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Fujifilm releases compact GF 35-70mm F4.5-5.6 WR medium-format lens
Published Sep 2, 2021 | dpreview staff Fujifilm has just announced the GF 35-70mm F4.5-5.6 WR zoom lens for their GFX line of medium-format digital cameras. Offering a 35mm-equivalent focal range of 28-55mm, it’s intended as a lightweight, everyday walkaround zoom lens that doesn’t compromise on image sharpness or build quality. When ‘collapsed’, the lens is just 74mm (2.9″) long. The GF 35-70mm has 11 lens elements in nine groups, including one aspherical element and two extra-low dispersion (ED) elements. It...
read moreFujifilm announces updated roadmap for X- and GF-series lenses, including tilt-shift
Published Sep 2, 2021 | dpreview staff Fujifilm has unveiled its latest development roadmap for X and GF-series lenses, for the company’s APS-C and medium-format mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras, respectively. A total of 17 lenses are on the roadmap, now including a GF 55mm F1.7 – a standard prime equivalent to 44mm in full-frame terms – and a wide-angle zoom, the GF 20-35mm (equivalent to 16-28mm). Fujifilm has also teased the development of an upcoming tilt-shift lens in the GF line, but we’re still waiting for details of...
read moreFujifilm GFX 50S II sample gallery
Published Sep 2, 2021 | dpreview staff When combined with the GF 35-70mm F4.5-5.6 lens, the GFX 50S II makes for a pretty solid travel photography package. Sure, this combo isn’t the most compact option out there, but it’s also not appreciably larger than most of the full-frame DSLR kits that many of us trekked along with on vacations of years past. So peruse our gallery and get a feel for how the GFX 50S II and its kit lens perform on holiday, and while you’re at it, you might even get a bit of a feel for the English...
read moreFujifilm GFX 50S II review
The Fujifilm GFX 50S II is the company’s third 50 Megapixel medium format mirrorless camera, and the first to feature in-camera stabilization. In almost every respect, the 50S II is a lower-res version of the GFX 100S, sharing more with its high pixel-count sibling than it does with the original GFX 50S. The means it benefits from all the refinements Fujifilm has introduced in the five years since the first GFX 50S was launched but also sees some features pared back. It’s also Fujifilm’s least expensive medium format camera...
read moreThe Fujifilm GFX 50S II is the least expensive medium-format digital camera ever
Published Sep 2, 2021 | dpreview staff Fujifilm has announced the 51 Megapixel GFX 50S II camera that – at $4000 – is the cheapest medium-format digital camera that’s ever been released. The 50S II is largely similar to the GFX 100S, but with a lower resolution sensor and a lack of 4K video capability. Relatively compact in size, the GFX 50S II offers in-body stabilization, with up to 6.5 stops of shake reduction. (The IBIS system can also be used to create ultra-high-res 205MB images.) The camera has a substantial grip and has plenty...
read moreDPReview TV: Fujifilm GFX 50S II review
Published Sep 2, 2021 | dpreview staff [embedded content] Chris and Jordan tell us what they think of Fujifilm’s new GFX 50S II medium format camera. They also compare it to the GFX 100S, revealing some important differences that go beyond resolution. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. Fujifilm GFX 50S II sample gallery from this episode Gear in this story Leofoto is one of the best-known names in the world of affordable tripods and supports, but not necessarily for the best of reasons. With...
read moreFujifilm announces GFX 50S II, 35-70mm 4.5-5.6 WR and forthcoming lenses
Fujifilm has used its latest X Summit event to announce the GFX 50S II. The event, taking place in Japan and live-streamed on YouTube can be viewed below. GFX 50S II The GFX 50S II uses the same 50MP sensor as its existing cameras, and adds image stabilization and the same ‘X Processor 4’ chip used in the GFX 100S. The new chip improves AF speed and face/eye detection performance, the company says. The in-body image stabilization system is also used to offer a 200MP, 16-shot high resolution mode. The new camera offers 19 Film...
read moreThe RED V-RAPTOR ST is a $25K cinema camera capable of 8K 120fps 16-bit Raw video capture
[embedded content] RED Digital Cinema has announced the V-RAPTOR ST, its latest flagship 8K cinema camera that can record REDCODE RAW video at up to 120fps. The $24,5000 cinema camera, which features a Canon RF lens mount, is the first in RED’s new DSMC3 generation of cameras and manages to pack a lot of features in a relatively compact form factor. At the heart of the V-RAPTOR ST is an 8K VV 35.4-megapixel CMOS sensor (8192 x 4320 pixels) that measures 40.96mm (1.61”) x 21.60mm (.85”) and is capable of capturing over 17 stops of dynamic...
read moreVideo: How do images from Canon’s EOS-1D look nearly 20 years after its release?
The original Canon EOS-1D is coming up on its 20th birthday this November. The DSLR, which is quite large by today’s standards, was Canon’s first foray into the professional digital camera market. The EOS 1D series itself survives to this day, with 2020’s EOS-1D X Mark III continuing to see heavy use among professional photographers in the face of mirrorless alternatives from Canon itself and competing brands. What’s it like shooting with a 20-year-old camera? Does the Canon EOS-1D hold up, even today? Photographer...
read moreSlideshow: 2021 Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards Finalists
The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards has announced the finalists for its 2021 competition, showcasing hilarious photos of a ‘laughing’ vine snake, a ‘waving’ dragonfly and a monkey that looks like he regrets not wearing groin protection. ‘The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards was co-founded in 2015 by professional photographers Paul Johnson-Hicks MBE and Tom Sullam, who wanted to create a competition that focused on the lighter side of wildlife photography and help promote wildlife conservation through humour,’ reads the competition’s...
read moreWe applied Adobe’s ‘Super Resolution’ to our favorite old photos and the results may shock you
Mt. St. Helens abstract, winter. Super resolution of this Canon 5D Mark III image from 2013 yields an 88.5 MP file ripe for a super large canvas print. Photo: Rishi Sanyal Back in March, Senior Principal Scientist Eric ‘I like to mess around with pixels’ Chan published a blog post on Adobe.com outlining the strides he and his team had made at Adobe using machine learning to make your photos better. Along with collaborators Michaël Gharbi and Richard Zhang of Adobe Research, Eric and the team produced a tool that extracts more...
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Photos Members Group Since Margaret Magpie’s Snaps says: disappointed that you rejected my photo of my King Parrot but accepted one of a Kagaroo Paw flower taken in bunnings?? Do not mind being rejected but….. 10:22PM, 31 August 2021 PDT (permalink) Would you like to comment? Sign up for a free account, or sign in (if you’re already a...
read morePanasonic Lumix S 24mm F1.8 L-mount lens to ship in October
Published Sep 1, 2021 | dpreview staff Panasonic has announced its Lumix S 24mm F1.8 lens for L-mount. This lightweight lens features 12 elements in 11 groups, including three aspherical lenses. Three extra-low dispersion and one ultra extra-low dispersion elements help suppress chromatic aberrations. It uses a linear motor to drive the focus group for swift and silent autofocus, and Panasonic says that the lens has been designed to minimize focus breathing. The minimum focus distance of the 24mm F1.8 is 24cm (9.5″) and the maximum...
read morePanasonic Lumix S 24mm F1.8 sample gallery
Published Sep 1, 2021 | dpreview staff We’ve been using Panasonic’s new Lumix S 24mm F1.8 L-mount lens for the last few days, and generally we like what we’ve seen so far. The only negative we’ve found in our initial shooting is occasional flare – check out the results for yourself, in our sample gallery. View our Panasonic Lumix S 24mm F1.8 gallery Gear in this story Panasonic LUMIX S Series Camera Lens, 24mm F1.8 L-Mount Interchangeable Lens for Mirrorless Full Frame Digital Cameras, S-S24 $899.99 Shop now...
read moreRED teases new cinema camera that appears to record 8K video at 120fps
[embedded content] Late last night, Jarred Land, the CEO and Co-Owner of RED Digital Cinema, has shared a teaser on Instagram that appears to show off a new camera capable of recording 8K video at up to 120 frames per second (fps). Alongside Land’s teaser, the RED Digital Cinema YouTube channel also listed premiere, embedded above, for an event that will take place tomorrow, September 1, 2021, at 1pm EDT. Land’s Instagram post doesn’t divulge any details in the text, which only reads ‘2 more sleeps.’ However, the image he shared shows the...
read morePolaroid’s new Now+ instant camera uses your smartphone to unlock specialized capture modes
Polaroid has announced the Polaroid Now+, a new i-Type instant camera that offers a unique feature set via Bluetooth connectivity. The Polaroid Now+ looks similar to nearly all of its One Step-style predecessors. But inside, it packs a slew of new shooting modes that are controlled with Polaroid’s free mobile application (Android, iOS). Specifically, the Now+ features special modes: Aperture Priority, Double Exposure, Light Painting, Manual Mode and Tripod Mode. Aperture Priority mode lets users manually control the aperture, from F11 to F32....
read moreVideo: A look at Canon’s 40-year-old AF lens, the FD 35-70mm F4 AF
Nowadays, it’s easy to take autofocusing lenses for granted. However, in the grand scheme of photography’s history, autofocus is a relatively recent innovation. In Canon’s rich photographic history, the EF mount introduced in 1987 likely stands out as the beginning of autofocus for the company. However, Canon’s previous FD mount had a special lens among its manual focus optics, the Canon FD 35-70mm F4 AF, which was originally released back in 1981. In a new video from Kai W, he goes hands-on with the Canon FD 35-70mm...
read morePanasonic Lumix DC-GH5 II added to studio test scene
As part of the process of our review of the Panasonic Lumix DC-GH5 II, we’ve just shot and processed the studio scene images, to see how it compares with its predecessor. At base ISO there’s no appreciable difference between the GH5 II and the original version. There’s a slight improvement in apparent sharpness, but this is likely to be due to the use of a more expensive lens on the newer model. As with the original GH5 there are hints of moiré, which makes sense, given the absence of an anti-aliasing low-pass filter. At...
read moreBest Photography Memoirs
If you’re looking for good weekend reads in photography – enjoyable books that also serve as education and inspiration – this list is for you. The books I cover below are all memoirs by photographers detailing their creative, photographic, and artistic journeys. Some read like novels and others are crash courses in living a creative life. All of them are exceptionally inspiring for photographers and photo enthusiasts. Table of Contents If you have ever wondered what it’s like to work as a photojournalist covering some of the largest military...
read moreIconic 1914 Ur-Leica camera recreated as LEGO could become an actual set
LEGO Ideas user Pandis Pandus has submitted an idea to LEGO that is sure to excite photographers and Leica fans, in particular, a LEGO Ur-Leica camera from 1914. If the idea garners enough support, it may become a real LEGO product that you could buy in stores one day. If you’re unfamiliar with the LEGO Ideas program, it’s an online place for creative LEGO enthusiasts to submit concept LEGO set ideas, like those you can purchase in stores. It takes a while for an idea to become a fully-fledged consumer product, of course, but...
read moreIn-depth tripod review: Leofoto ‘Summit’ LM-364C
The fully extended Leofoto LM-364C with a compact (non-Leofoto) gimbal, full-frame camera, and 500mm prime lens. Leofoto is a brand of Laitu Photographic, a manufacturer that has been making tripods, heads and accessories since 2014, both under their own name and for other brands. The early products from the Leofoto brand were clearly ‘inspired’ by the designs and appearances of successful products from other companies. However, they have recently developed some of their own innovative gear, as well as a broad catalog of...
read moreSlideshow: Winning photographs from the inaugural ‘Captured at Calke’ photo competition
The International Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) has announced the results for its inaugural IGPOTY National Trust Calke Abbey special photo competition, ‘Captured at Calke.’ What’s unique about this free-to-enter photo competition is that all images were captured at Calke Abbey, a country house estate near Ticknall, Derbyshirt, England. Calke Abbey is believed to have been founded as an Augustinian priory by Richard d’Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester sometime between 1115 and 1120. Over the centuries, it exchanged hands multiple times, with...
read moreEnhance! Google researchers detail new method for upscaling low-resolution images with impressive results
Cascaded generation of unconditional 1024×1024 faces. Thanks to CSI, as well as plenty of other crime dramas, the phrase ‘Enhance’ has taken on a life of its own as a tongue-in-cheek way of attempting to digitally extract extra information from low-resolution images that simply isn’t feasible in real-world situations. Or is it? A new blog post on the Google AI Blog showcases a new technology its developed to upscale low-resolution images with incredible results. The blog post, titled ‘High Fidelity Image Generation Using Diffusion...
read moreDPReview TV classics: Best (and worst) ways to clean camera lenses
Published Aug 28, 2021 | dpreview staff [embedded content] Chris and Jordan are taking a well-deserved break this week, so we’re re-posting one of our favorite episodes from the archives. In this humorous video they discuss the right way – and the wrong way – to clean a lens. Beware of broken glass! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. 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,...
read moreASUS Zephyrus G14 (2021) Review: The M1 MacBook Pro killer
The ASUS Zephyrus G14 is a new breed of powerful, portable laptop made possible by the latest AMD Ryzen CPUs. All product photography by DL Cade. When it comes to lightweight laptops for creatives, Apple pretty much cornered the market with the release of the M1 MacBook Air and M1 MacBook Pro. The price-to-performance of these laptops is better than anything we’ve seen from Cupertino in a long time, and the Apple Silicon M1 punches well above its weight given its ‘entry-level’ designation. But what if you’re not a Mac...
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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.