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Ahead of our full review, here are some sample images taken with a final production version of the brand new Zeiss Batis 40mm f/2 CF lens.

As if the new Zeiss ZX1 and the Zenit M weren't surprising enough, there's another intriguing new camera in town in the shape of the rather oddly named PIXII. This appears to be a French initiative that's just soft-launc...

Want to see exactly what the new Sony Cyber-shot HX99 travel-zoom compact camera looks like in the flesh? Check out our extensive hands-on gallery of photos of the Sony Cyber-shot HX99 travel-zoom compact camera, which w...

Here’s my favorite quote from Jay Maisel, one of the legends in the world of photography: “If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.” As photographers, we often get bored in t...

Fujifilm made a splash in the photo industry this week by announcing the GFX 50R, a camera that squeezes a 51.4-megapixel medium-format sensor into a rangefinder-style body with a price tag of just $4,499. Here’s a loo...

RED and Facebook have unveiled Manifold, a new VR camera for shooting 3D and 360° imagery. It’s a “first studio-ready camera system for immersive 6DoF [6 degree of freedom] storytelling.” “Manifold is a single p...

Sigma has issued a statement confirming that its current lenses operate without any issues when mounted on the Nikon Z7 via FTZ adapter. The company notes that interchangeable lenses lacking AF drive motor will function ...

Zeiss has announced the new Batis 40mm f/2 CF (Close Focus) lens for full-frame mirrorless cameras, a product the company calls “the most versatile lens in the Zeiss Batis family.” Sitting between the Batis 25mm f/2 ...

A popular camera store in the UK was targeted this week by burglars who made off with over $200,000 in Leica cameras and lenses. Ffordes in the North of Scotland says that it was broken into in the early hours on Wednesd...

On the field, Beth Saravo is, quite literally, one of the boys. More often than not, the 24-year-old live music and lifestyle photographer from Los Angeles, California finds herself the only female in the pool of photogr...

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Photographer Reuben Wu recently traveled to Pastoruri, one of the few glaciers left in tropical South America, and photographed it with lighting from an LED drone. “At 17,000ft [5,250m], it was a physical challenge to ...

Girzo has released the details of its upcoming travel tripod, the Gitzo Mini Traveler. Designed for 'professional photographers and promising amateurs who use mirrorless cameras or DSLR cameras with small lenses,' the Gi...

Google is taking another big step in protecting photographers’ copyright through the Google Images image search engine: it just added image rights metadata to the photo search results on Google Images. Developed in col...

Gitzo don't tend to do things by halves, and their new Mini Traveller tripod is certainly evidence of that. Essentially a scaled down version of their top-of-the-range full sized tripod, the Gitzo Mini Traveller is the m...

Voigtländer are showing three new concept lenses at Photokina, including two different versions of the Nokton 50mm F1.2 Asph. for Sony E-mount. The Voigtlander rep told us that they're not sure which version to put into...

Want to see exactly what the new Kodak 3D Pixpro Pivot camera looks like in the flesh? Check out our hands-on gallery of photos of the Kodak 3D Pixpro Pivot camera. This is a VR180, VR360 and 3D all-in-one 20 megapixel a...

When it comes to landscape photography most people think about using wide, and ultra-wide lenses so that they can shoot images that show wide sweeping vistas, mountain ranges, or large portions of countryside, but someti...

Our test scene is designed to simulate a variety of textures, colors and detail types you'll encounter in the real world. It also has two illumination modes to see the effects of different lighting conditions. The Nikon ...

New Voigtländer lenses for M and E-mount Voigtländer is one of the oldest names in photography. These days owned by Japanese lensmaker Cosina, the Voigtländer brand is still going strong. We're at Photokina, where we ...

The Rolleiflex Instant Kamera, "an instant camera with the legendary twin lens design and modern features", is alive and well and on display at Photokina 2018. Announced back in April, 671 backers pledged a whopping HK$ ...

The Reflex 40mm f1.8 is a manual focus lens originally conceived for the Reflex manual 35mm SLR camera, which Reflex has decided to launch for lots of other lens mounts too. There are three versions on the Reflex booth a...