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Leica Camera AG has announced the return of a new Leica M6. After 20 years, Leica has restarted its production on the 35mm analog Leica M6 camera and given the film camera a few new bells and whistles.
Among the changes to the Leica M6 (2022 Edition) is based around a modern version of the Leica M rangefinder with...
It's that time again -- with year's end fast approaching, the holiday season is almost upon us! But what to get for the photographer in your life, whether that's a friend, family member or perhaps yourself? The good folks at family-run Japanese optics manufacturer Sigma have some great deals just in time for Black...
A little later than intended -- your humble editor has been under the weather for the past few days -- our Firmware Friday roundup arrives this week predominantly bearing news on the lens front. In all, five lenses for Fuji X-mount and Leica L-mount have been updated in the past week, with the majority of these...
Our Firmware Friday roundup this week is a single-company affair, with only Japan's Sigma Corp. having released any updates in the past seven days. If you're not shooting a Sigma lens on a Sony E-mount body, you can move along now, safe in the knowledge that there's no new firmware for your gear this week. If you...
When it comes to prime lenses for Sony's full-frame E-mount cameras, the company has two product lines: a high-end "f/1.4 series" and a lighter, more affordable "f/1.8 series." Aimed at professional and high-end photographers, the f/1.4 series, which hits the...
We had a chance recently to speak with four top executives from Canon's Image Communication Business Operations group, the division responsible for all of Canon's photographic products. I probed into Canon's focus on photography in the face of its expansion into many related businesses. Does their significant...
Heads-up, Pentaxians! Ricoh has just launched two new lenses for the Pentax K-mount. One's an update of an existing full-frame lens, and the other is a long-awaited wide-angle zoom addition to the high-performance Star series line.
The HD PENTAX-FA35mmF2 lens is an update of...
Our Firmware Friday roundup returns bringing news this week from three companies: Fujifilm, Nikon and Sigma. There are a fair few cameras in the mix, including both the Fuji X-H1 and T2, several of Nikon's Coolpix A-series cameras and the W300, plus three Nikon DSLRs. (That's the D610, D810 and Df, if you were...
It's not unusual for someone to adapt an older film lens to their Sony mirrorless camera. There are many such adapters suited to the task and the flexibility of the E-mount system is well-noted. However, what about mounting modern E-mount lenses to a film camera? For those wanting to head in this direction, a new project...
It's Lomography's 25th anniversary and the analog photography company is celebrating with a new limited edition line of cameras based upon the Lomo camera that started it all, the Lomo LC-A.
The three anniversary editions in the LC-A family include a 25th Anniversary LC-Wide, LC-A 120 and LC-A+. The LC-Wide and LC-A+...
Our Firmware Friday roundup is another biggie this week, but this time around it's lenses rather than cameras which make up the bulk of the list. In total, we have news of updates for five cameras and a dozen lenses from Canon, Fujifilm, GoPro and Nikon to discuss. Given that there's so much to cover, let's dive...
Continuing the incredible deluge of lens news of late, Japan's Kenko Tokina has unveiled a new lens line for mirrorless camera optics, and populated it with its first offering for full-frame Sony E-mount cameras. And the company has also announced several new optics aimed at the fast-growing cinema lens market.
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Our Firmware Friday roundup this week is a rather lengthy one, with quite a few updates (or news of upcoming updates) for six cameras, two lenses, one printer and one video camera. Among the mix are the Canon 7D II, 5DS and 5DS R; the Leica T (Typ 701); the Nikon D5000 and S9700; Sigma's Nikon-mount 120-300mm...
For quite a while now, it's been clear that Sigma isn't content to be seen as anything less than the equal of first-party lenses from the likes of Canon and Nikon. The company has been launching some seriously impressive products, and backing them up with top-notch support to boot, including a lens mount conversion...
A couple of years ago, we reported on Chinese camera gear maker Yongnuo's plans to offer its Canon lens clones for the Nikon F-mount. Yesterday, the folks at Nikon Rumors picked up on availability of another new Yongnuo lens appearing on eBay with a Nikon mount. This time around, it's a clone of Canon's 35mm f/2...
After a brief hiatus while I've been down with the flu, then traveling and trying to get caught up on a backlog of review work, Firmware Friday returns this week. And I'm just in time, it seems, as five different manufacturers have all chosen this week to ship updates for a staggering total of 16 cameras, nine...
This week's Firmware Friday is one of our biggest roundups in recent memory, and that's almost entirely down to the folks at Fujifilm, who've developed quite a reputation for regularly updating their cameras post-launch. As well as a whopping 18 camera and lens firmware releases from Fuji, we also have news to...
Third-party lens maker Sigma has today disclosed a potential issue with some of its lenses when used in concert with the just-released Pentax K-1 DSLR. Three current Sigma lenses and eight discontinued models are affected, and each can cause a minor scratch to appear in the K-1's body directly above the lens mount....
Pentaxians, your patience has just paid off in spades! Ricoh Imaging, the company behind the Pentax brand name, has today officially announced its upcoming, full-frame Pentax K-1 DSLR -- and it looks to be a mighty impressive debut.
Based around a 36.4-megapixel full-frame sensor, the Pentax K-1 sports a...
The Cooperative of Photography (also known as COOPH) has published a new video overviewing the history of photography. In just five minutes, COOPH takes you through the history of photography from its camera obscura origins to the modern day digital camera.
Ancient philosophers Mozi, Aristotle, and Alhazen were the first to mention the camera...