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Here is an interesting innovation announced by Canon today with this f/4 L series telephoto lens, the Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM. The innovation lies in the integration of the optical extender which allows an extra x1.4 focal length to turn the 200-400mm into a more powerful 280-560mm (still f/4 !) with just a gesture while [...]

Nikon is getting its Nikon 1 lens range a  bit more interesting today with the launch of the 1 Nikkor 32mm f/1.2 lens, a high-end fast portrait lens which will certainly help photographers considering the Nikon 1 mirrorless cameras a bit more seriously. Here is the first high-end prime lens available in Nikon CX mount [...]

Olympus unveils the Pen E-P5. After announcing its little brothers in the digital mirrorless cameras range, Olympus today unveils a serious, very serous, mirrorless camera that gets a lot of DSLRs. With the Pen E-P5, Olympus advances the high-end of the PEN family to tickle the OM-D supposedly higher. The Pen E-P5 brings many progresses [...]

Look at this interesting little piece of camera ! The Panasonic Lumix DMC-LF1 is really small, but yet, it embarks a large format sensor, 1/1.7″, a 12-megapixel backlit CMOS. This small compact camera also receives WiFi with the great addition of the NFC for ease of setting and an electronic viewfinder. As mentioned, the Panasonic [...]

Did you like the Sony HX20, this megazoom compact camera stuffed with technology? If so, then, you will probably love the HX50, 2013 update of the Cyber-shot technology showcase. This year, the Sony HX50 adopts a new more powerful zoom featuring a range of 30x receives the Wi-Fi which takes the place of the GPS. But [...]

Panasonic updated today its advanced mirrorless camera in MFT mount, the Lumix DMC-GF6 replaces the DMC-G5. It brings some changes starting with a more powerful processor of the lastes generation that will be responsible for improving the noise reduction of the 16-megapixel Live MOS sensor. The autofocus has been boosted to be more efficient in [...]

Sigma redesigns its entire range of lenses and today announced the it 18-35 mm F1.8 DC HSM, a transstandard zoom lens designed for APS-C DSLRs and shines with a very  fast aperture on its entire zoom range. Here is the Sigma 18-135mm F1.8 DC HSM ART.   Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM ART: fast lens [...]

Pentax Ricoh announced a new compact digital APS-C sensor camera : the Ricoh GR. It receives an APS-C CMOS sensor (16-megapixel), a fixed lens of 28mm equivalent and pretty fast ( f/2.8) and the new GR Engine V image processor. Here is a new player in the segment of compact cameras equipped with an SLR [...]

Just one year after its announcement, it was in April 2012, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF5 is replaced by the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF6 which brings some improvements in terms of the already very convincing autofocus of its predecessor and image quality with the adoption of a new 16-megapixel sensor. The Panasonic mirrorless camera accesses WiFi and [...]

The Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR Ⅱ is a telephoto lens with an FX mount. That is to say that it is compatible with both Full Frame (Nikon D4, D800, D600) and APS-C DSLRs (Nikon D3200, D5200, D7000 replaced now by the Nikon D7100). It is of course  a more “powerful” lens on [...]

The least one can say is that this camera was highly anticipated. After the successful Fujifilm X100 and other large sensor digital compact cameras like the Leica X1 / X2, or the Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-RX1, I was expecting anxiously that Nikon would unveil its vision of a premium marge sensor compact camera. And it is [...]

Here is the Nikon D7100. Nikon today introduced the successor to the D7000, an APS-C prosumer DSLR that borrows its predecessor’s general philosophy while making some important changes as a new 24-megapixel image sensor without low-pass optical filter, a new processor EXPEED 3 and 51 autofocus points. Get acquainted with the Nikon D7100. Nikon D7100: [...]