They are coming ! We have all been waiting for these new lens caps for ages. If you have Canon lenses and use them with the lens hood, you know what I mean… tricky to get the lens cap off with the lens hood on. Nikon’s system is much much easier to operate and, for [...]
Photoshop Touch, the incredibly powerful tablet photo editing application originally developed for the Apple iPad and Android tablets is now available for Apple iPhone and Android smartphones. Photoshop Touch for smartphones is available for iOS on the Apple App Store and Android on Google Play at a price of $4.99 / € 4.49. Adobe adapted [...]
At the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona this week, Nvidia communicates on its smartphone new generation processeor Tegra 4 with a Chimera architecture that allows computational photography and therefore to shoot HDR images, sweep panoramas and as allows autofocus subject tracking on our smartphones. The new Chimera architecture of the Tegra 4 allows our [...]
I just received a press release by email stating that the AFP Twitter account had been hacked today at 5:15pm, Paris time. According to the communication, the @AFPPHOTO TWitter account posts later on were not official Twitts from the French photo cable agency but came for assumed hackers. The images had something to do with [...]
Pentax discretly cancelled an important camera in their 2013 lineup, the mirrorless APS-C based camera K-01. Does this mean that the Pentax K-02 is on its way now ? Will it get the low-pass filter free sensor of the K-5 IIs DSLR ? Does Pentax just stop the career of this very (too) bulky mirrorless [...]
The RC versions of Camera Raw 7.4 and Lightroom 4.4 are almost operational, as usual, but not yet fully validated by Adobe. We can therefore expect to see the final versions of these “.4″ iterations “of ACR and LR out in a few weeks. Some bugs are fixed here and there by these two updates, [...]
Phase One’s Capture One RAW images processing algorythm is among my favorites : it sis powerful and more subtle than many competitors. Phsae One makes it accessible to the greatest number of prosumer photographers who want the best for their photos with Capture One Express 7 sold for $69 only. For this price, you get [...]
I guess you must be just like me. I am a bit lured by Google Chromebook recipe: it’s compact, it’s lights, it’s very cheap, but it never met my standards. I have to say that I need something quite more powerfull that these $250 netbooks to work on my photos ! But today thanks to [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Here is the 50mm prime and premium lens in Sony Alpha lenses: the Zeiss Planar T * 50mm F1.4 ZA SSM. This fast prime lens is quite upscale and is compatible with Full Frame DSLR and APS-C DSLRs in Sony A mount. This is a very nice piece of glass that Sony announced today with [...]
“A rugged all terrain compact camera in a precious compact body” here’s how Sony introduced the new Cyber-shot DSC-TX30 announced today, the new waterproof compact digital camera (10m deep). The camera is also shock resistant, can work in cold cold temperatures as is dust dust resistant. It features a CMOS sensor “Exmor R” (BSI) of [...]
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 [...]
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V is replaced in 2013 by the DSC-HX300V in the range of Sony bridge cameras. The HX300 will be upscale, and the flagship of the range unless Sony have reserved a surprise for the rest of the year like a bridge camera with the 1″ sensor of the Cyber-shot RX100 for example [...]
Samsung today unveils a new smartcamera based on the Galaxy Camera but wthout its 3G connectivity : the Samsung Galaxy Camera Wi-Fi. It is also a 21x compact camera with a CMOS BSI sensor of 16MP / 1080p video recording. It inherits of the huge multitouch screen (OLED !!!) of its bigger brother 3G. The [...]
DxO Optics Pro is updated by DxO Labs today with a new version (8.1.3) which allows (Elite version only) to process the RAW images of 3 Leica M rangefinder cameras : Leica M Leica M9 (visit my Leica M-9 review gallery page) Leica M9-P But also, the standard version of DxO Optics [...]
This is a duo of lenses that adds the renowned Voigtländer optician to its range of prime lnses with a 50mm f/1.5 for Leica-M cameras (as an alternative to the expensive 50mm f/1.1 lens) and a super fast portrait lens for mirrorless cameras in MFT mount. Voigtländer Nokton 50mm f/1.5 Aspherical VM Leica M lens [...]
Between February 7-18th, a computer system bug in Flickr system has changed the status of some photos by switching it from private to public. These photos that users hosted and shared (or not) online through Flickr and that they wanted to keep private were thus found themselves at the sight of everyone, online. According to [...]
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 [...]
