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Imaging Resource Camera of the Year 2022: Best Standard Lens & Overall Lens of the Year
So far, we've crowned our top lenses in wide-angle, ultra-wide angle, telephoto and super-telephoto categories. Those lenses are useful for a wide range of subjects, but no lens tops the classic "standard" lens when it comes to delivering a realistic, natural perspective. If you want to get very specific, the...
Imaging Resource Camera of the Year 2022: Best Overall Camera of 2022
Deciding on the best camera of the year is always a difficult decision, as we take into consideration a wide range of factors in what constitutes the "best" camera. Image quality performance is a key criterion, if not the most important one, but other factors such as AF performance, video features, handling and...
Imaging Resource Camera of the Year 2022: Best Telephoto and Super-telephoto Lenses
Here at Imaging Resource, we are big fans of telephoto lenses. They're great for a wide variety of subjects, including the ever-popular wildlife and sports. However, telephoto lenses are also suitable for capturing portraits and photographing landscapes. 2022 brought us some excellent long lenses. While we didn't...
Imaging Resource Camera of the Year 2022: Best Pro Cameras & Best Medium-Format Camera
Following yesterday's awards for the Best Camera for Beginners and Best Camera for Enthusiasts, today we're looking at professional-oriented camera models. Typically, we put all "pro" cameras together in a single category, but 2022 was packed to the gills with so many pro cameras across different sensor sizes, we...
Panasonic announces S5 Mark II & S5 IIX cameras with phase-detect AF, plus LUMIX S 14-28mm F4-5.6 Macro lens
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Panasonic has announced a pair of new LUMIX S series full-frame mirrorless cameras, the S5 Mark II and S5 Mark IIX. The pair of cameras share nearly every feature and specification, differing in only a handful of areas, primarily related to video. Before...
Fujifilm X-T5 Gallery: An initial sampling of real-world images from Fuji’s high-res enthusiast camera
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Just named as our 2022 Best Camera for Enthusiasts, the new Fujifilm X-T5 continues Fuji's award-winning heritage of their impressive X-T series of APS-C mirrorless cameras. This latest-generation model maintains that classic retro-inspired design we've come to know...
Imaging Resource Camera of the Year 2022: Best Ultra-Wide and Wide-Angle Lenses
It's our first day for Camera of the Year Awards, and we're kicking things off with the ever-popular categories of ultra-wide angle and wide-angle lenses. It was a busy year for wide lenses, with new optics arriving from a wide range of manufacturers across nearly every lens mount and camera system.
Sigma was...
Imaging Resource Camera of the Year 2022: Best Cameras for Beginners and Enthusiasts
To make a great camera, it doesn't always need to be filled with every bell and every whistle, nor does it need to cost an arm and a leg. Not every camera needs to be designed for high-end or professional uses for it to be impressive and capable of capturing beautiful photos and stunning videos. There are...
Sony A7R V Hands-on Review: 61MP camera offers impressive improvements thanks to AI
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The Sony A7R V is more evolution than revolution for the high-res Alpha "R" series, but that doesn't mean there's not a lot to like. While the 61-megapixel sensor remains unchanged, Sony has made many other changes to the A7R V, ranging from minor to significant....
OM System OM-5 Gallery: New images from OMDS’ affordable, weather-resistant MFT camera
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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 announces Laowa 6mm F2 Zero-D for Micro Four Thirds, the widest rectilinear lens for MFT
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...
Fujifilm announces new advanced semiconductor materials facility in South Korea
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...
Top rentals at Lensrentals in 2022: DSLR interest wanes, Canon & Sony continue to dominate, and video is on the rise
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...
Laowa 19mm F2.8 Zero-D lens offers GFX users a much-needed fast & affordable wide-angle prime lens
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...
Canon R6 Mark II First Shots: Have a look at Canon’s latest full-frame mirrorless camera
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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...
Video: A bulletproof photo backup workflow
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 announces revised 12-35mm F2.8 Micro Four Thirds lens with improved optics & shorter focusing distance
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...
Add a big splash to your living space with Saal Digital’s metal photo prints
Back in the heyday of film cameras, getting prints of your photographs was much more common. I mean, you essentially had to if you want to see and enjoy your photos beyond just tiny negatives or in slide format. But as the world transitioned to digital, storing loads of images digitally and viewing images...
What’s your favorite camera of the year? Cast your vote for our 2022 Camera of the Year Reader’s Choice Award! (UPDATE: Poll closed)
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 announces end of feature support for perpetual licenses, move away from major annual releases
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...