July 2011, photography festivales in Arles, France, I have an appointment with Gaëlle from Leica to give me for a few days a Leica M9 and its Summilux 50mm F1.4 lens. I arrive at the Espace VAnGogh where there was an interesting exhibition of old photographs from Mexico… linked to the disappeared suite case of [...]
Sony’s new E-mount lens for NEX mirrorless cameras, the SEL 18-200mm will offer an equivalent to a 27-300mm once mounted on a NEX-F3 for instance, the new camera announced today along with the SLT-A37 DSLR. Optically stabilized by Sony’s Optical Steady Shot system, the SEL18200 lens receives no less than 4 aspherical elements to fight [...]
The new DT 18-135mm f/3,5-5,6 SAM lens launched today by Sony is aimed at being mounted on APS-C Alpha mount DSLRs like the SLT-A37 also unveiled today. The lens is not stabilized as anyway most Sony digital SLRs get a CCD-shift image stabilisation system, built-in. Very compact, this 7.5x zoom lens is the lightest 18-135mm [...]
Sony brings an updated version of its former entry level Translucent Mirror Technology DSLR : the SLT-A37 is the succeeding to the SLT-A35. In Sony’s range, you have Alpha DSLRs and EVF DSLRs, the SLT-A57 and SLT-A77 for instance. The SLT-A37 has an EVF of 1.44 million dots with WYSIWYG LiveView and this technology makes [...]
The new entry level mirrorless camera in Sony’s range is NEX-F3. It will succeed to the NEX-C3 launched a year ago. Oddly, this new generation is slightly larger and heavier with a few additional mm here and there and 25 grams more but this change in size and weight will benefit the handling of the [...]
GoPro unveils a new waterproof housing for its HD HERO action camcorders that can dive as deep as 60m. The  GoPro Dive has a flat glass to protect the camera’s lens while not disturbing the image quality, a hand bracelet and some attachment accessories to fix it on a submarine mask for instance. The GoPro [...]
I do fully agree with the Japanese journalists jury of the Camera Grand Prix 2012 which have given the Nikon D800 the title of Camera of year 2012. The  has won the Camera Grand Prix 2012 but also the public votes, and that means a lot. I know that Canon has improved a lot with the [...]
Want to shoot a slow motion movie on your iphone ? It is now possible thanks to this little cheap iApp ($1.99 on itunes) : SloPro. SlowPro enables your iphone to record 720p movies at a 60p frame rate. You can easily control the recording speed with the +/- buttons of the iphone. Smart. If you want [...]
The successor to the Exilim ZR-10 is the Casio the Exilim ZR-20. It has an 8x zoom lens and to me this is the most interesting feature of this compact camera. We see 12x, 16x, 18x and now 20x cameras coming out (Sony HX20V, Panasonic ZS20 / TZ30…) but such a  megazoom in a camera [...]
Athentech, the editor of Perfectly Clear, the one click solution to improve efficiently your images, announced today a new version of Perfectly Clear for iPad (V1.4) and for iPhone (V2.4). Also, the Photoshop plug-in is compatible with Photoshop CS6 §just like Nik Software’s and DxO FilmPack). Here is the list of the improvements and adressed [...]
For the movie Marvel’s The Avengers, the producers have used two Canon EOS DSLR bodies : the EOS 5D Mark II and EOS 7D, which were used for action and stunts scenes. At the time the movie was taped, the EOS 5D Mark III was at the stage of a simple rumor on the net [...]
Nik Software just informed me that ALL its plug-ins for Photoshop are now fully compatible with Photoshop CS6. To make sure you have the latest version of Nik Software plugins, here are the current versions : Dfine 2: Mac – 2.110; Windows – 2.110 Viveza 2: Mac – 2.007; Windows – 2.007 HDR Efex Pro: [...]
It is now becoming a more and more reliable-to-end-up-true rumor : Nikon would prepare the launch of an affordable Full Frame DSLR, the D600. It would be cheaper than the Nikon D800 (which is a high definition baby D4), maybe half the price of the D800, could be as low as $1,500, Nikon Rumors wrote. [...]
Lightroom 4 is now available on the Mac AppStore, Apple’s desktop software marketplace at the price of $149.99 for Mac OS X computers only (while a license bought through Adobe retailers or Adobe online store gives access to installation on both Windows and Mac OS computers. That can be very convenient if like me, you [...]
California based American photographer Mitch Dobrowner has wun the Gold Iris, all category prize of the international photography contest : Sony World Photography Awards, which have received over 112,000 images from 170 different countries. Mitch Dobrowner has wun $25,000 of cash prize plus some Sony photography gear, cameras and lenses, thanks to its serie called [...]
Yesterday, Leica announced their first digital rangefinder camera for black and white photography only : the Leica M-Monochrom. To put it in a nutshell, the Leica M-Monochrom is a M9 that can not see colors. It gets the same Full Frame 18MP sensor but has no optical low-pass filter nor any Bayer Matrix. This should [...]
Adobe, via Adobe lab’s website, released the Mac and Windows RC versions of Camera Raw 7.1Â and DNG Converter 7.1. These updates fix a few bugs here and there, add the support of 21 newly launched digital cameras and add a new CA correction tool in the manual lens correction module of Camera RAW called defringe. [...]
When Leica announced the APS-C compact camera in 2009, the Leica X1, we were all quite enthusiastic about that little marvel. A few months later a lot were disappointed by its image quality which does not stand for its huge price, especially when compared with the new generation of compact mirorless cameras. This is going [...]
Mad or genius… Anyway, Leica is not a company like other camera manufacturers. You did not missread : the Leica M-Monochrom is a rangefinder camera fully dedicated to black and white photography. This digital Full Frame range finder camera, the Leica M Monochrom, is based on the M9-P, the revised version of the Leica M9. [...]
The Leica V-LUX 40 is 2012′s version of Leica compact camera based on Panasonic Lumix flasgship : the ZS20/TZ30. Just like the camera produced by Panasonic, the Leica V-LUX 40 has a highly versatile 20x zoom lens which design has been approved by Leica’s engineers. Its  24-480mm equivalent makes it a perfect travel camera. As [...]
