Now playing: Watch this: The iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus have arrived 1:28 James Martin/CNET Welcome to the annual round of Apple’s fall announcements. The pre-event predictions were mixed: many expected a snoozefest on the iPhone front, expressed some yay-but-skeptical opinions on Apple TV, and saw possibilities for the new tech in the iPad …

Enlarge ImageAs part of Premiere Pro’s HDR-editing, Adobe increased the waveform display’s range up to 10,000 IRE. Adobe If you’re looking for a one-word summary of this season’s updates to Adobe Creative Cloud’s video applications, I’d go with “trendy” — but that’s not a bad thing. Most of the enhancements are targeted at creating trendy types of content on trendy …

Enlarge Image The Intuos line of consumer graphics tablets differs primarily by software bundle (and price). Wacom Wacom dove into IFA, the huge international consumer electronics show in Germany, with a bunch of updates to its existing product line, plus a new digital notetaking solution, Bamboo Spark. Updates include a new version of its Bamboo Fineline all-purpose iPad stylus, a …

The Tamron SP 45mm f1.8 Di VC USD lens. Lori Grunin/CNET Tamron is known for its affordable lenses that are never quite the first choice, but that are frequently worth the compromises given the price. The company is hoping to change that perception with its redesigned SP (Superior Performance) series of lenses, starting with a couple of fast single focal-length …

Canon Wide-angle lenses are more susceptible than most to chromatic aberration, that blue/purple or green fringing you sometimes see in photos and videos. To date, we’ve seen coatings designed to combat it and software processing to compensate for it. Canon’s taken a new approach, dubbed BR optics (Blue Spectrum Refractive) which debuts in the long-awaited replacement for its 35mm f1.4L …

Sarah Tew/CNET After a lukewarm US reception for its first mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera, the EOS M in 2013, Canon chose not to release its successor M2 here, and to release this year’s M3 initially in selected markets. Now Canon has chosen to follow up with a release in the US. When it ships in October, pricing will be $680 for …

Enlarge ImageNikon’s 200-500mm f5.6 lens takes on Sigma and Tamron’s competing models. Nikon Sigma and Tamron have heated up the competition for relatively inexpensive supertelephoto lenses geared to enthusiast wildlife and sports shooters, with models like the $1,100 (AU$1,250) Sigma 150-500mm f5-6.3 Contemporary (£903) and Tamron 150-600mm f5-6.3 (£770). Nikon’s joining the club with the AF-S Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6E ED …

Z Camera In one weekend, the Kickstarter for the E1 Camera, a GoPro look- and act-alike action camera but with a Micro Four Thirds lens mount, rounded past the 300-percent mark for funding and is rapidly on its way to 400 percent. It’s the brainchild of the unfortunately named startup Z — yup, just the letter “Z” although it’s sometimes …

Sigma Editors’ note, July 16, 2015: Updated with price and availability information. Sigma’s 18-35mm f1.8 excellent lens was a gift for folks with APS-C dSLRs; now the company is trying to replicate that feat with a the 24-35mm F2 DG HSM Art lens for full-frame photographers. The company’s A series of lenses historically deliver great value for a reasonable price, …

The Panasonic 100-400mm lens will offer the longest focal length for Micro Four Thirds. Panasonic Lytro has been trying to convince the world that we want to be able to play with the focus areas in our photographs post-hoc, albeit using its elegant-to-a-point technology. Panasonic seems to have taken this crusade to heart, and disclosed that it’s working on what …