacturer Tamron has issued a product advisory informing consumers that three of its E-mount prime lenses suffer issues that prevent them from using autofocus when shooting videos on Sony a7 IV camera systems. The announcement, published by Tamron Japan, says the company has confirmed its 20mm, 24mm and 35mm F2.8 Di III OSD M1:2 lenses, released in 2019, have an autofocus issue when paired with Sony’s full-frame a7 IV camera system that causes the lenses to switch from ‘AF’ to ‘MF’ when shooting movies. Tamron suggests it isn’t sure what’s happening, but hopes to fix the...
peripheralfocus @ skyrunr Used values have no relevance whatsoever to Nikon and therefore don’t influence their decisions about what to make and market even one iota. The OP asked why Nikon made the 24-70/4. I answered. @ SnapHappy32 You seem to think I said that all consumers want the lowest price and don’t care about anything else. I did not say anything close to that. I said price is the strongest factor (among many) in driving buying decisions for the vast majority of consumer goods. That’s why Apple offers computers and phones in many price tiers, and why Mercedes...
Introduction to memory cards, and main types Photograph by Terry Sullivan When it comes to understanding how a digital image is created, the focus is most often placed on a camera’s lens and image sensor, which makes sense, since these two components have the greatest impact on image quality. But once the image or video is captured, it will need to be stored somewhere on the device. Today, the location of where an image or video file is stored differs depending on the device. For instance, if you’ve captured a photo on a phone or tablet, you’ll store the media on built-in, non-removable...
I feel like the luckiest boy in the world right now, sitting at my desk to write an article I’ve been looking forward to for weeks about a camera I’d been looking forward to for years. Luckier still because I actually have the camera. There’s a shiny new Nikon Z9 sitting next to me right now, with a Z 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 VR S attached, just begging me to go out and shoot with it. But I can’t, because I have to write this article. Also because it’s dumping with icy rain outside, and I’m all warm, and besides, my shoes still aren’t dry from yesterday....
Photographing a wedding can feel overwhelming. There are must-capture moments with no option for a re-do. There are clients who may be extremely stressed, other vendors who are trying to do their jobs, and drunk guests at the reception. Welcome to the crazy world of wedding photography! Below are my tips for how to photograph a wedding without a problem. Before we begin, a quick note. You’ll notice that most of the items on this list are actually things to do before the wedding. This is intentional, as the right preparation will put you in the best position for success and avoid as many...
2021, eh? What a year. All of the horror and inconvenience of 2020, without the novelty factor. There was good news out there though, hidden in the cracks between the headlines. This was the year for many of us that we got to see distant friends and family again, and despite all the disruption it’s been a busy 12 months for the camera market, with some big announcements, and some major technological developments taking place across the industry. The past year seems to have flown by (even if parts of it felt like an endless slog) but when I look back over 2021, I almost can’t...
Lensrentals has published its roundup of the most popular rented gear for 2021, showcasing what camera equipment was the most rented throughout 2021. As we’ve seen over the past few years, both Canon and Sony top the charts across nearly every category. Looking first at the most rented new products of 2021, Canon took the top position with the EOS C70 Cinema Camera (RF mount). Cinema cameras occupy multiple spots on the list, including the Sony FX3 in second and the Sony FX6 in fourth. The Nikon Z7 II, although announced in 2020, is eligible for the list, landing in the seventh spot....
Sony Japan has announced it’s halting production of two more cameras due to the ongoing chip shortage. Sony Japan also confirmed it is no longer producing another pair of cameras as an end-of-li In a statement posted to Sony Japan’s website, Sony says it is no longer fulfilling orders for its a7C full-frame mirrorless camera and its a6600 APS-C mirrorless camera, as ‘there is a delay in procurement of parts for digital imaging products due to the global shortage of semiconductors.’ Sony even suggests current orders could go unfulfilled, saying ‘in addition, some orders will be suspended.’...
This thin yellow rectangle makes me very happy! 2021 may have been another terrible year, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at the photography and video gear released in the last twelve months. We saw a trio of flagship mirrorless cameras, a 12K cinema camera, a full frame camera built onto a gimbal, and an endless parade of wonderful lenses. However, like many creators, I spend a lot more time in front of a computer than out in the field shooting. And since the launch of the M1 iMac, that part of my job has become immeasurably more enjoyable. A bit of backstory. I’ve been editing...
This image was captured by the Sirui 24mm anamorphic lens in 17:9 and de-squeezed 1.33x to produce a 2.35:1 aspect ratio. Traditionally, dedicated anamorphic lenses for interchangeable lens cameras have been expensive, but Sirui has made a mission of creating much more affordable options. Though the company now has a full frame 50mm anamorphic lens, the majority of its output so far has been aimed at APS-C and Micro Four Thirds system users. The 24mm F2.8 is the third in its line of low-cost crop-sensor 1.33x anamorphic lenses. This new 24mm F2.8 is intended to fill the wide-angle gap in...
Researchers at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology have developed a ‘faster, cheaper method to produce customized optical components’ for applications including ‘corrective lenses, augmented and virtual reality, autonomous vehicles, medical imaging and astronomy.’ As DIY Photography observes, it’s not unreasonable to think that the new lens making method could be used for photographic lenses, at least during development and prototyping. Optical lenses come in many different shapes and sizes. The more complex a lens, the more difficult and costly it is...
Nikon’s new Z 24-120mm F4 S is a standard zoom lens for the full-frame mirrorless Z mount, intended to offer a more versatile and cheaper alternative to the high-end Z 24-70mm F2.8 S. Providing decent medium telephoto reach, good close focusing capabilities and a lighter, more portable form factor, the Z 24-120mm F4 S should make an ideal carry-everywhere zoom for Z6 and Z7-series shooters. We’ve been shooting with a production sample of the Z 24-120mm F4 S for a few days on both the Nikon Z7 and the new Z9. We’ll be adding more images (including portraits!) in the coming...
For someone who writes about the latest and greatest camera gear, you might be surprised to find out how little new equipment I use in my photo work. Rather than using the latest RF mount lenses for my Canon EOS R, I have mostly stuck with older, adapted lenses from various film cameras I’ve acquired over the years. It’s for that reason my favorite piece of gear for the year is Kolari’s EF-RF mount adapter with a built-in variable ND filter. My usual kit for photojournalism or motorsports work consists of my Canon EOS R with a Nikon Nikkor 50mm F1.4 AI, a Carl Zeiss 80mm F2 (originally...
[embedded content] Optics manufacturer Irix has announced the release of its new Irix Edge variable neutral density (VND) filters, which block between two to five stops of light and are some of the thinnest VND filters on the market. The Irix Edge Vari-ND 2–5 filters are constructed of coated aluminum, use high-quality glass with 24 coatings and measure only 4.7mm thin for the Magnetic Mount System (MMS) version (6.2mm for the screw-in version). These new filters block between two to five stops of light with the twist of the front filter and are ‘as [color] neutral as possible.’ Irix says it...
Techart has announced its new TZG-01 adapter, the first-ever Contax G-mount to Nikon Z-mount autofocus lens adapter. Now, Nikon Z owners can pick up the highly-regarded Contax G-mount lenses designed for Contax’s G1 and G2 rangefinders in the mid-90s. This new TZG-01 adapter is based around the same design Techart used for its TA-GA3 Contax G-mount to Sony E-mount autofocus adapter it released back in 2014. Techart says the TZG-01 adapter is constructed of aluminum and copper alloy and features a new 32-bit ARM CPU for transmitting autofocus and metadata information. The adapter includes...
As 2021 comes to an end, Chris Niccolls and Jordan Drake from DPReview TV look back at some of their most memorable moments of the year. Our dynamic duo found time to shoot portraits with classic lenses, shoot stars with an astrophotographer, recreate old black and white movie reels, and even introduced us to a new co-host, Jordan’s evil twin brother Gordon. Take a trip down memory lane to remember some of their favorite episodes from 2021 and what made them special. Receiving the GFX100S and Sony a1 while Chris was quarantined [embedded content] Jordan: 2021 let us know right from the...
Alongside the Z9, and a bunch of other things, Nikon announced a new version of the FTZ adapter, named – appropriately enough – the FTZ II. The new adapter offers no additional functionality compared to the original, and if you’re planning on rocking a Z5, Z6 or Z7-series camera for a while, there’s probably no reason to upgrade. But if you’ve got your eye on a Z9, the FTZ II is the adapter you’ll want to grab. Click through for more...
Nikon has confirmed the first orders for its Z9 mirrorless cameras will start being fulfilled on December 23, 2021, meaning some lucky Nikon users could have their cameras in hand before the end of the year. In an email sent to Nikon Professional Services (NPS) members, Nikon says the first batch of Z9 cameras are arriving at retailers from its factories and are expected to ship out soon to NPS members who have requested priority delivery. Specifically, Nikon says orders placed through authorized Nikon dealers before December 19 with priority delivery selected in members’ NPS dashboard...
Photography company Fotodiox makes a wide range of photography products and accessories, including lens adapters, lighting equipment, filter systems and more. The company also has a lively YouTube channel featuring product videos, tips and tricks and fun DIY projects. One such DIY project includes making a telephoto pinhole lens using a Pringles can. Before diving into the newest pinhole lens video, Sean from Fotodiox previously made a pinhole lens DIY video. In that video, he turned a regular camera body cap into a wide-angle pinhole lens by drilling a hole in the cap and taping a piece of...
Just as children look forward to Christmas, many wildlife photographers in 2021 have also been focused on the end of the year. What’s causing all the buzz? It’s exactly the same as it is for the children: Wildlife photographers are looking forward to getting new toys. Sony already had a gift for their users in the form of the A1 camera, which was announced back in January of 2021. Fans of Canon and Nikon have had to wait a bit longer but are now taking their first pre-orders for the Canon EOS R3 and Nikon Z9 cameras. Most copies of the Nikon Z9 have not shipped quite yet, but luckily one...
Yesterday, the winners and finalists for the 5th annual Chromatic Photography Awards competition were announced. Photographers from all over the world submitted images as either professionals or amateurs to 20 categories including Architecture, Culture, Nature, People, Sport, and Travel. The Chromatic Photographer of the Year title and a $2,000 cash prize was awarded to Felicia Simion for her image of women wearing traditional kerchiefs during an Orthodox Epiphany Day liturgy. An underwater image of an ice diver in the Arctic Circle netted Petr Polách the Chromatic Discovery of the Year...
Correction (Monday, December 20, 2021): It appears as though LG relatively quietly introduced a 27” model of its UltraFine OLED Pro monitor earlier this year, but as of now it’s still only available to pre-order at this time, so it hasn’t actually made it to market. The original headline and parts of this article stated the 27″ model was new. We have updated both to correct this information. LG has announced the details of its next-generation UltraFine OLED Pro monitors, revealing the 2022 models will include built-in colorimeters for on-device hardware color calibration. The 2022...
Every December, when the time comes to choose my gear of the year, I usually pick a product I’ve used extensively over the past few months. Which makes sense – if there’s a product I enjoy using, chances are I’ll pick it up a lot and get to know it well. 2021 is a bit different. This year, I knew what my gear of the year was going to be after just one trip with it: the Sony 14mm F1.8 GM. I instantly connected with this lens, and it hardly came off my camera. It’s worth noting that this isn’t the first ultra-wide-angle lens I’ve picked as my gear of...
For the past few weeks, our readers have been voting on their favorite photographic gear released in the past year in a wide range of categories. Now that the first round of voting is over, it’s time to reveal the winners. Remember though, it isn’t over just yet! It’s time now to pick an overall winner. Don’t miss your chance to cast your ballot – this one’s for all the sweeties. Have your say Voting is easy – you pick your favorite products by dragging and dropping. You can pick as many products as you like, and rank them in order of priority. Please note...
It should go without saying that wherever you are, 2021 came with a unique set of challenges, but there were also plenty of bright spots. Society started to bubble back to life, activities like travel and gathering with friends became a little more feasible, and camera and lens camera manufacturers had plenty of exciting products hitting the market. The holiday season is the season of giving, but for most of us, if we want something really nice, that means saving up our own money. With that in mind, here’s a breakdown of some of the most exciting products released this past year. The...
IMO it really depends what you’re doing. I think that even today large format can match digital for highly technical and slow photography due to the freedom of movements and the size of the negative but for fast paced or time sensitive photography digital was better very quickly.put any dslr up against a 4×5 camera or larger format camera and I think you’d be hard pressed to tell the difference in final image quality in a blind test.If you’re comparing only to 35mm then any camera over about 8-10mpix is probably better in terms of resolution. In terms of dynamic range...
The recent, unexpected announcement of the Nikon Z 28-75mm f/2.8 – with identical optics as the Tamron G1 28-75mm f/2.8 – makes me wonder what’s next. Will Nikon and Tamron work together on any more Z-series lenses? If so, these are the lenses they should prioritize. Before going through the list, I should emphasize that we don’t yet know what agreement Nikon and Tamron have behind the scenes. The 28-75mm f/2.8 may simply be a one-time trial balloon floated to see how much interest there is in budget Z-series lenses. Or, it could represent a more substantial partnership where Tamron can ease...
Photos Members Group Since Did you shoot film in the old days, when did digital become better film GingerBeard118 says: What DSLR do you feel was the first to rival film for image quality 12:12PM, 18 December 2021 PST (permalink) Jim Frazier says: I don’t know when it happened, but I’d say that my z7 is better than film. 11 hours ago (permalink) Zeroneg1 says: The closest to film for me was the old CCD sensor since CMOS looks very much digital. So this means the old D50/D70/s. Originally posted 8 hours ago. (permalink) Zeroneg1 edited this topic 8 hours ago. alastairswan says:...
Lensrentals celebrates the Canon 5D Mark III’s 10th birthday by putting it head-to-head against the Fujifilm GFX 100S
Posted by Chris Roubis on 17th, Mar, 2022 |
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The Canon 5D Mark III turns 10 this month and Lensrentals is celebrating the anniversary by comparing the classic Canon DSLR against a modern, top-of-the-line camera to see just how far cameras have come in the last decade. The competition? The Fujifilm GFX 100S. There’s no question which camera is better. New cameras come out with better image sensors, faster shooting speeds and more powerful chips every year. The GFX 100S ticks all these boxes and then some. However, is performance really that important? Does the GFX 100S, with its larger 102MP sensor, phase-detection autofocus,...
Apple Mac Studio review: The Apple desktop we’ve been waiting for
Posted by Chris Roubis on 17th, Mar, 2022 |
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The new Mac Studio is the mid-range standalone desktop computer that many Apple users have been asking for. All product photography by DL Cade After many months of speculation and some very accurate leaks, Apple finally unveiled the “professional Mac Mini” that many of us have been waiting for. It’s about three times thicker and several times more powerful than the Mac mini, and it’s called the Mac Studio. Released alongside the M1 Ultra Apple Silicon SOC that sports 20 CPU cores, up to 64 GPU cores, and up to 128GB of RAM, the Mac Studio is capable of delivering more...
Apple Studio Display review: An excellent monitor at a steep price
Posted by Chris Roubis on 17th, Mar, 2022 |
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The Apple Studio Display is an excellent 5K monitor with a bunch of extra features that you won’t find in most of the 27-inch monitors on the market. All product photography by DL Cade The Studio Display – Apple’s new 27-inch, 5K monitor that was released alongside the new Mac Studio desktop – is one of the most difficult displays I’ve had to review. On the one hand, the price tag is sky-high for a 27-inch 5K panel that ‘only’ promises coverage of the DCI-P3 gamut and is basically incompatible with Widows. On the other hand, it’s extremely color accurate,...
Cooke launches S8/i series with 16 new compact, lightweight lenses that retail for $35,000 a piece
Posted by Chris Roubis on 16th, Mar, 2022 |
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Cinema lens manufacturer Cooke Optics has announced a new series of smaller, lighter lenses all with a maximum T1.4 aperture and an imaging circle to cover full frame sensors. The S8/i series will comprise 16 lenses by the end of the year, and unusually 7 of those will be ready for pre-ordering straight away. [embedded content] To accommodate these new lenses and to allow them to be ready for immediate ordering Cooke has expanded its factory to include a new assembly facility in its home town of Leicester in the UK. The new plant and new assembly staff will make it possible for the company...
Lensbaby Soft Focus II includes an adjustable aperture & promises creative photo fun
Posted by Chris Roubis on 16th, Mar, 2022 |
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Lensbaby has announced the Soft Focus II optic, a new 50mm lens in Lensbaby’s Optic Swap System. The Soft Focus II is a new-and-improved version of one of the earliest members of the Optic Swap System. The new version improves upon its predecessor by adding a 12-blade manually adjustable internal aperture to the drop-in magnetic aperture system. The lens has an F2.5-22 aperture range. When shot at its faster apertures, the lens offers a narrow, flat field of focus and produces soft, dreamy images. The center region becomes much sharper as you stop down, while the corners remain quite...
Video: The Slow Mo Guys burst bubbles at 50,000 frames per second
Posted by Chris Roubis on 16th, Mar, 2022 |
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The Slow Mo Guys are back at it with more slow motion video. This time, the crew have recorded popping a giant bubble at 50,000 frames per second. How ‘giant’ are we talking? The bubble is large enough for Slow Mo Guys team member Dan to be completely encased. Gavin and Daniel started recording at 1,000 fps using the Phantom Flex4K. The Flex4K is designed for cinematic applications, so while it doesn’t offer the same speed capabilities as some of Phantom’s other high speed cameras, the footage is 4K and looks excellent. After having their fill of 4K 1,000 fps footage,...
DPReview TV: Sony Alpha cameras – The good and the bad
Posted by Chris Roubis on 16th, Mar, 2022 |
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[embedded content] Sony cameras do a lot right, but there’s still room for improvement. We discuss some of our favorite things about Alpha cameras, as well as areas where they need some course correction. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. The Asus ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED is one of the most versatile creator laptops we’ve tested. This laptop combines top-tier performance and portability with an excellent RGB OLED display and some ingenious design cues that put it a step above the rest. The Panasonic GH6 is the latest in the...
Is the Mac Studio the right computer for your photo or video workflow?
Posted by Chris Roubis on 16th, Mar, 2022 |
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Last week, Apple announced the Mac Studio, a new desktop computer lineup that more or less splits the difference between the company’s existing Mac Mini and Mac Pro desktops. While the future of the Mac Pro lineup remains uncertain as Apple continues its transition to its proprietary silicon, the Mac Studio, at least on paper, seems ready to deliver on the needs of creators of all kinds. But what Mac Studio build will be best for your needs? And do you even need a Mac Studio at all? We’ll try to answer all that and more below. While photographers and videographers both fall under the...
Please Welcome Alex Coleman to the Photography Life Team!
Posted by Chris Roubis on 16th, Mar, 2022 |
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I’m excited to introduce another new writer from our expanding team at Photography Life. Please give a warm welcome to Alex Coleman! Alex impressed us with his wide range of high-quality photos of a huge variety of subjects. You’ve seen his articles on night photography, real estate, and lenses – now here he is to introduce himself. Hi, I’m Alex Coleman. I’m excited to be joining the Photography Life team. I was first inspired to take up photography while traveling over 15 years ago. Since then, I’ve continued to enjoy photography as both a hobby and a profession, with travel,...
What You Should Know About Prime Lenses
Posted by Chris Roubis on 16th, Mar, 2022 |
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Camera lenses can be divided into two broad groups: prime lenses and zoom lenses. Prime lenses, which offer a single focal length and can’t zoom in or out, may seem to be inherently less useful than zoom lenses, but that’s not necessarily the case. Prime lenses can offer a wide range of benefits, and in this guide, we’ll break down what you should know about prime lenses and why you should consider adding prime lenses to your bag. Table of Contents What Are Prime Lenses? Prime lenses are best understood by looking at the difference between a prime lens and a zoom (explained in detail here:...
We’re hiring! DPReview has open positions on both our Editorial and Business teams
Posted by Chris Roubis on 15th, Mar, 2022 |
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Do you want to shape and create content for the largest audience of photography and video enthusiasts in the world? DPReview has several open roles across our Editorial and Business teams, some of which are location independent. We’ve summarized our current openings below – we can’t wait to hear from you! Features EditorPart-time, location flexible (US) As a Features Editor, you will work with DPReview’s Managing Editor to develop and publish feature-length articles for DPReview.com. Working with a team of freelance writers and content creators, you will commission...
ON1 announces Resize AI: Machine learning makes it ON1’s most advanced enlargement app
Posted by Chris Roubis on 15th, Mar, 2022 |
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ON1 has announced ON1 Resize AI, a new application that leverages the power of artificial intelligence to produce higher-quality, sharper photo enlargements than ON1’s previous resizing software, including ON1 Resize, which is powered by Genuine Fractals. ON1 calls Resize AI ‘the biggest improvement in resize history.’ ON1 Resize AI, which is available as standalone software or as a plugin, uses machine learning technology to recreate the details in your image that typically get lost during enlargement. When enlarging photos in other applications, the software uses...
Cosina announces $780 Voigtländer Nokton 23mm F1.2 for Fujifilm X-mount cameras
Posted by Chris Roubis on 15th, Mar, 2022 |
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Cosina has been on a roll the past few weeks, having launched a collection of lenses back in February and a pair of 40mm F2.8 primes for Leica cameras yesterday. Today, the company continues its release with the announcement of a new Voigtländer Nokton 23mm F1.2 manual focus lens for Fujifilm X-mount camera systems. The manual lens, which offers a ~35mm full-frame equivalent field of view (and F1.8 equivalent aperture), is constructed of 10 elements in six groups, including one double-sided aspherical element and two low-dispersion elements. Cosina says the optical construction is ‘optimized...
We shot sports with the OM System OM-1 – This is what we learned
Posted by Chris Roubis on 15th, Mar, 2022 |
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M.Zuiko ED 40-150mm F2.8 Pro @ 120mm | F2.8 | 1/800 | ISO 12,800 (darkened ~1.0EV)Processed using Adobe Camera Raw (Luminance NR 15)Photo: Richard Butler The OM-1 has generated a lot of interest on the site, but I’ve seen a number of comments suggesting it’s a minor update to the last OM-D E-M1 models. To a degree this is understandable, its most prominent features – subject recognition AF, a range of multi-shot computational modes and a (nominally) 20MP sensor – sound familiar. But it’s a camera based on a Stacked CMOS sensor, and one that uses four sub-pixels to deliver...
Getting to know Sony’s trio of compact 24mm, 40mm and 50mm G prime lenses
Posted by Chris Roubis on 15th, Mar, 2022 |
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[embedded content] In this video, Dan Watson of LearningCameras.com walks us through Sony’s trio of compact G prime lenses for full-frame E-mount cameras. The 24mm F2.8 G, 40mm F2.5 G, and 50mm F2.5 G have a lightweight design that makes them convenient for casual and on-the-move photographers. Their nearly identical size also makes them a good choice for gimbal shooters; all three lenses weigh roughly 170g and share the same 49mm filter thread. See them in action as Dan puts them to use on a shoot for a high-end sports car. This is sponsored content, created with the support of Sony....
Please Welcome Jason Polak to the Team!
Posted by Chris Roubis on 15th, Mar, 2022 |
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Today, we’d like you to offer a warm welcome to Photography Life’s newest writer, Jason Polak! Jason is a wildlife photographer and mathematician from Canada whose great articles and photos you’ve seen grace the homepage these past few weeks. Here’s a bit from Jason about his journey as a photographer. Myself My first memories of photography are childhood fragments of disposable and automatic film cameras. With those, I mostly just wandered around looking for delightful patterns, and I probably only ever shot ten rolls of film in my life. (I can shoot that many images in a day now.) Once,...
Please Welcome Jason Polak to the Photography Life Team!
Posted by Chris Roubis on 15th, Mar, 2022 |
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Today, we’d like you to offer a warm welcome to Photography Life’s newest writer, Jason Polak! Jason is a wildlife photographer and mathematician from Canada whose great articles and photos you’ve seen grace the homepage these past few weeks. Here’s a bit from Jason about his journey as a photographer. Myself My first memories of photography are childhood fragments of disposable and automatic film cameras. With those, I mostly just wandered around looking for delightful patterns, and I probably only ever shot ten rolls of film in my life. (I can shoot that many images in a day now.) Once,...
Japan sends a modified Pentax 300mm F4 lens into space aboard its Kitsune 6 microsatellite
Posted by Chris Roubis on 14th, Mar, 2022 |
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The Pentax DA* 300mm F4 ED(IF) SDM lens has gone to space. Ricoh Imaging Japan announced that its 300mm F4 lens for APS-C cameras has been installed in the Kitsune 6U CubeSat satellite as a shooting lens. Kitsune was about the Antares rocket launched from Virginia last month. The rocket successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS). Kitsune 6U will collect ground sensor data and perform high-resolution imaging of the Earth’s surface. A standard Pentax DA* 300mm F4 lens Kitsune 6U is a relatively small satellite developed by the HAK consortium, which includes Harada...
Flashpoint’s new Glow ParaSnap octabanks offer unique fold-out design for quick setup
Posted by Chris Roubis on 14th, Mar, 2022 |
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Flashpoint, a house brand of Adorama, has announced the release of a cleverly collapsable octabank, the Glow ParaSnap. This new modifier features a unique folding design and offers quick speedring changes for easy changes on the go. The stand-out feature of the Glow ParaSnap SoftBox is a clever snap-into-place design that makes it as simple as possible to get the modifier built and onto your light source as quickly as possible. The modifier comes pre-built and to get started – both the first time and every time after – all you need to do is pull back one half of the modifier and...
Yongnuo releases $350 85mm F1.8 autofocus lens for Nikon Z-mount cameras, but it’s limited to China for now
Posted by Chris Roubis on 14th, Mar, 2022 |
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Chinese optics manufacturer Yongnuo has announced its latest autofocus lens, the 85mm F1.8 for Nikon Z-mount cameras. Unfortunately, the lens’ release appears to be limited to China, for now. The lens is constructed of nine elements in eight groups, including one low-dispersion element and one high-refractive element. It uses a seven-blade aperture diaphragm, has an aperture range of F1.8 through F22, uses a 58mm front filter thread and has a minimum focusing distance of 80cm (31.5”). Since the lens offers autofocus functionality, the focus ring can also double as a control ring for...
Laptop Review: Asus Studiobook 16 OLED – ASUS dials in a winner
Posted by Chris Roubis on 14th, Mar, 2022 |
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The Asus ProArt Studiobook 16 is a sleek and powerful creator laptop with a gorgeous OLED display and some interesting design touches. All product photography by DL Cade The Asus Studiobook 16 OLED is one of the best creator laptops we’ve had the chance to review. Not because it has a next-generation CPU (it doesn’t) or the most powerful GPU (wrong again). It doesn’t sport a super bright miniLED display, it’s not HDR certified, and the AMD Ryzen version we’re testing here doesn’t even have Thunderbolt. So why do we love it so much? Because it delivers a...
Micro Four Thirds vs APS-C As Someone Who Uses Both
Posted by Chris Roubis on 14th, Mar, 2022 |
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What’s better: micro four thirds or APS-C? Are these two sensor formats at odds? Could any question spark an internet argument more quickly than comparing sensor sizes? There is no doubt that there are advantages and disadvantages of each. Today, I would like to talk about why I (gasp) choose to shoot with both formats. And perhaps surprisingly, my reasons have very little to do with sensor size. Table of Contents A Little Bit About the Formats Of course, the most obvious difference between APS-C and micro four thirds is sensor size. You can get an idea for this difference from this image,...
Landscape Composition – Part 5: Separation of Elements
Posted by Chris Roubis on 13th, Mar, 2022 |
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So far in this series, I’ve talked about compositional elements, their weights and how to use their properties to balance the composition by imagining a balance of torques around the middle axis of an image. I also discussed balancing of negative space, the perception of subject direction and the lead room given to match this direction. I ended the last article with the image below, and asked the readers to guess what I dislike about it. Let’s have another look: The snowy Goðafoss Waterfall, Iceland Canon 5D3, Tamron 24-70mm F2.8, 30 sec, F13, ISO100 It appears as though...
DPReview TV: Recreating a Hollywood movie scene on a budget – ‘The Nice Guys’
Posted by Chris Roubis on 13th, Mar, 2022 |
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[embedded content] Editor’s note: There is NSFW language in the above video, as well as in the full video below. Keep that in mind before and while viewing these. For our ‘Wooden Niccolls’ series we recreate episodes from Hollywood films on a budget using consumer camera gear. This time around, we used the Panasonic GH6 and Vazen anamorphic lenses to recreate a scene from the movie ‘The Nice Guys’ starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling. Let us know how we did, and whether our dynamic duo have futures as Hollywood stars. Want to see a behind the scenes look at...
What to Photograph When There’s Too Much to Photograph
Posted by Chris Roubis on 12th, Mar, 2022 |
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Last year, I wrote an article about finding subjects to photograph when there isn’t anything obvious to shoot. That’s a common situation in photography: not enough good subjects. Sometimes, however, the opposite is true, where there’s an abundance of good subjects and not enough time to photograph them all. It sounds like a good problem to have, and of course it’s better than the alternative. But it’s still a problem that can lead to missed opportunities and a lack of success from your shoot. I’ve had my share of failures in promising locations because I waste time, stop putting thought into...
DPReview TV: H&Y RevoRing magnetic filter system review
Posted by Chris Roubis on 12th, Mar, 2022 |
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[embedded content] Filters are essential accessories, but most filter holder systems slow you down and add bulk to your camera bag. The H&Y RevoRing magnetic filter system looks like a great solution, but how does it perform in the real world? Chris and Jordan have been using the RevoRing system for weeks and they have some opinions. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. The Panasonic GH6 is the latest in the company’s line of video-focused Micro Four Thirds cameras. It brings a new, 25MP sensor and 10-bit 4K capture at up to 120p....
Researchers develop an impressive style-based 3D-aware generator for high-res image synthesis
Posted by Chris Roubis on 11th, Mar, 2022 |
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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and the University of Hong Kong have developed StyleNeRF, a 3D-aware generative model trained on unstructured 2D images that synthesizes high-resolution images with a high level of multi-view consistency. Compared to existing approaches, which either struggle to synthesize high-resolution images with fine details or produce 3D-inconsistent artifacts, StyleNeRF integrates its neural radiance field (NeRF) into a style-based generator. By employing this approach, StyleNeRF delivers improved render efficiency and better consistency with 3D...
TTArtisan releases titanium-grey versions of its 17mm F1.4, 35mm F1.4 and 50mm F1.2 APS-C prime lenses
Posted by Chris Roubis on 11th, Mar, 2022 |
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Aside from he new paint job, the lenses remain unchanged from their black and silver counterparts. Below is a brief synopsis of each of the lenses’ respective specifications. TTArtisan 17mm F1.4 The TTArtisan 17mm F1.4 lens is constructed of nine elements in eight groups, has a minimum focusing distance of 20cm (7.9”), uses a 40.5mm front filter thread and has a 10-blade aperture diaphragm with an aperture range of F1.4 through F16. The lens weighs around 248g (8.8oz) and retails for $118 on its own. TTArtisan 35mm F1.4 The TTArtisan 35mm F1.4 lens is constructed of seven elements in six...
Film Friday: Lomography announces new DigitaLIZA+ and DigitaLIZA Max film scanning kits for smartphones and digital cameras
Posted by Chris Roubis on 11th, Mar, 2022 |
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The Lomographic Society has announced new Lomography scanning kits, the DigitaLIZA+ and DigitaLIZA Max. The new Max kit comes with everything you need to start scanning film using your smartphone, including film holders, an adjustable stand and a backlight. The DigitaLIZA+ and Max promise ‘truly versatile and accessible’ film scanning in a simple workflow. Beginners and experienced scanners alike can quickly scan 35mm and 120 format negatives with a smartphone or digital camera. You can also scan special format negatives with the new kits, including overlapping exposures,...
Canon files patent application for a new electromagnet shutter design that aims to minimize shutter shock
Posted by Chris Roubis on 10th, Mar, 2022 |
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Canon has filed a new patent in Japan that aims to reduce the vibrations caused by a mechanical shutter. Japanese patent application number 2022-039332 outlines the issue of shutter shock and proposes a novel design that uses electromagnets to increase the precision of shutter position and control the shutter’s speed to reduce shutter shock. When translated, the patent states that the issue the patent aims to solve is, ‘In the imaging device, the vibration generated by the shutter is difficult to propagate to other parts, and the shutter is positioned with high accuracy.’...
Irix announces 21mm F1.4 lens for Canon EF, Nikon F and Pentax K mount cameras
Posted by Chris Roubis on 10th, Mar, 2022 |
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Optics manufacturer Irix has announced the release of a stills version of its 21mm prime lens, the 21mm F1.4. As with the other lenses in Irix’s cine and stills lineups, this lens remains optically unchanged from its cine counterpart, with the only difference being the external design and more traditional focus ring. Illustration of the optical construction of the 21mm F1.4 lens. This full-frame lens is constructed of 15 elements in 11 groups, including four ultra-low dispersion elements, four high-reflectance elements and two aspherical elements. Irix says the optical construction limits...
Ricoh announces limited-edition ‘Urban’ version of its GR IIIx, with new exposure and focus modes
Posted by Chris Roubis on 10th, Mar, 2022 |
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Ricoh has announced Ricoh GR IIIx Urban Edition Special Limited Kit, a limited-edition version of the GR IIIx. In addition to a new paint job, the camera will also be getting new exposure and focus modes, both of which will make their way to the standard GR IIIx via firmware update when this special-edition kit gets released next month. Starting with the external changes, the GR IIIx Urban Edition Special Limited Kit features a metallic gray finish, a blue ring around the lens barrel and a collection of matching accessories. Specifically, Ricoh is including an accompanying leather hand strap...
Slideshow: Winners of the 2021 World Nature Photography Awards
Posted by Chris Roubis on 9th, Mar, 2022 |
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Recently, winners and runners up were announced for the annual World Nature Photography Awards (WNPAs). Entries were received from 20 countries all over the globe. Amos Nachoum, from the United States, received the title of Grand Prize Winner and $1,000 in cash for his image of a leopard seal about to capture and eat a Gentoo penguin. Nachoum waited for hours on an Antarctic peninsula for a low tide to come in – when seals typically search for their prey. 2021 winners and Silver plus Bronze (2nd and 3rd place) photos for all 13 categories can be found on the WNPA site. Entries for the 2022...
Video: 107 years after sinking, Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, has been located in Antarctica
Posted by Chris Roubis on 9th, Mar, 2022 |
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The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust announced the Endurance22 Expedition has successfully located the wreck of Endurance, the ship of famous explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. The ship was crushed by ice and sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915. While the amazing discovery may not strictly be photography news, the Endurance22 Expedition has shared some amazing underwater photos and 4K footage. A century after Shackleton’s death, his famous ship was found 3,008 meters (1.87 mi) beneath the surface of the Weddell Sea. The ship was found within the expedition team’s defined search area,...
Venus Optics announces $699 Laowa 7.5mm T2.9 Zero-D Cine lens, the world’s widest Super35 rectilinear prime lens
Posted by Chris Roubis on 9th, Mar, 2022 |
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Venus Optics has announced the release of the world’s widest Super35 rectilinear prime lens, the Laowa 7.5mm T2.9 Zero-D Cine. This lens, which is fully manual, has a roughly 12mm full-frame equivalent focal length and offers a 123-degree angle of view when captured with a Super35 frame. It’s constructed of 16 elements in 10 groups, including two extra-low dispersion (ED) elements and two aspherical elements. It features a seven-blade aperture diaphragm, has a minimum focusing distance of 25cm (9.8”) and uses a 77mm front filter thread with an T-stop range of T2.9 through T22. The lens...
DPReview TV: Sigma lenses now on X-Mount: Better than Fujifilm primes?
Posted by Chris Roubis on 9th, Mar, 2022 |
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[embedded content] It’s been a long wait, but Sigma is finally releasing lenses in Fujifilm’s X-Mount. Interestingly, it started with three compact F1.4 primes which compete directly with some of Fujifilm’s offerings. How do they compare in terms of quality and price? DPReview TV’s Chris Niccolls has the answers. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. View DPReview’s Sigma 16mm F1.4 sample gallery View DPReview’s Sigma 30mm F1.4 sample gallery View DPReview’s Sigma 56mm F1.4 sample gallery Gear in this story...
Capture One shares its roadmap for 2022, including Capture One for iPad and iPhone
Posted by Chris Roubis on 8th, Mar, 2022 |
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Capture One has announced its development roadmap for the rest of 2022. Capture One’s product suite includes Capture One Pro on desktop, its flagship app, plus Capture One Live and Capture One for iPad. Each piece will work seamlessly with the others, promising a flexible, collaborative workflow across multiple devices. The roadmap is the latest in a series of steps Capture One has taken to be more transparent with its users. ‘It’s been a big year for Capture One, and we’re looking forward to an even bolder one in 2022,’ said Rafael Orta, CEO, Capture One....
Apple unveils powerful new M1 Ultra chipset alongside the Mac Studio and Studio Display
Posted by Chris Roubis on 8th, Mar, 2022 |
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While the iPhone SE and iPad Air updates were modest at best, Apple’s computer-oriented announcements were far more substantial. Apple kicked the event off by showcasing its new M1 Ultra chipset and then showed off the device it will first be available in, the Mac Studio. Paired with the new Mac Studio desktop is the Studio Display, a new 27” 5K display that’s effectively an iMac without the internals. M1 Ultra The new M1 Ultra is Apple’s latest—and last—chipset in Apple’s M1 lineup, which also includes the M1, M1 Pro and M1 Max. While Apple’s M1 Max, which debuted in the latest MacBook Pro...
Apple unveils new iPhone SE, iPad Air models with 5G and updated chipsets
Posted by Chris Roubis on 8th, Mar, 2022 |
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Today, at its ‘Peek Performance’ event, Apple unveiled a collection of new and improved products, including a new iPhone SE as well as an updated iPad Air that brings the company’s powerful M1 chipset to the Air lineup. iPhone SE The first new product from Apple is a new iPhone SE 5G, an entry-level option who want the latest iOS device without breaking the bank. The device remains largely unchanged from its predecessor on the outside, but inside is a different story. The first difference is the chipset. Now, the iPhone SE has an A15 Bionic inside—the same found in Apple’s iPhone 13 model...
Video: iFixit tears down Samsung’s new Galaxy S22 and S22 Ultra smartphones
Posted by Chris Roubis on 8th, Mar, 2022 |
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A month ago, Samsung announced three new Galaxy S22 series smartphones, including the redesigned S22 Ultra. The trio of smartphones offer a wide array of features and specs. The top-end S22 Ultra features a large 6.8-inch display and looks – and works – much like Samsung’s Note series. However, looks can be deceiving. Is the S22 Ultra more of the same for Samsung, or are there interesting novelties under the hood? The repair gurus at iFixit have taken apart the new Galaxy S22 and the flagship S22 Ultra to see what’s really going on with Samsung’s latest smartphones. Looking...
Slideshow: Winners of the 11th annual Mobile Photography Awards
Posted by Chris Roubis on 8th, Mar, 2022 |
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Recently, the winners and honorable mentions were announced for the 11th annual Mobile Photography Awards (MPA). Every year, the MPAs showcase the best images taken and edited with a mobile phone or tablet. 5,500 photos from 90 countries were submitted. Winning and honorable mentioned images from the MPAs are regularly featured at themed exhibits in cities all over the world including Melbourne, Toronto and San Francisco. Liu KunKun was awarded the Grand Prize Winner for his consistent set of intriguing images. ‘He has a great mastery of geometry and perspective and taken together with...
Canon plans to release 32 RF-mount lenses over the next four years
Posted by Chris Roubis on 7th, Mar, 2022 |
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Canon Inc. has published its Corporate Strategy Conference 2022 presentation materials, revealing a number of interesting tidbits about the company’s past fiscal year and what it intends to do going forwards as part of its growth strategy. Under the headline ‘2021 Results and Future Growth Strategy,’ Canon says part of its ‘Growth Strategy’ is to ‘develop imaging business centered on optical technology.’ Specifically, Canon says it wants to expand the scale of its optical technology by ‘cultivat[ing] new users’ and ‘develop[ing] new products.’ As a result, it hopes to target one trillion yen...
Astronomers from NOIRLab capture incredible photo of ‘Spanish Dancer’ spiral galaxy
Posted by Chris Roubis on 7th, Mar, 2022 |
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Astronomers from NOIRLab have captured a stunning photo of the NGC 1566 spiral galaxy at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The spiral galaxy is colloquially known as the Spanish Dancer due to its beautiful spiral pattern. To capture the highly detailed new image, astronomers used the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope. The telescope was commissioned in 1974 and is named in honor of Puerto Rican astronomer Victor Manuel Blanco. ‘The DECam focal plane consists of a science array of sixty-two 2048 X 4096 CCDs. Additionally there are...
Researchers use quantum dots to create high resolution three-layer sensor
Posted by Chris Roubis on 7th, Mar, 2022 |
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Schematic showing how different colored light is absorbed by the layered quantum dot photodetector. Researchers in the US and Korea are developing three-layered sensors based on quantum dots that promise low-cost, flexible, high-dynamic range sensors without the need for demosaicing. Quantum dots are nano-scale semiconducting crystals whose size and composition can be used to ‘tune’ the frequency of light they absorb or emit. Researchers at Northwestern University, Illinois, and three South Korean universities have published their findings in the journal Advanced Materials. The research...
OM System OM-1 studio tests published
Posted by Chris Roubis on 7th, Mar, 2022 |
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Big claims were reported for the capabilities of the new OM System OM-1, and we now have Adobe Camera Raw support, allowing us to check those claims in our standard test scene. The company briefed that the OM-1 offered a 2EV improvement in noise performance and a 1EV improvement in dynamic range. However, these claims did not appear in such striking terms in the press release about the camera, where the only reference to a two stop improvement in noise referred to the multi-shot high res mode (where re-sampling the scene and combing the results improves noise and, as a consequence, dynamic...
This LEGO Polaroid OneStep camera is one step closer to becoming a reality
Posted by Chris Roubis on 6th, Mar, 2022 |
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LEGO Ideas is a website that allows users to submit ideas for LEGO sets. If an idea gets enough support, it can become an official LEGO set, with the original designer receiving a small portion of the royalties. Minibrick Productions has submitted a design for a Polaroid OneStep SX-80 instant camera, complete with a working viewfinder and ‘film’ slot. It’s not the first time we’ve seen a camera pop up on LEGO Ideas. Last summer, we highlighted a LEGO design for a 1914 Ur-Leica camera submitted by a user named Pandis Pandus. The LEGO Polaroid OneStep nails the overall...
DPReview TV: Using a Panasonic GH6 to recreate a movie scene from ‘The Nice Guys’
Posted by Chris Roubis on 5th, Mar, 2022 |
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[embedded content] For years, Chris and Jordan have produced their ‘Wooden Niccolls’ series where they attempt to recreate Hollywood movie scenes with consumer mirrorless cameras. In their latest project, they’re joined by a small crew to craft a scene from Shane Black’s film The Nice Guys. Watch as our team battles with small magazines, doors that open the wrong way and attempting Russell Crowe’s distinctive voice! Huge thanks to our talented crew: Levi Holwell, Kaitlyn Kerr and Alex Mitchell. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV...
Backblaze reveals failure rates for hard drives in 2021, releases an SSD report for the first time
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Mar, 2022 |
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Last month, cloud storage and data backup company Backblaze released its 2021 Annual Report for hard drive failure rates. Like in previous years, the report focused on failure rates for hard disk drives (HDD). However, yesterday, for the first time, Backblaze released a special follow-up to its 2021 Annual Report focused on solid-state drives (SSD). Looking first at the standard report on HDD storage, Backblaze ended 2021 with a total of 203,928 data drives under its management. All the data drives use HDD technology. This venerable storage technology stores and retrieves digital data using...
Ilford film, paper and chemicals will increase in price later this month
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Mar, 2022 |
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Harman Technology, the company responsible for manufacturing Ilford photographic film, paper and chemicals has announced it will be raising its prices later this month in response to supply chain constraints. As reported by Kosmo Foto, Ilford and Kentmere-branded film, photographic paper and processing chemicals will increase in price starting March 14. However, not all products will see their prices increase. According to the document sent to dealers earlier this week, Ilford Delta 3200 will see a 3% increase, while HP5 Plus will increase 7%. Prices for some of Ilford’s more specialized...
Leica releases $6,295 ‘Reporter’ version of its Leica Q2 Monochrome camera
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Mar, 2022 |
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Leica is back again with another special-edition camera, this time giving its Q2 Monochrom camera the ‘Reporter’ treatment its given its original Q2 and M10-P cameras. As with nearly every limited-edition Leica model, the Q2 Monochrom Reporter remains entirely unchanged from its predecessor on the inside. Notably, the camera still has a full-frame 47MP sensor designed specifically for monochrome photography. Leica says this monochrome sensor can capture up to two additional stops of dynamic range (13EV vs 11EV) compared to its Bayer-laden counterpart. In front of the sensor is the same...
Film Friday: An introduction to stereoscopy (‘3D’) film photography
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Mar, 2022 |
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For this week’s installment of Film Friday, we’re featuring an article from The Stereoscopy Blog, as shared on 35mmc, that serves as an introduction to stereoscopic photography — oftentimes referred to as as 3D photography. Stereoscopic still life taken with a 120 Sputnik stereo camera After a brief introduction to what The Stereoscopy Blog is about, Rebecca (from The Stereoscopy Blog) breaks down the basics of analog stereoscopic photography: what it is, where it came from, what its use-cases are and, arguably most importantly, how to get started in capturing your own stereoscopic images if...
Slideshow: These are the winners of the 2021 Annual Photography Awards
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Mar, 2022 |
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The Annual Photography Awards (APA) has announced the Overall and category winners for its 2021 competition. A total of 1,564 photographers from 54 countries entered their work in a collection of categories, including abstract, architecture, landscape, photojournalism, portrait, street and fine art, as well as an overall ‘Photographer of the Year.’ Martin Stranka won the title of Photographer of the Year 2021 for his series ‘Boyhood,’ which came with a $1,000 cash prize. Eight other category winners received a $500 cash prize. The winning entries were selected from a...
CT scans reveal that iconic, affordable instant cameras are more complicated than they appear
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Mar, 2022 |
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Over at Scan of the Month, the team uses computed tomography scanning, an imaging technique often reserved for medical settings, to photograph the internal components of well-known consumer products, including LEGO, Apple AirPods and a Nintendo handheld video game systems, such as the original Game Boy, Game Boy Advance and Nintendo Switch. The featured product in February was instant cameras. Scan of the Month looked at three iconic instant cameras, the Polaroid 600 AF, Polaroid Go and Fujifilm Instax. Instant film cameras have a long history. Polaroid launched its first camera, the Model...
Hands-on with the OM System 12-40mm F2.8 PRO II and 40-150mm F4 PRO
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Mar, 2022 |
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Introduction The 12-40mm F2.8 II Pro and 40-150mm F4 Pro aren’t the first lenses to appear with ‘OM System’ branding, but they give a bit of an insight into OM Digital Solutions’ thinking about the system, its strengths, and where it’s going. We’ve had a chance to handle and use the lenses a little bit and are going to take a look at what they are and what they offer. Gear in this story We are retrieving offers for your location, please refresh the page to see the prices. The Panasonic GH6 is the latest in the company’s line of video-focused Micro...
Samsung PRO Plus SD Card Review
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Mar, 2022 |
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Samsung continues to push for newer and faster storage for photographers. Its most recent release in the form of the Samsung PRO Plus SD cards is specifically designed for professional photographers seeking weather-proof, fast and reliable storage over the older UHS-I interface. This “Pro Approved” product is supposed to deliver maximum sequential read and write speeds of 160 MB/sec and 120 MB/sec, while being able to support 4K video recording, making it an ideal solution for both photo and videography needs. We decided to test this card out and see if it lives up to its expectations. Table...
Apple confirms product launch event for March 8
Posted by Chris Roubis on 2nd, Mar, 2022 |
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Apple has confirmed it will be holding a product launch event six days from now, on March 8, 2022. Apple doesn’t tease, let alone specify, what product lines will be updated, but if recent rumors from trusted insiders are anything to go by we can expect to see a new entry-level iPhone, an updated iPad Air and at least one new Mac computer. Peek performance. March 8th. See you there. #AppleEvent pic.twitter.com/cEKMq7BuBh — Greg Joswiak (@gregjoz) March 2, 2022 Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who is known for his usually-reliable insights on what Apple is working on and releasing, suggests we’ll be...
Video: DIY project managed to shrink Apple’s M1 Mac Mini by 72% through some clever tinkering
Posted by Chris Roubis on 2nd, Mar, 2022 |
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[embedded content] Apple’s Mac Mini is one of the smaller all-in-one computers you’ll find on the market. But, if this latest video from YouTuber Quinn Nelson from Snazzy Labs is anything to go by, Apple could manage to shrink the device even further. Since the M1 Mac Mini was released, Nelson said he’s wanted to tear one down to see what’s inside and determine whether or not it’s possible to further shrink the compact desktop computer. While it’s taken a while to achieve what he set out to do, the ‘Mac Mini Mini’ is alive and well, showing just how much smaller Apple could make future Mac...
Video: Slow Mo Guys record exploding capacitors at 187,500 frames per second
Posted by Chris Roubis on 2nd, Mar, 2022 |
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Gavin and Dan of The Slow Mo Guys are back to their typical slow mo fun. This time, the crew overloaded capacitors and recorded the results at a blisteringly fast 187,500 frames per second. When slowed down for presentation, that’s about 7500 times slower than you can see with your naked eye. The camera of choice is the Phantom TMX 7510. The crew used the same camera last summer to record glass shattering at 800,000 fps. To achieve 187,500 fps speed, the Phantom TMX 7510 must record at 1280 x 320 resolution. You can shoot even faster as you decrease vertical resolution, up to 1.75M...
DPReview TV: Micro Four Thirds Q&A – We answer your OM-1 and GH6 questions
Posted by Chris Roubis on 2nd, Mar, 2022 |
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[embedded content] It’s been an exciting time for Micro Four Thirds, and we’re seeing a lot of questions about the new OM Systems OM-1 and Panasonic GH6. Chris and Jordan take a few minutes to answer some of them in front of a (lit, for a change) fireplace. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. Gear in this story Panasonic LUMIX GH6, 25.2MP Mirrorless Micro Four Thirds Camera with Unlimited C4K/4K 4:2:2 10-bit Video Recording, 7.5-Stop 5-Axis Dual Image Stabilizer – DC-GH6BODY $2,199.99 Shop now Panasonic LUMIX GH6, 25.2MP Mirrorless...
Hands-on with the Panasonic GH6
Posted by Chris Roubis on 2nd, Mar, 2022 |
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The GH6 is the most recent in Panasonic’s video-centric line of cameras for the Micro Four Thirds system, dating back to the original GH1 in 2009. Since then, the GH series has come a long way, evolving into a very mature, widely used system. According to Panasonic, its goal with the GH6 was to combine the best attributes of its two predecessors, the GH5 and GH5S, into a single camera. In particular, this meant a camera with a higher resolution sensor, like the GH5, but which could still deliver greater dynamic range, like the GH5S. The price of the GH6 even falls between the launch...
Photojournalist Doug Mills discusses his nearly 40 years photographing the last 7 presidents
Posted by Chris Roubis on 1st, Mar, 2022 |
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Venus Optics rehouses Laowa MFT lenses for cine and adds ultra-wide 6mm Cine Zero-D
Posted by Chris Roubis on 1st, Mar, 2022 |
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Chinese lens manufacturer Venus Optics has introduced a new range of four cinema lenses for the Micro Four Thirds system. Three of the lenses are rehoused versions of existing focal lengths, while the new 6mm T2.1 becomes the widest rectilinear focal length for the mount. The range comprises: Laowa 6mm T2.1 Zero-D MFT Cine Laowa 10mm T2.1 Zero-D MFT Cine Laowa 17mm T1.9 MFT Cine Laowa 50mm T2.9 Macro APO MFT Cine The two wider lenses use the company’s Zero-D label which in the past has indicated that curvilinear distortion will be very successfully controlled, while the 50mm T2.9 is perhaps...
James Webb Space Telescope reaches another milestone as mirror alignment continues
Posted by Chris Roubis on 1st, Mar, 2022 |
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The James Webb Space Telescope has reached another milestone on its path to becoming a fully-operational observatory. NASA has announced that the Webb team has ‘successfully worked through the second and third out of seven total phases of mirror alignment.’ The team will now commence making smaller adjustments to the positions of Webb’s 18 primary mirror segments. The news comes only a few weeks after NASA announced that the James Webb Space Telescope saw its first star using all of its primary mirror segments. That announcement came shortly after the telescope detected its...
POCO announces (relatively) affordable X4 Pro 5G and M4 Pro smartphones with 108MP, 64MP cameras
Posted by Chris Roubis on 28th, Feb, 2022 |
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POCO, an independent sub-brand of Xiaomi, has announced the global launch of the competitively-priced POCO X4 Pro 5G and POCO M4 Pro smartphones during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2022. The displays are a key difference between the X4 Pro 5G and the M4 Pro smartphones. The X4 Pro 5G includes a 6.67″ AMOLED DotDisplay screen with a 120Hz refresh rate. The M4 Pro has a smaller 6.43″ AMOLED DotDisplay screen with a 90Hz refresh rate. The X4 Pro 5G has a 360Hz sampling rate, up from 240Hz on its predecessor, while the M4 Pro has a 180Hz sampling rate. The X4 Pro 5G can display...
KamLan unveils its first full-frame lens, a 55mm F1.4 lens for Canon RF, Nikon Z and Sony E mount cameras
Posted by Chris Roubis on 28th, Feb, 2022 |
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Chinese Optics manufacture Kamlan has announced, at CP+ 2022, the details of its first lens designed for full-frame sensors, a new 55mm F1.4 lens that will be available for Canon RF, Nikon Z and Sony E mount camera systems. The manual focus lens is constructed of eight elements in six groups, uses a 13-blade aperture diaphragm, has an aperture range of F1.4 through F16 and has a minimum focusing distance of 30cm (11.8”). Based on the sole image KamLan has shared, it appears as thoguht he lens will have knurled focus and aperture rings. A KamLan production line worker poring over a 50mm F/1.1...
AP cancels sale of NFT depicting migrants on a boat amid criticism of profiting from suffering
Posted by Chris Roubis on 28th, Feb, 2022 |
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The Associated Press (AP), which sells non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of its photojournalism, recently canceled the sale of a video clip depicting migrants crowded together on a raft. This move comes after the independent global news organization received criticism for profiting from human suffering. The AP has an NFT marketplace, powered by blockchain provider Xooa, that launched this year. An NFT is a digital asset stored on a blockchain, on an encrypted ledger, making it unique to its owner. The marketplace offers images, including some Pulitzer Prize-winning photos, and video clips taken by...
Irix 30mm F1.4 Dragonfly Sample Gallery
Posted by Chris Roubis on 28th, Feb, 2022 |
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Over the past week, DPReview news editor Gannon Burgett has captured a collection of images with Irix’s 30mm F1.4 Dragonfly lens mounted to his Canon EOS R (via Canon’s EF-RF mount adapter). This gallery is a subset of those images. Irix’s 30mm F1.4 lens is available for Canon EF, Nikon F and Pentax K mounts for $675, but can be adapted to various mirrorless mounts via adapters. The lens is manual focus, but does feature electrical contacts that allows you to control the lens’ aperture via your camera and transfers EXIF information from the lens to the camera body. Check out the images to...
Behind the Composition – The Catalyst
Posted by Chris Roubis on 28th, Feb, 2022 |
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As I began better exploring the woodlands of Eastern Pennsylvania, I came to realize that photographing grand vistas which would stop people in their tracks, in the same manner as is found in the western states, would not be possible. The grandest vistas in Pennsylvania are hilly overlooks, often speckled throughout with a small town or two, along with trails made up by highways. There are no giant mountains to train your eye on, nor are there any great sand dunes to find abstract formations within. At best, we have waterfalls, which are great subjects to find abstract patterns within. But...
Landscape Composition – Part 4: Subject direction and lead room
Posted by Chris Roubis on 27th, Feb, 2022 |
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So far in this series, I’ve talked about compositional elements, their weights and how to use their properties to balance the composition by imagining a balance of torques around the middle axis of an image. I also discussed balancing of negative space. But even all this doesn’t give us a full picture of the factors that should affect compositional arrangement. This time, I intend to talk about another placement consideration which has a lot of impact on my own compositions: lead room. Is this iceberg ‘facing’ any direction? What is it in its properties or shape that...
DPReview TV: Panasonic GH6 vs. S1H
Posted by Chris Roubis on 26th, Feb, 2022 |
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[embedded content] The Panasonic GH6 is clearly the best Micro Four Thirds camera for video shooters, but how does it compare to the full frame S1H? Does Jordan Drake have a new favorite camera? Is it too cold to go outside in Canada? All these questions will be answered. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. Gear in this story The Lumix DC-GH6 is the latest video-centric hybrid Micro Four Thirds camera from Panasonic that brings a slew of new and improved features and specifications over its four-year-old predecessor, the GH5S. Despite plans to have...
Cosina announces three new Voigtlander lenses for Nikon Z, one for Fujifilm X and an E-mount close-focus adapter
Posted by Chris Roubis on 25th, Feb, 2022 |
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Cosina has announced four new manual focus, metal barrel Voigtlander prime lenses for Nikon Z and Fujifilm X mounts, plus a new lens adapter. The Voigtlander APO-Lanthar 50mm F2 Aspherical lens is a full-frame standard prime lens for Nikon Z mount. The APO in the name refers to the lens’s apochromatic design, which promises to eliminate aberrations and deliver clean, high-resolution images, even when shooting with the lens wide open at F2. The lens includes 10 lens elements across 8 groups and incorporates a 12-bladed aperture diaphragm. Voigtlander APO-Lanthar 50mm F2 for Nikon Z The...
The Panasonic GH6: What I wanted, what I got, and what I didn’t expect
Posted by Chris Roubis on 25th, Feb, 2022 |
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Five years is a long time. I asked my six year old and he agreed. That’s how long it’s been since Panasonic released the GH5, which I would argue is one of the most important digital cameras ever released. It brought 10-bit video recording to the masses and, for me, it was the first mirrorless camera that truly felt like a replacement for a professional cinema camera. Unlimited recording in most modes, waveforms, vector scopes, shutter angles… These were the conveniences many professional videographers and cinematographers would pay a huge premium to have access to. Now, suddenly, they were...
Film Friday: Chroma Cameras shares details of its new Six6, Six12 modular medium format cameras
Posted by Chris Roubis on 25th, Feb, 2022 |
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The new camera system covers formats from 6×6 to 6×12 | Photo by Chroma Cameras Steve Lloyd, founder of Chroma Cameras, has unveiled a pair of modular medium format film cameras designed to shoot 6×9 and 6×12 format film photographs. As exclusively detailed on Kosmo Foto, the 6×9 camera, called the Six9, can also shoot 6×6 images, while the 6×12 camera, called the Six12, can capture 6×9 and 6×6 through the use of swappable film holders. ‘There are two models of my new camera. One is a native 6×9 format (with magnetic inserts for 6×6), and the other is 6×12...
Reply to [OT] Quo vadis camera industry ?
Posted by Chris Roubis on 25th, Feb, 2022 |
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Especially in these interesting times. Olympus transferred its imaging business to financial investor Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) on January 1, 2021. November 2021 Sony stops production of APS-C models of the A series, the favorable legacy model A7 II and the A7c. January 2022 Canon communicates plans to close its only manufacturing facility in China. In late January 2022, Canon communicates a price increase of up to USD 200 for a variety of lenses. The global sales decline has now reached dimensions that will further accelerate a market shakeout. For the development of year 2019 (before...
Slideshow: Finalists for the World Photography Organisation’s Sony World Photography Awards 2022
Posted by Chris Roubis on 24th, Feb, 2022 |
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The World Photography Organisation has announced the Professional Finalists and Shortlisted photographs for its Sony World Photography Awards 2022 photo competition. The competition is now in its 15th year and, in World Photography Organisation’s own words, ‘rewards remarkable series of works both for technical skill and an original approach to contemporary subjects.’ This year, more than 340,000 images from 211 countries and territories were submitted, with over 156,000 of those being entered into the Professional competition—the most ever in the competition’s history. Of those images, the...
Oppo launches Find X5 Series, its first smartphone with its new MariSilicon X Imaging NPU
Posted by Chris Roubis on 24th, Feb, 2022 |
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In December, smartphone manufacturer Oppo announced the successful development of its neural processing unit (NPU). The 6nm chipset, MariSilicon X, includes the NPU, an image signal processor (ISP) and a custom memory architecture. The chip promises to improve the imaging capabilities of mobile photography, including a 20-bit HDR pipeline. Oppo has now announced the Find X5 Pro flagship smartphone, its first smartphone equipped with the MariSilicon X Imaging NPU. Image courtesy of Oppo. The MariSilicon X chipset can process up to 18 trillion int8 operations per second, (TOPS) at a rate of...
Reply to How many times did you regret buying second hand gear?
Posted by Chris Roubis on 24th, Feb, 2022 |
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I had all of my camera bodies (40D, 5DII and 7D) purchased second hand on ebay, the most expensive one (5DII) I had examined before buying since the (private) seller lived only 10 km away from my home.No regrets here on any of those cameras. Regarding my lenses, there are three primes and three zooms that I bought on ebay from private sellers, only one of them (a 70-200 f4 L IS USM, my first purchase) was old and used and has focusing issues in certain situations, so I probably paid more for it than it was worth. Yet I don’t regret it, since it is a fantastic lens anyway, though...
Canon announces $17K 800mm F5.6, $20K 1200mm F8 lenses for RF mount
Posted by Chris Roubis on 24th, Feb, 2022 |
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On the 35th anniversary of Canon’s EOS line, the company has announced two new RF-mount super-telephoto lenses: the RF 800mm F5.6 L IS USM and RF 1200mm F8 L IS USM. While these lenses are similar in name to their EF counterparts, both lenses feature new optical constructions and weigh quite a bit less. Starting first with the similarities between the 800mm F5.6 and 1200mm F8, both lenses feature two focus presets for quickly switching between specific focus distances, use nine-blade aperture diaphragms, offer weathersealing and feature a flourine coating on the front-most elements to help...
Canon celebrates 35 years of its EOS System next month
Posted by Chris Roubis on 24th, Feb, 2022 |
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Next month, Canon will celebrate the 35th anniversary of the company’s EOS System, which made its debut in March 1987 when Canon launched the EOS 650 SLR and three EF lenses: the 50mm F1.8, the 35–70mm F3.5–4.5 and the EF 35–105mm F3.5–4.5. The EOS branding serves dual purpose, as an acronym for Electro Optical System and as a tribute to Eos, a Titaness and the goddess of the dawn in Greek mythology. Since the launch of the EOS System, Canon has released dozens of SLR, DSLR and mirrorless, and over 100 lenses for its EF and RF lens mounts. Canon’s EOS EF lens mount was the first...
The iQOO 9 Pro offers flagship triple-camera array, complete with Samsung GN5 sensor, for under $900
Posted by Chris Roubis on 23rd, Feb, 2022 |
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iQOO, a sub-brand of Vivo, has announced the international release of its latest flagship smartphones, the iQOO 9 series. The iQOO series includes the iQOO 9, iQOO 9 Pro and iQOO 9 SE, and each of the three smartphones promise big performance gains over their predecessors. The iQOO brand has traditionally focused on gaming smartphones, and the iQOO 9 series doubles down on performance. The iQOO 9 and 9 Pro include Samsung’s V6 UFS 3.1 memory chip, which promises faster file transfers, and an extended RAM 2.0 feature allows apps to run simultaneously with minimum lag. The iQOO 9 series...
What is dual gain and how does it work?
Posted by Chris Roubis on 23rd, Feb, 2022 |
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The Panasonic Lumix DC-GH6 has a ‘dual gain’ sensor, but not in the sense you’re likely to have encountered before. The Panasonic GH6 features a mode called Dynamic Range Boost which the company says is based on a sensor that features ‘dual output gain.’ This mode is always engaged in stills shooting mode, making it the first time we’ve seen dual output gain on a stills camera. Given the widespread adoptions of the similar-sounding ‘dual gain’ sensor design, we thought this would be a good time to look at these systems and what they do. Why use...
CIPA’s 2022 outlook suggests both camera and lens shipments will slightly decline
Posted by Chris Roubis on 23rd, Feb, 2022 |
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CIPA has published its annual outlook, wherein it shares its outlook on the shipment of cameras, lenses and other photo-related products for the 2022 year. CIPA starts off by sharing the data for 2021, which showed total digital camera shipments, which include both compact cameras and interchangeable lens cameras, were down 5.9% year-over-year (YoY) in terms of units shipped. Isolate interchangeable lens cameras, however, and we actually get a .8% increase YoY in units shipped. While positive, it’s important to realize that the previous year, 2020, saw a dramatic decrease in camera sales...
What does Sigma’s support mean for X-mount?
Posted by Chris Roubis on 23rd, Feb, 2022 |
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It may be lacking an aperture ring, but the 56mm F1.4 DC DN makes a great match for the Fujifilm X-T4, in terms of size and balance. The arrival of Sigma’s 16mm, 30mm and 56mm F1.4 DC DN lenses is another step forward for the X-mount system. No matter how comprehensive Fujifilm makes its own lineup of lenses, it’s always beneficial to not have a system solely tied to one company’s vision of the system or dependent on its production priorities. Sigma joins Zeiss, Tamron, Tokina and Viltrox in supporting the system, giving Fujifilm users an increasing array of options. Sigma...
TTArtisan adds L-mount option for its $99 23mm F1.4 APS-C lens
Posted by Chris Roubis on 23rd, Feb, 2022 |
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TTartisan has added yet another mount option for its 23mm F1.4 APS-C lens. Now, in addition to Canon EF-M, Fujifilm X, Micro Four Thirds, Nikon Z and Sony E mount versions, there is an L-mount model. Aside from very minor dimensional differences, the fully manual lens remains unchanged from its APS-C counterparts. It’s comprised of eight elements in six groups, including one low-dispersion element and three high-refractive index elements. Other features include a 10-blade aperture diaphragm and has a minimum focusing distance of 20cm (7.9”). TTArtisan doesn’t specify the exact dimensions of...
Canon China teases new product launch set to take place tomorrow
Posted by Chris Roubis on 23rd, Feb, 2022 |
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Canon China has posted a series of teasers for a new product announcement set to take place tomorrow, February 24, 2022. The promotional images, shared on Canon China’s official profile on social media platform Weibo, have been counting down the days until the new announcement, which will be livestreamed tomorrow, February 24, 2022, at 11am UTC. Aside from the countdown numbers, the only other visual information Canon provides is some gold dust and a red infinity sign that could also be interpreted as a horizontal ‘8.’ Whatever it is Canon plans to reveal, we should know by the end of the...
Reply to CR3 Software
Posted by Chris Roubis on 22nd, Feb, 2022 |
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I just bought a 90D and discovered CR3 RAW files. Here is the problem. We typically go out on 3-4 day hunts and return with 400-500 images that need to be sorted and filed. For 16 years I’ve used Canon’s excellent Zoombrowser software. I know it was discontinued long time ago but it is perfect for comparing 30-40 images of the same bug and deleting the files that fall short. It was also used to add notes to the jpeg images. Zoombrowser does not recognize CR3 files. What do you guys use for sorting and managing CR3 files? I need software that can compare 2 jpeg images side by side...
Sigma releases update on the development of its three-layer full-frame Foveon image sensor
Posted by Chris Roubis on 22nd, Feb, 2022 |
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Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki. Sigma’s ongoing Foveon full-frame sensor development project has run into many issues. In February 2020, Sigma announced that it was going back to the drawing board with its full-frame Foveon sensor and would be restarting development from scratch. About a year later, it announced it was fully engaged in research and development and asked for patience from its fans. Yesterday, Sigma released another update, sharing that the development of its full-frame Foveon sensor is still underway and that progress has been made. Sigma’s CEO, Kazuto Yamaki, writes,...
Tokina announces 8mm F2.8 fisheye lens for X-mount, E-mount APS-C cameras
Posted by Chris Roubis on 22nd, Feb, 2022 |
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Tokina has announced the impending release of its new SZ 8mm F2.8 fisheye lens for Fujifilm X and Sony E-mount APS-C camera systems. The fully-manual lens is constructed of 11 elements in eight groups, including an unspecified number of multi-coated elements. It features a seven-blade aperture diaphragm, offers an aperture range of F2.8 through F22 with a clickless aperture ring and has a minimum focusing distance of 10cm (4”). Below is a promo video from Tokina: [embedded content] Below is a small sample gallery of low-resolution images, provided by Tokina: Both lenses measure 60mm (2.4”)...
UAVs go to the major leagues as the MLB starts testing drone use during baseball games
Posted by Chris Roubis on 22nd, Feb, 2022 |
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A screenshot from the Field of Dreams field that was used as a testing ground for drone-use during MLB-sanctioned events. Major League Baseball (MLB) is continuing to adopt the use of drones for more than just scenic aerial shots from a distance during games. While last year’s ‘Field of Dreams’ game showcased the first efforts to implement drones into baseball coverage, this past weekend the MLB took its next step by testing out using a DJI Inspire 2 for TV coverage of a college tournament. For the test, the MLB used an Inspire 2, equipped with a Zenmuse X7 camera, to...
[OT] Quo vadis camera industry ?
Posted by Chris Roubis on 22nd, Feb, 2022 |
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N808PV says: Especially in these interesting times. Olympus transferred its imaging business to financial investor Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) on January 1, 2021. November 2021 Sony stops production of APS-C models of the A series, the favorable legacy model A7 II and the A7c. January 2022 Canon communicates plans to close its only manufacturing facility in China. In late January 2022, Canon communicates a price increase of up to USD 200 for a variety of lenses. The global sales decline has now reached dimensions that will further accelerate a market shakeout. For the development of year...
Megadap MTZ11 Leica M to Nikon Z Autofocus Adapter Review
Posted by Chris Roubis on 22nd, Feb, 2022 |
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Megadap is a name you might not immediately recognize, with their product lineup consisting entirely of adapters. These adapters aren’t just your basic mounting rings, however. In the case of the MTZ11, the adapter brings autofocus to lenses that never had it: autofocusing Leica M lenses on Nikon Z cameras. This interesting technical accomplishment includes all the usual features of Nikon Z autofocus, like Eye AF and AF-C, with a huge range of Leica M lenses. Beyond that, even non-Leica-M lenses can be mounted to Nikon Z cameras with autofocus by combining the MTZ11 with additional adapters....
Panasonic Lumix DC-GH6 initial review
Posted by Chris Roubis on 22nd, Feb, 2022 |
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The Panasonic Lumix DC-GH6 is the latest in a line of high-end Micro Four Thirds video cameras. The GH6 can shoot a vast range of 4K-focused video modes, including slow-motion from 120 fps capture, full-sensor ‘open gate’/anamorphic shooting and capture in industry standard formats such as ProRes 422 and 422HQ. The GH6 is built around a sensor with parallel high and low-gain readouts to deliver a ‘Dynamic Range Boost’ mode that Panasonic says delivers more than 13 stops of dynamic range at higher ISO settings. It becomes the first GH camera to use the full VariCam...
DPReview TV: Panasonic GH6 initial review
Posted by Chris Roubis on 22nd, Feb, 2022 |
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[embedded content] The Panasonic Lumix GH6 is a massive upgrade over the now-legendary GH5. 5.7K/60P, 4K/120P and 100MP Handheld HiRes still are the headline features, but there’s a lot more for Chris and Jordan to talk about. Find out if this will become the DPReview TV camera of choice! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. Pre-production GH6 sample gallery from this episode Gear in this story Panasonic LUMIX GH6, 25.2MP Mirrorless Micro Four Thirds Camera with Unlimited C4K/4K 4:2:2 10-bit Video Recording, 7.5-Stop 5-Axis Dual Image...
Panasonic GH6 pre-production sample gallery
Posted by Chris Roubis on 22nd, Feb, 2022 |
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Panasonic has finally raised the ceiling on Micro Four Thirds sensor resolution with their new 25MP GH6. Check out Chris Niccolls’ first shots taken with this new camera, in a variety of light levels. Want to learn more about this camera? Watch our hands-on review from DPReview TV. View our Panasonic GH6 sample gallery Gear in this story Panasonic LUMIX GH6, 25.2MP Mirrorless Micro Four Thirds Camera with Unlimited C4K/4K 4:2:2 10-bit Video Recording, 7.5-Stop 5-Axis Dual Image Stabilizer, 12-60mm F2.8-4.0 Leica Lens – DC-GH6LK $2,799.99 Shop now Panasonic LUMIX GH5M2, 20.3MP...
Panasonic announces Lumix GH6, a hybrid MFT camera with 5.7K/60p video, built-in fan and more
Posted by Chris Roubis on 22nd, Feb, 2022 |
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Panasonic has announced the Lumix DC-GH6, its latest video-centric Micro Four Thirds hybrid camera that features a new sensor, an upgraded image processor, improved in-body image stabilization and more. At the heart of the GH6 is a new 25.2MP CMOS sensor capable of capturing 14 frames per second (fps) in AF-S mode and internally recording 5.7K/30p video in Apple ProRes 422 HQ, a first for a Lumix camera. If you drop the resolution down to 4K, the GH6 can capture 10-bit 4:2:2 video at up to DCI 4K/60p, 10-bit 4:2:0 video at up to 4K/120p, and FHD video tops out at 1080/240p. Variable frame...
The NONS SL660 is an EF-mount interchangeable lens camera that uses Fujifilm Instax Square Film
Posted by Chris Roubis on 21st, Feb, 2022 |
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NONS has launched its latest camera, the NONS SL660. The SL660 is an interchangeable lens SLR analog instant camera. The camera has a passive EF mount and records images to the widely-available Instax Square film, which retails for around $20 for 20 exposures. If the ‘NONS’ brand sounds familiar, you may recall the company’s first camera, the SL42, which was the first instant camera to utilize an M42 lens mount. And like the SL42, the SL660 is launching on Kickstarter, where the campaign has already exceeded its modest $6,400 goal by over $40,000, as of the time of writing....
Sigma unveils its 16mm, 30mm and 56mm F1.4 primes for Fujifilm X-mount cameras
Posted by Chris Roubis on 21st, Feb, 2022 |
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Sigma has announced the release of three new F1.4 prime lenses for Fujifilm X-mount camera systems. The 16mm F1.4 DC DN, 30mm F1.4 DC DN and 56mm F1.4 DC DN mark Sigma’s first offerings for Fujifilm’s APS-C interchangeable lens camera system and are nearly identical to their predecessors, which were previously released for Canon EF-M mount, L-mount, Micro Four Thirds and Sony E-mount cameras. All three of these lenses have been optimized for use with Fujifilm X-mount camera systems. Specifically, Sigma says the ‘control algorithm, including AF drive and communication speed optimization, has...
Reply to Nikon Z 400 2.8 TC Photos
Posted by Chris Roubis on 20th, Feb, 2022 |
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Are there already users of the Nikon Z 400 2.8 TC here? It would be great if you could provide us with some full-resolution images. Are there already users of the Nikon Z 400 2.8 TC here? It would be great if you could provide us with some full-resolution images. Publish...
Nikon Z 400 2.8 TC Photos
Posted by Chris Roubis on 20th, Feb, 2022 |
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Photos Members Group Since Nikon Z 400 2.8 TC Photos Doggenpapa says: Are there already users of the Nikon Z 400 2.8 TC here? It would be great if you could provide us with some full-resolution images. 6:03AM, 20 February 2022 PST...
DPReview TV: Our advice for OM Digital Solutions after using the OM-1
Posted by Chris Roubis on 19th, Feb, 2022 |
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[embedded content] We’ve spent some time with the OM-1, the first camera from OM Digital Solutions. It gets a lot right, but there are a few changes we’d love to see in future Micro Four Thirds cameras and lenses. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. Gear in this story We are retrieving offers for your location, please refresh the page to see the prices. Chris and Jordan are impressed with the new OM-1 Micro Four Thirds camera, but they have some advice for OM Digital Solutions after using the company’s newest flagship camera....
New Video: Best Settings for Landscape Photography
Posted by Chris Roubis on 18th, Feb, 2022 |
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Autel’s Nano and Lite drones get substantial firmware updates to fix ‘Jello effect,’ add capture modes and more
Posted by Chris Roubis on 18th, Feb, 2022 |
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Improvements have been made to the Autel EVO Lite drone (pictured above). Last September, Autel announced the EVO Nano series, a sub-250g set of drones, and the EVO Lite series—a mid-level drone in the same class as DJI’s Air 2S. Today, the manufacturer has announced a firmware update, version 1.1.1, that adds features and fixes bugs to both lineups. The most notable update is the addition of video frame rates up to 50p (24/25/48/50p), manual focus control for most models and enhanced photo resolution in some models. If this sounds confusing, this is because there are four different...
OM System OM-1: An adventurous camera and the right tool for the job
Posted by Chris Roubis on 18th, Feb, 2022 |
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The question I get asked most often is, ‘Which camera do you use personally?’ When people ask me this, I tell them in all seriousness, whatever the latest camera is this week. They never really find that to be a satisfying answer, but it’s absolutely true. In order to break the awkwardness, I’ll say something self-deprecating like ‘Well, I’m not a photographer, I just play one on TV,’ much to Jordan’s chagrin. He’s heard that one a hundred times. Truly, I enjoy taking photos. In fact, I take way more pictures for DPReview TV than I ever...
Bird Photography with Really Cheap Lenses
Posted by Chris Roubis on 15th, Feb, 2022 |
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There is no doubt that the best gear for bird photography is shockingly expensive. For example, the latest generation 600mm f/4 comes in at about $13,000 US dollars whether you look at Nikon, Canon, or Sony – and that’s without a camera. More modest setups are not cheap either and are still on the level of used cars. Of course, this high end equipment does last a long time, and so over time the cost can end up being lower. However, the up front cost is prohibitive for many bird and wildlife shooters. So, can you shoot birds with really cheap lenses? In this post I hope to convince you that...
How to Get a Blurred Background in Your Photos
Posted by Chris Roubis on 12th, Feb, 2022 |
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Blurring the background is one of the many ways to isolate or emphasize your subject. Do you need a special lens to do so? Absolutely not! In this article, we look at some of the ways you can get those creamy, beautiful backgrounds using almost any camera and lens. Chipmunk, Nikon D500 + 500mm f/5.6 Lens @ 500mm, ISO 3600, 1/640, f/5.6 Table of Contents Use a Wider Aperture A lens’s aperture is the adjustable opening that controls how much light enters the lens. It is specified by the f-number, like f/2.8, which is the ratio of the lens’s focal length to the visible size of the adjustable...
Seeking Inspiration in the Dead of Winter
Posted by Chris Roubis on 10th, Feb, 2022 |
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Winter can be a struggle for me. I long for idyllic, colorful autumn to continue unabated, but instead the land has taken on a stark barrenness. The joy and fun of the holidays is a distant memory. Springtime feels like a universe away. The shorter daylight hours and frequent overcast have me thirsty for light. I feel the beginnings of seasonal affective disorder setting in. Carbohydrates are calling my name. This, for me is the dead of winter. A fresh winter wonderland snowfall gets me out the doorNIKON Z 50 + NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR @ 44mm, ISO 100, 1/40, f/10.0 When these...
Real Estate Photography Tips for Beginners
Posted by Chris Roubis on 8th, Feb, 2022 |
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Real estate photography can be much more than just snapping some photos of interiors. Successfully capturing a property’s unique elements can challenge your skills as a photographer and as an editor. It’s this aspect of real estate photography that has made it my favorite subject as a professional photographer. If you’re trying to take better real estate photos, and operate a real estate photography business, there are some tips I recommend that can make a massive difference in the results and client experience. In this article, I’ll break down some of the major things I keep in mind when...
Vello FreeWave Micro Wireless Shutter Release Review
Posted by Chris Roubis on 5th, Feb, 2022 |
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Since my earliest years as a photographer, I have been using accessories to trip the camera’s shutter without causing sharpness-robbing vibrations. In the film era, it was a threaded cable release, and in the digital camera age it has been a variety of electronic shutter releases that were compatible with the specific camera I was using. Today, I will review one of these electronic shutter releases – the Vello FreeWave Micro Wireless Remote – and see if it has enhanced my workflow effectiveness, and if it’s found a permanent place in my camera bag. The Vello FreeWave Micro is small enough to...
Peak Design Capture Clip V3 Review
Posted by Chris Roubis on 2nd, Feb, 2022 |
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Every once in a great while, a company ‘invents the wheel’ with a product. What do I mean by that? I mean that the invented product is so functionally appropriate that it becomes a new standard. The Peak Design Capture Clip V3 is just like a wheel. It’s an uncomplicated, useful, and seemingly obvious solution to keep a photographer’s camera mounted on or close to their body. I think the most important yet overlooked gear in photography is the stuff that facilitates our jobs – not just the camera or lens themselves. That’s why this product works so well. It makes your camera immediately...
Behind the Composition: Amongst the Dead
Posted by Chris Roubis on 31st, Jan, 2022 |
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It was May of 2018 when my girlfriend, Melanie, and I made the decision to use my family’s cabin in northern Pennsylvania as a basecamp and travel to various state parks in New York for a week. This was the second year of what has since become our yearly vacations together, taking a week after our spring semester of college ends and going on a trip somewhere. The previous year, our first, was a camping trip to western Pennsylvania which was not well-planned nor was it photographically successful, a manner in which I was still using to measure my enjoyment. For the second trip, we wanted to...
What Camera Lens Should I Buy? A Beginner’s Guide
Posted by Chris Roubis on 27th, Jan, 2022 |
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Even if cell phone cameras keep improving and reach unimaginable levels of image quality, I’ll always carry around a larger, heavier, and more complex camera. Why is that? One word: lenses! An interchangeable lens camera opens up a vast world of photographic visions through a huge variety of optics. Choosing among the dozens and even hundreds of lenses can be confusing and intimidating, so in this beginner’s guide, I’ll explain the types of lenses available and what you should buy. Table of Contents What Does a Lens Do? A lens focuses light to form an image on the camera’s digital sensor or...
Associated Press to launch NFT photography marketplace on January 31
Posted by Chris Roubis on 12th, Jan, 2022 |
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The Associated Press (AP) will launch a non-fungible token (NFT) photography marketplace, built by a blockchain provider called Xooa, on January 31st. NFT collectors will be able to purchase pieces of the news agency’s contemporary and historical photojournalism. Works from current and former photojournalists will be included in the initial collection, released over a series of weeks starting on the 31st, along with some Pulitzer Prize-winning images. ‘For 175 years AP’s journalists have recorded the world’s biggest stories, including through gripping and poignant images that...
Irix releases $1,350 21mm T1.5 cine lens for 7 different camera mounts
Posted by Chris Roubis on 12th, Jan, 2022 |
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As promised in a teaser shared two days ago, optics manufacturer Irix has announced a new 21mm T1.5 lens designed for full-frame camera systems. The Irix Cine 21mm T1.5 lens is constructed of 15 elements in 11 groups, including four extra-low dispersion elements, four high-refractive elements and two aspherical elements. This design produces a 43.3mm image circle compatible with sensors from full-frame all the way down to 1/3” sensors. The lens features a T1.5 through T16 aperture range, uses an 11-blade aperture diaphragm and has a minimum focusing distance of 30cm (11.8”). Both the...
Canon EOS R3 sample gallery
Posted by Chris Roubis on 12th, Jan, 2022 |
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Between short days, long nights, and a lot of bad weather here in Seattle, we’ve been working on a Canon EOS R3 sample gallery. So when the sun finally came out we hung out with climbers, ran around with dogs, and captured some high ISO nighttime shots in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood. This gallery includes photos taken with the Canon RF 24-70mm F2.8 and RF 70-200mm F2.8. We’re looking forward to more opportunities to shoot sports and action and will add images to this gallery as they become available, so stay tuned. If you want to see sports and action photos shot...
How to Film a Time-Lapse Video
Posted by Chris Roubis on 12th, Jan, 2022 |
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In this article, I’ll share the basics on how to film a timelapse video, no matter whether you’re a beginner or an experienced photographer. Time lapses are a very popular type of cinematography in which the frequency of the captured frames is much slower than the final video play speed. Along with its unique results, timelapse videography is also very user-friendly. Once you know the right techniques, you can make a time lapse with very basic tools like a smartphone, an action camera, or, for even better results, with a mirrorless/DSLR camera. Understanding Timelapse Videos To...
Reply to New Camera Purchase
Posted by Chris Roubis on 11th, Jan, 2022 |
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AF-S 80-400 no problem. AF-D only manual focus. FTZ 1 is being phased out. Needs attention when considering quick mounting solutions, like Arca Swiss or Manfrotto. Peak Design developed a combined adapter that works well, Others have followed suit at a cheaper price. If you only mount your camera on a tripod with the 80-400 then you will be using the lens mount, so no issue. If you are using Arca Swiss only then there are plenty of adapters that are small enough not to interfere with the mounting of the adapter. The FTZ II does not have these issues, but I believe is not bundled with a...
Recapping the latest NVIDIA Research: turning 2D images into 3D models and a new NVIDIA Canvas update
Posted by Chris Roubis on 11th, Jan, 2022 |
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We’ve covered an extensive collection of NVIDIA Research projects here on DPReview over the years. One interesting tool we didn’t cover at launch, however, is GANverse3D. First shown off in April 2021, GANverse3D turns flat 2D images into ‘realistic 3D models that can be visualized and controlled in virtual environments.’ The tool could help architects, creators, game developers and designers. With just a single photo, someone could quickly add a 3D model to a mockup or render without needing any expertise or needing to spend extra time or money. Like Nvidia’s...
Canon confirms it will release a new Cinema EOS camera on January 19
Posted by Chris Roubis on 11th, Jan, 2022 |
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In posts shared across Canon USA’s social media profiles, the company revealed a new Cinema EOS camera system will be released at 7am (EST) on January 19, 2022. Alongside the phrase ‘it’s coming,’ which accompanied the teaser image, Canon says to be ‘ready for anything’ and to ‘stay tuned for the big announcement.’ While it might be futile to draw conclusions from the teaser, the use of the word ‘big’ and the rather substantial video tripod shown in the image suggests the camera might be on the larger side of things. However, that’s pure speculation and somewhat contradicts the rumors out...
PWRBOARD is a new, modular way to keep all your chargers together, at home or on-the-go
Posted by Chris Roubis on 11th, Jan, 2022 |
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Over the years, we’ve shared various power charging stations and solutions, but there will soon be a new product on the market that makes all the others look primitive by comparison. It’s called the PWRBOARD and, confusingly enough, it’s the first product by the company PWRBOARD, who showed off the device at CES 2022 this past week. The PWRBOARD is effectively a ‘smart’ pegboard that puts a new spin on modular charging. The device will come in two sizes — 23cm x 35cm (16.5” diagonally) and 33cm x 50cm (23” diagonally) — and consists of an array of holes wherein various types of battery...
Nikon Z fc sample gallery (DPReview TV)
Posted by Chris Roubis on 11th, Jan, 2022 |
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Published Jan 11, 2022 | dpreview staff Chris and Jordan from DPReview TV recently published their full review of the Nikon Z fc. Check out their sample gallery, shot in sub-zero Canadian temperatures, to judge image quality from this retro-inspired camera yourself. Did you miss their review of the Nikon Z fc? If so, you can watch it here. View the Nikon Z fc sample gallery from DPReview TV Gear in this story The Nikon Z fc is a midrange ILC with the same eye-catching design as the company’s classic film cameras. It’s not just a good-looking camera, though: it’s quite...
New Camera Purchase
Posted by Chris Roubis on 11th, Jan, 2022 |
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Photos Members Group Since New Camera Purchase newfoundlander61 says: My Nikon D7200 is being replaced to due a drop and is not worth repairing. Would the Nikon Z50 w/adapter allow my current Nikon AF-S 80-400MM F/4.5-5.6G ED VR lense to autofocus. How would this setup if it does autofocus work for nature related photography (birds mainly) compared to my current setup with the Nikon D7200. I have considered buying another D7200 but that are few and far between here in southern Ontario. Thanks for any input. I am aware of the Nikon NIKKOR Z 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 VR S lense that would naturally...
Global chip shortage pulls back the veil on Canon printer’s onboard authenticity checks
Posted by Chris Roubis on 10th, Jan, 2022 |
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The global chip shortage has had a lot of consequences. While we expected many products to be tough to find, some of the outcomes of the shortage are more surprising. For example, Canon puts chips in some of its ink and toner cartridges so that its printers can identify them as genuine cartridges. However, these chips are difficult to find so Canon has been manufacturing cartridges without the chips, leading to some printers identifying genuine cartridges as counterfeit. Canon Europe has issued a statement explaining the situation and providing users with instructions on how to bypass the...
DJI Air 2S, Mini 2, and Mini SE drones can now get new features with Mobile SDK
Posted by Chris Roubis on 10th, Jan, 2022 |
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DJI’s Mobile SDK (software development kit) for Android now works with their Air 2S, Mini 2, and Mini SE drones. An iOS update is expected shortly. This means that third-party developers such as Litchi, Dronelink, and DroneDeploy can update their apps to be compatible with these models. Each of these apps offer up features that can’t be found on DJI’s Fly app, which powers all three of these drones. Right now, the Mavic 3 is not supported. The ability to designate waypoints for regular flights, create mapping missions, and track plus follow subjects is currently not offered...
Irix teases T1.5 cine lens, set to be released two days from now
Posted by Chris Roubis on 10th, Jan, 2022 |
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Fujifilm confirms it will release its next X-mount camera in May during 2022 X Summit event
Posted by Chris Roubis on 10th, Jan, 2022 |
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[embedded content] Fujifilm has announced the date of its next X Summit event, wherein the company will celebrate the 10-year anniversary of its X mount camera system and release its newest X Series camera. The event is set to take place online in May 2022 Yesterday, January 9th, was ten years to the day that Fujifilm announced its first mirrorless interchangeable lens camera (MILC), the X-Pro1. Alongside three lenses, the X-Pro1 the way for Fujifilm’s increasingly popular X Series, which now consists of 28 MILCs and three dozen lenses (if you count the XF1.4x TC WR and XF2x TC WR...
Capturing the look with Christian Sorensen Hansen and the Fujifilm XF 23mm and 33mm F1.4 R LM WR
Posted by Chris Roubis on 10th, Jan, 2022 |
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Published Jan 10, 2022 | Sponsored content, created with the support of Fujifilm [embedded content] The Fujifilm Fujinon XF 23mm and 33mm F1.4 R LM WR are high-quality prime lenses for the company’s APS-C X-mount mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras. Fast, versatile and weather-sealed, the XF 23mm and 33mm F1.4 provide focal lengths equivalent to 35mm and 50mm in full-frame terms, making them ideal for everyday photography. In this video, we join lifestyle and commercial photographer Christian Sorensen Hansen as he uses Fujifilm’s latest lenses to shoot documentary and fashion...
Solving the Problems of Photography in Very Cold Temperatures
Posted by Chris Roubis on 9th, Jan, 2022 |
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Cameras usually aren’t specced to shoot in very cold conditions. A small handful have a negative operating temperature (in Celsius at least), like the Nikon Z9 at -10° C / 14° F. Most others are rated for a pretty pedestrian 0° C / 32° F. But if you’re aware of the issues, you can work in temperatures colder than that. As someone who does a lot of landscape photography in winter, I’ve run into almost every common problem associated with working in the cold. It’s a rewarding time to take photos, and many subjects look amazing in the snow (see my guide to winter photography for more). But it...
Landscape composition explained – Part 1: Masses and lines
Posted by Chris Roubis on 9th, Jan, 2022 |
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An interesting viewpoint on Fagradalsfjall Volcano, Iceland, showing one of the vents in the center, sending rivers of lava in various directions. What makes this composition appealing? DJI Mavic 2 Pro, F7.1, 1/30 sec, pano stitch, April 2021. When it comes to landscape photography, composition reigns supreme as the single most important factor that determines the appeal of a shot. It’s a complicated subject, and people have different views and opinions about it. But over my career as a nature photographer, I’ve found that a few key ideas can summarize a big part of the...
DPReview TV: Nikon Z fc review – Did Nikon finally get retro right?
Posted by Chris Roubis on 8th, Jan, 2022 |
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Published Jan 8, 2022 | dpreview staff [embedded content] Chris and Jordan ventured into the frigid Canadian winter for their full review of the Nikon Z fc, earning Chris a beard full of ice. The good news? All those old-fashioned dials worked great with mittens. Watch this week’s episode to see their verdict on this retro-looking camera. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. Nikon Z fc sample gallery from this episode Gear in this story We recently got our hands on a production Nikon Z fc and we wasted no time taking it out and about in the...
Video: Watch how a Nat Geo wildlife photographer selects his best image from a photoshoot
Posted by Chris Roubis on 7th, Jan, 2022 |
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[embedded content] With digital cameras, it’s all too easy to capture hundreds or even thousands of images. Shooting high-speed bursts of images is excellent when trying to capture the perfect moment, but you end up with many photos that you don’t need or want. If you don’t have a good workflow for culling images and making selects, your hard drive will be jam-packed with unwanted images in short order. National Geographic contributing photographer Steve Winter worked with WIRED on a new video that outlines the thought process of a professional photographer as he makes...
OnePlus reveals photo details of its 10 Pro smartphone: 10-bit color, RAW+ and a new 150-degree camera
Posted by Chris Roubis on 7th, Jan, 2022 |
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A couple of days after teasing its new OnePlus 10 Pro smartphone, OnePlus has fully unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, and the phone’s camera system isn’t quite as new as we had hoped. It turns out that the new device will feature a mostly similar triple camera array as the OnePlus 9 Pro. There are some minor differences with the overall camera hardware to discuss. The main, ultra-wide and telephoto cameras all include the same megapixel counts as last year’s model, 48MP, 50MP and 8MP, respectively. However, the ultra-wide camera is new. It includes the ability to...
Sigma CEO says it couldn’t keep up with demand in Q4 2021, might see chip shortage affect production in 2022
Posted by Chris Roubis on 7th, Jan, 2022 |
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A Sigma employee inspects finished elements before they’re installed into a lens and shipped to customers. This image was taken from our Sigma Aizu factory tour in 2019. If you think the likes of Sigma have been spared from the semiconductor shortage, think again. While Sigma hasn’t released any notices or announcement regarding the ongoing chip shortage, Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki has taken to Twitter to confirm semiconductor shortages have — and will continue to — affect production of some of its products. The information came from a quote tweet shared by Yamaki in response to a United...
Film Friday: A psuedo-review of the FED 6TTL, an electronic-shuttered Soviet rangefinder that never made it to production
Posted by Chris Roubis on 7th, Jan, 2022 |
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Photo by: William Parkinson via USSR Photo, used with permission from Kosmo Foto. For this week’s installment of Film Friday, we’re featuring a psuedo-review of the 6TTL, a camera from Soviet manufacturer FED that went through a great deal of prototyping, but never made it to market amidst the collapse of the Soviet Union. This article is a summary of the full piece by Stephen Dowling on Kosmo Foto. In 1990, Soviet camera manufacturer FED started work on its next-generation rangefinder, a camera designed to take on its incredibly popular Leica M6 contemporary. Despite the Soviet Union being...
HoldFast Money Maker Dual Camera Strap Review
Posted by Chris Roubis on 6th, Jan, 2022 |
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If you’ve spent time around wedding photographers, you’ve probably seen the camera straps I’m going to discuss in this article. HoldFast is a small company that makes a variety of (primarily) leather camera accessories. They take pride that all their gear is made at their facility in Oklahoma, USA. HoldFast’s flagship product is the Money Maker, which is a dual-strap system. Over the past several years, these straps have become quite popular, particularly among wedding photographers. However, they are hardly cheap at $230 for the baseline leather model. Is it worth the price?...
Moment’s new CineFlare Streak filters promise anamorphic-style flares without a specialized lens
Posted by Chris Roubis on 6th, Jan, 2022 |
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Moment, the company behind numerous photo accessories like filters, bags, cameras and much more, has announced the CineFlare Streak filter. The new filter is the ‘secret sauce for adding anamorphic-like flares to your footage without using a specialty lens.’ Rather than shelling out the money for a specialized anamorphic lens, something that Moment itself offers for mobile devices and drones, you can attach the new CineFlare Streak filter to a traditional camera lens on your mirrorless or DSLR camera and achieve a classic cinematic look in your photos and videos. The CineFlare...
717-gigapixel image of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ is the largest to ever be published
Posted by Chris Roubis on 6th, Jan, 2022 |
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The Rijksmuseum, located in the Netherlands, recently published the largest and most detailed image to date. The Dutch museum’s website now hosts a 717 gigapixel (717,000,000,000 pixels) rendition of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ (1642). Part of the ‘Operation Night Watch,’ the name given to this gigapixel undertaking, is to restore parts of the masterpiece that have been damaged and preserve the artwork in incredible detail. Starting in 2019, conservationists used a 100-megapixel Hasselblad H6D 400 MS-camera to create 8439 individual 5.5cm x 4.1cm...
Nikon more than doubles the dual-format burst performance of the Z9 with 1.10 firmware update
Posted by Chris Roubis on 6th, Jan, 2022 |
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Nikon has released a firmware update for its Z9 full-frame mirrorless camera that increases the camera’s burst length for dual-format capture, more than double the rate possible in the Z9’s 1.00 firmware. According to Nikon, firmware version 1.10 for the Nikon Z9 allows photographs to be captured at 20 frames per second (fps) for up to eight seconds when shooting in ‘NEF/RAW (high-efficiency★) + JPEG basic (large)’ mode. This is a five second increase from the previous firmware version. Of course, these stats come with caveats, with Nikon noting it conducted this test with a Nikkor Z 50mm...
Just published: Production sample images from the Nikon Z9 (with Raws)
Posted by Chris Roubis on 6th, Jan, 2022 |
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The arrival of a full production sample of the Nikon Z9 at our Seattle offices just before Christmas last year coincided with a heavy snowfall and extended period of cold weather in the Pacific Northwest. But undaunted, we ventured out into the ice and snow, to capture images in a variety of (mostly very cold) environments in and around Seattle. In this gallery you’ll find images shot on various lenses, including the new Z 24-120mm F4 S and the Z 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 VR S, with and without the Z TC 1.4X teleconverter. This is a preliminary gallery, shot mostly during the holidays, so you...
Roundup: The best portable chargers and power banks for every situation
Posted by Chris Roubis on 6th, Jan, 2022 |
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Over the past few years, more and more camera manufacturers have added USB charging to their respective camera models. It’s not always easy to determine what chargers will work with a specific camera model, as Chris and Jordan noted in a recent DPReview episode, but if you’ve confirmed your camera can be charged over USB, we’ve taken the time to round up a few of the best power banks in various capacities to help you get the power you need on the go. For this roundup, we’ve chosen a few power banks across various capacity levels, as each range tends to increase in both size and price in a...
The best portable chargers and power banks for every situation
Posted by Chris Roubis on 6th, Jan, 2022 |
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Over the past few years, more and more camera manufacturers have added USB charging to their respective camera models. It’s not always easy to determine what chargers will work with a specific camera model, as Chris and Jordan noted in a recent DPReview episode, but if you’ve confirmed your camera can be charged over USB, we’ve taken the time to round up a few of the best power banks in various capacities to help you get the power you need on the go. For this roundup, we’ve chosen a few power banks across various capacity levels, as each range tends to increase in both size and price in a...
Colorized video clips reveal what California looked like almost a century ago
Posted by Chris Roubis on 5th, Jan, 2022 |
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[embedded content] A YouTube creator who goes by NASS revived video footage obtained from the Internet Archive, and colorized it with added sound, to reveal what California looked like almost a century ago. In the 2 clips, taken in the 1940s (above) and 1930s, respectively, viewers are taken on a tour of bustling areas including downtown Hollywood and Orange County’s Balboa Peninsula. The original clips are black and white with no sound. A scene from downtown LA has been colorized. While not accurate, it was added in for ambience. Software platforms such as Adobe have made colorizing...
Razer’s new Blade 14, 15 and 17 laptops have improved design, faster performance, better displays and more
Posted by Chris Roubis on 5th, Jan, 2022 |
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At CES 2022, Razer has unveiled refreshes for its performance-oriented Blade notebooks. The Razer Blade 14, 15 and 17 feature new components and improvements, including the latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs, faster memory and faster Intel processors. The different sizes of the Razer Blade laptops include different improvements. The 15-inch and 17-inch models receive the latest 12th-generation Core H-series Intel processors. The larger two models have included 4K display options before, but the 4K display now has a 144Hz refresh rate, which is great for gaming. The Razer Blade 17 also...
Video: A cheeky hands-on ‘review’ of a limited-edition ‘Vintage Camera’ LEGO set
Posted by Chris Roubis on 5th, Jan, 2022 |
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[embedded content] Back in November, LEGO website Brickset released a very limited-edition ‘Vintage Camera’ set for Black Friday that could only be acquired by using VIP points awarded for making purchases on the site. While availability was scarce, YouTuber Wizard of Bricks managed to get their hands on one and subsequently created a tongue-in-cheek video ‘review’ of the 179-piece LEGO set. The six-minute video is a cheeky parody of the usual trends and stylizations of hands-on camera reviews seen on YouTube. It goes over the overall build of the LEGO set and highlights the entirely...
China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft sends back stunning photos of the probe above Mars
Posted by Chris Roubis on 5th, Jan, 2022 |
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The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has published four photos of Mars captured during the Tianwen-1 Mars mission. The Tianwen-1 probe released a camera that captured photos of the orbiter above Mars. It’s a unique and impressive view and the first full photo of the orbiter in space. As of now, the Tianwen-1 spacecraft is around 350 million kilometers (217 million miles) from Earth. Since launching in July 2020, the spacecraft has traveled 475 million km (295 million mi) and entered Mars’s orbit in February 2021. In March, we published the first images that the CNSA...
DPReview TV: The episode in which we predict all the big camera news of 2022
Posted by Chris Roubis on 5th, Jan, 2022 |
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Published Jan 5, 2022 | dpreview staff [embedded content] It’s a brand new year! That means it’s time for Chris and Jordan to look into their crystal ball and predict all the big camera news of 2022 – before it happens. Find out what products and trends they expect to see in the coming year. Editor’s note: Jordan had a minor microphone mishap shortly after filming began that went unnoticed until later. We apologize in advance for some minor audio issues. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. The Nikon Z 24-70mm F2.8 S is an...
DPReview Readers’ Choice Awards 2021: Product of the Year
Posted by Chris Roubis on 5th, Jan, 2022 |
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Published Jan 5, 2022 | dpreview staff Product of the Year 2021: the results The final round of voting has closed and a winner has been chosen in our annual Readers’ Choice Awards! Beginning in December, DPR readers picked their favorite cameras, zoom lenses and prime lenses released in 2021. The winners of that initial round of voting were then pitted against each other for the title of Product of the Year. Take a look and see which products came out on top. Gear in this story A plane crash leaves the mirrorless flagships overexposed to the dynamic range of elements. Will Canon, Nikon...
Skydio 2+ drone introduced at CES featuring improvements on the original model
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Jan, 2022 |
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Today at CES 2022, Skydio, a California-based drone manufacturer, announced a new, enhanced version of its autonomous and obstacle-avoiding Skydio 2 model. Skydio 2+, released a little over 2 years after its predecessor, offers up improved flight range, longer flight time, a Skydio Care program, and a new Keyframe mode. The latter is aimed at cinematographers and creatives. The Skydio 2+ is equipped with two pop-up antennas, found on the top-front arms of the aircraft, and a 5GHz Wi-Fi radio for connectivity at longer distances. Skydio claims you’ll now be able to fly up to 3...
Dell new XPS 13 Plus laptops have OLED displays, a unique touch function row, 12th-gen Intel CPUs and more
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Jan, 2022 |
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Dell has announced the XPS 13 Plus, a revamped version of its XPS 13 lineup that features an intriguing new design, an updated OLED display and Intel’s new 12th-generation processors. Dell’s XPS 13 lineup has cemented itself as the sleek and stylish laptops in the company’s expansive lineup. This year, however, Dell has taken it to a new level with a much more minimal design highlighted by a ‘capacitive touch function row’ and a ‘haptic ForcePad.’ The new ‘capacitive touch function row’ eschews physical keys for touch-sensitive buttons that control the function (Fn) row and media controls....
OnePlus teases new smartphone featuring a redesigned Hasselblad camera system
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Jan, 2022 |
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Last March, OnePlus teamed up with Hasselblad for its new OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro smartphones. OnePlus has announced its new flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 10 Pro 5G, and it features a redesigned Hasselblad camera array. The OnePlus 9 series phones kicked off a three-year partnership between OnePlus and Hasselblad, with Hasselblad co-developing OnePlus’s next-generation camera systems. The OnePlus 9 benefited from the relationship primarily through its Natural Color Calibration and Hasselblad Camera for Mobile software. The new OnePlus 10 Pro instead features an all-new camera system and...
Through a different lens: why we’re changing the way we process lens images
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Jan, 2022 |
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Digital lens corrections, once seen as a way to keep lens size and cost down, are now an inherent part of the design of pro-grade optics, such as Nikon’s Z 24-70mm F2.8 S Technology moves forward, sometimes in incremental steps, other times in leaps and bounds. What’s not always easy to recognize is the point at which everything has changed so much that your existing way of working no longer makes sense or, at least, is no longer optimal. That’s the point we feel we’ve reached with our approach to processing images when we’re assessing lenses. And, having...
Why Shoot Large Format Film in a Digital World?
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Jan, 2022 |
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For the past year or so, my main camera for landscape photography hasn’t been one of the newest high-resolution mirrorless cameras that I spend so much time writing about. Nor has it been an ol’ reliable DSLR. Instead, I’ve been using large format film, especially a 4×5 camera. When other photographers see the camera, they usually say something like “Wow, old-school!” But that’s only partly correct. On one hand, 4×5 cameras are the definition of old-school photographic technology. They’ve existed in some form since about the 1830s. Yet they’re still made today with the most current...
Xiaomi unveils its new 12 Series flagship smartphones with 50MP triple camera array, 120W charging
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Jan, 2022 |
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Xiaomi has unveiled its latest flagship smartphones, the Xiaomi 12 and Xiaomi 12 Pro. While the smartphones are currently exclusive to China, limiting their appeal to a worldwide audience, the phones are worth discussing because the features are quite interesting and may hint at what customers in the US and Europe can expect from future international Xiaomi models. The Xiaomi 12 series phones are powered by the latest Snapdragon 8 chips, feature impressive OLED panels, some interesting camera specs, and features, and very fast 120W charging (at least for the 12 Pro model). The Snapdragon 8...
Viltrox unveils $469 13mm F1.4 AF lens for Fujifilm X-mount cameras
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Jan, 2022 |
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Optics and accessory manufacturer Viltrox has announced a new 13mm F1.4 autofocus lens for Fujifilm X-mount camera systems. The lens, which offers a roughly 20mm full-frame equivalent focal length, is expected to ship in February. The Viltrox 13mm F1.4 AF is constructed of 14 elements in 11 groups. It has a minimum focusing distance of 22cm (8.7”), uses a stepping motor (STM) to drive the internal focusing mechanism, features a nine-blade aperture diaphragm and uses a 67mm front filter thread. As for measurements, the lens comes in at 74mm (2.9”) in diameter, 90mm (3.5”) long and weighs 420g...
Samyang sneakily shares its first teaser for a forthcoming 135mm F1.8 lens for Sony E-mount cameras
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Jan, 2022 |
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Note the size of the 135mm F1.8 lens (center, no red ring) compared to Samyang’s AF 24-70mm F2.8 lens for Sony E-mount cameras. To celebrate the turn of the new year, optics manufacturer Samyang published a video showcasing a collection of its lenses followed by a brief display of digital fireworks. While it might seem like your usual marketing post to ring in the new year, it turns out Samyang snuck in a little teaser for a forthcoming lens. Although not nearly as clear as the ‘135 / 1.8 FE’ test, it appears that ‘AF’ precedes that text, pointing towards this...
Nikon Z 24-70mm F2.8 S field review
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Jan, 2022 |
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Introduction Nikon’s Nikkor Z 24-70mm F2.8 S is a fast standard zoom lens for the company’s Z-mount mirrorless cameras. With a focal range of 24-70mm on FX-format bodies or 36-105mm equivalent on DX-format bodies, it’s well-suited to everything from landscapes and street photography to portraits, weddings and event photography. It can also serve double-duty as an impromptu macro lens in a pinch and is quite well-suited to video capture, making it a pretty versatile all-rounder. Available since April 2019, list pricing is set at $2299.95. All images edited in Adobe Camera...
Living Within Your Dynamic Range
Posted by Chris Roubis on 2nd, Jan, 2022 |
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One of the quieter revolutions in digital image quality has been dynamic range. The days of picking between highlight detail and shadow detail are gone; almost any modern camera can capture both simultaneously with ease. But even though this capability is remarkable, it’s also easy to overuse. Unnecessarily Expanding Your Dynamic Range Most HDR photos I see don’t need to be HDR. You know the ones. The sky is darker than the foreground, and everything floats in the image with unnatural glowing colors. The entire scene looks flat somehow. The highlights aren’t allowed to be highlights, and the...
DPReview TV: Which Camera Will Survive? Sony a1, Nikon Z9 and Canon R3
Posted by Chris Roubis on 1st, Jan, 2022 |
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[embedded content] A plane crash leaves the mirrorless flagships overexposed to the dynamic range of elements. Will Canon, Nikon & Sony come to their sensors and group together to weather the aberrations ahead, or will they cannibalize one another? Watch this week’s episode with Chris and Jordan to find out! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. Gear in this story Senior Editor Barnaby Britton is a fan of extreme low-light imaging – something that the Nikon Z9 makes easy. Click through to learn more about why the Z9 is his favorite...
PSA: GNARBOX seems to be gone, leaving would-be GNARBOX customers out in the cold
Posted by Chris Roubis on 31st, Dec, 2021 |
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PetaPixel is reporting that GNARBOX appears to be dead. The GNARBOX 2.0 SSD launched on Kickstarter in 2018 and let users back up photos and videos in the field, review and rough-cut footage, cull and edit images, show selects and more. It’s more than a portable hard drive. Or, at least, it was. The company has apparently gone dark, which leaves existing customers looking for support — and the required app — in the lurch. Without the app, which has been removed from the App Store, new customers can’t actually use all the features that the device promises. We’ve contacted...
2021 in review: The biggest photo news stories of the year
Posted by Chris Roubis on 31st, Dec, 2021 |
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At the end of last year, 2021 felt as though it could represent a fresh start after a tumultuous year that saw COVID-19 impact nearly every facet of our lives (and the photography industry). As it turns out, despite the widespread availability of safe vaccines (in much if not all of the world), not much was different in 2021. Between the numerous COVID-19 variants, supply chain constraints and the global chip shortage, 2021 almost seems to blur together with 2020. Still, many new products were announced and even if some were delayed, much progress has been made by nearly every company in the...
This LOFAR ‘video’ may have helped researchers discover how lightning forms
Posted by Chris Roubis on 30th, Dec, 2021 |
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Lightning is a widespread atmospheric event. Per the Met Office in the UK, there are three million flashes of lightning every day on Earth, or about 44 strikes per second. Despite this, scientists haven’t been able to conclude how exactly lightning forms inside a thundercloud. That could be changing though, with the help of new video recorded by a team of researchers. In 2018, a very important lightning bolt flashed overhead the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope array in the Netherlands. These telescopes made detailed recordings that were just recently processed. A new paper...
Reply to Happy new year 2022
Posted by Chris Roubis on 30th, Dec, 2021 |
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Hello all , I just bought a 5DSr body and a sigma 60-600 S lens and have taken about 40 pictures without problems – this evening I was taking of a kingfisher bird and the auto focus stopped working and now I can’t seem to get it to take a picture on any setting I have tried everything – plenty battery life still – on / off / lens off and on ……. Just cannot get it to work and starting to worry , lens and body brand new Hugo in Zambia Hello all , I just bought a 5DSr body and a sigma 60-600 S lens and have taken about 40 pictures without problems – this evening I was...
Darktable 3.8.0 adds support for Canon’s CR3 Raw files, adds external controller support and more
Posted by Chris Roubis on 30th, Dec, 2021 |
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Darktable 3.8.0 is now available. The latest version of the open-source photography workflow application and RAW developer adds new features, UI improvements, editing tools, improved file support and more. The list of additions and changes is lengthy, so we’ll only be discussing the highlights in this news article. If you’d like more information about the latest Github release, click here. The keyboard shortcut system has been reworked in version 3.8.0. You can now control darktable with external devices, such as MIDI devices and game controllers. Standard keyboard/mouse...
Happy new year 2022
Posted by Chris Roubis on 30th, Dec, 2021 |
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Photos Members Group Since Happy new year 2022 Hugo Firx says: Hello all , I just bought a 5DSr body and a sigma 60-600 S lens and have taken about 40 pictures without problems – this evening I was taking of a kingfisher bird and the auto focus stopped working and now I can’t seem to get it to take a picture on any setting I have tried everything – plenty battery life still – on / off / lens off and on ……. Just cannot get it to work and starting to worry , lens and body brand new Hugo in Zambia 15 hours ago (permalink) mujahidgrw says: heizzsih41: I HOPENEW CAMERA WILL GIVE...
Video: ‘Landscapes of Change’ beautifully showcases the changing of seasons from an aerial perspective
Posted by Chris Roubis on 29th, Dec, 2021 |
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[embedded content] You may have heard the classic Crowded House song ‘Four Seasons In One Day.’ Now, there is a video that displays the changing of all four seasons through a brilliant series of transitions. Using a Mavic 2 Pro and third-party app Litchi, Arvids Baranovs chose about 30 distinctive locations in Latvia—from winding rivers to National Parks—and put his aerial hyperlapse skills to use so he could illustrate the changing of seasons. ‘The change of seasons is such a self-evident phenomenon that we take it for granted yet we struggle to catch it in the act. Look...
Viltrox’s new $199 EF- to E-mount ‘smart adapter’ has built-in OLED display, full AF/EXIF support and more
Posted by Chris Roubis on 29th, Dec, 2021 |
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Accessory and optics manufacturer Viltrox has announced a new Canon EF- to Sony E-mount adapter with a built-in OLED display, full autofocus support and EXIF data transfer capabilities. The EF-E5 Smart Mount Adapter, as Viltrox refers to it, is a fifth-generation adapter that improves upon its predecessors with new features as well as a built-in OLED display that shows the focal length, aperture and focus mode of the attached lens. The adapter supports full autofocus capabilities of EF lenses on Sony E-mount cameras, with a clever dial on the side of the adapter for switching between phase...
TTartisan’s 90mm F1.25 lens is now available for five new camera mounts, costs $435
Posted by Chris Roubis on 29th, Dec, 2021 |
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TTartisan is bringing its 90mm F1.25 lens, previously only available for Leica M mount cameras, to five other lens mounts. Now, the ultrafast prime will be available for Canon RF, Fujifilm GFX, Leica L, Nikon Z and Sony E mount camera systems. As with the M-mount version, all five versions for other mounts are constructed of 11 elements in seven groups, including two high-refractive elements. Other features include a 77mm front filter thread, a 10-blade aperture diaphragm, an aperture range of F1.25 through F16, a clicked aperture ring and it has a minimum focusing distance of 1m (3.3’)....
DPReview TV: Cheap Camera Challenge
Posted by Chris Roubis on 29th, Dec, 2021 |
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Published Dec 29, 2021 | dpreview staff [embedded content] In this week’s episode, Chris and Jordan head to The Camera Store to buy the cheapest digital stills and video cameras they can find, and challenge themselves to shoot an entire episode with what they end up with. One of them has a better time with this experiment than the other… Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. Gear in this story While film nostalgia reaches an all-time high, Seattle-based pro photographer Sofi Lee is turning back to ‘digicams’ made between 2008...
Hands-on with Nikon Nikkor Z 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 VR S
Posted by Chris Roubis on 29th, Dec, 2021 |
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Rishi Sanyal Though we haven’t tested the Z9’s accuracy of Eye AF, we generally found that Nikon’s Eye AF (Z7/II, recent firmware) was: The most eager to find eyes/faces in a scene, leading to many false positives Tended to front-focus. We surmise Nikon’s machine learning-based approach was trained in a looser manner, with less stringent criteria. Sony/Canon are conservative but with fewer false positives. WIth the Z9, though, things have advanced considerably. It is able to identify faces / eyes in the scene far smaller than either Sony or Canon, though this aligns...
Update: Canon CEO confirms the 1DX Mark III will be the company’s last flagship DSLR
Posted by Chris Roubis on 28th, Dec, 2021 |
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Update (Tuesday, December 28): Canon provided a statement to DPReview regarding Fujio Mitarai’s comment. We have added it to the bottom of the article. In an interview with the Yomiuri Shimbun, a major newspaper in Japan, Canon CEO, President and Chairman, Fujio Mitarai, confirmed the EOS-1D X Mark III will be the company’s last flagship DSLR camera as the company continues its transition to mirrorless systems. The interview, which was first spotted by Y.M.Cinema Magazine, was part of a longer article regarding the overall state of the camera market and its rapid switch to mirrorless...
Lost in space: Astronomers discover up to 170 rogue planets
Posted by Chris Roubis on 28th, Dec, 2021 |
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Lead image: An artist’s interpretation of a rogue planet with the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex in the background. Credit: Bordeaux University / ESO. A team of astronomers have discovered at least 70 new rogue planets. There may even be up to 170 rogue, or free-floating planets (FFPs). It’s the largest group of rogue planets discovered at once. The new study outlining the research has been published in Nature Astronomy. The first author, Núria Miret-Roig, is an astronomer at the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux, France and the University of Vienna, Austria. Miret-Roig...
Venus Optics releases $799 Laowa Argus 45mm F0.95 lens for full-frame mirrorless cameras
Posted by Chris Roubis on 28th, Dec, 2021 |
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Venus Optics has released the Laowa Argus 45mm F0.95 FF, its latest full-frame lens in its growing Argus series that also includes its Argus 35mm F0.95 FF and Argus 33mm F0.95 CF APO lenses. The 45mm manual lens is constructed of 13 elements in nine groups, including one aspherical element, one extra-low dispersion element and three utra-high-refractive index elements. If features a 15-blade aperture diaphragm, has an aperture range of F0.95 through F16, uses a 72mm front filter thread and has a minimum focusing distance of 50cm (19.7”). [embedded content] The Laowa Argus 45mm F0.95 features...
Gear of the Year 2021: Chris’ choice – Wotancraft Pilot 10L shoulder bag
Posted by Chris Roubis on 28th, Dec, 2021 |
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To call 2021 an innovative year for the camera industry is an understatement. Now, you could point out that 2021 was a year of relatively few product releases, hampered by numerous supply chain issues, and you’d be correct. However, what the industry lacked in quantity, it certainly made up for with quality. The Nikon Z9 became not only the first Nikon flagship camera to rely on an electronic shutter, but also took DPReview’s ‘Product of the Year’ award. Canon revived its Eye-Control autofocus, with a completely redesigned system, unlike anything we’ve seen...
Tamron warns its 20mm, 24mm and 35mm F2.8 primes have AF issues with Sony a7 IV cameras
Posted by Chris Roubis on 27th, Dec, 2021 |
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Optics manufacturer Tamron has issued a product advisory informing consumers that three of its E-mount prime lenses suffer issues that prevent them from using autofocus when shooting videos on Sony a7 IV camera systems. The announcement, published by Tamron Japan, says the company has confirmed its 20mm, 24mm and 35mm F2.8 Di III OSD M1:2 lenses, released in 2019, have an autofocus issue when paired with Sony’s full-frame a7 IV camera system that causes the lenses to switch from ‘AF’ to ‘MF’ when shooting movies. Tamron suggests it isn’t sure what’s happening, but hopes to fix the...
Hands-on with Nikon Nikkor Z 24-120mm F4 S
Posted by Chris Roubis on 27th, Dec, 2021 |
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peripheralfocus @ skyrunr Used values have no relevance whatsoever to Nikon and therefore don’t influence their decisions about what to make and market even one iota. The OP asked why Nikon made the 24-70/4. I answered. @ SnapHappy32 You seem to think I said that all consumers want the lowest price and don’t care about anything else. I did not say anything close to that. I said price is the strongest factor (among many) in driving buying decisions for the vast majority of consumer goods. That’s why Apple offers computers and phones in many price tiers, and why Mercedes...
A beginner’s guide to memory cards
Posted by Chris Roubis on 27th, Dec, 2021 |
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Introduction to memory cards, and main types Photograph by Terry Sullivan When it comes to understanding how a digital image is created, the focus is most often placed on a camera’s lens and image sensor, which makes sense, since these two components have the greatest impact on image quality. But once the image or video is captured, it will need to be stored somewhere on the device. Today, the location of where an image or video file is stored differs depending on the device. For instance, if you’ve captured a photo on a phone or tablet, you’ll store the media on built-in, non-removable...
Gear of the Year 2021: Barney’s choice – Nikon Z9
Posted by Chris Roubis on 26th, Dec, 2021 |
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I feel like the luckiest boy in the world right now, sitting at my desk to write an article I’ve been looking forward to for weeks about a camera I’d been looking forward to for years. Luckier still because I actually have the camera. There’s a shiny new Nikon Z9 sitting next to me right now, with a Z 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 VR S attached, just begging me to go out and shoot with it. But I can’t, because I have to write this article. Also because it’s dumping with icy rain outside, and I’m all warm, and besides, my shoes still aren’t dry from yesterday....
How to Photograph a Wedding Without a Problem
Posted by Chris Roubis on 26th, Dec, 2021 |
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Photographing a wedding can feel overwhelming. There are must-capture moments with no option for a re-do. There are clients who may be extremely stressed, other vendors who are trying to do their jobs, and drunk guests at the reception. Welcome to the crazy world of wedding photography! Below are my tips for how to photograph a wedding without a problem. Before we begin, a quick note. You’ll notice that most of the items on this list are actually things to do before the wedding. This is intentional, as the right preparation will put you in the best position for success and avoid as many...
Happy holidays from DPReview! Here are a few of our favorite articles of 2021
Posted by Chris Roubis on 24th, Dec, 2021 |
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2021, eh? What a year. All of the horror and inconvenience of 2020, without the novelty factor. There was good news out there though, hidden in the cracks between the headlines. This was the year for many of us that we got to see distant friends and family again, and despite all the disruption it’s been a busy 12 months for the camera market, with some big announcements, and some major technological developments taking place across the industry. The past year seems to have flown by (even if parts of it felt like an endless slog) but when I look back over 2021, I almost can’t...
Lensrentals shares the most-rented cameras and lenses in 2021
Posted by Chris Roubis on 23rd, Dec, 2021 |
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Lensrentals has published its roundup of the most popular rented gear for 2021, showcasing what camera equipment was the most rented throughout 2021. As we’ve seen over the past few years, both Canon and Sony top the charts across nearly every category. Looking first at the most rented new products of 2021, Canon took the top position with the EOS C70 Cinema Camera (RF mount). Cinema cameras occupy multiple spots on the list, including the Sony FX3 in second and the Sony FX6 in fourth. The Nikon Z7 II, although announced in 2020, is eligible for the list, landing in the seventh spot....
Sony ceases orders for a7C and a6600, confirms a7 II and a6100 have reached end-of-life
Posted by Chris Roubis on 23rd, Dec, 2021 |
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Sony Japan has announced it’s halting production of two more cameras due to the ongoing chip shortage. Sony Japan also confirmed it is no longer producing another pair of cameras as an end-of-li In a statement posted to Sony Japan’s website, Sony says it is no longer fulfilling orders for its a7C full-frame mirrorless camera and its a6600 APS-C mirrorless camera, as ‘there is a delay in procurement of parts for digital imaging products due to the global shortage of semiconductors.’ Sony even suggests current orders could go unfulfilled, saying ‘in addition, some orders will be suspended.’...
Gear Of The Year 2021: Jordan’s Choice – Apple M1 iMac
Posted by Chris Roubis on 23rd, Dec, 2021 |
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This thin yellow rectangle makes me very happy! 2021 may have been another terrible year, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at the photography and video gear released in the last twelve months. We saw a trio of flagship mirrorless cameras, a 12K cinema camera, a full frame camera built onto a gimbal, and an endless parade of wonderful lenses. However, like many creators, I spend a lot more time in front of a computer than out in the field shooting. And since the launch of the M1 iMac, that part of my job has become immeasurably more enjoyable. A bit of backstory. I’ve been editing...
Hands-on and sample footage from the Sirui 24mm F2.8 1.33x anamorphic lens
Posted by Chris Roubis on 23rd, Dec, 2021 |
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This image was captured by the Sirui 24mm anamorphic lens in 17:9 and de-squeezed 1.33x to produce a 2.35:1 aspect ratio. Traditionally, dedicated anamorphic lenses for interchangeable lens cameras have been expensive, but Sirui has made a mission of creating much more affordable options. Though the company now has a full frame 50mm anamorphic lens, the majority of its output so far has been aimed at APS-C and Micro Four Thirds system users. The 24mm F2.8 is the third in its line of low-cost crop-sensor 1.33x anamorphic lenses. This new 24mm F2.8 is intended to fill the wide-angle gap in...
New optical fabrication method uses liquid polymer for faster & cheaper custom lenses
Posted by Chris Roubis on 22nd, Dec, 2021 |
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Researchers at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology have developed a ‘faster, cheaper method to produce customized optical components’ for applications including ‘corrective lenses, augmented and virtual reality, autonomous vehicles, medical imaging and astronomy.’ As DIY Photography observes, it’s not unreasonable to think that the new lens making method could be used for photographic lenses, at least during development and prototyping. Optical lenses come in many different shapes and sizes. The more complex a lens, the more difficult and costly it is...
Nikon Z 24-120mm F4 S sample gallery
Posted by Chris Roubis on 22nd, Dec, 2021 |
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Nikon’s new Z 24-120mm F4 S is a standard zoom lens for the full-frame mirrorless Z mount, intended to offer a more versatile and cheaper alternative to the high-end Z 24-70mm F2.8 S. Providing decent medium telephoto reach, good close focusing capabilities and a lighter, more portable form factor, the Z 24-120mm F4 S should make an ideal carry-everywhere zoom for Z6 and Z7-series shooters. We’ve been shooting with a production sample of the Z 24-120mm F4 S for a few days on both the Nikon Z7 and the new Z9. We’ll be adding more images (including portraits!) in the coming...
Gear of the Year: Gannon’s choice – Kolari EF-RF Drop-In Filter Mount Adapter
Posted by Chris Roubis on 22nd, Dec, 2021 |
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For someone who writes about the latest and greatest camera gear, you might be surprised to find out how little new equipment I use in my photo work. Rather than using the latest RF mount lenses for my Canon EOS R, I have mostly stuck with older, adapted lenses from various film cameras I’ve acquired over the years. It’s for that reason my favorite piece of gear for the year is Kolari’s EF-RF mount adapter with a built-in variable ND filter. My usual kit for photojournalism or motorsports work consists of my Canon EOS R with a Nikon Nikkor 50mm F1.4 AI, a Carl Zeiss 80mm F2 (originally...
Irix announces new line of ultra-thin 2-5 stop variable ND filters, starting at $130
Posted by Chris Roubis on 21st, Dec, 2021 |
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[embedded content] Optics manufacturer Irix has announced the release of its new Irix Edge variable neutral density (VND) filters, which block between two to five stops of light and are some of the thinnest VND filters on the market. The Irix Edge Vari-ND 2–5 filters are constructed of coated aluminum, use high-quality glass with 24 coatings and measure only 4.7mm thin for the Magnetic Mount System (MMS) version (6.2mm for the screw-in version). These new filters block between two to five stops of light with the twist of the front filter and are ‘as [color] neutral as possible.’ Irix says it...
Techart’s new TZG-01 adapter lets you mount Contax G-mount lenses to Nikon Z-mount cameras
Posted by Chris Roubis on 21st, Dec, 2021 |
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Techart has announced its new TZG-01 adapter, the first-ever Contax G-mount to Nikon Z-mount autofocus lens adapter. Now, Nikon Z owners can pick up the highly-regarded Contax G-mount lenses designed for Contax’s G1 and G2 rangefinders in the mid-90s. This new TZG-01 adapter is based around the same design Techart used for its TA-GA3 Contax G-mount to Sony E-mount autofocus adapter it released back in 2014. Techart says the TZG-01 adapter is constructed of aluminum and copper alloy and features a new 32-bit ARM CPU for transmitting autofocus and metadata information. The adapter includes...
DPReview TV’s top 10 moments of 2021
Posted by Chris Roubis on 21st, Dec, 2021 |
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As 2021 comes to an end, Chris Niccolls and Jordan Drake from DPReview TV look back at some of their most memorable moments of the year. Our dynamic duo found time to shoot portraits with classic lenses, shoot stars with an astrophotographer, recreate old black and white movie reels, and even introduced us to a new co-host, Jordan’s evil twin brother Gordon. Take a trip down memory lane to remember some of their favorite episodes from 2021 and what made them special. Receiving the GFX100S and Sony a1 while Chris was quarantined [embedded content] Jordan: 2021 let us know right from the...
Hands-on with new Nikon FTZ II adapter
Posted by Chris Roubis on 21st, Dec, 2021 |
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Alongside the Z9, and a bunch of other things, Nikon announced a new version of the FTZ adapter, named – appropriately enough – the FTZ II. The new adapter offers no additional functionality compared to the original, and if you’re planning on rocking a Z5, Z6 or Z7-series camera for a while, there’s probably no reason to upgrade. But if you’ve got your eye on a Z9, the FTZ II is the adapter you’ll want to grab. Click through for more...
Nikon confirms the first Z9 orders will start shipping on December 23
Posted by Chris Roubis on 21st, Dec, 2021 |
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Nikon has confirmed the first orders for its Z9 mirrorless cameras will start being fulfilled on December 23, 2021, meaning some lucky Nikon users could have their cameras in hand before the end of the year. In an email sent to Nikon Professional Services (NPS) members, Nikon says the first batch of Z9 cameras are arriving at retailers from its factories and are expected to ship out soon to NPS members who have requested priority delivery. Specifically, Nikon says orders placed through authorized Nikon dealers before December 19 with priority delivery selected in members’ NPS dashboard...
Video: How to make a DIY telephoto pinhole camera with a Pringles can
Posted by Chris Roubis on 20th, Dec, 2021 |
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Photography company Fotodiox makes a wide range of photography products and accessories, including lens adapters, lighting equipment, filter systems and more. The company also has a lively YouTube channel featuring product videos, tips and tricks and fun DIY projects. One such DIY project includes making a telephoto pinhole lens using a Pringles can. Before diving into the newest pinhole lens video, Sean from Fotodiox previously made a pinhole lens DIY video. In that video, he turned a regular camera body cap into a wide-angle pinhole lens by drilling a hole in the cap and taping a piece of...
Nikon Z9 Wildlife Impressions: Libor Vaicenbacher
Posted by Chris Roubis on 20th, Dec, 2021 |
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Just as children look forward to Christmas, many wildlife photographers in 2021 have also been focused on the end of the year. What’s causing all the buzz? It’s exactly the same as it is for the children: Wildlife photographers are looking forward to getting new toys. Sony already had a gift for their users in the form of the A1 camera, which was announced back in January of 2021. Fans of Canon and Nikon have had to wait a bit longer but are now taking their first pre-orders for the Canon EOS R3 and Nikon Z9 cameras. Most copies of the Nikon Z9 have not shipped quite yet, but luckily one...
Slideshow: Winners and finalists of the 5th annual Chromatic Photography Awards
Posted by Chris Roubis on 20th, Dec, 2021 |
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Yesterday, the winners and finalists for the 5th annual Chromatic Photography Awards competition were announced. Photographers from all over the world submitted images as either professionals or amateurs to 20 categories including Architecture, Culture, Nature, People, Sport, and Travel. The Chromatic Photographer of the Year title and a $2,000 cash prize was awarded to Felicia Simion for her image of women wearing traditional kerchiefs during an Orthodox Epiphany Day liturgy. An underwater image of an ice diver in the Arctic Circle netted Petr Polách the Chromatic Discovery of the Year...
LG’s new 4K UltraFine OLED Pro monitor lineup features built-in calibration tool
Posted by Chris Roubis on 20th, Dec, 2021 |
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Correction (Monday, December 20, 2021): It appears as though LG relatively quietly introduced a 27” model of its UltraFine OLED Pro monitor earlier this year, but as of now it’s still only available to pre-order at this time, so it hasn’t actually made it to market. The original headline and parts of this article stated the 27″ model was new. We have updated both to correct this information. LG has announced the details of its next-generation UltraFine OLED Pro monitors, revealing the 2022 models will include built-in colorimeters for on-device hardware color calibration. The 2022...
Gear of the Year: Dale’s choice – Sony 14mm F1.8 GM
Posted by Chris Roubis on 20th, Dec, 2021 |
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Every December, when the time comes to choose my gear of the year, I usually pick a product I’ve used extensively over the past few months. Which makes sense – if there’s a product I enjoy using, chances are I’ll pick it up a lot and get to know it well. 2021 is a bit different. This year, I knew what my gear of the year was going to be after just one trip with it: the Sony 14mm F1.8 GM. I instantly connected with this lens, and it hardly came off my camera. It’s worth noting that this isn’t the first ultra-wide-angle lens I’ve picked as my gear of...
Have your say: Best gear of 2021 – winners and final vote!
Posted by Chris Roubis on 20th, Dec, 2021 |
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For the past few weeks, our readers have been voting on their favorite photographic gear released in the past year in a wide range of categories. Now that the first round of voting is over, it’s time to reveal the winners. Remember though, it isn’t over just yet! It’s time now to pick an overall winner. Don’t miss your chance to cast your ballot – this one’s for all the sweeties. Have your say Voting is easy – you pick your favorite products by dragging and dropping. You can pick as many products as you like, and rank them in order of priority. Please note...
Treat yourself 2021: The ultimate photographers’ gift guide
Posted by Chris Roubis on 19th, Dec, 2021 |
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It should go without saying that wherever you are, 2021 came with a unique set of challenges, but there were also plenty of bright spots. Society started to bubble back to life, activities like travel and gathering with friends became a little more feasible, and camera and lens camera manufacturers had plenty of exciting products hitting the market. The holiday season is the season of giving, but for most of us, if we want something really nice, that means saving up our own money. With that in mind, here’s a breakdown of some of the most exciting products released this past year. The...
Reply to Did you shoot film in the old days, when did digital become better film
Posted by Chris Roubis on 19th, Dec, 2021 |
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IMO it really depends what you’re doing. I think that even today large format can match digital for highly technical and slow photography due to the freedom of movements and the size of the negative but for fast paced or time sensitive photography digital was better very quickly.put any dslr up against a 4×5 camera or larger format camera and I think you’d be hard pressed to tell the difference in final image quality in a blind test.If you’re comparing only to 35mm then any camera over about 8-10mpix is probably better in terms of resolution. In terms of dynamic range...
Which Tamron Lenses Should Nikon Z Prioritize?
Posted by Chris Roubis on 18th, Dec, 2021 |
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The recent, unexpected announcement of the Nikon Z 28-75mm f/2.8 – with identical optics as the Tamron G1 28-75mm f/2.8 – makes me wonder what’s next. Will Nikon and Tamron work together on any more Z-series lenses? If so, these are the lenses they should prioritize. Before going through the list, I should emphasize that we don’t yet know what agreement Nikon and Tamron have behind the scenes. The 28-75mm f/2.8 may simply be a one-time trial balloon floated to see how much interest there is in budget Z-series lenses. Or, it could represent a more substantial partnership where Tamron can ease...
Did you shoot film in the old days, when did digital become better film
Posted by Chris Roubis on 18th, Dec, 2021 |
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Photos Members Group Since Did you shoot film in the old days, when did digital become better film GingerBeard118 says: What DSLR do you feel was the first to rival film for image quality 12:12PM, 18 December 2021 PST (permalink) Jim Frazier says: I don’t know when it happened, but I’d say that my z7 is better than film. 11 hours ago (permalink) Zeroneg1 says: The closest to film for me was the old CCD sensor since CMOS looks very much digital. So this means the old D50/D70/s. Originally posted 8 hours ago. (permalink) Zeroneg1 edited this topic 8 hours ago. alastairswan says:...
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.