I have taken a Sony HX300 to the Caribbean for a week of intensive camera and lens testing (Nikon D7100, Sigma 35mm F1.4 ART, Casio ZR1000, Nikon 70-200mm F4, Panasonic FZ200 and Sony HX300). I have no word to describe the huge range of the lens of the HX300 which is a bridge camera that [...]
It’s rare in photography that image quality doesn’t suffer the more compact the camera becomes. The two just don’t work well together. It’s a purely physical thing. It’s this very enigma that camera makers have set out to resolve in recent years. They’ve succeeded so far in offering a largely improved quality of image in [...]
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 world of digital photography is on the move, and there’s no stopping it! This fall, Samsung unveiled the first 3G + Wi-Fi enabled camera operating under Android. The new Samsung Galaxy Camera combines most of the advantages of a true smartphone with those of a camera. In fact, on the camera end, it greatly [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Testing the Canon Powershot G1 X for you readers…. Let’s take a closer look at the Canon Powershot G1 X large sensor compact camera with 14MP CMOS sensor and 28-112mm lens. Canon surprised many photographers and interested onlookers with the release of the Powershot G1 X, a new kind of device in Canon’s digital [...]
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 [...]
I got to play around with a nice little camera which has changed a lot on the camera market. For the Fujifilm X100 review, I received the camera for test sample a few weeks ahead of its availability on th emarket and new for the fact while reviewing the X100 that this was going to [...]
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 [...]
“Hello, I would like to buy a lens that would allow me to take pictures in low light and make beautiful portraits. I need a fast lens. Which would you recommend? I have a Nikon D5100.” asks Emelyne. Here is my answer : 85mm lenses : AF-S Nikkor 85mm f/1.8G and AF-S Nikkor 85mm [...]
My fellow editor Renaud Labracherie has received its final production sample of a Sony RX1 earlier this week and just published the camera’s images of the studio scene at various sensibilities, from ISO 50 to ISO 25,600. So, how does the RX1 at high ISO setttings ? He has a hard time having the right [...]
Before I publish the Panasonic LX7 full review, here is a photo gallery of jpg images shot with the LX7 last Tuesday in Le Puy en Velay, an old city located in the center of France. You can download these images to check them in full size on your computer by clicking on the 575 [...]
I have received my test camera body of the Panasonic LX7 last week and with DxO launching DxO Optics Pro 8, Phase One unveiling Capture One Pro 7, I barely had a chance to play hard with this very attractive enthusiast photographers camera. So, ahead of my full review, here are some comparison images of [...]
This year, for the Photokina 2012, Canon decided to refresh its enthusiast photographers compact cameras (Powershot G15 and Powershot S110) with a new 1/1.7″ sensor, and dumped the simple CCD of the G12 and S100, in favor of a warmly welcome backside illuminated CMOS sensor. In addition to the DIGIC 5 DSP processing speed and [...]
The Nikon D600 is now available since last Monday. I took my test sample for a photography tour in Lyon, in the Confluence estate where architects did an outstanding job. Ahead of the full review of the Nikon D600, here is a little low ISO image gallery of JPEGs straight out of the camera. Today, [...]
After the record high score obtained by the Nikon D800 sensor review, I had some doubts about the D600′s ability to reach such great performances. I was suspecting Nikon would be able to cut down the performance level of the D600 in order to let its bigger brother D800 an advantage. The first images I [...]
Here is a composite image of Nikon D600 images shot at all ISO settings, from ISO 100 to ISO 12,800, then at the extended sensibilities till ISO 102,400 equivalent. These 100% crops were cut out from the JPG files directly from the camera (Picture Control “SD” / JPEG quality on “Fine”). I may be mistaken, [...]
Before I publish the full review of the high-end waterproof compact camera launched by Olympus last spring, the TG-1 iHS, here is a quick preview of the image quality you may expect from this camera that has been gifted with a backside illumintaed CMOS sensor, a sensor that is wellknown for its outstanding image quality [...]
My friends at DxOMark just released the test results of the Nikon D3200 24MP CMOS sensor. And guess what ? They are good ! How good did the high-definition sensor of the Nikon D3200 on DxO’s benchmark ? Well here are the results : The Nikon D3200 is 9th on DxO’s historical chart of [...]
