Sony’s finally delivering an essential full-frame lens that it’s been missing. A 50mm f2.8 macro is a staple for when you need close focus plus a 1:1 view of the subject, for example, in product photography. The maximum aperture of f2.8 keeps the price reasonable, in this case $500 (directly converted, about £380 and AU$660). …

Along with its major EOS 5D Mark IV announcement, Canon rolled out 2016 updates for two of its staple pro lenses and a Wi-Fi upgrade for a trio of cameras (that should have had it to begin with). Canon’s solution for retrofitting the EOS 7D Mark II and EOS 5DS and 5D SR with Wi-Fi takes the form of an …

Lensbaby’s bundle o’ special-effects joy, the $2,500 Movie Maker’s Kit, now turns “II.” Composed of some of the company’s highest-quality lenses, mounts based on its current Composer II and a hard travel case, the kit targets pro dSLR and cinema shooters. The Movie Maker’s Kit II contains: Composer Pro II PL with Sweet 50 Optic Composer Pro II with Edge …

Annotation just became a lot easier if you’re a Microsoft Office user on the iPhone. The Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps now have a draw tab that lets you create a sketch area or overlay one on your document. Enlarge Image Draw, partner. Screenshot by Lori Grunin/CNET You can draw with your finger or with a passive stylus that emulates …

Mid-price phone maker Alcatel joins forces with carrier MetroPCS for a budget-friendly package price of $29 on the new Alcatel TRU — after a couple of rebates of its $109 manufacturer price. Enlarge Image Alcatel The TRU’s feature set runs true to its budget price. It uses Android 5 (the current version is 7, though the most popular version is …

Adobe has slowly been rolling out third-party document-storage support for its free mobile PDF reader; for the chosen few on iOS, it meant the ability to directly open and save documents to services from big players like Microsoft and Dropbox. As of today, you’ll be able to add those capabilities yourself with any service — like we’ve been able to …

Unless you’ve used its Stylus app or its handwriting-based calculator app (iOS, Android), chances are you’ve never heard of MyScript. But it’s the company behind much of the handwriting recognition built into software note-taking apps (such as the cloud-based recognition of the Bamboo Spark) as well as model-specific operating-system extensions for high-end tablets and hybrid laptops. Now the company is …

If you’ve ever had the yen to display the photos in your Adobe Lightroom mobile catalogs on your TV — and that’s a pretty specific yen — there’s now an Apple TV app for that. It allows you to navigate your collections, see individual photos and slideshows, and zoom in on photos. In addition to the synced photos, it will …

Nikon’s latest addition to its Gold Ring series of professional prime lenses takes the form of the AF-S NIKKOR 105mm f/1.4E ED, a fast-aperture full-frame (FX mount) lens that’s likely ideal for portraiture; as far as I can tell, it’s the fastest Nikon-mount prime available in that focal length. If you feel like mounting it on a DX-mount camera like …

Joining its kin in Tokyo, Barcelona, Bogata, Manila, Shanghai and Singapore, Fujifilm’s Wonder Photo Shop gets its US debut this Friday, July 22, in New York City at 176 Fifth Avenue. As with many manufacturers, the company’s brick-and-mortar stores will show off the company’s imaging product lines — these include the Instax print digital cameras and various enthusiast-targeted camera models …