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With the exception of Fujifilm cameras based around EXR and X-Trans image sensors and the Foveon-based camera lineup from Sigma, almost every digital camera on the market today shares one important feature in common: a Bayer color filter array, named after inventor and Kodak scientist Bryce Bayer. In fact, the overwhelming majority of color...
Valentine's Day is almost here: are you looking for a surprise gift for that special person in your life? Or perhaps you want to show your camera bag a little love! Either way, a few deals crossed our inbox today from IR affiliates Adorama and Amazon that seem too good to pass up.
Just a few days ago we completed our Panasonic G5 review, and...
The new Panasonic G5 takes the best features of the earlier G3, steps them all up a notch and tosses in much-improved ergonomics as icing on the cake. We immediately fell in love with the G3 when we first saw and shot with it back in May of 2011, feeling it was a real watershed product in the Micro Four Thirds space. In...
At the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Imaging Resource publisher Dave Etchells, managing editor Roger Slavens and director of development Arthur Etchells sat down with Darin Pepple, senior marketing manager at Panasonic to discuss mirrorless camera technology, the success of the GH2 and GH3 among pro...
If you could ask your favorite camera company any question you wanted, what would it be?
We landed today in Las Vegas, Nevada, for what's shaping up to be a very interesting 2013 Consumer Electronics Show. Things are heating up in the enthusiast compact camera market, hybrid phase detect autofocus makes a return to fixed-lens cameras,...
Panasonic's making quite a splash at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this year, debuting no less than nine fixed-lens cameras and six Full HD-capable camcorders, one of them wearable. We've just published previews of four of the cameras, and we're just wrapping up our coverage on the fifth model as we speak. First up: the Panasonic...
The holidays are fast approaching, and time's running out to get your gift-buying finished! Are you still struggling to locate the perfect gift for the photographer-friend in your life? (Or perhaps it's time to upgrade your own camera gear, ready for those once-in-a-lifetime holiday snaps?)
Either way, there are a lot...
If you've bought a new camera from Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, or Sony lately, now would be a good time to update your Apple software. The Cupertino, CA-based company has just released its Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 4.02, and raw files from a number of these companies' latest cameras are now available.
Apple newly supports raw...
Desktop and notebook computers have improved in a lot of ways over the last decade: processors have gotten faster, storage capacities have soared, and so has the amount of memory. In one respect, though, there's been surprisingly little development for quite a long time. Although display resolutions have increased, they've climbed more slowly...
Improved in several important ways, the Panasonic LX7 digital camera was a joy to shoot. Key refinements include a manual aperture ring, a manual focus toggle, and an even higher quality lens. As we've come to expect from Lumix digital cameras, the LX7 also had rock-solid image stabilization, and the new level gauge...
The good folks over at LensRentals have somehow pulled the rabbit out of the hat again: Panasonic's brand-new LUMIX® G X VARIO 35-100mm / F2.8 ASPH constant-aperture zoom lens might be on backorder everywhere, but somehow they've just gotten their hands on seven copies. As he always does with the most interesting lenses, company founder Roger...
Do you own the Panasonic GH3 compact system camera and either the 12-35mm F2.8 or 35-100mm F2.8 Lumix G X Vario zoom lenses? If so, we have good news for you. Panasonic has announced that it's developing new firmware for both lenses that will bring improved autofocus performance with the GH3 body.
Few details are yet available, but we do...
Late last week, Microsoft's released the latest version of its Windows operating system to the public. Windows 8 brings many changes to the user interface and the underlying architecture, many of them aimed at promoting use on mobile devices such as tablets.
As is often the case with major OS updates, Windows 8's new features are accompanied...
Panasonic makes an excellent pair of Micro Four Thirds pancake lenses, the Lumix G 14mm f/2.5 Asph. and Lumix G 20mm f/1.7 Asph. While they look similar, there are several differences.
The optical formulas of the two lenses are quite different from each other, for example, as you can see in the diagrams below...
Back in mid-2011, Panasonic launched its tiny Lumix GF3, nicely demonstrating the size advantage of mirrorless over SLR cameras. This year's Panasonic GF5 takes that design and swaps in an improved sensor, faster image processor, higher-resolution touch screen display, and a raft of other tweaks.
Key among the...
A new release of Paris, France-based DxO Labs' flagship Optics Pro image processing application today offers something for pros and consumers alike, with support for a variety of new camera bodies and body / lens pairings.
The newly supported cameras in DxO Optics Pro v7.5.5 include the Canon EOS-1D X, Nikon D600...
During Photokina 2012, Imaging Resource's founder and publisher Dave Etchells interviewed five senior executives from Panasonic about the company's latest technologies and cameras, especially the newly released, single-lens mirrorless GH3.
The panel of executives from Panasonic Corporation included:
Now that large, high-resolution screens are commonplace, camera interfaces have come along in leaps and bounds over the last few years. The same can't really be said for the interfaces on external flash strobes, though. Even on high-end strobes with an LCD panel, the interface typically features a few soft buttons whose...
About a month ago, we read an interview with photographer Anton Kusters in Steward Magazine describing his Yakuza project, which documented the life of Japanese gangsters in photos.
While it was an interesting interview that featured Kusters' powerful photos of the yakuza, we felt there was more to the...
For quite a few years now, Germany's Leica Camera AG and Japan's Panasonic have had a partnership in the consumer camera market. Leica supplies its know-how regarding the lenses, while Panasonic provides the brains of the camera behind the lens. The cameras appear first under Panasonic's Lumix compact camera brand,...
