DSLR or Digital SLRs (Digital Single Lens Reflex Camera) are now joined by HDSLR, DSLR that are very talented and shooting movies. You can go for a cheaper and more compact APS-C DSLR (Nikon D5100, Canon EOS 7D or EOS 600D / T3i) or for a professional Full Frame DSLR like the Nikon D800 and D4 and the Canon EOS 5D Mark III and EOS-1D X. Most manufacturers did just renew their DSLR line up recently. We expect a Canon T4i soon.
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, [...]
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 [...]
Latest camera in Canon’s range of DSLR with a full frame sensor, the EOS 6D arrived here at the studio two weeks ago for its comprehensive review. I took it to Barcelona and ahead of the full Canon EOS 6D review, I propose you a “mise en bouche” with a compilation of JPG images taken [...]
According to the financial news source Bloombergs, Nikon is seeing their stock values dip in value after they announced lower results in sales than they had initially projected. This is the largest loss of Nikon Corp.’s trading value on the Tokyo stock market since 1985. The origin of these lackluster results stems from a weak [...]
The Nikon D3200, an APS-C digital SLR for beginners, is a rather unusual entry-level DSLR. It includes the basics of its predecessor, the D3100, but packs a 24-megapixel APS-C sensor, the highest definition on the market, found on the Sony SLT-A77 DSLR and mirrorless NEX-7, both of which are enthusiast cameras. The Nikon D3200 is [...]
Canon today announced the development of a new feature on its Pro DSLR EOS-1D C that will soon be able to record video in both 4K and 25 fps. Taking into account the feedback of European professional videographers, the EOS-1D C firmware that is yet to come in April 2013 will allow the HDSLR to [...]
The Nikon D5200 is about to start its career. I am currently working on the Nikon D5200 review, a camera featuring an APS-C sensor of 24 megapixels. It refreshes the D5100. How does the new sensor behave ? Are the high dynamic range and high sensibility still the strengths of the new Nikon 24 megapixel [...]
Chipworks, a website mastering the dissecting the of consumer electronics products has teared the Nikon D5200 digital SLR into pieces. The open-heart surgery has unveiled an APS-C sensor of 24 megapixels from Toshiba. A surprise to those who thought that the D5200 and D3200 shared the same sensor. The site Chipworks has disassembled the Nikon [...]
Canon did not let the EOS 5D Mark II celebrating Christmas and is now cancelling this iconic camera : Canon Japan website is now listing the EOS 5D Mark II as discontinued… The end of an era for most of us for a camera that ca,n now be seen as a milestone for photographers and [...]
The Canon EOS 6D will be the last Full frame DSLR available on the market next month or even later in January. Yet, first served as always, dpreview just published a full definition sample images shot with the 6D. You will find photos taken with various lenses mounted on the EOS 6D including the EF 14-70mm [...]
ifixit.com took care of the Nikon D600 recently and teared the DSLR into pieces. The destruction operation is interesting because it can tell us a few things about the camera. First of all, we can see how tricky the tear down can be : you have to unweld several cables in order to be able [...]
The Nikon D5200 really is a fusion camera that gets the best of some of its brother DSLRs and it is is going to be a best-seller just like its predecessor has been, and still is according to the Nikon DSLR product manager I talked to last week while I was discovering the D200 for [...]
Nikon France has published a full sample image gallery of photos shot with the Nikon D5200 DSLR announed earlier this week. I could get my hands on the D5200 at Paris Photoshow which takes place this week-end and I have to say that it is quite surprising to see the powerful D7000′s 39-points AF system [...]
I barely doubt on that : this is certainly the same 24MP APS-C CMOS sensor as we discovered in the D3200 which is reused by Nikon in the today announced D5200, an important D5100 evolution of which it takes a new position midway between an entry level DSLR and an advanced camera. This new 24-megapixel Digital [...]
Nikonrumors promised us a total of 5 news Nikon DSLR in 2012 and according to the leaks gathering website, the next cameras to be announced by Nikon should be DX mount DSLRs. So the next announcement should be the Nikon D5200, a camera based on the D3200 24MP APS-C CMOS sensor, powered by the latest [...]
It is a kind of tradition now, every HDSLR that comes to the market sees a bunch of inspirational videos and cine-like movies to show how good a videocamera they are. And the new Sony SLT-A99 makes no exception to this unwritten rule. Today, Sony has posted a nice movie made with their Full frame [...]
This video is a test of the Tamron AF Di II VC 18-270 PZD superzoom lens on a Canon EOS 550D / Rebel T2i but also a lesson for all of us on what’s important about photography and videography… nope, our beloved high-tech DSLRs, expensive fast prime lenses, … are important but there is nothing more [...]
The Magic Lantern development team just released the first new version of its home made firmware for the Canon EOS 7D. This new firmware brings a full bundle of new settings and functions like the possibility to adjust volume while recording a video, the magic zoom function through the shutter button half-press or the focus [...]
