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Quality prime lenses and a tack-sharp sensor come together with a unique hybrid optical viewfinder to form the Fujfilm X-Pro1, a digital camera built exclusively for enthusiast photographers. The X-Pro1 really hits the nail on the head, driving deep into high-ISO territory with tack-sharp images. Its controls and feature set are also ideal for the target market, and its available lenses are reasonably priced, small, well-made, and light weight. We found it to be a terrific photographic tool, easy to control, and a joy to use. Click here for our review of the Fujfilm...
Sigma's new 105mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM macro lens is a redesign of an older design, with a few extra features. HSM focusing replaces an older (and slightly confusing) focusing system, and optical stabilization has been added in case you didn't want to lug a tripod into the field. We've put this lens through its paces in our test lab - click here to see our full review of this lens.
Canon USA today made quite a range of announcements revolving around the National Association of Broadcasters tradeshow, which is about to kick off next week in Las Vegas. The list includes a new video-oriented EOS-series professional DSLR and a Cinema EOS-series video camera, both with 4K resolution. There are also four new EF Cinema zoom lenses, a 30-inch 4K industrial display, and new firmware for XF-series camcorders.
First on the list--and likely the most interesting for Imaging Resource readers--is the Canon EOS-1D C, an 18-megapixel digital SLR that shares the...
As a digital camera made expressly for enthusiasts, the Panasonic GX1 is a little larger than the smallest compact system cameras, but is still small enough to bring along easily. While the GX1 is in some ways a return to an older design, it still includes improvements in resolution and image quality. Its new touchscreen interface also manages to add a bit of utility as well; and an expanding list of compatible lenses make the Panasonic GX1 an appealing digital camera. Click here for more on the Panasonic GX1!
Panasonic has today announced the Lumix DMC-GF5 compact system camera, a new model that revisits the design of its earlier GF3 model, and makes refinements in a number of areas.
Most significantly, the Panasonic GF5 has a new image sensor and processor combo. Sensor resolution is unchanged at twelve megapixels, but the GF5's imager has lower-profile, better-positioned circuitry that should contribute to improved noise performance. The new image processor also plays a part, adding a Multi-stage Noise Reduction function. The GF5's performance also receives a modest...
If you've been holding your breath waiting for an app that does photo ebooks on the iPad, you can now exhale. 58 North has just released Pholium, with which you can create and publish your own photos in an ebook.
We gave it a try yesterday and had a ball. It's elegant interface makes it easy to use and gets out of the way so you can play with the images you place on the pages of your ebook.
So it didn't take us long to put together a book of about 20 surfing images and publish it to a few of our more aquatic friends.
Pholium won't make you rich or famous, though. To...
In addition to testing the Leica M9-P camera, we managed to put the $4,000 Leica 50mm f/1.4 Summilux through its paces in the SLRgear test lab. Click here to read our full review of this lens!
While Canon's previous megazoom digital camera was a good performer, the PowerShot SX40 HS is a finely tuned upgrade. With the same startling 35x zoom ranging from 24-840mm equivalent, the Canon SX40 sports a new, lower-resolution sensor and a punchy DIGIC 5 processor, resulting in better low light performance and better corner sharpness overall, as well as reduced chromatic aberration. These changes effectively overcome the usual limitations of megazoom cameras, leaving behind only the fun. Click here for our Canon SX40 HS review, or just click here to start shopping for...
Choosing a smaller sensor, the Nikon V1 didn't earn a lot to praise from the spec hounds at its introduction, but Nikon was aiming at a smaller system overall, including lenses. They certainly achieved that, while maintaining excellent image quality and including impressively fast autofocus speed. Though many were disappointed with the smaller sensor, our test results show the Nikon V1's image quality to be quite good for a 10-megapixel sensor, and optical quality is impressive too. Overall, the Nikon V1 makes a great compact system camera that stands up well against the...
We've just received a Fuji X-Pro1 compact system camera with XF 35mm f/1.4 R lens, and have posted our Still Life ISO/NR series test shots straight from the lab!
The 16-megapixel Fuji X-Pro1 uses a brand-new color filter array intended to reduce moire, which, according to Fujifilm, negates the need for an optical low-pass filter, something absent from the design. The X-Pro1 includes a new generation image processor, a brand new lens mount dubbed the Fujifilm X-mount, and a hybrid optical / electronic viewfinder derived from that first seen in the X100. There's also a...
There are two kinds of photographers in this world. One kind attaches their straps to the camera eyelets and the other to the tripod socket.
If you use your tripod socket for your strap, you've have to remove your strap to use a tripod. Until now, that is.
Custom SLR has designed a plate that screws into your tripod socket and provides both a Manfrotto RC2 and Swiss Arca quick release plus several tripod sockets for other quick releases, camera straps, holster pins and more.
It also includes as an optional removable strap attachment (illustrated above) that plugs...
Sigma has branched out to provide a third-party alternative in the Sony E-mount and Micro Four-thirds mount: the Sigma 30mm f/2.8 EX DN is the first such lens in this new category ("DN" stands for "Digital Neo"), and we've finished putting it through its paces in our test lab. Click here to read our full review of the the Sigma 30mm f/2.8 EX DN.
We've just posted our Still Life ISO/NR series test shots from the bold new Pentax K-01 compact system camera, straight from the lab!
The controversial Pentax K-01 is based on a 16-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor similar to the one found in the excellent K-5 DSLR, and is compatible with almost every K-mount lens ever made. Other features include sensor-shift shake and dust reduction, an ISO sensitivity range of 100-25,600, Full HD 1080p video capture at 30 fps, a focus peaking mode to assist manual focusing, and a 6 fps burst mode.
Click here for our Pentax K-01 Hands-On...
It doesn't take a lot of money these days to get an ultrazoom digital camera with a good image sensor, and that's certainly true of the Panasonic FZ47. Its whopping 24x zoom lens reaches from 25-600mm equivalent, allowing you to be incredibly selective about what you shoot. Supporting Full HD video, the Panasonic FZ47 is quite versatile. The FZ47's image quality was not quite equal to the more expensive FZ150's images, but for the noticeably lower price, we think the images are still quite good for the category. Click here for our Panasonic FZ47 review!
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Nikon updated its 85mm f/1.8 lens earlier this year and units are soon to be shipping: we've got our hands on a sample of the Nikon 85mm f/1.8G AF-S and put it through its paces in our testing lab. While slightly more expensive than the model it's improving on, the new features more than justify the price: weather sealing, AF-S focusing, rounded aperture blades for better bokeh and a bayonet-mount lens hood. So is it worth the upgrade? Click here to find out by reading our full review of the Nikon 85mm f/1.8G AF-S.
We received the 36.3-megapixel Nikon D800 and Luke immediately got to work shooting our Still Life target. Peering at the images, we were astonished to see enough detail to capture and clearly render the threads in our dreaded Red Leaf fabric, a feature of our standard Still Life target. Awesome.
Go to our Nikon D800 Samples page to see the Still Life target shots, both JPEGs and NEFs, currently available at all noise reduction settings! To link to the Nikon D800 hands-on preview click here.
And though we are prepared to handle it, please take it easy on our bandwidth!...
Having found the interface of its dreams for all of its plug-in technology with Snapseed, Nik Software wisely didn't stop there. They brought the interface to the desktop -- both OS X and Windows -- and for just $19.99 through iTunes, the App Store or from Nik Software.
Considering the plug-ins themselves run in the three figures, that represents quite a bargain. So we took it for a spin. Read our review for the details.
Eighteen months ago, Sony launched two new cameras with a shared industry first: a translucent mirror design that allowed full-time phase detect AF during shooting and video capture. The concept has since spread to almost all of the company's Alpha-mount lineup, and only one of those original duo continued as a current product. Today, it meets its successor, in the form of the Sony Alpha SLT-A57.
The Sony A57 moves beyond its predecessor with a redesigned body similar to that of the A65, and incorporates a number of features we've seen in more recent Translucent Mirror...
Adobe, oddly enough, hosted a private showing of "Arthur Tress: San Francisco 1964" at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, a collection of decidedly non-digital images by a photographer who doesn't own Photoshop.
The exhibit features a trove of images Tress rediscovered going through his late sister's things. He had visited Madelaine 48 years ago, taking photos at the Republican National Convention and around the city. When he left town, he left them behind. But she kept them.
Jim Ganz, the curator, spent two years to go over the 900+ images to pick more than 90 to...
With a whole new look on the outside, the Samsung NX200 gets quite a few internal upgrades compared to its predecessor, not the least of which is its 20-megapixel sensor. Combined with a new lens design and a slick menu system, we found the Samsung NX200 a kick to use. We were most impressed with the improved image quality and faster autofocus, and a few of the special Smart Filters were interesting as well. Click here for our Samsung NX200 review!
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