I wondered how to approach the Sony RX1 review… The Sony Cyber-shot RX1 is certainly not a compact camera like any other ! Indeed, when Sony unveiled the first compact camera with a full frame sensor mounted behind a prime Carl Zeiss Sonnar T * 35mm f/2.0 lens surprised everyone. Avid photographers and lovers of [...]
For Leica, a Photokina is a big deal, it is a show at home. And this year, they have decided to launch a full bunch of dream cameras that will go along for the coming 2 years. But, on the Leica-M range, things are changing : Leica is giving up numbered reference name and the [...]
Coincidence ? No, certainly not. A few days only after Nikon unveiled the almost-affordable compact Full Frame DSLR D600, Canon unleash today the EOS 6D, more or less answering the same need for a lower priced FF DSLR, yet bringing Wi-Fi and GPS as top features. If the Nikon D800 has a little brother with [...]
Rumors often come true in our digital fast pace environment. The iPhone 5 turned to be exactly what we expected. So is the Nikon D600 launched today by Nikon. The D600 will be THE ONLY new camera announced by Nikon at the Photokina 2012. As expected, the D600 gets Sony’s full frame 24-megapixel CMOS sensor [...]
If you liked the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 with its 1″ sensor, you will certainly fall in love with the Cyber-shot DSC-RX1, which pushes the concept of prosumer compact digital camera concept at its peak, adopting a full-frame sensor, 24-megapixel, the same one that is expected on the Nikon D600, well served by a Carl Zeiss [...]
Finally a Full Frame DSLR in Sony’s range. The latest was the Alpha 850. But beware, if the new 24-megapixel full frame DSLR Sony shines with its technological and functional offer, it belongs to the family of EVF Digital SLRs and it will never offer the gorgeous optical viewfinder of the Alpha 900. See also [...]
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. [...]
I like Leica as brand, but I think more of Leica as a luxury products brand. I reviewed the M9 last summer and loved it but would never be willing to pay what Solms fine marketers are willing to charge us for a M9 with a couple of prime Summarit lenses. If there is an [...]
Just got the final test results of the 16-megapixel CMOS sensor of the Nikon D4 pro DSLR. My friends at DxOMark.com have benchmarked the new generation Full Frame sensor. We won’t have the CanonEOS-1D X available for review before it is officially shipped and therefore, we won’t be able to compare the Nikon D4′s sensor [...]
Canon USA has published the PDF version of the instruction manual of the EOS 5D Mark III. You can download it here. Canon gives you the choice between the full user guide which weights 28MB and the “pocket guide” which barely weight 1.5MB that you may want to synchronize with your iphone or ipad. I [...]
The Monday before Canon unveiled the EOS 5D Mark III, I was lucky enough to go to Canon’s Paris office in La Defense by Paris to get both a detailed presentation of the camera and a few minutes to play around with the 5D Mark III we all had been expecting for months. here is a little hands-on preview of [...]
Canon has posted a gallery of images shot with the Canon EOS 5D Mark III. These images are available for download in JPEG (around 6.5 MB) and in full resolution (22.3-megapixel). The gallery shows a wide variety of photographies, from studio images to wildlife photography. But they all have something in common : they have [...]
Here are movies Canon sent me yesterday featuring the EOS 5D Mark III as a guest star. I am glad to share them with you. First movie is an interesting tou rof the new user interface an dimprovements. I’ll get back to this later today with a hands-on preview of this promising camera as I could get [...]
If you are on a budget and are still willing to get a Full Frame Canon DSLR, then, the $3,450 price tage of the EOS 5D Mark III may be a problem for you. Hopefully, Canon is pursuing the EOS 5D Mark II until the end of this year. The Mark II and Mark III will both [...]
Here i is ! The Canon EOS 5D mark III most expected DSLR of 2012 (almost a tie with the Nikon D800) is now official. See my presentatin of the 5D Mark III in the article entitled “Meet the Canon EOS 5D Mark III”. I will publish a brief hands-on preview of the EOS 5D [...]
We have all been waiting for this DSLR for ages. Its predecessor was announced three and a half years ago. Today, Canon finally unveils the EOS 5D Mark III, which makes a huge leap in quality and functions, compared to the Mark II. It borrows to its APS-C and pro DSLR brothers EOS 7D and [...]
As a pro photographer, you may want to have a huge battery life when you go on location, either for a wedding, a football game, a car race, while covering Syria events… but, this year, because of electronics regulations in Japan, both Nikon and Canon had to cut their batteries power. You remember from our [...]
The Nikon D800 is among the most expected cameras of 2012. This DSLR is going to sell like crazy (read the Nikon D800 road to success). As I wrote, Nikon told me that they have huge deliveries coming in for the end of March. So, you will get the D800 in large numbers when they [...]
Want to take a tour of the Nikon D800 ? Here is a Nikon D800 gallery with my comments. Here is a link to the D800 announcement.
Nikon has informed me yesterday, during the D800 conference call, that the D4, which was expected to hit the shelves next week, will be one month late. We will be able to get our D4 on March 25th. That is one week before the D800 is available as it is expected to be delivered on [...]
