Continuing its trend of enhancing the appeal of dSLRs for shooting video, Canon rolled out a new version of its 18-135mm f3.5-5.6 lens with a couple of important upgrades over the current model. The Canon EF-S18-135mm f3.5-5.6 IS USM incorporates a new motor designed to provide quiet video performance, much like its STM stepper-motor lenses …

For a developer of tools for creative professionals, Adobe has been remarkably lax at asset management. The only tool it offers to manage more than just a limited set of file types has been Adobe Bridge, which hasn’t been substantially updated in years. I have a press deck from 2008 — that’s circa Photoshop CS4 — with screenshots that look …

Stressing “curiousity” and “creativity” and timing the launch to avoid the noise of CES in January, Sony today announced the replacement for its immensely popular APS-C sensor-based A6000, the A6300, and a new line of flagship lenses, called G Master. The A6300 incorporates a new 24.2-megapixel sensor and new 425-point phase-detection autofocus. It uses on-sensor phase detection so it works …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Premium lens-maker Zeiss has joined with office-equipment workhorse Fellowes to develop and distribute a line of lenses for phones under Fellowes’ ExoLens brand (created when Fellowes entered the mobile lens market in 2014 …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. While writing about Panasonic’s new 100-400mm lens I couldn’t help comparing it to Olympus’s later-in-the-day announcement of its M.Zuiko 300mm f4 IS Pro, at a 35mm-equivalent focal length of 600mm the first real …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Until I began writing this up, it hadn’t really hit me how few telephoto zoom lenses Panasonic offered. Out of the 26 lenses it released since 2012, only 6 extend beyond 100mm and …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Following up on its introduction of the Bamboo Smart line of styluses for Samsung mobile devices in September– those equipped with EMR (electromagnetic resonance) screens — Wacom has rolled out similar $40 notetaking …

Rumors have been flying since September: Samsung’s exiting the camera business, it reassigned the NX camera staff elsewhere in the company, it told salespeople in some countries that the NX1 had been discontinued (see summary at Petapixel). I generally pay little attention to rumors, but I strongly believe that this latest one is likely true. No confirmations, either on or …

Early December brings several holiday gifts for Creative Cloud users. The video application features announced at the beginning of September should start appearing in your update notifications, and the Android version of Adobe Premiere Clip also rears its head in the Google Play store. It’s free but you have to sign up for an Adobe account (as many commenters complain). …

I’ve been waiting for this to happen ever since Adobe launched the cloud portion of Creative Cloud: as of February 23, 2016, the party’s over for Adobe Revel. Emails have been going out to current Revel subscribers over the past 24 hours or so. Launched in the fall of 2011 as Adobe Carousel, Adobe expanded the service’s capabilities and integrated …