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Finally, Pentaxians -- the moment you've been waiting for has arrived. The long-awaited Pentax K-1, the company's first full-frame DSLR to reach retail, has just landed in our lab, and we've got the first shots to prove it!
Not to toot our own horn too much, but our first shots are big news if you've been waiting...
At long last, we've finally procured our final production-level Canon 1D X Mark II review sample. We therefore wasted no time sending it down to the lab for testing. Although earlier we posted pre-production real-world gallery images, we'd yet to run our standardized lab test shots in order to get a more analytical look...
Six and a half years is some long wait for a successor! But that's how long it's been since Nikon brought the D300S to the higher-end APS-C market, the follow-up to the popular D300 from 2007. Today the Nikon D500 finally touched down in our test laboratory and our senior lab technician Luke Smith wasted no time getting...
Just to be clear from the get-go for anyone who's not yet looked into this camera, the Sony RX10 III is not a replacement of the venerable RX10 II released last summer. According to Sony, that model is still current, and frankly the two are not quite the same animal. They're more like brothers... one a middle-weight...
You could scour the far corners of the globe and not find a more popular line of digital cameras from the last decade or so than the Canon Rebel series. We're not privy to exact numbers of camera sales for a given line, but the Canon Rebel line has been to the digital camera world what Elvis Presley has been to Rock and...
We crave generous zoom range in a small package, and why not… it's tantalizing! There's power in that long zoom range, versatility, and so many shot possibilities open up to you. And if it comes in a package you can easily fit in a vest pocket or small purse, hey, all the better! This is what the 40x Canon SX720 offers...
Did you find the Panasonic GX8 a bit too large? Perhaps slightly over your budget? Well, Panasonic has a tempting new solution if you're still in need of a small, well-built and feature-packed mirrorless camera. Say hello to the Panasonic GX85. For our foreign readers, you might hear of this camera under a different...
A few years ago, we were astounded by a handful of cameras that took high ISO sensitivity ratings into the six digit zone. Starting with the Nikon D3S, we hit ISO 102,400. Then, the Nikon D4 and Canon 1D X arrived offering ISO 204,800. Things made a big leap with the Nikon D4S, which pushed the high sensitivity...
The Sony A6300 sports the same resolution and processor as the immensely popular Sony A6000 from 2014, but it's important to note that it's not the same sensor, as this newly configured chip has been designed for speed and performance in both burst shooting and 4K video arenas. And while still dubbed a Bionz X processor...
[Update 3/21/16: Thanks to our reader Levent Hasanreisoğlu for catching an error on my part in the crop comparisons below. I inadvertantly pulled the Canon 7D ISO 6400 sample, as opposed to the Canon 70D sample, for the comparison. It's now been corrected, my apologies for the error, and a big thanks to Levent for the...
Quick: What do you get when you marry a premium 1-inch sensored pocket camera with a premium 1-inch sensored long-zooming bridge camera? The Panasonic ZS100, of course! Almost as svelte in size as the popular Sony RX100 line of pocket cameras, the ZS100 can zoom 3.5 times farther than the latest RX100 IV. That's a total...
Heads-up X100-series fans, the popular fixed-lens APS-C X-series camera from Fuji now has a younger sibling in the X70, and while the sensor size and resolution remain the same, much is certainly different about the Fuji X70.
For starters, it's a wider lens at 28mm eq, and the camera is much smaller and lighter. But of...
About 5 years ago Fuji dropped a rather unusual bomb on the digital camera world when they debuted the X100, a camera that literally looked and felt like it walked straight out of the early 1960's. It was quirky to use, had some real operations issues, and took quite a lot of flack for the retro design from some corners...
Do you crave high resolution in a compact yet full frame camera? How about one that can actually vary the low-pass filter electronically? The full frame, fixed lens Sony RX1R II and its 42.4mp resolution has just touched down in our test lab, and our senior lab technician has barely spoken a word since.
Indeed, for...
For several years, beginning in 2012, the Sony RX100 series of cameras reigned supreme in the high-end enthusiast compact camera market, until 2014 when both Canon with the G7X and Panasonic with the LX100 stepped into the fray, making for some interesting competition in that market segment. Now, Canon has recently...
Sporting the same 12.2mp sensor as the original A7S and boasting enhanced processing algorithms for the mid-higher ISO ranges for improved image quality, the A7S II has also courted the camera world with 14-bit uncompressed RAW files. We've just completed our First Shots test series of Still Life images across the ISO...
The original Ricoh GR from 2013 saw the cult-favorite GR line of advanced compact cameras move in a new direction with a fixed lens and a big jump to an APS-C sized sensor. Now, with the updated Ricoh GR II, the company has included a laundry list of various improvements and enhancements, such as built-in Wi-Fi, improved...
The Panasonic FZ200 has been a vastly popular camera on our site for many years now, and for good reason. This was the first all-in-one long zoom camera to sport a bright constant (f/2.8) aperture across the focal length range, therefore drawing the interest of long zoom fans and wildlife shooters craving both faster...
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...