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 [...]
Announced last month with the EOS 700D / Rebel T5i, the supercompact tiny little DSLR in Canon’s range, the EOS 100D Rebel SL1, is coming to th emarket these days. Here are the camera’s technical specs summed up. Is this camera for you ? Let us all know on our Facebook page. Canon EOS [...]
Canon today unveiled five new cameras starting with two important new digital SLRs with the Canon EOS 100D / SL1 which is simply the smallest APS-C DSLR ever designed, the Canon EOS 700D / Rebel T5i which takes over the EOS 650D / T4i improving its technical characteristics via a faster fps in burst mode, [...]
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: [...]
The electronic viewfinder DSLR Sony SLT-A58 does not replace the SLT-A57 in Sony’s digital SLR range. The new Sony SLT-A58 is based on the new APS-C CMOS sensor of 20.1 megapixels. Its sensitivity ranges from ISO 100 to 16,000 and it gets a sensor shift image stabilization. The camera itself offers the image stabilization which [...]
The Sony NEX-3N is a new mirrorless camera that complements the range of Sony interchangeable lens cameras in APS-C size sensors. It will be sold alongside the NEX-5R and NEX-5N, NEX-6 (which I am publishing the review of within a few days/hours) and NEX-7, the prosumer mirrorless camera. The NEX-3N sensor is a well-known unit [...]
Sigma launches its new enthusiast compact camera featuring a Merrill generation Foveon X3 sensor and now equipped with a 50mm f/2.8 lens, optimized for macro and close-up photo shooting. 50mm f/2.8 lens Sigma’s announcement during this CES 2013 comes as a bit of a surprise. The new addition to the Foveon X3 Merrill [...]
Here it is finally ! The long awaited successor of the famous Fujifilm X100 comes to reality. While one might have expected a Fuji X200, Fujifilm is actually unveiling the new X100S which is taking over the premium compact digital camera that made Fuji glorious again ! With a 23mm fast prime lens and an [...]
Like its predecessor the NX200 / NX210, the Samsung NX300 mirrorless camera gets an APS-C CMOS sensor of 20.3 megapixels. Samsung announced it as a new sensor. The technical data provided by Samsung about it are patchy to say the least, but it is likely to adopt a hybrid autofocus borrowing some photo diodes to [...]
As the IFA 2012 opens today, Sony unveils its forst Wi-Fi mirrorless camera based on the NEX-5N launched last year. Meet the Sony NEX-5R. I told you so, you have been warned, you were expecting that anxiously : this is the Wi-Fi cameras / smartcameras season ! Sony comes today with a Wi-Fi camera, the [...]
The Canon EOS 650D / Rebel T4i is the yearly update of the APS-C amateur DSLR in Canon’s range. Last year, Canon added a swivel screen and wireless flash control to the EOS 550D / T2i with the launch of the EOS 600D / T3i. This year, I have the feeling that Canon added more [...]
Here is an interesting DSLR unveiled today by Pentax : the K-30. Directly inspired by the prosumer DSLR K-5, the Pentax K-30 gets the same technical specs for mots of them and is the most affordable rugged weather resistant digatl SLR that will make an interesting travel camera along with the 18-135mm WR lens. Speaking [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
No, the D3200 is not the D3100 successor, it is a new camera in Nikon’s DSLR range. It gets a lot of the D3100 DNA but gets a brand new sensor with an impressive 24-megapixel count and the luxury of the EXPEED 3 processor to deal with that definition. Let’s meet the Nikon D3200. [...]
The Canon EOS 60Da is the same camera as the EOS 60D Canon launched a year ago, featuring the APS-C 18-MP with swivel screen DLSR, but adapted for astrophotography : Canon have changed its low-pass filter to lower the infrared filter in order to have a camera more sensitive to reds and able to reproduce [...]
I have spent 4 days with the luxury mirrorless camera Fujifilm unveiled lately, the X-Pro1. I have shot 500 images in Malta and will publish the full review anytime soon. To let you wait with something to peep, here is a first comparison shot of the X-Pro1 image quality from ISO 200 to ISO 25,600, [...]
After 2 years on the market, the translucent mirror technology based pioneer DSLR, the Alpha 55 or SLT-A55 gets a replacement : Sony unveils the Alpha 57 or SLT-A57 with the same APS-C 16MP sensor, 1080p movie recording and 12 fps, and a nice swivel screen, enhanced built quality and handgrip, but Sony has let [...]
