Sony's new FE 24-70mm F2.8 G Master is as pro-level as pro-level lenses come. Dust and moisture-sealed, it offers impressively fast AF speeds due to Direct Drive SSM, especially when paired with the Sony a7R II (which we used to shoot this gallery). Though we only spent about 24 waking hours with it, images shot throughout the focal range show the lens is sharp, even wide open. Note that chromatic aberration was... more
A photographer’s awareness and quick-thinking helped save the life of a TV news reporter this week. His warning cry allowed the reporter to jump out of the path of a car crash, and it was all caught on camera.
In the 2-minute video above, we see San Francisco Bay Area reporter Alex... more
A long-time Los Angeles Times photographer was arrested on the side of a road yesterday while transmitting photos he shot of former First Lady Nancy Reagan’s funeral motorcade.
Canon today announced its latest entry-level DSLR, the Rebel T6 (known as the EOS 1300D in other countries). If you’re looking for a groundbreaking new camera, unfortunately the T6 isn’t what you’re hoping for.
The new Rebel T6 is basically a slightly improved... more
Canon has announced its latest entry-level DSLR, the Rebel T6, which is known as the EOS 1300D in most regions. The T6 is a relatively minor update to the Rebel T5 (EOS 1200D) and adds a faster Digic 4+ processor, higher resolution LCD, 'white... more
The Sigma 50-100mm F1.8 is a bit of a rarity. It's a fast telezoom designed specifically for Canon, Nikon and Sigma APS-C bodies, providing 75-150mm equivalent range (80-160mm on Canon bodies). Canon and Sigma mount versions should also work on Sony E-mount cameras with Sigma's new... more
Samsung has announced a new smartphone image sensor that offers 12MP resolution, 1.4μm-pixel-size and Dual Pixel technology for fast focusing. Interestingly, those are very similar specifications to that of the Sony IMX260 sensor that has been found to be used in Samsung's new flagship smartphones S7 and S7 edge. Read more
If all journeys are teachers, it may well be that a journey to India is the greatest teacher of all. As Kurt Vonnegut said, “Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God,” and it was in search of a new dance that I purchased a one-way ticket on the longest train in India.
Timelapse video:
Indian Railways train #15906, the Dibrugarh-Kanyakumari Vivek Express, travels 4,273km as it winds its way from the... more
