Leica Unveils the Q-P, Essentially a Q Without the Red Dot
Leica today announced the Leica Q-P, a camera the company calls an "artful statement of understatement." It's essentially a Leica Q that has had the red dot removed.
Leica today announced the Leica Q-P, a camera the company calls an "artful statement of understatement." It's essentially a Leica Q that has had the red dot removed.
The Hong Kong-based design brand Carbon has unveiled a new camera called the Escura Instant 60s. It's a retro-tastic instant camera that's 100% hand-powered, 100% manual, and 100% analog.
Guess who's planning to join the mirrorless camera war? Yongnuo, the Chinese company best known for creating cheap clones of popular Canon and Nikon lenses.
Leica has announced the new M10-D, a rangefinder with "a digital heart and an analog soul." From the outside, it looks like Leica's digital M rangefinder line has gone back to the world of film photography.
A French startup called PIXII has unveiled its new Pixii camera. It's an unusual digital rangefinder camera (with a real rangefinder, not just rangefinder looks) that represents the company's "radical take on what a modern camera should be."
Want to see the internals of Canon's first full-frame mirrorless camera? Roger Cicala over at LensRentals disassembled the new Canon EOS R to look at the design and engineering going on inside.
The Japanese brand Yashica stirred up a great deal of excitement in the photo world in 2017 by teasing its return to the camera industry. In October 2017, it unveiled the Yashica Y35 digiFilm camera and raised over $1 million on Kickstarter. Backers are now receiving their cameras, and the initial reaction has been overwhelmingly negative.
Photos of a not-yet-announced Leica M10-D digital rangefinder have leaked, and the sneak peek shows the M10-D will have an unusual feature among digital M rangefinders.
Camera manufacturers have been utilizing different types of autofocus systems in modern digital cameras. If you'd like a primer on how each one works, here's a fantastic 18-minute video by tech tester Gerald Undone that will bring you up to speed.
Sony has announced the new Cyber-shot HX99, what the company calls "the world's smallest travel high zoom camera." The camera features a powerful 28x zoom and 4K video recording.
DJI's Ronin-S gimbal stabilizer is marketed as being compatible with mirrorless cameras, but there's a catch: if you use a Sony camera, you'll need to buy an extra cable for full compatibility. Some owners aren't happy about this, and they've taken to DJI's forums to complain and demand free cables.
The new Nikon Z7 mirrorless camera and the Nikon D850 DSLR both have 45.7MP backside-illuminated full-frame sensors, so one might reasonably assume that the two cameras have virtually identical image quality. But it turns out the Z7 actually falls short in the area of dynamic range due to banding.
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 look at how the "compact" body compares in size to other popular cameras on the market.
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."
Zeiss has announced the ZX1, a new full-frame compact camera with a fixed 35mm f/2 lens. It's the first-ever full-frame camera by Zeiss.
I recently discussed how Fujifilm's decision to go into the medium format industry might have been a mistake. But considering some of the recent announcements, have my points been completely negated?
Sigma has announced that it's developing a full-frame L-mount mirrorless camera as part of the company's new L-Mount Alliance with Leica and Panasonic. At the core of the camera will be a sensor with Sigma's Foveon technology.
The Russian camera brand Zenit has announced a new full-frame "mirrorless" camera. Called the Zenit M, it's a rangefinder based on the Leica M (Type 240) created in collaboration with Leica.
Ricoh has announced the development of the highly-anticipated GR III high-end digital compact camera. It's designed to be "the ultimate street photography camera."
Fujifilm has launched the Instax Square SQ20, a new hybrid digital camera that replaces the SQ10 that was launched last year.
Fujifilm today announced that it's currently building its third GFX medium format mirrorless camera. The new flagship camera will feature a 102-megapixel sensor and a number of firsts among its kind.
Leica has announced the upcoming S3 medium-format DSLR camera, the "next evolution of the Leica S-System." The announcement comes 10 years after the S2 was announced back at Photokina 2008.
Leica, Panasonic, and Sigma have just announced the new L-Mount Alliance, a new collaborative effort based around the Leica L-Mount. The three companies will develop new L-mount full-frame and APS-C mirrorless cameras and lenses.
Canon has announced the PowerShot SX70 HS, a new "high-power zoom" digital camera that replaces the SX60 HS.
Fujifilm will reportedly be announcing an "affordable" medium format mirrorless camera called the GFX 50R on September 25th, and now new sketches are giving us a first look at the camera's physical design.
Fujifilm has announced the new X-T3, a fourth-generation APS-C mirrorless camera that packs impressive photo and video capabilities.
Canon has officially unveiled the new EOS R, the company's first full-frame mirrorless competitor. The announcement comes just two weeks after Nikon revealed its first full-frame mirrorless system, the Z Series.
The cat is out of the bag. As rumors foretold, Canon will indeed be announcing its first full-frame mirrorless camera and 7 different new lenses next week on September 5th.
Sony has announced the HX99 and HX95, the world's smallest compact cameras that feature 720mm (35mm equivalent) reach on the telephoto end.
About a year after announcing the OneStep 2 Polaroid instant camera, Polaroid Originals (the company formerly known as The Impossible Project) has announced the new OneStep+. This latest i-Type camera is an improvement on the OneStep 2, adding Bluetooth and several other feature upgrades.