Nikon Japan has published a public notice on its website that confirms orders for the company’s AF-S Nikkor 180–400mm F4R TC1.4 FL ED VR lens are being suspended indefinitely after today ‘due to production reasons.’
Historically, Nikon doesn’t comments on the discontinuation of specific cameras or lenses, but the past two months have seen various Nikon DSLR cameras and F-mount lenses…
Gordon Laing, Editor of CameraLabs*, has *published his latest ‘Retro Review,’ featuring the Canon PowerShot 600, an early digital camera that he considers ‘Canon’s first consumer digital camera.’
The 10-minute video showcases the pros and cons of the 25-year-old…
NiSi Optics USA has announced the the Circular Black Mist Filter that it says is ideal for cinematographers as well as street, portrait, and wedding photographers.
NiSi is known for developing and manufacturing a vast range of optical products for photographeres and…
The latest update for Adobe Photoshop includes a new Neural Filter called Depth Blur that lets photographers choose different focal points and will blur the background of photos intelligently, effectively, bringing the idea of a smartphone’s “Portrait Mode” to the desktop application.
Within Photoshop, it is already possible to create this effect manually by using various blurs and manually…
In a patent, Canon explains how it intends to translate its Eye-Control Autofocus (AF) technology into a camera with an electronic viewfinder (EVF). The technology was originally developed for the EOS 5 SLR, and as such needed updating.
In early April, Canon announced that…
After several reports that Nikon was discontinuing or delaying the production of DSLR lenses without comment, the company has broken its silence. Citing “production reasons,” the company is temporarily suspending orders for the AF-S NIKKOR 180-400mm f/4E TC1.4 FL ED VR…
Confirming a report from early March, Snap has officially announced its ambitious next-generation augmented reality (AR) Spectacles. They sound incredibly ambitous, but they also aren’t for sale.
The new, lightweight display glasses are made for creators and enables them to overlay what are called “Lenses” directly onto the world through immersive AR. The company says it is building a…
2020 was the year 8K video finally arrived on the enthusiast camera scene, courtesy of the Canon EOS R5. A few months later, Sony followed suit with its flagship a1, Nikon pre-announced support for 8K on its future Z9, and more announcements are surely in the pipeline.
The…
You’d think an inoperable camera and lens damaged in a fire would be worthless. That’s probably true most of the time, but not the case when the gear in question is a Leica M4 with a Summicron 50mm lens. The 1968 camera and lens, described by Flints Auctions in…
Flints Auctions
A fire-damaged Leica M4 rangefinder camera with a Summicron 50mm lens has been sold for £1,488 ($2,070) at an auction in the United Kingdom, showing that even inoperable Leica cameras somehow hold value.
As described by the U.K. auction house Flints, the “chargrilled” Leica M4 — which comes with Leitz Summicron f/2 50mm lens — has been damaged by fire. Dated in 1968, the…
