Venus Optics today announced two new ultra-fast Laowa lenses in the Argus lineup. They are the Laowa Argus 18mm f/0.95 APO lens for Micro Four Thirds cameras and the Laowa Argus 25mm f/0.95 APO lens for APS-C crop sensor cameras.
Under its new owner OPC Optics, the Meyer Optik Görlitz brand today announced the rebirth of another "legendary lens", the Primoplan 75mm f/1.9 II. Following launches of lenses in the Trioplan and Lydith lines, this new lens marks the start of the new Primoplan series.
Canon Australia has announced the PIXMA PRO-200 professional photo desktop printer, a successor to the highly-regarded the PIXMA PRO-100.
The Irvine, California-based photography gear startup Aurora Aperture has announced a new next-generation rear mount filter system. It's designed to be an elegant solution for photographers to use filters on ultra-wide lenses that don't have a front filter thread.
Nikon just officially announced the development of the Nikon D6 professional DSLR, a camera Nikon says will be "its most advanced DSLR to date." Oh, and there's also a crazy 120-300mm f/2.8 VR lens on the way.
Godox has released the new AD600 Pro, a new 600Ws wireless strobe that's also marketed in the US by Adorama under the name Flashpoint XPLOR 600 PRO TTL. The strobe builds upon the success of its popular predecessor, the Godox AD600 (AKA Flashpoint XPLOR 600 HSS TTL), with a number of spec and feature improvements.
The GoPro Fusion is a new 360° camera that captures an immersive experience in 5.2K resolution at 30fps. It was announced by GoPro today alongside the new HERO6 Black camera at the company's launch event in San Francisco.
Olympus has just announced the new OM-D E-M10 Mark III, a mirrorless camera designed for helping photography enthusiasts take their images to the next level. The camera is a tier below the flagship OM-D E-M1 II, which was announced in September 2016.
Nikon has just officially announced the new Nikon D850, a powerful new full-frame DSLR that takes Nikon's high-end camera lineup to lofty new heights.
After teasing the product and sharing some sample portraits, the Chinese flash manufacturer Godox has now officially announced the A1. It's a flash, LED, and trigger 3-in-1 unit designed for smartphone cameras.
Panasonic today announced the new Lumix DC-ZS70, a "Travel Zoom" compact camera for people on the go.
Canon just announced a new macro lens for its crop sensor cameras. The new EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM is equivalent to a 56mm on a full frame camera and aims to bring affordable macro photography to the masses.
First Kodak, then FILM Ferrania, and now Bergger. The French manufacturer is the latest company to further the analog photography resurgence by announcing a new film. It's called BERGGER Pancro400.
The film renaissance is growing. Just weeks after Kodak announced the return of Ektachrome film, the Italian film brand FILM Ferrania is back from the dead as well. Today it introduces its first new film stock. Called Ferrania P30, it's a black-and-white 35mm film.
Fujifilm today announced the new X-T20 mirrorless camera, the successor to the X-T10, which was itself announced as a smaller and cheaper sibling to the X-T1/X-T2 line.
Nikon today announced the D5600, an entry-level DSLR that replaces the D5500, which was Nikon's first touchscreen DSLR when it was announced in January 2015.
Leica today unveiled the Leica TL, a new mirrorless camera that builds upon the Leica T that was introduced in 2014.
Leica today officially announced the Sofort, the company's very first instant camera. It's a compact snapshot camera that shoots Fujifilm Instax Mini film.
It's quite possibly the most anticipated camera announcement of the year, and it finally happened! Canon has revealed the long-awaited 5D Mark IV, with a new sensor, 4K video, and some interesting 'Dual Pixel RAW' capabilities.
The New York Public Library has launched a new online resource called the Photographers’ Identities Catalog (PIC). If researching the world of photography is your thing, then you'll love this site: it features the biographical info of over 100,000 photographers and other businesses in the industry.
Sony today announced two new additions to its full frame FE lens lineup: the 50mm f/1.8 prime lens and the 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 zoom lens.
After pulling the plug on its Photoshop Touch app back in May, Adobe is now back in the mobile photo editing game. Today the company officially launched Photoshop Fix, the app that was teased months ago and code-named "Project Rigel."
Canon today announced that it has created a monster of a CMOS sensor with the world's highest pixel count (for its size). The DSLR-format sensor manages to capture gigantic 250-megapixel photos with each exposure.
Canon just announced the successor to the Speedlite 430EX II flash. The new Speedlite 430EX III-RT is the first flash in the 430EX line to offer radio-controlled wireless capabilities.
Ricoh today announced its new Pentax K-3 II DSLR, the successor to the K-3 of 2013. The camera packs a number of new features, including pixel shifting, GPS, and star tracking.
If you're a fan of both retro cameras and instant photos, you may be delighted to learn of a new camera called the InstantFlex TL70. It's designed to look like a Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex camera, but it's a fully functional instant camera that takes Fujifilm Instax film.
Nikon today announced its new D7200, a 24.2-megapixel lightweight DSLR camera geared toward photography and videography enthusiasts. It boasts sharper image quality, a bigger buffer, improved autofocusing in low-light, and serious features for video recording.
HTC's rumored action camera is now official. Today the company announced the RE, a handheld action cam that could easily be confused with a miniature periscope or an inhaler.
The device represent's HTC's desire to expand beyond the smartphone market, and is yet another attempt to steal some of GoPro's thunder in the industry it dominates.
Nikon this morning officially announced the D750, a 24-megapixel full frame DSLR geared towards photography enthusiasts. It will be a middle-tier full-frame model that's offered between the cheaper D610 and the more expensive D810.
Pentax had a big announcement day today, unleashing three new cameras on the world of photography. The K-50 and K-500 are new mid- and entry-level DSLRs (respectively), and the Q7 is a new mirrorless camera that carries on the pint-sized tradition started by the Pentax Q back in 2011.
After teasing a mysterious "Mini M" camera on its website since mid-May, Leica today finally announced the camera behind the codename. It's the Leica X Vario, a large sensor compact camera that "contains the DNA of the Leica M" rangefinder.
After weeks of rumors and leaks, Olympus' new PEN E-P5 finally became official today. It's the company's new flagship Micro Four Thirds PEN mirrorless camera, and features both retro styling on the outside and powerful specs on the inside.
One of the key features afforded by the fusion of photo sharing and social networking is people tagging. On services such as Facebook and Flickr, adding information to identify the people in photos is as easy as clicking/tapping a face and telling the service who that subject is.
Instagram this morning announced that it's joining in on the people-tagging fun. The company has released a new "Photos of You" feature that makes tagging a person as easy as adding a hashtag.
At Photokina 2012 last September, Zeiss announced that it was working on a new family of lenses for mirrorless cameras. This past March, we got a closer look at the lenses, which were outed as a 12mm f/2.8, 32mm f/1.8, and 50mm f/2.8 for Fuji's X mount and Sony's E mount.
Today, the company revealed even more details about the lenses, which are branded "Touit," publishing specs, product pages, and sample photographs.
Panasonic this morning announced two new cameras: a Lumix G6 Micro Four Thirds mirrorless camera and a Lumix LF1 high-end compact camera. Both cameras offer some pretty solid specs for photography enthusiasts.
Wow. The rumor of a new Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 lens we shared earlier today has just been confirmed by Sigma. The company has just officially announced the lens, which is the world's first lens that offers a fixed f/1.8 aperture throughout its zoom range. That's a pretty big deal.
Google has officially announced the specs for its Glass wearable computer/camera. Of interest to readers of this blog is the fact that the camera will be able to capture decent photographs -- at least resolution-wise. It'll be a 5-megapixel camera that has WiFi capabilities. The camera will also be able to capture 720p video and audio.
Canon did a pretty good job of keeping its new tiny DSLR a secret... until last week. One week after rumors of the camera first emerged, Canon has officially announced the Rebel SL1, the world's smallest and lightest DSLR.
Nikon has announced its latest DSLR, the D7100. As the successor to the D7000, the D7100 is an midrange DSLR geared toward serious photography enthusiasts, and is the new flagship camera of Nikon's DX-format DSLR lineup.
After having their photos and some specs leaked this past weekend, the Sony NEX-3N and A58 finally became real today through an official announcement by Sony. The new mirrorless and pellicle mirror cameras were unveiled alongside a set of new lenses, and offer some pretty standard upgrades to current models.