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16 October 2013 In what will certainly kick-start a revolution in full-frame photography hardware, Sony today announced the highly anticipated a7, housing a 35mm full-frame sensor, 24.3 megapixels, interchangeable lens, mirrorless compact system camera. Sony also announced the full-frame 36.4 megapixel a7R, the bigger brother of the a7 (but only in megapixels not physical size). [...]

With the MCM London Comic Convention 2013 at the ExCeL London Exhibition and Convention Centre on the 25th – 27th October, we decided to pay a visit for some great photo opportunities. Besides, who can resist some superheroes and villains action? Exactly. The legendary Canon 5D Mark II DSLR, Canon EF 50mm f1.4, and Canon [...]

Light meters are a useful photographic tool to have to hand when you’re in the studio, or just out and about shooting. But you don’t want to be carrying around all your gear plus a light meter, so here’s a great product that will make life that little bit easier for you…introducing Luxi, the iPhone [...]

Fujifilm have released firmware v1.02 for the Fujifilm X100S compact system camera. The firmware update addresses a problem whereby the viewfinder’s frameline brightness did not automatically adjust when using ISO 1600 and above. At the same time, Fujifilm have also released firmware updates for the following cameras: Z2000EXR HS50EXR F820EXR F900EXR Download the Fujifilm X100S [...]

Sigma have come up trumps with their announcement of the world’s first F1.8 constant aperture zoom lens. The 18-35mm f/1.8 DC HSM Art lens is  a wide-aperture, standard zoom lens offering a useful 27-52.5mm focal range on DSLR cameras with APS-C size sensors. Weighing in at just 810 grams (that’s somewhere between a dozen Krispy Kreme [...]

9 April 2013 Almost exactly a year from the announcement of the DMC-GF5 compact system camera (5 April 2012 to be exact), Panasonic have announced it’s successor in the Lumix G lineup, the DMC-GF6. With it, comes the almost obligatory jump in sensor resolution, up from 12 megapixels to a detail-grabbing 16 megapixels, built in [...]

Good news for all Fujifilm X-Trans and EXR-Sensor based compact camera users, as Fujifilm announce their continued work with Adobe to bring better support and processing of RAW files in Adobe Camera RAW and Adobe Lightroom software. In a statement issued today, 3 April 2013,  Adobe group manager Tom Hogarty said “We worked closely with [...]

Today, 21 March 2013, and along with two new first-class additions to its entry-level consumer DSLR line-up, the Canon EOS 700D and Canon EOS 100D digital cameras, Canon also unveiled their new EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM lens to compliment their latest DSLR offerings. Canon says: The new EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM is the [...]

7 January 2013 The 2013 Consumer Electronic Show has been the platform for many new product announcements, and Fujifilm certainly didn’t disappoint with the announcement of the Fujifilm X100S digital compact system camera, amongst others. The X100S will be available from March 2013. The X100S is the anticipated follow up to the legendary Fujifilm X100, released almost [...]

November 6, 2012. Nikon have announced the release of their new entry level DSLR, the Nikon D5200, with a mouth-watering 24.1 megapixel DX format sensor (same pixel count as the Nikon D3200 DSLR, however, Nikon say this is a new sensor), a 39 point AF system (sadly, only 9 are cross-type) and a 2,016-pixel RGB metering sensor [...]

What Digital Camera have posted a hands-on preview of the Canon EOS M compact system camera. The Canon EOS M shares the same APS-C sized sensor as the EOS 650D DSLR, has a touch-screen  and introduces a new lens mount system. Judging from What Digital Camera’s experience with the pre-production unit, the AF is decent, the touch-screen [...]

We spent a short time yesterday taking some photos with the new 16.1 megapixel APS-C sensor Sony NEX-6 compact system camera. All photos were shot in RAW and JPEG formats, and we’ve uploaded ZIP files of each set so you can download and scrutinise them for yourself. We used the Sony 16-50mm F3.5-5.6 E-mount kit lens [...]

24 October 2012 Nikon have announced the next generation model in their Nikon 1 V series in the form of the Nikon 1 V2 interchangeable lens compact system camera. The Nikon 1 V2 packs a 14.2 million pixel 13.2 mm x 8.8 mm CMOS sensor (Nikon CX format), a built-in flash, electronic viewfinder (EVF), Live [...]

24 October 2012 The sublime Canon EOS 5D Mark III digital camera is getting a firmware update to enhance video capabilities, video output and auto-focusing for still images, Canon has announced. But don’t rush to get it just yet though; the firmware update won’t be available until April 2013. Full details below (or visit our [...]

There’s no denying that the Fujifilm X-E1 digital camera is a wonderful piece of kit, so head on over to our Fujifilm X-E1 article to learn all about it. Wait, there’s more… We’ve added a hands-on review video from DigitalRev, so head on over to the Fujifilm X-E1 article and scroll down to the X-E1 [...]

Which digital camera and mobile products are hot at the moment (well at DigitalRev anyway)? Well, according to DigitalRev here are the best sellers this week: 1. Fujifilm X-E1 With XF 35mm F1.4 R Kit 2. Samsung Galaxy S III 16GB 3. Tokina AT-X 116 PRO DX AF 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens 4. Canon PowerShot S110 Digital Camera 5. Panasonic Lumix [...]