What do an iPad, Canon 5D Mark III and new car have in common? They’re products of the digital world and therefore boring compared to the old-fashioned technique of mechanical, analog toys. Even women become a minor matter when men can play with and touch toys they love, just to mention vinyl turntables, steely tools […]
Nikon D600 in stock at Amazon (body/kit) B&H (body/kit*) or Adorama (body/kit). Preorder Canon EOS 6D from Amazon (body/kit), B&H (body/kit) or Adorama (body/kit). More on the affordable full-frame HDSLRs in our dedicated The Nikon D600 File and The Canon EOS 6D File. * $100 instant savings, offer ends September 29, 2012.
Surprise, surprise. No one expected this one. But what to think of the latest mirrorless kid on the block, Hasselblad’s peculiarly different Lunar? How many trees do they chop down for it? A toy for the wanna-look-rich? Seriously, am kind of flabbergasted. One thing is sure, it’s a victory for Sony on many fronts. Because […]
Leica M à la carte: The German boutique camera maker introduces two new digital M cameras: the flagship Leica M with an 24MP CMOS full-frame sensor, and the Leica M-E with an 18MP CCD full-frame sensor. The M Typ 240 offers ISO sensitivity of up to 6,400 and comes with LCD frame lines like the […]
Canon and Nikon, world’s biggest, most powerful camera makers, tried to avoid the inevitable since the birth of system cameras. With the recent launch of own lines of compact system cameras they finally gave in to reality: After 70 years of SLR rule, a changing of the guard takes place in the camera market. The […]
Here we go, the full-frame revolution for the masses keeps on rolling. It’s getting crowded — and predictable. Nikon announces something. Canon announces something similar. Very similar. They even adjust their release schedules accordingly. A few days after the full-frame Nikon D600, Canon announces the similarly named EOS 6D. Not only priced almost identically as […]
Should have entered the CCTV business years ago. Those cameras sell! Now cops even set up cameras that watch the cameras that watch you. London, with more video cameras than any other urban area in the world, has more than 400,000 CCTV cameras installed, that’s about one camera for every 14 people. Crime-happy Bangkok will […]
Digital photography is not only a boon to camera makers, but also for us who are so lusting after ever new gear. Back in the days when you bought a film camera, the model’s next series could only have minor improvements. That’s the nature of film photography. Autofocusing was about the biggest revolution in decades. […]
Seems like the Germans really want to unload unsold Leica M9 and M9-P stocks. Can’t recall an aggressive Leica discount campaign as this one. Whatever the successor will look like. Now you can have a Leica M9-P for $6,499 from Amazon, and sellers’ ratings and reviews are excellent. That implies, I guess, that the newest […]
Time to submit the very cream of your work to The Magnum Expression Award. Did so already with that one image that… well, over to you! You can submit your work now for the 2012 competition. Read the submission guidelines carefully. They’re simple, but you also have to submit a short bio and tell about […]
It’s literally raining great cameras these days. The latest arrival is Nikon taking the wraps off one of its worst kept secrets — the entry-level, full-frame D600, Nikon’s most compact full-frame HD-SLR. It’s basically a mildly tuned down D800, not as cheap as everyone thought, but hey, at just $2,099 this camera will broaden the […]
+++ As you all know, Sony updated the stellar RX1 with the RX1R lacking an anti-aliasing filter, something that seems very fashionable at present. Currently for the same price as the predecessor with AA filter, the newer model should deliver superior detail resolution, but potentially at the expense of increase moiré patterning in areas of […]
It took Sony some time to come up with a successor to its full-frame flagship, the trusty, chunky A900. Sony eagerly wanted to get it right. Now the Japanese introduce the long-awaited, all weather-sealed and ruggedized Sony Alpha SLT A99, promising a new performance standard for professional DSLRs by combining all of the benefits of […]
Everyone is a photographer these days, everyone has a camera. There’s hardly anything left in the world that doesn’t yet exist as a photographed clone. The world is full of little HCBs and countless casual shooters aiming their camera at everything — even at the most private or meaningless stuff. It is estimated that last […]
Right down my alley – well I’m not talking price, but Leica and Fujifilm better listen up (forget sleeping CaNikon): Photoprice.ca leaks a head-on Leica competitor, a compact Sony mirrorless full-frame, the RX1, to be announced shortly. Beautified by a Zeiss Sonnar 35mm F2 with a copper-colored lens ring (see image further below), this camera […]
By RONN ALDAMAN Recently on THEME there was an article which began something like, “Here she comesssss…” And of course, I could hardly miss the association, conscious or not, on the part of the writer. The more I thought about this, the more I started seeing the similarities between the Miss America pageants and the […]
By DIERK TOPP It was a long way until I got my Leica M Monochrom. In 1955, at the age of 13, I took my mother’s Agfa Box 6×9 on a vacation with my school class. Those were my first photographs. Since that time photography has been my main hobby and I used all kinds […]
Get a Canon G12 plus PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II printer for… $298. Click here to add G12 to cart. Click here and add PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II Inkjet Printer to cart. Proceed through checkout. Total should be $698.00 – $400 rebate = $298 with free shipping. $379.00 + $319.00 – $400 MIR = $298.00. Shipping’s […]
The new Fujifilm mirrorless is the camera the X-Pro1 should have been? Faster, smaller, lighter and with improved battery performance, launched only eight months after the debut of the classy X-Pro1, Fujifilm announced its second retro-styled mirrorless interchangeable lens camera. The Fujifilm X-E1 (specs) uses the same 16.3MP APS-C sensor as the more expensive X-Pro1 […]
By HANK FAN Consider this list of the most famous photographers in history: Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward Steichen, Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, William Eggleston. I know I missed quite a few. Talent aside, do you know what they all had in common? They all came from wealthy families. This is a theme […]
Biennial Photokina 2012’s around the corner. From September 18 to 23 photography world’s latest and greatest gear and trends will be on display in Cologne. What to expect? Canon The 46MP mega megapixel 3D X? A slightly safer bet: 7D Mark II. But wouldn’t the astonishing, just released 7D firmware update undermine 7D2 sales? Additionally, […]
The new Canon standard zoom is shipping in limited quantity. Order it from B&H for $2,299. Product highlights: Large F2.8 Aperture Through Zoom Range UD Lenses Minimize Chromatic Aberrations Reduced Spherical Aberrations Highly Resistant to Dust and Water 9-Blade Diaphragm for Beautiful Bokeh Lens Coatings Minimizes Ghosting Fluorine Coating Reduces Fingerprints Zoom Lock Lever for […]
As confessed earlier on, I’m in love with small, cheap, inconspicuous point-and-shoots. Have especially fond memories of the Fujifilm FinePix F10 and F30. My wife still shoots the F30, announced in May 2006. She refused the Christmas present in 2010, an F300EXR, saying nothing beats that F30’s feel and IQ. Just to refresh your memory, […]
Buy a Fujifilm X-Pro1 and save $300 on select Fujinon lenses: For a limited time, save $300 on select Fujinon lenses with the purchase of a Fujifilm X-Pro1 from Amazon. Offer is valid through November 3, 2012, or while supplies last. This is how it works: Go to the dedicated Amazon webpage, select the Fujifilm […]
Latter-day cameras are plain astonishing. What happened to noise? Useless JPEGs? Today we got 10 fps, even in a half pint of a camera such as the Sony RX100. ISO surpassing 100k? No problem. Newer cameras make you feel jaded. Take the Nikon D800’s high resolution. You’re struggling to find subjects that give a real […]
Amazon has this Nikon D7000 bundle for $1,596.95, that’s $452.05 or 22% off list price: Nikon D7000 DSLR with 18-200mm F3.5-5.6G AF-S DX VR II ED Nikkor Lens Comes with 16GB SD Card, Nikon leather bag, two Nikon instructional DVD’s High-Resolution 16.2MP DX format CMOS sensor High Speed 6 frames per second continuous shooting up […]
It was a well expected and speculated about camera, Canon’s rumored interchangeable-lens digital cinema camera. Now the Canon EOS C100, the entry-level model in Canon’s Cinema EOS System offering high resolution, is official. With the advancement of social media and online reporting, videography is more and more important, but which Indie filmmaker or videographer is […]
Quite a start-up, Leap Motion. They could dramatically change the way we interact with computers — and therefore how we’ll edit images. Computers have always been remarkable, says Leap Motion. The ways we’ve connected to those computers, however, have always struck them as clunky. Typing? Seriously? That’s fine for writing a novel. But it’s hardly […]
This post gonna be a bit longish, so let’s get on with it. At the recent Alpbach Forum, U.S. technology lobbyist Robert Atkinson did not haver. “The Asian economy is essentially based on the copying and stealing of intellectual property,” Atkinson said according to futurezone.at. “If you’re good at it and, as the Chinese, don’t […]
