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Gear of the Year 2021: Barney's choice - Nikon Z9

I feel like the luckiest boy in the world right now, sitting at my desk to write an article I’ve been looking forward to for weeks about a camera I’d been looking forward to for years. Luckier still because I actually have the camera. There’s a shiny new Nikon Z9 sitting next to me right now, with a Z 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 VR S attached, just begging me to go out and shoot with…
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Shares its Top Mars Photos of 2021

The Mars Perseverance Rover has been hard at work on the Red Planet since it landed earlier this year. In addition to capturing physical samples, it has also been regularly snapping photos and NASA has shared its most liked images from the last year. NASA hosts all the photos that the Mars rover captures and each can be liked by the public. NASA compiles these likes to determine a…
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PetaPixel’s Bold Camera Predictions for 2022

We’re starting a new tradition here at PetaPixel, where our staff gets together to discuss the things they know, not just think, will transpire over the course of the next calendar year. As bold predictions go, we’re almost certainly going to get a lot of this wrong. …
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Nikon Z 24-120mm F4 S sample gallery

Nikon’s new Z 24-120mm F4 S is a standard zoom lens for the full-frame mirrorless Z mount, intended to offer a more versatile and cheaper alternative to the high-end Z 24-70mm F2.8 S. Providing decent medium telephoto reach, good close focusing capabilities and a lighter, more portable form factor, the Z 24-120mm F4 S should make an ideal carry-everywhere zoom for Z6 and Z7-series…
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Hands-on with new Nikon FTZ II adapter

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Hands-on with new Nikon FTZ II adapter Alongside the Z9, and a bunch of other things, Nikon announced a new version of the FTZ adapter, named – appropriately enough – the FTZ II. The new adapter offers no additional functionality compared to the original, and if you’re planning on rocking a Z5, Z6 or Z7-series camera for a…
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