Lensbaby’s initial foray into mobile lenses, the LM-10 Sweet Spot Lens for Mobile , was a fun first effort but slightly awkward to use. The company follows it up with the Creative Mobile Kit, a new $90 mount system with two trademark special-effects lenses and a kickstand. (I don’t have overseas pricing yet, but it …
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Nikon offers fast general
The 16-80mm f2.8-4 is a nice all-purpose range. Nikon Essentially a DX-mount option that serves a similar purpose as its 24-120mm f4 FX-mount lens — it’s the equivalent focal range on a Nikon APS-C camera like the D7200 — the AF-S DX Nikkor 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR sounds like a great general-purpose alternative to Nikon’s slow 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 kit lens …
Read More »Adobe Creative Cloud 2015 drizzles Android apps, Photoshop artboards, photo dehazing and more
Illustrator’s useful artboards come to Photoshop Adobe Although Creative Cloud gets rolling updates, Adobe still does “big” splashes at least once a year, as well as at its Adobe Max conference in October, folding in some of the features released in the months prior as “new.” I wasn’t able to get access in advance to the updated apps and applications …
Read More »Apple Music, iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan: Everything Apple announced at its WWDC 2015 developers conference
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: Apple WWDC 2015: Everything you need to see 4:53 We expected a low-key, only modestly consumer-focused conference from Apple’s WWDC 2015; what we got was a lot of new software to look forward to. As predicted, there was no …
Read More »Google I/O 2015 recap: Android M, Android Pay, free photo storage and new VR plans
James Martin/CNET What did you miss by not being at this year’s Google developer’s conference, I/O 2015? A milling-around period with a wraparound screen on which attendees played Pong, a whale swam, and Matrix-like binary rain fell. And oh, yeah — some cool stuff! But don’t despair; we’re here to fill you in on the good, bad, and ugly. Google …
Read More »Adobe discontinues Photoshop Touch, previews its next generation
Screenshot by Lori Grunin/CNET Thursday Adobe announced that it has bumped off Photoshop Touch, and with it the last of Adobe’s original mobile apps have been laid to rest. Despite originally debuting its apps on Android tablets , Adobe has let that platform languish; only a few apps, most notably the last release of Lightroom, supports it. The good news …
Read More »Canon upgrades its 50mm f1.8 prime with STM technology and more
Canon On the heels of the availability of its latest consumer models, the T6i (750D) and T6s (760D) , Canon introduces a new lens to its small family of STM lenses. Sporting significant upgrades over its older EF 50mm f1.8 II — this year is its 25th anniversary! — the EF 50mm f1.8 STM still comes in at the same …
Read More »Leica updates M Monochrom for film noir
Leica It was three years ago this May when Leica boldly introduced a black-and-white-only version of its M series full-frame rangefinder that’s garnered the usual Leica fans. Now the company follows up with the M Monochrom (Typ 426), essentially the identical camera but with an expanded buffer and the capability to shoot video and a few other tweaks. Slated to …
Read More »Galaxy S6 outshines iPhone 6 on DXO’s camera benchmarks
Enlarge ImageMore pixels means more detail at 100 percent. Lynn La/CNET Camera testing specialist DXO ran the new Samsung Galaxy S6‘s camera through its battery of tests and its results are in: the S6 has a better ability to resolve detail than the iPhone 6‘s camera, and its video is as good or better in almost every way. Except image …
Read More »Sony updates staple pro A
The new lenses look pretty much the same, though the new coatings are important. Sony It’s hard to believe that they’re 10 years old, but Sony’s finally updating two of its most important lenses. The Vario-Sonnar T* 16-35mm f2.8 SSM II and 24-70mm f2.8 II remain essentially the same but Sony incorporates more recent coatings — coating technology has change …
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