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For quite a few years now, Germany's Leica Camera AG and Japan's Panasonic have had a partnership in the consumer camera market. Leica supplies its know-how regarding the lenses, while Panasonic provides the brains of the camera behind the lens. The cameras appear first under Panasonic's Lumix compact camera...

 

 

Earlier this year, we previewed the Panasonic LX7, one of a number of products vying for the title of top pocket digital camera. Although we've yet to complete a full review we're rather optimistic about its prospects. Our initial testing suggested a fairly significant step forward from the earlier LX5 model,...

 

 

Though Nikon just last week announced the much-awaited "bargain" full-frame D600, you can buy one right now and have it in your hands as early as tomorrow.

Amazon lists the new DSLR as in stock, in both  body-only  or kit version with the Nikkor AF-S 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5G ED VR kit lens for a few dollars under list...

 

 

Over the years, Lensbaby has evolved its selective focusing system from a one-piece optic into the modular Optic Swap system. But today at photokina the company introduced a new design that folds both concepts into an affordable new option.

The new Spark updates the old bellows design of the Lensbaby 2.0 with the...

 

 

Canon released its original EF 28mm f/2.8 lens in 1987, so when it decided to update the Canon EF 28mm f/2.8 IS USM wide angle prime twenty-five years later, you would imagine it would want to do something special. Canon didn't disappoint: they gave it a completely new optical design and added image stabilization....

 

 

Nik Software today announced its immediate acquisition by Google. The page devoted to the news on the Nik site says simply:

We are pleased to announce that Google has acquired Nik Software. For nearly 17 years, we’ve been guided by our motto, “photography first”, as we worked to build world class digital image...

If you could ask a product manager at any camera company any question you wanted, what would it be?

We landed today in Cologne, Germany, for what's shaping up to be the biggest Photokina in recent memory. Full-frame goes mainstream, video and still imaging continue their courtship, while camera manufacturers continue to experiment with wifi and in-camera apps. Who said...

 

 

Samsung has added significant creative flexibility to its NX-series of compact interchangeable lens cameras by introducing at Photokina a new ultra-wide-angle zoom lens and a new mid-telephoto prime lens. With these two additions, the company now has 11 professional-caliber options within its NX Lens family. Here's...

 

 

Three nuggets of news came from Sigma at Photokina today, as the company announced it has redefined its lineup of interchangeable lenses into three categories, introduced three new lenses -- one for each new category -- and shared how the company is stepping up its lens testing and quality control processes.

The...

When Canon announced the PRO-1 a year ago, it hinted that was just the beginning. It planned to introduce a whole line of 13-inch PRO printers based on the same technology as its flagship model.

Today the company followed up on that promise with two new PRO models: the pigment-based PRO-10 and the dye-based PRO-100, the first dye-based model in the line. The new models...

 

 

DxO has announced its new ViewPoint software solution for correction distortion from wide angle lenses and keystoning is now available at its online store. A trial version is also posted there.

No need to wait for the review either. We reviewed a beta version last month. Complete with a gallery of our own images...

 

 

Panasonic's GH series cameras have had video recording as their main focus from day one. The GH1 saw good pickup among amateur video enthusiasts, and with the GH2, quite a few pros began using them as inexpensive alternatives to full-frame SLRs. This was aided by the GH2's excellent video quality, as well as...

 

 

Tiny and feature-rich as they were, Olympus saw fit to revamp their two smallest Pen cameras just fifteen months after their introduction. The higher-end model, the Olympus Pen E-PL5, is still about the same size, but it gains a few features from both the E-P3 and the OM-D E-M5, both of which have some cool...

 

 

Revamping their two smallest Pen cameras just fifteen months after their introduction, Olympus chose to give their least expensive model--the Olympus E-PM2--the combined look of the original E-PL1, with the fixed grip of the original E-P1. It's fun to see their designers playing with the digital Pen heritage...

 

 

Special care was taken to differentiate the Olympus Stylus XZ-2--yes, the Stylus brandname has been resurrected--from a close competitor, the Panasonic LX5/LX7. The surprising result is that the camera body grew a bit, both in size and price. As I've noticed from their other recent cameras, Olympus is still...

 

 

After last week's announcement of the affordable full-frame Nikon D600 digital SLR, it's no surprise to see the Canon EOS 6D finally emerge from behind the curtain of rumor and conjecture. The new Canon 6D is another camera designed to appeal to the photographer who wants to step up to full-frame but has...

 

 

With their latest enthusiast powerhouse camera, Canon leapfrogged the G13 and G14 names for the superstitious among us, landing instead on PowerShot G15. Luckily, this jump wasn't in name only. The Canon G15 boasts a bevy of advanced technologies, especially the 28mm wide-angle 5x zoom lens which starts out at a...

 

 

In the ever-increasing battle for the biggest, baddest megazoom on the planet, Canon has fired its latest salvo with the PowerShot SX50 HS. This digital camera's 50x optical zoom delivers the equivalent of 24-1,200mm range from a 24mm wide-angle lens, and boasts several improvements over the PowerShot SX40 HS, an...

 

 

With a look more reminiscent of the S95, the Canon PowerShot S110 deletes the grip of last year's popular predecessor, the S100, while adding very little to the rest of the camera. But there's one major new feature that proves the Canon PowerShot S110 is more than just refinement: Built-in WiFi. It makes perfect...