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Canon confirms August ransomware attack, notes past and current employees affected
In August, we reported that Canon suffered a ransomware attack that, allegedly, saw more than 10TB of data taken from Canon’s servers. At the time, a Canon representative told us the company was ‘investigating the situation,’ but the company never confirmed the attack took place. Now, three months later, Canon has confirmed in a statement that an attack did take place as well as details on exactly what information was taken from its servers. The notice, first spotted by Canon Watch, states information of past and current employees...
read moreVideo: The ‘surprising’ origin story of Kodak Aerochrome film
[embedded content] Todd Dominey has published a video on his Youtube channel that dives into the interesting history of a film stock ‘with an origin story unlike any other,’ Kodak Aerochrome. The 11-minute video, which is part one of a two-part series, walks through why the infrared film was developed by Kodak and what the United States military had to do with its inception. From there, Dominey talks about the film’s significance in pop culture — most notably in the late 1960s and early 70s — as well as the film’s discontinuation...
read moreAF-ON Button Explained
If you use a modern DSLR or a mirrorless camera, it might come with a button for focusing labeled “AF-ONâ€. While this button at first might seem to be redundant, it can be a very handy feature that will make it easier to focus on your subject. In this article, I will explain what the AF-ON button is all about and how you can take advantage of it on your camera. Table of Contents What is the AF-ON Button? On all modern digital cameras, the AF-ON Button stands for “Autofocus Onâ€. It is used for engaging autofocus and metering, although...
read moreGear of the Year: Barney’s choice (part 2) – Reflex-Nikkor 1000mm F11
Dan Bracaglia In Part 1 of my Gear of the Year for 2020 I mentioned that the Fujifilm X100V has been in my hands almost all of this year. This article is about a very different piece of photographic equipment in my collection, which has also seen heavy usage this year. And an item which – while much less practical for the kind of day-to-day documentation to which the X100V is so well-suited – is no less enjoyable (in its own way) to use. The story of how I ended up with a Reflex-Nikkor 1000mm F11 is a bit complicated, and starts with a...
read moreDPReview TV: Best enthusiast full frame mirrorless camera
Published Nov 28, 2020 | dpreview staff [embedded content] Planning to treat yourself to a new full-frame camera this holiday season? We compare the Canon EOS R6, Nikon Z6 II, Panasonic S5 and Sony a7 III. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. Gear in this story This year, despite the disruption, plenty of amazing cameras, lenses, accessories and other products came through our doors. Now, as the year winds down, we’re highlighting some of our standout products of the year. Check out the winners...
read morePhotokina is cancelled indefinitely
Photokina has announced it will be indefinitely suspending its Cologne-based event due to ‘decreases in the imaging market’ that have ‘force[d] a hard cut.’ In a press release promoted on the Photokina homepage, Gerald Böse, President and Chief Executive Officer of Koelnmesse (the organizing company behind Photokina) says: ‘Unfortunately, at present, the framework conditions in the industry do not provide a viable basis for the leading international trade fair for photography, video and imaging […] This hard cut after a 70-year...
read moreTreat yourself 2020: The ultimate photographers’ gift guide
It’s been a doozy of a year but thankfully, it wasn’t all sour grapes. While many aspects of society ground to a halt, manufacturers still had cool and exciting products in their pipelines that they managed to bring to market. And while opportunities to get and out shoot may be limited at the moment, we can still dream big. And what better way to do that than by ‘browser window shopping’. What follows is a rundown of the headiest products of 2020, the ones photographers really want. So pour a tall cold one and get...
read moreLaowa 15mm F4.5 Zero-D Shift lens sample gallery (DPReview TV)
Published Nov 27, 2020 | dpreview staff The new Laowa 15mm F4.5 Shift lens lets you go wide with perspective control. View our sample gallery to see how a bit of shift can change a photo or introduce creative effects. View the Laowa 15mm F4.5 Zero-D Shift sample gallery Gear in this story We are retrieving offers for your location, please refresh the page to see the prices. The widest shift lens for full frame systems, the Laowa 15mm G4.5 Zero-D is designed for architectural photographers who like to keep their verticals vertical and their...
read moreThe Very Best Black Friday Deals of 2020
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read moreiPhone mount converts an Apple Watch into a live viewfinder for selfies and vlogging
Apple’s iPhones have a front-facing camera for selfies and FaceTime, but the front camera’s performance and image quality pales in comparison to the rear cameras. For those wanting a high-quality selfie or to record video content of themselves, your options have long been to use the front-facing camera so you can see your phone’s display or to try your luck with the rear-facing camera and hope everything is framed properly. Ulanzi has a new product, the ST-09 Phone Tripod Mount for Apple Watch, designed to solve this exact...
read moreGear of the Year: Richard’s choice – Canon RF 800mm F11 IS STM
Dan Bracaglia I wouldn’t usually consider myself a fan of long lenses, perhaps as the result of my early digital experiences coming on disappointing superzooms. Once I’d got over the novelty of being able to take pictures of something a long way away, I usually found I could take a better photo by simply getting closer. I’ve used long telephotos for sports shooting, of course, but in recent years my lenses of choice have been 35 and 85mm equivalents. The Canon 800mm F11 seemed too interesting to not try, though. And that...
read moreDPReview TV lens review: Shift your perspective with the Laowa 15mm F4.5 shift lens
Published Nov 26, 2020 | dpreview staff [embedded content] Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. Sample gallery for this episode Gear in this story We are retrieving offers for your location, please refresh the page to see the prices. The Canon EOS Rebel T8i (also known as the EOS 850D or Kiss X10i in some markets) is a 24MP DSLR aimed at first-time DSLR buyers and enthusiasts. Read our full review to find out how it performs. Vaporware no more: the much-speculated-about Zeiss ZX1 has arrived....
read moreFujifilm Launches Pixel Shift on the GFX 100
It is a great day for all Fujifilm fans, since the company has just released its first version of Pixel Shift on the GFX 100. If you have never heard of Pixel Shift, this technology allows a camera with in-body image stabilization (IBIS) to shift the sensor by up to a pixel (hence the name) in several directions, capturing several frames, in order to stitch them together for a single, high-resolution photo with maximum detail and color accuracy. In the case of the GFX 100, the camera will be able to stitch up to 16 RAW images in order to...
read moreMIOPS launches Kickstarter campaign for Flex, its featured-packed smart camera gadget
MIOPS, makers of the Smart Trigger and Mobile Remote, is back on Kickstarter with another new product designed to make it easier than ever to capture unique images. The Flex is a ‘smart camera gadget’ photographers can use to create timelapse videos, capture photos of lightning strikes, breaking glass and more. Flex attaches to your camera’s hot shoe and communicates wirelessly with an accompanying app for iOS and Android. Flex offers many different features and shooting modes, including: Camera control Lightning sensor...
read moreOur favorite gear, rewarded: DPReview Awards 2020
How is it nearly the end of the year already? Not that any of us are keen for 2020 to last much longer. To say the least, this has been a strange and difficult few months for people all over the globe, and one that we can’t wait to put behind us. The photo industry (like most industries) was impacted by the COVID-19 epidemic this year, but a lot of great products were released nevertheless, even if launch schedules were a little more erratic (and access to samples a lot more disrupted) than normal. At the end of every year we get...
read moreFujifilm adds a 400MP capture mode to its GFX 100 camera with 3.00 firmware update
Fujifilm has announced a firmware update for its GFX 100 camera that adds Pixel Shift and Multi-Shot functions to its flagship camera, which work alongside Fujifilm’s new Pixel Shift Combiner software to stitch together up to 16 Raw photographs into a single 400MP Raw image. The new 400MP image capture mode in firmware version 3.00 combines the capabilities of the GFX 100’s 102MP sensor, its in-body image stabilization and the X Processor 4 inside. To achieve this level of resolution, the GFX 100 will first capture a the base shot, before...
read moreThe Panasonic S1H and GH5 are the best cameras for videographers
Published Nov 24, 2020 | dpreview staff Previous 1 Introduction 2 Next There are a lot of photo/video cameras that have found a role as B-cameras on professional productions or A-camera for amateur and independent productions. These cameras provide a variety of tools to support filmmakers and output high quality footage at high bitrates. Our pick: Panasonic Lumix DC-S1H The S1H’s stills-camera looks disguise one of the most video-centric stills/video cameras we’ve ever encountered. Its capture options are diverse: 10-bit 4:2:2 4K at up to...
read moreFujifilm Introduces FUJIFILM GFX100 IR for 100MP infrared imaging
Image shows standard Fujifilm GFX100 Fujifilm has announced a special version of its 100MP GX100, for infrared imaging. Photography is possible at up to 400MP, courtesy of a new ‘Pixel Shift Combiner‘ feature The new camera will be available for special order in early 2021. Press release: Fujifilm Introduces FUJIFILM GFX100 IR (Infrared) Large Format Mirrorless Digital Camera Valhalla, N.Y., November 25, 2020 – FUJIFILM North America Corporation is pleased to announce the launch of FUJIFILM GFX100 IR digital camera (GFX100 IR),...
read moreSigma to release a new ‘DN’ lens for mirrorless camera systems via livestream on December 1
Sigma has announced it will be showing off a new Digital Neo (DN) lens on December 1 during its ‘Sigma Stage Online’ livestream. No further information has been shared about what kind of lens we can expect, but with the livestream just a week out, we won’t have to wait long. The livestream will take place at 7am ET (4am PT) using the below video: [embedded content] You can subscribe to Sigma’s Youtube channel to keep up to date with the latest news and click the ‘Set reminder’ button on the above video to receive a push...
read moreVideo: ‘One Shot’ shows what it takes to capture an iconic image at the Olympic games
A thread on Reddit has brought a neat photography documentary from 2017 to our attention. ‘One Shot: Photographing the Olympic Games’ is a behind the scenes look at how photographers capture the iconic images of the Olympics, including a special focus on photographers setting up to capture the 100m men’s final in Rio de Janeiro during the 2016 summer games. Featured photographers include multi-awarded photographers such as Lucy Nicholson, Dave Burnett, Bob Martin, Tim de Waele, and Tsuyoshi Matsumoto. Nicholson had a very...
read moreMonsterAdapter’s new LA-KE1 adapter brings autofocus, aperture control to Pentax K-mount lenses on Sony E-mount cameras
MonsterAdapter, a relatively new player in the lens adapter game, has revealed the details of the LA-KE1, a new adapter that will make it possible to mount Pentax K-mount glass to Sony E-mount mirrorless camera systems. There isn’t much information available about MonsterAdapter. The company’s Facebook page, which appears to be its only online presence, was created on May 20, 2020, when the company announced the development of the LA-EA4r, a modified version of Sony’s LA-EA4 adapter that expanded functionality and support....
read moreGear of the Year: Barney’s choice (part 1) – Fujifilm X100V
Please note: the images in this article are downsized from the original files. A link is provided below to our full samples gallery. What a year. I thought 2016 was bad, but then 2020 barged in, ripped a room-clearing fart, handed 2016 its beer and went bananas. Hopefully you don’t need me to list the many horrors of the last 11 months, because I would prefer not to. It’s surreal looking back now, but in the first six weeks of 2020 I flew roughly 15,000 miles, all of which was for work. The year began with the CES show in Las...
read moreReview: Does the Canon Rebel T8i DSLR make sense in an increasingly mirrorless world?
Introduction The Canon EOS Rebel T8i (also known as the EOS 850D or Kiss X10i in some markets) is a 24MP DSLR camera that is compatible with the company’s EF and EF-S mount lenses. It has an optical viewfinder, but it also has a usable and responsive touchscreen interface and live view experience that’s a match for the company’s mirrorless camera options. Jump to: What’s new | Body, handling| Image quality | Autofocus | Video | Conclusion | Samples For much of the world, shifting consumer preferences towards mirrorless...
read more2020 Black Friday and Cyber Monday camera gear deals
Please note that this article will be updated over the course of the holiday week. We will make every effort to keep it up to date but we cannot guarantee that all of the deals listed below will be available at the time of reading. Here in the US, we’re looking forward to Thanksgiving. While this year’s Turkey Day will be a little unusual thanks to you-know-what, some things remain the same. Holiday season traditionally means shopping season, and the week of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday deals is here....
read moreiFixit tears down the iPhone 12 Pro Max, showcasing new camera tech
[embedded content] Customers have gotten their hands on Apple’s latest family of iPhones, including the largest iPhone ever, the iPhone 12 Pro Max. While customers have been enjoying using the new phones, over at iFixit, the team has been busy tearing them apart. They’ve taken apart the iPhone 12 mini and the two medium-sized iPhone 12s, the 12 and 12 Pro. Over this past weekend, the iFixit crew got to work dismantling the iPhone 12 Pro Max. Image courtesy of iFixit and Creative Electron. Before diving in, it’s worth...
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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.