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Image: TTArtisan Today, TTArtisan has officially released its new AF 56mm F1.8 autofocus lens for X and E-mount cameras. The APS-C portrait lens is another budget offering from the China-based company. Recent Videos The 56mm F1.8 lens has ten elements in nine groups and has nine aperture blades. The lens is built with a stepper motor, which TTArtisan claims delivers fast and quiet autofocus. It h…

Photo: Richard Butler We're almost a third of the way through the year already! Here's a recap of the reviews and testing we've done this year so far, with more (and more and more) to come as the year goes on! April Panasonic S5II: Review Photo: Richard Butler The Panasonic S5II had the unfortunate luck of landing in our office right about the time we found out that our parent company planned to …

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Image: 7Artisans 7Artisans has released a new manual focus 50mm F1.4 Tilt lens , compatible with Sony and Fujifilm APS-C cameras, as well as Olympus and Panasonic Micro Four Thirds cameras. Recent Videos The new 50mm lens is made up of seven elements in six groups and has 12 aperture blades. It has a minimum focusing distance of 0.5m (19.6") and weighs 364g (12.8oz). 7Artisans states the lens has…

Image: Fujifilm, including photo by Jonas Rask Entries for Fujifilm US's Limited Edition X100VI raffle are now officially open. Entry is free and only open to US residents (18+). The raffle closes on April 21st (11:59 p.m. EDT), so if you want access to Fujifilm's highly talked about camera, you'll need to enter quickly. Recent Videos Unlike other photography raffles, the prize isn't a free camer…

Image: Blackmagic Design Alongside the Ursa Cine, Blackmagic Designs also announced the Pyxis, a $3000, 6K full-frame (36 x 24mm) modular camera. It will be available with PL, locking Canon EF or Leica L mounts. Recent Videos As with most of Blackmagic's cameras, the Pyxis offers a series of aspect ratios and crops in different frame rates, extending from 6048 x 4032 pixel 3:2 open gate at up to …

Multi-shot modes can have their moments, especially if there's any degree of motion correction available. I had to borrow a tripod to capture this shot and even after all that it doesn't show a major boost over the single-shot image of the same scene. Sony a7R V | Sony FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II @ 28mm | ISO 100 | F9 | 1/400 sec Photo: Richard Butler This is probably going to be an unpopular opinion, …

Recent Videos The Sony FE 16-25mm F2.8 G is a relatively compact wide-angle zoom E-mount lens aimed at street and travel photographers. We were able to get our hands on the lens for a day and figured most readers would be curious to see some street and architectural photography out of this lens, so we hit the streets of downtown Seattle and ducked into the Seattle Public library when the weather …

Image: Sony Sony has announced the FE 16-25mm F2.8 G, a fast, compact wide-angle zoom designed as a twin to the recent FE 24-50mm F2.8 lens . Recent Videos The 16-25mm is roughly the same dimensions as the 24-50mm and offers essentially the same features. This makes it a little longer but narrower than the existing 16-35mm F4. Buy now: $1198 at B&H Photo The design is made up of 16 elements in 13…

Image: Blackmagic Design Blackmagic Design has unveiled its latest URSA Cine camera, a 12K camera with support for interchangeable Arri PL, Arri LPL, Canon EF and Hasselblad lens mounts. It features a large sensor, propriety memory and a slew of industry-standard connections. Recent Videos At the heart of the URSA Cine 12K is a RGBW 36x24mm 12K sensor, which Blackmagic Design says can support res…

Sigma owner and CEO Kazuto Yamaki, who spoke to us at the CP+ conference in Yokohama, early this spring. Photo: Richard Butler " Unfortunately, we have not made any significant progress since last year, " says Sigma owner and CEO Kazuto Yamaki, when asked about the planned full-frame Foveon camera. But he still believes in the project and discussed what such a camera could still offer. Recent Vid…

We have a winner for sensor Top Trumps: the LSST camera is the world's largest astronomy camera. It's more than 350 times the size of a full-frame sensor, for reference. Photo: Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory "Space," according to Douglas Adams' Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. "is big. Really Big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it i…

Madagascar . A huge, wild, faraway Island. Even mentioning its name provokes an exotic, exciting feeling in my soul. I had wanted to visit Madagascar for many years before finally realizing my plans in 2022. It was one of the most wonderful trips I've done in recent years, one that stayed with me for a while. It included many adventures, diverse and exciting locations, new experiences and a heck …

Image: Atomos Atomos has announced the Ninja Phone, a monitor and recorder that connects cameras with HDMI out ports to the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. The unit acts as a 'co-processor' to encode a camera's HDMI signal to 10-bit ProRes or H.265 and send the encoded video to the phone. There is also support for USB-C mic input. Recent Videos A new Ninja Phone iPhone app was also announced…

DPReview Editors' Challenge results Last week, we issued a challenge to the DPReview community to show us what you got. We wanted to see your best images from the North American total solar eclipse, and over 150 of you submitted ! We saw heaps of creativity and technical know-how on display. It was also interesting to see all the solar flares that matched among photos taken hundreds of miles apar…