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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,...
Firmware Friday enters the final month of the 2010s this week with news of camera updates from two companies -- Canon and Sony -- as well as updated software from Fujifilm. The bulk of the changes made are aimed at fixing bugs, but there are a few new features in the mix as well.
We'll kick things off...
[Update Sunday PM: Now with more Panasonic firmware info added!] Our Firmware Friday roundup this week is perhaps the most unusual we can remember posting. Why's that, we hear you ask? Because while we can tell you of seven firmware updates this week, we can't tell you what two of them involve. And of the...
I had a chance to sit down with a group of top Nikon executives and engineering managers last month, as part of my yearly pilgrimage to Yokohama, Japan for the annual CP+ trade show. We talked about lens design and how it's impacted by the new Z-mount -- we're frankly amazed by their new 14-30mm f/4 lens, both for...
For the second week running, our Firmware Friday roundup is a relatively brief affair, with little news to report other than for Canon's Cinema EOS video camera lineup, and Sigma's Optimization Pro software package. In all, there are updates for six Cinema EOS camera models in the C300 II and C700-series, while...
First revealed at Photokina, Sigma has announced that their new 70-200mm f/2.8 DG OS HSM Sports lens will be hitting store shelves later this month. The new flagship large-aperture telephoto zoom will join two other f/2.8 zoom lenses, the 14-24mm and 24-70mm Art lenses, to complete the standard pro-zoom trio.
While a...
The 70-200mm zoom lens is an all-time classic. It's a highly versatile zoom that's ideal for sports and wildlife subjects as well as portraiture and even landscapes. In Canon's camp, their L-series 70-200mm lenses have proven extremely popular with a wide range of enthusiast- and professional-level photographers.
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After last week's mega roundup which topped 50 camera models, this week's Firmware Friday post is a comparitively short and sweet affair. It's also a little unusual in that we only have news of lens updates this time around, with no new firmware landing for interchangeable-lens camera bodies or fixed-lens cameras...
This week, our Firmware Friday roundup is dominated by big news from the folks at Yi Technology. They've just released an update for the Yi M1 -- colloquially known as the Yi Camera -- and it's a biggie, bringing with it a bunch of improvements which should make for a more satisfying shooting experience. We also...
Our Firmware Friday roundup this week is brief, with news of just two new firmware releases in the past seven days. Both come from Sony for its E-mount lenses.
So what's new in the firmware for the Sony FE 100–400 mm G Master and FE 70-200 mm F2.8 GM OSS lenses? Both updates make the exact same change, improving...
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...
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...
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....
Released in 2012, the Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 VC is certainly not the new lens on the block, but it's nevertheless a lens we had yet to test for SLRgear. Plus, given the sheer versatility and popularity of the classic 70-200mm f/2.8 lens, when we got the chance to review this lens, we thought it would be a good idea to see...
It's been a long time coming, but the wait is finally just about over for Tokina's constant-aperture 70-200mm f/4 zoom lens, a model first shown under glass at the CP+ tradeshow, way back in February 2012. (Yes, really!) After more than two years in development limbo, the lens is set to start shipping later this...
During the CP+ photography tradeshow in Japan, Imaging Resource publisher and editor-in-chief Dave Etchells met for interviews with executives from some of the best-known brands in the camera business. Since the...
The CP+ show in Yokohama, Japan is just around the corner, and many manufacturers are using the opportunity to announce new products or give status updates on current developments. The former is true for Cosina, who has just announced an updated version of its Voigtländer Nokton 25mm f/0.95 lens for Micro Four Thirds, and the latter is true for...
Nikon DSLR owners have been longing for an affordable, pro-quality, lightweight 70-200mm telephoto zoom lens -- although affordable is, of course, a relative term. The FX-format AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/4G ED VR telephoto zoom lens, priced at US$1,400, sells for US$1,000 less than the much-beloved AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm...