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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,...
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...
Leica is the star of this week's Firmware Friday roundup, having released the most significant update of the past seven days for its APS-C format Leica CL mirrorless camera. And not to be left out, we also have news to report from Fujifilm, Nikon and Olympus as well, with two further camera models, one lens and one...
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...
After a couple of smaller roundups, our regular Firmware Friday series returns this week with a much longer list of updates shipped by imaging companies in the past seven days. In all, we're aware of updates for four cameras and an impressive 15 lenses. Among the camera updates there's one which is a major,...
Zhongyi Optics (ZY Optics) has announced a new version of their popular Mitakon Speedmaster 50mm f/0.95 prime lens. The ZY 50mm f/0.95 Mark III has been designed for the latest mirrorless cameras and will be released in Canon RF, Nikon Z and Sony FE lens mounts.
The compact prime lens is characterized by its fast...
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...
Our second roundup of the year is, finally, rather more sizeable than was last week's, with news of updates for four Olympus cameras, as well as for a whopping lenses from Olympus, Sigma and Sony. With a fair bit to discuss, we'll keep this preamble short and get right down to it!
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...
This week, our Firmware Friday roundup is a tale of two companies: Fujifilm and Sony. It's also a tale of two product categories, with Fuji's raft of updates focusing on camera bodies, while Sony pays attention instead to its lens lineup with its own updates. In all, Fuji has updates for six camera bodies, while...
True to their lens roadmap, Fujifilm today announced the launch of their new Fujinon XF 50mm f/2 R WR lens. The Fujinon lens lineup features a generous number of prime lenses, and the XF 50mm fills a gap between two 35mm lenses, and the 56mm f/1.2. When mounted on a Fujifilm camera body, the XF 50mm lens will provide a...
Olympus' highly-regarded Zuiko Pro line of lenses added a couple of new members back at Photokina this year, the ultra-bright 25mm f/1.2 Pro and versatile 12-100mm f/4 IS Pro. Today, we've just completed our full in-depth review on the former, and boy is it...
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...
For fans of prime lenses, the 50mm focal length is a popular choice. And for those who're shooting on a full-frame Sony E-mount camera, its a choice which will now bear a little more consideration, because the company has just taken the wraps off its third 50mm full-frame, E-mount optic: The FE 50mm F2.8 Macro.
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If you're a Sony E-mount shooter, the available selection of autofocus-equipped lenses for your full-frame or sub-frame camera just grew by two -- at least in a manner of speaking. Rokinon has introduced its 50mm F1.4 AF and 14mm F2.8 AF lenses for E-mount cameras, but both lenses will look very familiar indeed if you've...
If you're a fan of bright portrait primes and you're shooting with one of Sony's E-mount bodies, your week is about to get off to a great start! The company has just taken the wraps off its latest full-frame lens, and it's a Zeiss Planar T*-badged 50mm prime with a bright f/1.4 maximum aperture. Alongside this...
A small, compact and affordable "nifty fifty" is one of those tried and true lenses that just about any photographer carries around or has at least used at one point. Nearly all manufacturers offer one of these lenses, but up until March of this year, there wasn't such a lens for Sony full-frame mirrorless cameras....
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....