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There is a big craze for Sony full frame (FF) mirrorless cameras at the moment, and seeing people rush onto that bandwagon is like watching lemmings following each other over the cliff.

Many fanboys can be heard triumphantly declaring the victory of FF mirrorless over the DSLR, but like George W. Bushs declaration of mission accomplished this triumphalism is grossly premature. I am allowed to say this because I am a Sony FF mirrorless owner after I too was... more

Key Features
  • 20.1MP 1"-type BSI CMOS sensor
  • F2.8-5.9, 25-250mm equiv. lens
  • Depth from Defocus AF
  • 4K/UHD video capture
  • 3" touchscreen LCD
  • 1.2M-dot equiv. EVF
  • Post Focus / 4K Photo functions
  • Wi-Fi


As the 1"-type enthusiast compact market has grown over the last 2 years, there has been a noticeable gap in the market. There were small, standard zoom (24-70mm) models and long zooms (24-... more

It came out first in 1940, when Europe was plunged into war but America was enjoying the dying days of calm before the storm. It was Kodaks new black-and-white film, designed to be shot on location. The only problem was, it was only available in large format.

Fourteen years later, it came out in 35mm and 120 and quickly became a staple of news photographers and photojournalists; a monochrome film that could be pushed and pushed and pushed again, creating... more

In addition to the X-Pro2 firmware update we reported on last week, Fujifilm has released a number of firmware updates for several lenses and camera bodies: the X-Pro1, X-Pro2, X-M1, X-E1, X-A1, and X-A2, as well as the XF 50-140mm F2.8 and XF 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR lenses.... more

Victoria Yore and Terrence Drysdale are a couple made in photography heaven. The first is a beautiful model, the second a talented portrait, landscape, and travel photographer, and together they’ve created a series of wanderlust-inspiring images that are going viral.

Yore and Drysdale, 23 and 27, travel the world searching for remote and beautiful landscapesbe they in a US National Park or among the most-photographed locations in Iceland. The resulting... more

Professional photographers sometimes gripe about how casual shooters undercut their businesses by offering (often) lesser quality work for pennies on the dollar. But it’s not something that was brought on by cheap and accessible digital cameras — this “problem” has been around from the early days of photography.

RIT photography professor... more

4K Video Sample Reel

All video was shot in Sony's XAVC 4K codec, at 4K/24p (except for the high-frame rate samples). Shutter speed was locked at 1/50 sec, aperture was manually selected on the lens and the camera was left in Auto ISO. Both manual focus and continuous autofocus were used.

Carey's shooting impressions

The Sony Cyber-shot RX10 III is a conventional product for Sony. That might sound slightly negative at first, but really it means that the RX10 III is built well,... more

My name is Jason Rosenthal, and I’m the CEO of Lytro. A little over a year ago, it became clear to me that we needed to drastically change the direction of our company.

Wed already built... more

The FAA has been scrambling to come up with appropriate rules for multi-rotor camera drones since the flying machines took the world by storm a few years back. And while the first set of proposed rules were revealed a little over a year ago, it seems a US Government committee is already working on a very important update.

For those unfamiliar with the background here,... more

Photographer Peter Stewart is an internationally published photographer who’s also popular on photo sharing sites, boasting tens of thousands of followers and millions of views on... more

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