BCN+R, one of the largest databases of electronics sales in Japan, has published a trends report from 2020. While the whole industry struggled, it reveals Nikon specifically is in a rough market position.
For those unfamiliar, BCN Ranking (BCN+R) describes itself as a sales database that collects and aggregates actual sales data of PCs, digital home appliances, and more from major home…
Fujifilm GFX 100S sample gallery
March 12, 2021
The Fujifilm GFX 100S packs an image-stabilized 100MP medium format sensor into a body about the size a typical full-frame camera. It delivers great image quality in a walk around camera, and also includes a new film simulation: Nostalgic neg.
Take a look into our sample…
Leica announces a new D-Lux 7 ‘Street Kit’
March 12, 2021
Leica has announced the release of the D-Lux 7 Street Kit, an all-in-one offering Leica pitches as the ‘perfect choice for spontaneous street photography’
At the core of the new Street Kit is a black-finish Leica D-Lux 7. As with its non-street counterpart, which is…
Oppo has released all the details of the Find X3 Pro smartphone it teased earlier this month, and it looks impressive. The new flagship smartphone features a quad-camera array with two 10-bit 50-megapixel cameras and a billion color QHD+ curved display.
Starting with the cameras, Oppo says that the design of this smartphone comes from understanding how actual photographers work: they change…
Photographer Shoots ‘Dance’ Photos of Fabrics in Motion
March 11, 2021
London-based photographer Neal Grundy’s latest project looks like dance photography, except the images don’t contain any people. Instead, each one shows the graceful, flowing forms of fabrics in motion. The project is titled Dancing Fabrics.
Grundy produced a similar…
Adobe has announced that a new version of Photoshop is now available, allowing the popular photo editing software to run natively on Macs with Apple’s M1 chip. This news comes nearly five months after Adobe announced that native versions were coming soon and after…
Earlier today, Adobe finally released the full-blown non-Beta version of Photoshop for Apple Silicon, and we got a chance to test it out. I won’t beat around the bush: the benchmarks are really impressive, matching or outperforming Intel-based computers that cost two to three times as much.
We’ve been expecting this release for some time, playing around with the Beta version of Photoshop for…
Adobe has shipped the first version of Photoshop that can run natively on Macs equipped with Apple Silicon and also has announced a new feature for Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) called “Super Resolution” that is available today.
Adobe Photoshop with Native Apple Silicon…
Fotodiox has announced a nifty new “spin” on taking high-resolution, square-shaped, medium-format-style photos using one of many different interchangeable lens mirrorless cameras. The Rhinocam Vertex lets you easily capture four images in a precise way so that stitching…
The Little Camera That Can: Pocketing the Fuji X70
March 10, 2021
I bought a used Fujifilm X70 online last year during the UK lockdown. For quite a while I’d been wanting a camera that I could pocket. No case, no fluff, just pocket.
The criteria was that simple. Such a camera would be unnoticed, yet with me all the time. I trawled the Internet and read dozens of reviews of various camera brands but I kept coming up against compromises I wasn’t willing to…
