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Panasonic has announced this evening a new zoom lens for their Lumix G line of Micro Four Thirds cameras. The Panasonic Lumix G Vario 12-60mm f/3.5-5.6 ASPH. Power O.I.S. lens provides a 5x zoom range and is targeted for shooting a wide variety of situations, such as wide-angle landscape shots and portraits. While featuring the same aperture range...
The engineers and designers over at Sigma have once again pulled out all the stops to create some truly unique lens products, including a brand new Art-series lens, the 50-100mm f/1.8 DC HSM Art. Yes, an f/1.8 telephoto zoom! Also on the docket is a brand new 30mm f/1.4 Contemporary lens, not for DSLR cameras though, but...
Nikon has announced three new additions to their Coolpix camera line, the Nikon B700 superzoom, the Nikon B500 superzoom, and the Nikon A900 compact travel zoom. All three cameras include Nikon's new SnapBridge wireless connectivity, which was recently announced in conjunction with the Nikon D500 DSLR at CES last month.
Nikon SnapBridge allows...
Today, Sony held a press event in New York to launch a healthy selection of new camera gear. We streamed the event live, taking you straight to the heart of the event for the full story. (The live stream might now be over, but you can give yourself a quick recap courtesy of our video archive.)
New products...
It's 2016. A Summer Olympics year. First, Nikon introduced their flagship, professional DSLR back at CES this year, and now it's Canon's turn to debut their top-of-the-line DSLR: The Canon 1D X Mark II. The original 1D X debuted ahead of the 2012 Olympics, and now it's time again for Canon to showcase the latest and...
Style meets substance with the newly announced Olympus PEN-F mirrorless camera. Sporting a super-stylish, well-designed exterior, which hearkens back to the original PEN-F film camera of the 1960s, the new 'digital' PEN-F brings a number of technological features and even some upgraded specs over their current OM-D...
If you've ever thought that either your Leica was too valuable to shoot near water or that you would want to purchase a Leica, but would be too nervous to really expose it to the elements, Leica's new X-U (Typ 113) camera is something you'll want to hear about!
The new X-U is rugged and ready for whatever you throw at...
Nikon has just announced two new compact Coolpix cameras, the A10 and A100.
The Coolpix A100 uses a 20.1-megapixel sensor and has a built-in 5x optical zoom Nikkor lens, providing an equivalent focal length of 26-130mm. For more reach, the A100 also offers Dynamic Fine Zoom digital zoom which provides up to a 260mm...
Alongside the annoucements of the new Fuji X-Pro 2 rangefinder-style camera and the XF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR lens, Fujifilm has also debuted the X-E2S, X70, and XP90 cameras.
The Fuji X-E2S is a new premium rangefinder-style interchangeable lens mirrorless that serves as an update to the earlier X-E2, as the...
Kenko Tokina Co., Ltd. has announced a new wide-angle zoom, the Tokina AT-X 14-20mm f/2.0 PRO DX, which joins up against their widely-popular 11-16mm f/2.8 DX zoom lens.
This APS-C lens offers a fast, constant f/2.0 aperture across its 14-20mm focal length (22.4-32mm equivalent on Canon APS-C senors, 21-30mm equivalent...
MindShift Gear has released three new UltraLight backpacks, the UltraLight Sprint 16L, UltraLight Dual 25L, and the UltraLight Dual 36L. These "may be the lightest photo daypacks ever" says MindShift Gear.
Designed to be lightweight and fast, these three new backpacks all utilize a side-panel design that allows...
In what has to qualify as one of the most cryptic press announcements we've seen in recent memory, Nikon just announced the "development" of the D5 DSLR, along with a new SB-5000 flagship Speedlight, and a new Wireless Transmitter, the WT-6.
Here's the whole text of the release, apart from an introductory...
We've seen some fairly unusual cameras over the years, but the Ricoh Theta has to rank amongst the most unusual of the bunch. Ricoh has proven to be very good at finding market niches that have gone unfulfilled, and then creating products which meet that unanswered need, and that's just what it's done with the...
After being announced back in February for both the European and Asian markets, the Canon EOS M3 is finally coming Stateside -- and we've got First Shots! After a rather lackluster response, at least in the US, to the original EOS M, Canon -- or Canon USA, at least -- decided to hold off on releasing the subsequent EOS...
Last year's Olympus E-M10 offered advanced entry-level photographers a more affordable option into Olympus' world of versatile, feature-rich OM-D cameras. Sporting many of the same features as their pricier, higher-end siblings, the E-M10 proved to be a very popular (and very capable) camera for those looking to step up...
The Fujifilm X-series family continues to expand, this time with a new premium interchangeable lens camera -- the Fujifilm X-T10. The X-T10 can be considered the younger sibling to the rugged, higher-end Fuji X-T1 (Fuji X-T1 vs Fuji X-T10). Whereas the larger, weather-sealed X-T1 is aimed at advanced enthusiasts...
The Olympus family of 'PRO' lenses welcomes two new members with the availability announcement for the much-anticipated Olympus 7-14mm f/2.8 M.ZUIKO PRO as well as the formerly "in-development" 8mm f/1.8 Fisheye PRO lens.
Following in the footsteps of the first two, very highly regarded...
Canon has officially released their PowerShot SX 410 IS and ELPH 350 HS cameras, both of which make incremental improvements over their predecessors. In addition to the two new cameras, Canon is also hinting at development on the PowerShot G3 X, an upcoming point-and-shoot featuring a 1-inch sensor, similar to the G7 X...