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When the OM System OM-5 was announced in late October, we kicked off our coverage with William Brawley's in-depth Hands-on Preview and a hefty batch of real-world shots in the Gallery. If you haven't read William's Preview, you should check it out, as it discusses the...

 

 

Venus Optics has announced the Laowa 6mm F2 Zero-D lens for Micro Four Thirds, the widest rectilinear lens for Micro Four Thirds cameras. The lens is a photo-specific version of the company's existing 6mm T2.1 Cine lens, promising the same optical quality with new electrical contacts. The contacts allow users to...

 

 

Last week, Fujifilm announced plans to build an advanced semiconductor materials manufacturing facility in PyeongTaek City in the Gyeonggi Province in South Korea. The plant will manufacture color filter materials for image sensors. The manufacturing facility will be Fujifilm's second in South Korea, joining an...

 

 

Lensrentals has published their annual roundup of the top rented photo and video products of 2022. Compared to last year's breakdown, there are some interesting changes and emerging trends.

However, what hasn't changed is Canon and Sony's dominance. The two Japanese giants in the camera industry held the top two...

 

 

Venus Optics has announced its fourth lens for the Fujifilm GFX medium-format mirrorless camera system, the Laowa 19mm F2.8 Zero-D GFX. The new wide-angle prime lens joins the existing Laowa 15mm F4.5R Zero-D Shift, the Laowa 17mm F4 GFX Zero-D and Laowa 20mm F4 Zero-D Shift lenses.

The latest Laowa lens, the...

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Last month Canon debuted a follow-up to their popular R6 full-frame mirrorless camera, appropriately named the EOS R6 Mark II. This second-gen, enthusiast-grade mirrorless camera brings several upgrades and improvements over its predecessor, most notably to its...

 

 

Losing your photos is every photographer's nightmare. A failed memory card is bad enough, but what if your hard drive fails and you don't have a backup? You lose everything. Unfortunately, for unprepared photographers, this horrible event can occur. The good news is that you can dramatically reduce, if not...

 

 

Panasonic has announced a new, fast-aperture wide zoom lens for Micro Four Thirds, the Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-35mm F2.8 ASPH Power O.I.S. (H-ES12035). The focal length (24-70mm equivalent) and aperture combination aren't new within Panasonic's MFT lens lineup. Rather, the lens is a redesigned...

 

 

It's that time of year again! Camera of the Year Awards time! As we approach the end of the year, it's time to look back at all the cameras (and lenses) that came out in 2022 -- or that we here at IR reviewed in 2022 -- and assess all the good, the bad, their strengths and weaknesses, and pick our favorites. The...

 

 

Capture One has announced changes to the way licensing, updates and upgrades work for their software. While there's much to discuss, the main takeaway is that starting next February, perpetual license purchases will no longer receive any feature updates, relegated instead to just bug fixes. The response to the move...

Click here to read our Fujifilm X-H2 Hands-on Review

 

 

A few months after debuting the X-H2S, their successor model to the high-end X-H1, Fujifilm unveiled yet another X-H camera, the Fuji X-H2. This "non-S" version, rather the sporting a super-fast stacked sensor, stuck with a "traditional" X-Trans sensor design,...

 

 

The winners and Top 101 images have been selected for the 9th International Landscape Photographer of the Year competition. The overall winner, Benjamin Briones Grandi of Chile, earned the title Photographer of the Year for his portfolio. Tony Wang of China and Max Rive of the Netherlands earned second and third...

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Joining our existing lab test shots for the Sony A7R V, we've now published our first real-world gallery images for Sony's latest high-resolution Alpha mirrorless camera.

The Sony A7R V uses the same 61-megapixel sensor as the A7R IV, so we know the new camera will...

 

 

Every landscape photographer dreams of amazing weather and lighting conditions. Many shots with fantastic potential are undone by lackluster light and poor weather. However, as photographer Nigel Danson recently found out, sometimes special conditions can be overwhelming.

"It just feels like I want this to last...

 

 

The 2022 Environmental Photographer of the Year competition winners have been announced. The competition is in its 15th year, and its focus is to "tell stories of the climate and ecological emergencies the world is facing, and of the people rising to the challenge." This year's contest received more than 3,000...

 

 

NASA has unveiled a new image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The latest photo shows a pair of merging galaxies known as II ZW 96. The new photo was first previewed to Vice President Kamala Harris and French President Emmanuel Macron during a visit to NASA Headquarters in Washington on November 30....

 

 

We've seen photographer Nigel Danson offer critiques of other photographer's images, but now it's time for role reversal. Danson selected five of his all-time favorite images and sent them to four top professional landscape photographers for critique.

Danson sent his selected photos to Alex Nail, Michael...

Click here to browse our updated Fujifilm X-H2 Gallery

 

 

My hands-on review of Fujifilm's high-resolution flagship X Series camera is taking shape, but while I'm working on putting the pieces together for that, I wanted to share an updated selection of gallery images now we have the camera with production firmware....

 

 

Sony Artisan of Imagery photographer Colby Brown spent extended time at the Napo Wildlife Center in Ecuador filming a wildlife and landscape photography video series for B&H. Throughout the seven-part video series, plus a bonus Q&A episode, Brown extensively covered a wide range of photography topics, including...