The latest addition to Zeiss’ collection of fast lenses designed for Sony’s A7-series cameras — though they’ll also work on smaller-sensor models like the A6000 and A6300 — the Batis 2.8/18 is Zeiss’ fastest and widest lens to date for a mirrorless camera. As usual, though, speed costs you; in this case, $1,500 (£1,190; directly …

Enlarge Image The Twist 60 has a conventional Lensbaby design. Lensbaby The barons of bokeh look to the past for their latest lens, the Lensbaby Twist 60. It reproduces the idiosyncratic characteristics of the Petzval lens, which renders out-of-focus areas with a lot of curvature. Unlike the other resurrection of the Petzval lens from Lomography, Lensbaby’s has a more conventional …

Compared to last year’s NAB show where Adobe announced some really innovative new tools, this year’s NAB updates for the video applications in Creative Cloud are more yawn and less “yay!” That doesn’t mean there aren’t important workflow enhancements that will make day-to-day production easier; there are. There’s just nothing particularly glamorous about filling essential holes in the feature set …

Sony follows up on its high-end full-frame lens announcements with more affordable models intended for both its APS-C and full-frame mirrorless cameras. The FE 70-300mm f4.5-5.6 G OSS may not seem cheap at $1,200 (£1,150; Australian price not available, but US converts to AU$1,580), but it’s likely more than half the price of the as-yet unshipped 70-200mm f2.8 and in …

Now playing: Watch this: Apple’s newest iPad Pro has a first-of-its-kind display 1:59 Enlarge Image From what we can tell, True Tone changes the white point of the iPad’s display and adjusts brightness to compensate for the lighting in the environment. Apple Apple’s just-launched 9.7-inch iPad Pro features a new display with a technology the company’s dubbed True Tone, just …

Now playing: Watch this: iPhone SE and new iPad Pro: CNET Editors react 2:30 When Apple invites you to its campus for an announcement, you know it’s going to be low-key. Intimate, for its almost-40th birthday on April 1. And today’s announcements prove the rule, with two technically unremarkable but likely consumer-friendly smaller additions to its iPhone and iPad lineups: …

I’m glad I took a little extra time to get to know Adobe Experience Design CC (XD), the productized version of the Project Comet that Adobe unveiled in October 2015. If I had written this as planned on the day it launched my thoughts would have been far less charitable. That’s partly because Adobe’s Previews — what we used to …

Standard-zoom kit lenses for most Micro Four Thirds cameras have typically been 14-42mm (28-84mm equivalent) or 12-50mm (24-100mm). Both Panasonic and Olympus offer some cheap longer zooms as well, but there are tradeoffs: the broader the zoom range you pack into a lens, the slower and softer it tends to get. Panasonic’s new 12-60mm f3.5-5.6 sounds like a great compromise: …

Tamron launched its new-generation SP series lenses in September 2015 with a pair of fast, fixed-focal-length models designed for full-frame camera mounts. Their fast apertures, better build quality and new coatings improved on past designs but were still relatively affordable for photographers with smaller APS-C sensors in their dSLRs. Now Tamron is offering a follow-up pair of affordable primes. It’s …

In the “lenses-that-make-you-go-mmmmm” department, Sigma adds to its collection of fast, premium-build Art lenses with the Sigma 50-100mm F1.8 DC HSM Art, the first medium telephoto zoom with a constant f1.8 aperture. That’s the perfect focal range for portrait photography on a full frame camera, and more-or-less the equivalent of the staple 70-200mm f2.8 on an APS-C camera (75-150mm on …