I never thought I’d see the day: Until today you had to spring for a pricey Nvidia Quadro workstation graphics card to properly view your shiny ray-traced renders or accurately grade HDR video in professional applications such as Adobe Photoshop and Premiere. Now that 30-bit support comes down to more affordable GeForce and Titan cards. And not just …

Is it worth paying for a small second screen on your gaming laptop? Based on some time with the HP Omen X 2S and its six-inch 1080p touchscreen above the keyboard, I’d give it a big, fat… maybe. Thus far, the 2S strikes me as a well-designed, fast 15-inch system that’s surprisingly light (though I’ve just been toting monster 17-inch …

Taking direct aim at Canon’s G7 X III, Sony’s refocusing the marketing of its top-end RX100-series compact on vloggers and adding features from its A9 sports-shooting and new A7R IV mirrorless models; these include an improved autofocus system with real-time tracking and real-time Eye AF for video (in addition to stills), a mic jack, vertical recording and improved stabilization for shooting …

Who doesn’t want to play on a screen with sky-high contrast, super-saturated colors and zippy pixel response? That’s what you get with an OLED display. But it’s not all fun and games, as I discovered after spending a couple weeks with an OLED-equipped Alienware m15. The configuration we went hands-on with isn’t available to buy: you can only get this …

Wacom’s less-expensive line of pen displays just got bigger — literally — with the new 22-inch model, the Cintiq 22. It joins the Cintiq 16, which debuted at CES 2019 as part of Wacom’s push to attract new artists in need of its pressure-sensitive prowess but who don’t have the bucks for its traditionally expensive professional graphics tablets to attach …

Amazon’s two-day Prime Day 2019 is behind us and along with it some of the best deals. But there are still some gaming Prime Day sales and other general discounts that are worth checking out in our handy list. You’re welcome. Update, July 17: Amazon’s Prime Day sale has officially ended. Some of the deals below may continue to be available for a …

The update to its veteran A7R series, the A7R IV, boasts Sony’s own medium-format-class, 15-stop full-frame 61-megapixel BSI sensor to take on inexpensive medium-format camera competitors like Fujifilm’s GFX 50S. And it comes in at a lower price than the entry-level medium formats as well: It will be $3,500 when it ships in September in the US. (Directly converted, that’s …

Sony’s finally delivering a fast 35mm lens unto the full-frame faithful. It’s a compact, midpriced f1.8 option optimized for both still and video shooting and designed to be a high-end choice for APS-C cameras as well as full-frame models. To date, Sony’s only in-house fast 35mm lenses have been for APS-C cameras.  The $750 lens enters preorders today and is …

Canon’s catering to its vlogging fans with a souped-up-for-video update to its popular G7 X Mark II, the G7 X Mark III, and turns its EVF-equipped big brother, the G5 X Mark II, into a a bit of a copycat. The cameras are slated to ship in August, at $750 for the G7 X III and $900 for the G5 …

The battle rages on. A week before AMD was scheduled to deliver the details about its new Navi-generation midrange graphics cards, the Radeon RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT, rival Nvidia announced bumped-up “Super” versions of its directly competing RTX 2060 and RTX 2070 at slightly lower prices than AMD had publicly revealed for its new cards. So two days …