Photography

Sony has announced its 60th E-mount lens — the 50mm f/1.2 G-Master — that it hopes will prove that not only can it continue to make compact, lightweight primes but also can also do so while competing with the fast aperture lenses of both Canon and Nikon. One of the more prominent talking points that emerged when both Canon and Nikon announced the RF-mount and Z-mount and in comparison to the…

Leica has quietly announced that it will be raising the prices across its entire product line by varying degrees, averaging around 2-5% on most items but getting as high as nearly 10% in the case of some of its cameras. According to a report, while most products are seeing a small bump in prices, some items are seeing markedly higher jumps. For example, while the majority of M, SL, and TL lenses…

The StarScope Monocular is advertised as both a hand-held scope and incredible zoom lens for smartphones accompanied by some rather unbelievable performance claims. Krazy Ken of YouTube Channel Computer Clan first looks at the ads and dissects the promises before putting the scope to the test himself. To say the claims put forth by the Starscope Monocular marketing team are far-fetched is a bit…

Wildlife photographer Levi Dojczman was out photographing birds one morning when he noticed a fox. Unfortunately, he was unable to get a photo without spooking it. Not to be denied, Dojczman spent the next few days testing a method to photograph the fox using a remote tethering solution. Most Sony photographers know about the free Imaging Edge software from Sony. For those unfamiliar, Imaging…