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Camera Sales Shrank 40% in 2020

While monitoring the camera market over the past year has been like riding a volatile roller coaster, now that 2020 is behind us it can be properly evaluated as a whole. BCN+R, a major Japanese camera retailer, has released its data from the whole of 2020 and it is unsurprisingly pretty bleak. Because of the COVID-19 coronavirus, the photography market was largely upended from its usual…
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Nikon Has Likely Discontinued the D3500 and D5600 DSLRs

Nikon Japan has designated the D5600 and D3500 as “old product,” which has historically meant that the cameras were being discontinued. This news comes after the Nikon D5600 was Japan’s top-selling DSLR of 2020. Though it continues to sell well, Nikon’s designation…
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LG Unveils Beautifully Thin, Color-Accurate 4K OLED Monitor

Though LG is responsible for creating most (if not all) of the OLED panels you’ll see in TVs and displays on the market, the company had yet to produce its own OLED monitor. Today that changes with the announcement of the LG UltraFine Display OLED Pro. Using OLED technology for monitors has historically been a bit of a risk. While OLED technology can offer incredible color accuracy, top-tier…
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OWC Unveils Two New Multi-Port Docks for Macs and PCs

In addition to a 2800 MB/s SSD, OWC has also announced two new docks for Mac and PC: the USB-C Travel Dock E and the new Thunderbolt Dock. The former is designed to make travel connectivity options more robust, while the latter will add more options to your permanent desktop…
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An Ultra-Wide-Angle Mirrorless Lens Shootout: Sigma 14-24mm vs Tamron 17-28mm

Let’s talk about the most interesting and hardest lens to master: the ultra wide angle. This is a fantastic lens that lets you share unique perspectives of almost any subject by cramming a whole lot of environment in a single frame. If you are in the market for one of these, follow on as I compare two of the best on the market. By definition, the ultra-wide-angle lenses are anything shorter than…
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Fujifilm GF 63mm F2.8 R WR sample gallery

We’ve been shooting with Fujifilm’s GF 63mm F2.8 R WR for some time now, usually on the 50MP GFX 50S and 50R bodies. Well, we’ve got some of those images here, but we also added a boatload of 100MP images from the GFX 100 to see just how well…
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Nikon Officially Ends International Warranties for Lenses and Accessories

While published on Nikon Japan a few weeks ago, a notice in English has finally been added announcing that the company will no longer provide international warranties for Nikkor lenses and accessories. Nikon has published the English version of the notice on Nikon Imaging Support. In it, the company states that up until this point it had attached an international warranty to interchangeable…
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