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FLEX: The Third-Generation MIOPS Smart Trigger is Here
Our friends at MIOPS have just released their third-generation smart trigger, the FLEX. From capturing lightnings and HDR timelapses, to controlling your camera from a smartphone, the FLEX is more than just a trigger. It is compatible with most camera models from Canon, Fujifilm, Nikon and Sony. As with the previous releases, MIOPS is launching the FLEX on Kickstarter. Compared to the previous-generation MIOPS, the FLEX has many more built-in features and smart app control. Take a look at the full list below: Camera Control Lightning Sensor...
read moreCanon RF 85mm F2 Macro IS sample gallery
Published Nov 23, 2020 | dpreview staff Canon’s RF 85mm F2 Macro IS offers EOS R-series shooters an affordable, stabilized and fast-ish portrait prime. Its ‘Macro’ designation also reflects its close-focusing capabilities and while it falls short of true 1:1 reproduction, its 0.5X magnification gives this lens another layer of versatility. Take a look at how it handles subjects out in the real world. Gear in this story Vaporware no more: the much-speculated-about Zeiss ZX1 has arrived. Combining a 37MP full-frame sensor,...
read moreSlideshow: Winners and finalists of the 2020 Ocean Photographer of the Year awards
Oceanographic Magazine announced the winners and finalists for its annual Ocean Photographer of the Year awards. Over 3,000 images were submitted to six categories. Canadian photographer Nadia Aly was named Ocean Photographer of the Year and also received the Collective Portfolio award. ‘The photograph is perfectly exposed, compellingly dramatic and deeply intriguing. I know from experience that this image was not easy to create. Nadia Aly’s acknowledgement as the Ocean Photographer of the Year is a testament not only to the sheer...
read moreBest gifts for photographers in 2020
First, an acknowledgement: this holiday season is unusual. It’s been a grim year to say the least, and it might seem a little frivolous to be recommending gadgets and stocking stuffers when many people are struggling. The counter-argument is that in these difficult times, creative pursuits are more important than ever. For many of us, photography is therapeutic – something that invigorates us when we’re feeling depleted. If we can assist you in helping the photographer in your life find a little calm in the storm that is 2020,...
read moreVALOI 360 Kickstarter campaign promises affordable way to digitize film
A new Kickstarter campaign for VALOI 360 promises to deliver an affordable, high-quality way to digitize rolls of 35mm and medium format film. VALOI 360, which is over halfway toward its roughly $74,000 USD goal, is a system of modular physical components you can use to digitize 35mm and 120mm film negatives using a digital camera. There are three main components in the 360 system. There is the VALOI 360 35mm Holder. The holder keeps 35mm film flat while allowing for a backlight to shine through. It is constructed of injection-molded plastic...
read moreDPReview TV: Best smartphone gimbal
Published Nov 21, 2020 | dpreview staff [embedded content] Smartphones capture amazing video, but to kick production value up a notch consider adding a compact gimbal to your kit. This week, we test three leading smartphone gimbals: The DJI OM 4, the Moza Mini MX and the Zhiyun Smooth XS. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. Vaporware no more: the much-speculated-about Zeiss ZX1 has arrived. Combining a 37MP full-frame sensor, minimalist controls and Lightroom Mobile built in, it’s a refreshing...
read moreAngelina Jolie to direct Don McCullin biopic starring Tom Hardy
Portrait of Sir Don McCullin from his website. To learn more about his career and work, click here. Legendary photographer Don McCullin will be portrayed on the big screen by Tom Hardy in an upcoming film based on McCullin’s autobiography, ‘Unreasonable Behaviour’. It has been announced that the movie will be directed by Angelina Jolie. Gregory Burke is handling the adaptation. Burke has previously written the screenplay for the movie, ’71’, based on The Troubles in Northern Ireland. The movie is being produced...
read moreTokina announces 17–35mm F4 lens for Canon EF, Nikon F camera systems
In addition to releasing its 23mm and 33mm F1.4 atx-m lenses for Fujifilm camera systems, Tokina has also revealed its latest lens for Canon EF and Nikon F mount DSLR cameras, the atx-i 17–35mm F4. If the specs of this lens look familiar, it’s because it appears to be a successor to the Tokina 17–35mm F4 AT-X Pro FX lens (also available for Canon EF and Nikon F mounts). The new lens is constrcuted of 13 elements in 12 groups, features an aperture range of F4 through F22 and has a minimum focusing distance of 28cm (.9ft). The lens...
read moreNikon teases upcoming super telephoto lenses, 50mm prime with an updated lens road map
Click to enlarge. The new ‘Micro 50mm’ prime is center-left in the bottom row and the two super-telephoto lenses are top-right in the back row. Nikon has released an updated version of its visual lens roadmap for Z-mount camera systems, revealing silhouettes of three upcoming lenses, including two super-telephoto lenses and one macro prime lens. While there are eleven total silhouettes, only three of them are new: the ‘Micro 50mm,’ the 400mm S-Line and the 600mm S-line. As you would expect, the silhouettes for the two...
read moreBuying guide: The best gifts for film photographers in 2020
Do you love film photography, or are you shopping for someone who does? Lucky you / them! Film photography is exploding in popularity and the folks in on the fun tend to be some the coolest cats in town: sorry, digital peeps. Cool cats deserve cool gifts. And so we’ve combed the analog universe, searching high and low for the hottest gear to include in this guide. It’s filled with fun stuff that should please even the pickiest analog avenger, and most budgets. From funky film stocks, to home developing and digitizing solutions,...
read moreTokina unveils 23mm and 33mm F1.4 atx-m series lenses for Fujifilm X-mount camera systems
Tokina has announced the release of two new prime lenses for Fujifilm X-mount camera systems: the atx-m 23mm F1.4 and the atx-m 33mm F1.4. The 23mm F1.4 and 33mm F1.4 feature 35mm and 50mm full-frame equivalent focal lengths, respectively, and both feature near-silent autofocus thanks to their ST-M motors. Both lenses feature clickless aperture rings, nine-blade aperture diaphragms, aperture ranges of F1.4 through F16, have 52mm front filter threads and are the same size: 72mm (2.83â€) long and 65mm (2.56â€) in diameter. The 23mm F1.4...
read moreChroma Cameras’ 679 camera system turns medium format modular
Chroma Cameras has unveiled a modular medium format camera for shooting 120 film. The new 679 camera system allows customers to custom build a camera for their specific needs. Speaking to Kosmo Foto, Chroma Cameras founder Steve Lloyd says, ‘The Chroma 679 is a brand new, modular, medium format camera system. Like my other Chroma cameras, it’s been designed around the idea of flexibility and ‘uniqueness’, along with being an affordable, and enjoyable, way to combine existing lenses and film holders.’ The Chroma...
read moreHalide’s deep dive into why the iPhone 12 Pro Max is made for ‘Real Pro Photography’
Sebastiaan de With, Co-founder and Designer of the professional iOS camera app Halide, has shared a deep dive blog post into the photographic capabilities of Apple’s iPhone 12 Pro Max, showing a technical breakdown of all three cameras packed inside the flagship device. In many of the articles we gathered in our iPhone 12 Pro Max review roundup, reviewers said they didn’t actually notice that big of a difference in image quality between the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro Max. This came as somewhat a surprise considering how promising the...
read moreX-tra promises a fresh take on the conventional camera battery with its innovative offering
Camera batteries are difficult to get excited about, but they are a critical part of any camera kit. Sure, they come in different shapes and sizes, but they’re basically all functionally identical. A new Kickstarter project hopes to change this by improving upon the conventional camera battery. The X-tra battery promises increased capacity, improved usability, and quite simply, a better user experience for photographers and videographers on the go. For many photographers, particularly those using mirrorless cameras with smaller...
read moreCanon releases mostly minor firmware updates for five cameras and its RF 50mm F1.2 lens
Canon has released a barrage of firmware updates for a number of its mirrorless cameras and a single RF lens, bringing new and improved features, as well as the usual bug fixes. None of the updates offer major improvements in autofocus or other areas, but they all take care of a few ‘phenomena’ and offer support for newer Canon lenses. Canon RF 50mm F1.2 L USM We’ll go ahead and get the most minor firmware update out of the way first. The Canon RF 50mm F1.2 L USM lens has received a version 1.0.5 firmware update that ‘Reduces...
read moreZeiss ZX1 initial review
Introduction Studio product photography by Dan Bracaglia The Zeiss ZX1 is the first-ever digital camera to come with Adobe Lightroom Mobile built-in, encouraging you to shoot, edit and upload images from a single device. It has a 37.4MP full-frame sensor, a fixed 35mm F2 lens and the largest screen we’ve ever seen on a modern digital camera at 4.34″ (11cm) diagonal. It’s also a camera that I wondered if I’d ever see; it was announced way back in 2018, and there was a stretch of more than a year and a half where we...
read moreNikon Z6 II sample gallery
Nikon unveiled the Z6 II last month, adding some more processing power and a few other modest upgrades to its ‘multimedia’ full-frame mirrorless offering. We got our hands on one and have some preliminary samples to share – take a look. Gear in this story The new Nikon Z6 II and Z7 II are solid updates, but the gap at the top of Nikon’s full-frame mirrorless lineup for a truly ‘professional’ model still exists. So what can the Z6 II and Z7 II tell us about what Nikon might do next? The new Nikon Z6 II and Z7 II...
read moreThe Upcoming Nikon Z Lenses
As you might already know, Nikon added a few new lenses to its Nikon Z lens roadmap in October, which included a couple of super-telephoto lenses. Although the maximum apertures of these lenses were not defined, I projected that these would be fast super-telephoto primes, namely Nikon Z 400mm f/2.8 S and Z 600mm f/4 S. Nikon recently released an image of its upcoming lens line-up, which includes silhouettes of unreleased lenses, and it looks like these will indeed be fast super-telephoto primes. Based on these silhouttes, we can make...
read moreNik celebrates its 25th anniversary with new presets in Nik Collection 3 by DxO
Nik Software, now part of the DxO family, has existed for an impressive 25 years. To celebrate this major milestone, DxO has announced Nik Collection 3 by DxO version 3.3, which adds a fitting 25 new presets for Color Efex Pro and Silver Efex Pro. The update adds Classic Portraiture, Light and Bright, Wildlife Photography and Street Photography preset collections. Classic Portraiture is the largest of the bunch, adding 10 presets for Color Efex Pro and Silver Efex Pro. New presets include High Key Bright (seen below), Hint of Color, Hollywood...
read moreCosina Japan reveals its ultra-fast Voigtlander Super Nokton 29mm F0.8 lens for MFT systems
Cosina Japan has announced the Super Nokton 29mm F0.8 Aspherical lens for Micro Four Thirds (MFT) camera systems, making it the fastest functional and commercially-available lens on the market. The entirely manual lens, which offers an equivalent focal length of a 58mm lens on a full-frame camera, is constructed of 11 elements in 7 groups, including a ground aspherical element. The lens features an aperture range of F0.8 to F16, a twelve-blade aperture diaphragm, an all-metal helicoid unit for driving the manual focus and has a dedicated...
read moreMount any Canon EF lens to Fujifilm’s GFX cameras with Metabones new EF-GFX Smart Expander adapters
Metabones has announced the release of the EF-GFX Smart Expander, a new adapter that makes it possible to use every Canon EF mount lens on Fujifilm GFX camera systems. The adapter uses an optical design consisting of five elements in three groups to multiply the focal length and F-stop of Canon EF-mount lenses by 1.26x to match the image circle of EF lenses to Fujifilm’s GFX cameras while retaining the same diagonal field-of-view. A front and back view of the EF-GFX 1.26x Smart Expander adapter. The EF-GFX Smart Expander offers electronic...
read moreDPReview TV: Tamron 70-300 F4.5-6.3 review
Published Nov 18, 2020 | dpreview staff [embedded content] The Tamron 70-300mm F4.5.6-3 Di III RXD for E-mount provides similar coverage to Sony’s own 70-300mm lens, but at a fraction of the price. Is this another winner from Tamron? Watch our review to learn more. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. Sample gallery for this episode Gear in this story The Leica Q2 Monochrom is a version of the Gold Award-winning Q2 that only shoots images in black and white. It’s a niche (and pricey)...
read moreTamron 70-300mm F4.5-6.3 sample gallery (DPReview TV)
Published Nov 18, 2020 | dpreview staff 70-300mm zooms are incredibly popular, particularly for travel. How does Tamron’s newest model compare? Check out our sample gallery to judge sharpness, bokeh and pincushion distortion for yourself. View the Tamron 70-300mm F4.5-6.3 sample gallery Gear in this story The Leica Q2 Monochrom is a version of the Gold Award-winning Q2 that only shoots images in black and white. It’s a niche (and pricey) product to be sure, but so far we find it to be well-designed and capable of outstanding...
read moreAdobe releases Photoshop beta for Apple Silicon and Windows ARM
As new M1-equipped Macs arrive to early adopters this week, Adobe has released a beta ARM version of Photoshop. The beta allows owners of the Microsoft Surface Pro X and M1-powered Macs to run Photoshop natively. The current public release version of Photoshop runs emulated on both Windows and macOS. Looking at the beta version of Photoshop for Apple Silicon, there are missing features, but Adobe states that many core features are fully operational. The beta will only run on Apple hardware using the M1 chip, so the M1-equipped MacBook Air,...
read moreLumaFusion gets 10-bit HDR video editing, exporting and more in its 2.4 update
LumaFusion, one of the most powerful video editing apps for iOS and iPadOS devices, has received a major 2.4 update that adds support for editing and exporting 10-bit HDR video, including footage captured with Apple’s new iPhone 12 Pro devices. The version 2.4 update for LumaFusion, which is free for existing customers, now makes it possible to create projects for HLG, PQ P3 and Rec-709 10-bit color spaces. In addition to creating an end-to-end workflow for Apple’s new HDR-capable iPhone 12 Pro devices, this also opens the door for...
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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.