Using this lens as a general-purpose travel lens, for landscape, architecture, street, portraits, flower details, and wildlife, it is entirely possible that it will easily cover all those needs.
Using this lens as a general-purpose travel lens, for landscape, architecture, street, portraits, flower details, and wildlife, it is entirely possible that it will easily cover all those needs.
The Nikon Nikkor Z MC 50mm f/2.8 gives a superb performance, excellent handling and a light, compact form factor all sum up this excellent macro lens. There are no bad macro lenses, but this one pushes the envelope out a little further and excels.
There can be no better example than this new Sony lens – faster, lighter, more compact and with higher performance than what was already a really excellent lens.
The options have been sensibly and significantly increased by this new f/2.8 lens.
Canon has produced a superb camera that offers a truly professional photographic tool as the flagship of the EOS R mirrorless system. The handling is excellent, everything having been well thought out.
There is no doubt that the lens delivers an excellent to outstanding performance, and at a very keen price. Add to that the small, light form factor and we have perhaps an ideal travelling companion.
This is the top of the line Flagship Z series camera, and we can tell. It has every feature imaginable, is beautifully made, performs impeccably and is every bit the professional photographic tool.
Beautifully made, the Olympus OM-1, the last OM System camera to bear that name, is compact, efficient and performs admirably; a suitably impressive way to say farewell to the Olympus name and to greet OM System.
This new lens has yet again proved that it is possible to produce really high-quality results at a very affordable price.
[T]he OnePlus 10 Pro is easy to 'Highly Recommend'.
For those who prefer a smartphone with a compact design, the Pixel 6a will be a good choice but others will probably look elsewhere.
[T]he Xiaomi 13 Pro camera system has really impressed us.
The Google Pixel 7a is brilliant for photography, capturing lovely-looking images but the battery is lacking and could leave you without power a lot quicker than we'd like. The price is pretty decent, though, and will only get better over time.
The SL3 is another high quality Leica camera, with excellent ergonomics and excellent results. It is big, heavy and expensive, but if something more compact is required then Leica do offer their classic M11 and M11-P cameras, or perhaps the Q3.
This is a camera that quickly gels, with excellent handling, really good looking results and overall terrific ease of use.
The GH7 proves a couple of things extremely well, that is, that it is possible to find plenty of life and quality in the MFT format and also that it is possible to make an exciting hybrid design that has plenty to delight photographers and videographers alike.
The camera is still Recommended, despite the issues raised, providing the photographer can live with the drawbacks or does not find them an issue.
The quality is very well maintained throughout the range, dropping off slightly as we zoom, but still performing very well even at 400mm. The two smallest apertures are unlikely to be used so any drop off at that point is not really a deal-breaker.
The choice is between a faster maximum aperture and a slightly wider focal length range, but the prices look to be fairly pitched against each other.
Some lenses deliver so well that they hit the magic spot between high technical quality and aesthetic pictorial quality, the “certain something” that is hard to measure.
The new Nikon lens does not disappoint with what it delivers – it is clearly splendid and yet another example of Nikon being right at the top of their game. An amazing performance, with outstanding sharpness, and lovely handling.
Taking the lens in isolation, it is terrific value for money, performs well, is compact and light and also delivers very attractive images, never mind the technical figures, good as they may be.
If this is an indication of the expected standard of Nikon Z lenses, then we may well have something exceptional here. The quality of the images is gorgeous and the technical measurements bear this out as well.
Whether shooting long-range sports, birds or animals then the extra reach of an 800mm lens can make all the difference.
