Image: TTArtisan Today, TTArtisan has officially released its AF 56mm F1. 8 autofocus lens for X and E-mount cameras. The APS-C portrait lens is another budget offering from the China-based company.
Image: 7Artisans 7Artisans has released a new manual focus 50mm F1. 4 Tilt lens, compatible with Sony and Fujifilm APS-C cameras, as well as Olympus and Panasonic Micro Four Thirds cameras.
Image: Fujifilm, including photo by Jonas Rask Entries for Fujifilm US's Limited Edition X100VI raffle are now officially open. Entry is free and only open to US residents (18+). The raffle closes on April 21st (11:59 p.
Image: Blackmagic Design Alongside the Ursa Cine, Blackmagic Designs also announced the Pyxis, a $3000, 6K full-frame (36 x 24mm) modular camera. It will be available with PL, locking Canon EF or Leica L mounts.
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Madagascar. A huge, wild, faraway Island. Even mentioning its name provokes an exotic, exciting feeling in my soul. I had wanted to visit Madagascar for many years before finally realizing my plans in 2022.
Image: Atomos Atomos has announced the Ninja Phone, a monitor and recorder that connects cameras with HDMI out ports to the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. The unit acts as a 'co-processor' to encode a camera's HDMI signal to 10-bit ProRes or H.
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Photo: Richard Butler Panasonic has announced forthcoming firmware for its S5II and S5II X that will add a series of features, including pre-shot buffering, proxy recording and direct upload to Adobe's Frame.
The EOS R50 vlogging creator kit repackages the existing camera, a lens tripod grip and a remote control. Image: Canon Canon is targeting video content creators with the announcement of its EOS R50 vlogging kit.
Image: Viltrox After a somewhat low-key announcement last week, Viltrox has released a new APS-C lens for Fujifilm and Nikon cameras. The China-based manufacturer introduces the autofocus 56mm F1.
A partial solar eclipse is seen as the Sun rises to the left of the United States Capitol building on June 10, 2021, as seen from Arlington, Virginia. Image: Bill Ingalls/NASA On Monday, April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross North America, passing over Western Mexico starting in MazatlNASA has mapped the route with times and viewing conditions for several cities.
A view of the Aug. 21, 2017, total solar eclipse from Madras, Oregon. Image: Gopalswamy/NASA Sunsketcher, a new NASA-backed project with an iOS and Android app, wants your photographs of the “Great American Eclipse.
Image: TTArtisan TTArtisan has announced the launch of its AF 35mm F1. 8 lens for Sony’s APS-C E-Mount cameras. Costing less than $150, this “nifty fifty” equivalent adds another option for anyone looking for a budget prime lens.
Revisiting past pranks Happy April Fools' Day! In internet lore, this is a hallowed day for outlandish stories, friendly pranks and the birth of tale tales. Over the years, we've created our fair share of them.
Today, I'd like to tell you a nice story about mistakes, drone crashes, coincidences and one very cool shoot in which I took a panorama of Tambora Volcano in Indonesia. Recent Videos Tambora is a volcano on the island of Sumbawa.
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Image: Ulanzi Lens filters for smartphones are not a new concept. Designed to give photographers more creative and technical control over their images, there are several types on the market today that can control how much light comes into the camera, reduce reflections and flare or add more vibrancy to your images with different color tones.
Image: Tamron Tamron has announced it will release its popular 28-75mm F2. 8 Di III VXD G2 fast standard zoom for Nikon's Z-mount. Recent Videos!function(n){if(!window. cnx){window. cnx={},window.
Image: Meike Meike Global has released its first APS-C lens for Fujifilm, Sony and Nikon cameras. The new 55mm F1. 4 targets photographers looking for a fast prime lens. At $200, the lens could be a sound budget alternative to similar lenses available on the market.
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Image: Nikon Nikon has announced the Nikkor Z 28-400mm F4-8 VR, a superzoom lens with a 14. 2x zoom range. Nikon tells us the lens is designed to meet the needs of both photo and video users.
Each iteration of X100 retains its family look but there's been constant evolution throughout the series Photo: Richard Butler The word kaizen has increasingly come into the vocabulary of camera enthusiasts.
Image: Photofast Backing up your smartphone images usually involves sending them to the cloud or manually syncing them to a computer. Seamless? Maybe, until you have to start paying monthly storage fees.
Image: Tiffen Tiffen has announced its new Smartphone 58mm Filter Mount that attaches filters to an iPhone 14 or 15 using Apple's MagSafe attachment system. Recent Videos!function(n){if(!window.
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There's been a fair amount of chatter, excitement and some cynicism around Fujifilm's announcement that it's making a limited run of X100VI etched with the company's original 1934 logo, but another company making rangefinder-style cameras has a more established history of doing the same.
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Fujifilm's Jun Watanabe and Yuji Igarashi, speaking to us, following the X100 VI's launch. Photo: Richard Butler "We wouldn’t be here if we didn’t have the X100," says Fujifilm's Yuji Igarashi, "If that failed, we would have been in a very difficult position.
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Photo: Brendan Nystedt As we enter the final phase of our Panasonic Lumix DC-G9 II review, we've added the test scene images to our image comparison tool. Recent Videos!function(n){if(!window.
Nikon has updated its SnapBridge remote control and image transfer app, adding an "Easy Shooting Setup" option that sets up a camera to suit a series of common shooting situations. This function works with the company's entry and mid-level cameras, from the Z30 up to the Zf.
Nikon has released firmware 5. 0 for its Z9 pro sports flagship, enhancing the Auto Capture function introduced last Jun, offering presets for countering LED flicker, adding the portrait color mode and processing options from the Z8 and Zf, along with a series of smaller refinements.
Introduction Photo: Richard Butler At the core, both Sony's a7R V and Leica's SL 3 share a fundamental building block: a 60MP BSI CMOS sensor. But almost everything layered on top of that foundation diverges in radically different directions.
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Image: RED Nikon has just announced it will be acquiring US cinema camera manufacturer RED Digital Cinema. Founded in 2005 by Jim Jannard, RED has produced cinema cameras that were used in the production of over 25 percent of top-grossing films in the mid 2010s as well as Oscar winners like 2021's Mank.
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Photo: Richard Butler Nikon has released firmware version 1. 60 for the Z fc , which includes a few tweaks and creature comforts for the 2021 camera. Buy now: $997 w/ 16-50mm at Amazon $997 w/ 16-50mm B&H Photo $997 w/ 16-50mm at Adorama The update adds a variety of new 'welcome screens' which are displayed when the camera turns on, if the feature is enabled.
The Fujifilm X100V has become something of a star on TikTok, which has contributed to it becoming hard to find. Editor's note: The Fujifilm X100VI has been announced. Read our initial review here.
The Nikon Z9 is going to the moon. NASA has selected the high-end Z9, one of the most complete cameras we've ever tested, as the official handheld camera for the Artemis III mission, set to launch in 2026 (give or take), which will put astronauts on the moon for the first time since 1972.
Photo: Richard Butler An extra long February is drawing to a close and brought us a wealth of new cameras and lenses during CP+ 2024. Here's a list of the biggest releases and announcements of the year so far, updated for February 2024! February 2024 Fujifilm X100VI Image: Richard Butler Arguably one of the most hyped-up cameras of the year, the Fujifilm X100VI was announced and made available for preorder this February.
Sony World Photography Awards finalists The World Photography Organization has announced the professional category finalists and shortlisted photographers for the Sony World Photography Awards 2024.
We're in Yokohama, Japan, for the CP+ Expo, the annual camera industry trade show for the latest products from Japanese manufacturers. There's booth after booth of camera bodies, lenses, software updates and more to pursue, along with the occasional surprises and headscratchers.
Defining a brand The Fujifilm Finepix X100 was the company's first large-sensor compact, and helped define the X series that sprang from it. As a result, understanding the X100 VI's history helps us understand the brand.
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A frame grab from an AI-generated video OpenAI created by entering the following prompt into Sora: "A stylish woman walks down a Tokyo street filled with warm glowing neon and animated city signage.
A frame grab from an AI-generated video OpenAI created by entering the following prompt into Sora: "A stylish woman walks down a Tokyo street filled with warm glowing neon and animated city signage.
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Image: Blackmagic Design Blackmagic Design has unveiled its latest Ursa Cine camera, a 12K camera with support for interchangeable Arri PL, Arri LPL, Canon EF and Hasselblad lens mounts. It features a large sensor, propriety memory and a slew of industry-standard connections.
Sigma owner and CEO Kazuto Yamaki, who spoke to us at the CP+ conference in Yokohama, early this spring. Photo: Richard Butler "Unfortunately, we have not made any significant progress since last year," says Sigma owner and CEO Kazuto Yamaki, when asked about the planned full-frame Foveon camera.
We have a winner for sensor Top Trumps: the LSST camera is the world's largest astronomy camera. It's more than 350 times the size of a full-frame sensor, for reference. Photo: Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory "Space," according to Douglas Adams' Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Image: Godox Godox's latest flash, the $50 Lux Elf Retro, is a fully manual flash that weighs heavily on its design. It comes with a single-point hot shoe, making it compatible with most camera systems.
Sigma 50mm F1. 2 DG DN Art hands-on Sigma's 50mm F1. 2 DG DN Art lens is a large aperture lens that incorporates many of the thoughtful design choices for which the Art line has become known.
Fujifilm has released firmware updates for some of its X and GFX-series cameras, including the newly released X100VI. Recent Videos The updates include bug fixes rather than new features, and fixes differ depending on which model you use.
Photo: Dan Bracaglia Sony has announced major firmware updates for four of its current full-frame range, bringing many features and behaviors up to its latest standards and adding C2PA authenticity verification capabilities.
Image: Ricoh The Ricoh GR III HDF and GR IIIx HDF are variants of the company's existing fixed-lens APS-C premium compacts. They feature a unique "highlight diffusion filter" instead of the ND filter fitted in the standard versions of both cameras.
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Star Flyer – the 2013 eclipse as seen from the deck of a four-masted sailing ship racing across the Atlantic. Totality was 42 seconds long and I was on a quickly moving (and rocking) surface.
Image: Logitech Today, Logitech announced the Mevo Core, a 4K-capable live-streaming camera built around a Micro Four Thirds sensor and lens mount. It's an upgrade from Logitech's existing Mevo cameras which served a similar purpose as wireless, battery-powered streamers, but had a smaller sensor and a fixed lens.
Image: Fujifilm When Fujifilm announced its new X100VI rangefinder-style camera at a press event in Japan last month, it teased a special version of the camera: the X100VI Limited Edition.
Photo: Richard Butler We're almost a quarter of the way through the year already! Here's a recap of the reviews and testing we've done this year so far, with more (and more and more) to come as the year goes on! March Sony FE 24-50mm F2.
Sony World Photography Awards: Open competition winners The World Photography Organisation has announced the category winners for the 2024 Sony World Photography Awards 'Open' competition.
A second DPReview film festival It's Oscar weekend, so we've assembled another DPReview film festival celebrating our favorite star: photography! Last year, we focused on fictional films starring the humble camera for a hypothetical single-day film festival you could do at home.
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Multi-shot modes can have their moments, especially if there's any degree of motion correction available. I had to borrow a tripod to capture this shot and even after all that it doesn't show a major boost over the single-shot image of the same scene.
Image: Sony Sony has announced the FE 16-25mm F2. 8 G, a fast, compact wide-angle zoom designed as a twin to the recent FE 24-50mm F2. 8 lens. Recent Videos The 16-25mm is roughly the same dimensions as the 24-50mm and offers essentially the same features.
Image: Blackmagic Design Blackmagic Design has unveiled its latest URSA Cine camera, a 12K camera with support for interchangeable Arri PL, Arri LPL, Canon EF and Hasselblad lens mounts. It features a large sensor, propriety memory and a slew of industry-standard connections.
DPReview Editors' Challenge results Last week, we issued a challenge to the DPReview community to show us what you got. We wanted to see your best images from the North American total solar eclipse, and over 150 of you submitted! We saw heaps of creativity and technical know-how on display.
Alongside its February launch of the highly anticipated X100VI, Fujifilm announced a special limited edition version of the camera, with only 300 units designated for distribution in the United States.
NASA employees use protective glasses to view a partial solar eclipse from the rooftop at NASA Headquarters on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Washington, DC. Image: Connie Moore/NASA North America will experience a total solar eclipse today, gradually turning a band from Mexico to Canada as dark as night as the moon's shadow casts across the Earth below.
Kazuhiro Togashi, OM System's VP for Brand Strategy and Product Planning, wearing a hoodie with the company's 'Outdoor Monster' branding. Photo: Richard Butler OM System says it's focusing on outdoor photographers but hinted that the PEN series could yet return to the North American market.
Photo: MPB Let’s face it, sometimes upgrading your gear is the quickest way to advance your photography and videography. Capturing the decisive moment can require abilities your current camera just doesn't have.
Nikon Z 28-400mm F4-8 VR hands-on The Nikkor Z 28-400mm F4-8 VR is the latest addition to Nikon's range of lenses for the Z mount. It's a superzoom lens designed for full-frame cameras that extends from the wide-angle well into the telephoto range.