This week's Firmware Friday roundup arrives just a little late, as your humble editor's been under the weather the past few days, and I didn't manage to finish writing it last night. In part, that was down to the amount of news there was to cover -- in the past seven days, we've seen updates from Blackmagic, Canon,...
Alongside its consumer-friendly PowerShot SX620 HS long-zoom pocket camera which launched today, Canon has also revealed two further new products aimed a little higher up the photographic food chain: The Canon EF-M 28mm f/3.5 Macro IS STM lens, and the Canon Speedlite 600EX II-RT flash strobe. We'll be looking at...
Zeiss has been on a roll and doesn’t appear to be stopping anytime soon. Earlier this week, the German optics manufacturer announced the Zeiss Loxia 21mm f/2.8, a super wide angle prime for Sony’s E-mount.
Coming in a fair bit wider than its 35mm f/2 and 50mm f/2 siblings, the new Loxia lens is based on the optical design of Zeiss’ popular...
Zeiss has officially unveiled the next lens in its sleek and modern full-frame lineup, the 28mm f/1.4 Otus.
Available in Canon and Nikon mounts, the 28mm f/1.4 Otus follows the same aesthetics as its 55mm f/1.4 and 85mm f/1.4 lenses. Unsurprisingly, the new 28mm f/1.4 lens is set to perform just as well as its less-wide siblings, who have already...
A week ago, we told readers about the first test we've seen of Canon’s new 40mm pancake prime lens, courtesy of Roger Cicala, founder of LensRentals.com. Today, Roger's rolled his sleeves up and gotten to work with Norman Koren's Imatest suite once more, to test two more Canon primes announced this year: the EF 24mm f/2.8 IS USM and EF 28mm f/2.8 IS USM.
As with the EF 40mm...