The Canon EOS R8 II has arrived, with some unexpected similarities to the old model, some welcome ergonomic changes and a new, er, design. It looks like this might be Canon’s long-rumoured ‘retro’ camera…
Opinion
This is where I offer thoughts on developments in photography and video, some of the context behind news stories and industry events, and how these might impact photographers.
Sony’s new 400mm and 600mm supertelephotos can save you $20,000 and 4kg in weight!
You might have been underwhelmed by Sony’s announcement of its new FE 400mm f/4.5 GM OSS and FE 600mm f/6.3 GM OSS. Neither is cheap and both look quite slow compared to Sony’s existing FE 400mm f/2.8 GM OSS primes FE 600mm f/4 GM OSS. But it’s time to let the numbers tell the story because the savings in cost and weight are HUGE.
The OM PEN is officially launched and, if you ask me, OM could not have judged it better
OM System teased its new camera well before its official launch, and while it gave very little away, it was clearly a rangefinder-style camera with an integrated EVF. Combined with OM’s own interview responses over the past few months, this suggested a new PEN-series camera with the compact, pocket friendly format that made the original PEN series so popular,
These cameras are HOW old??
This list might surprise you. It surprised me, anyway. It includes a whole bunch of cameras I still think of as being like, well, new(ish) but when you check the dates it turns out they’ve been around longer than we think.
New Fujifilm XF400mmF4.5 R LM OIS WR supertelephoto could be huge for sports and wildlife
The XF400mmF4.5 R LM OIS WR is a very interesting addition to the Fujifilm telephoto lens range and complements the high-speed Fujifilm XH2S and its stacked sensor and Fujifilm’s growing strength in the sports and wildlife market.
OM Systems’ new rangefinder-style camera will have just one rival – and it’s a tough one
You might imagine the market is full of rangefinder-style mirrorless cameras with viewfinders, but those days are gone. Olympus itself only made a camera like this once before – the PEN-F – and while Panasonic made a bunch of compact GX-series cameras that might have competed, they are long gone. So what’s left that could compete with the new OM.
Sony has just won two EISA awards. one for the A7 V and one for the A7R VI, but is this really significant?
EISA stands for Expert Imaging and Sound Association, and it hands out camera awards every year. It’s not the only organisation to do this as there is also TIPA (Technical Image Press Association), which announces its own awards earlier in the year. Both organisations license out their award logos for camera makers to use in their marketing. If that sounds a little cosy, well, kind of.
Which is better, IBIS or OIS? Myths, claims and real-world experience don’t always align
IBIS, or in-body stabilization, is considered the gold standard for image stabilisation today, and lens-based optical image stabilisers are consider old tech, or second best at least. But is that actually correct? And if OIS is so old hat, how come so many lenses still use it?
When we turned our back on DSLRs we gave up a lot of things we shouldn’t have
One of these is the optical viewfinder. When mirrorless cameras first came out, almost all of my tech journo colleagues embraced electronic viewfinders for showing what the camera will actually capture, and for the mechanical simplicity of the mirrorless design. I wasn’t so sure, but I couldn’t really explain why. Now I think I can.
Everyone thinks Panasonic Lumix G Micro Four Thirds has had it. Really? Let’s see
There’s a lot of gloom around the Micro Four Thirds format these days, much of it from MFT fans worried that their favorite formate might be on the way out, and a lot of it from full frame sensor zealots who think it’s about time. This second bunch is just plain wrong, so let’s not worry about them. Let’s look at what’s actually happening on the ground.