ZEISS Batis 1.8/85 Zeiss Zeiss adds another couple of fast Sony full-frame E-mount lenses for the A7 series, its first FE-mount models with autofocus designed and produced by Zeiss. Launching the new Batis line, the two weather-sealed fixed focal-length lenses also sport a novel OLED display on their barrels. The $1,300 ZEISS Batis 2/25 is …

Adobe’s new augmented reality color app, Project Candy, lets you grab color palettes from real life and apply them as looks to videos in Premiere or After Effects. It uses bubbles in lieu of a histogram to display color frequencies. Adobe In its annual NAB pilgrimage, Adobe once again lays out it slate of forthcoming updates to its Creative Cloud-based …

Now playing: Watch this: Beastgrip Pro hopes to tame phoneography 3:08 I once spent a day at CES photographing the different ways people had rigged out their phones, tablets, cameras and camcorders for reporting on the show: there seems to be an infinite number. Beastgrip Pro tries to take on all of them. And based on my preview of the …

Acrobat Fill and Sign, one of the new mobile apps, looks like one of the most useful aspects of the update. Adobe Add Acrobat to the growing list of Adobe products relying on the software as a service model. Subscription Acrobat isn’t new, but now that entire end of Adobe’s business follows another big step down the road its design- …

Now playing: Watch this: New MacBook features a ‘full-size keyboard’ 1:15 Our fearless live-blogging team before the event: Tim Stevens, Scott Stein, Dan Ackerman and Shara Tibken. James Martin/CNET SAN FRANCISCO — Aaaand we’re back at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, a favorite venue for Apple’s announcements, after the more intimate setting of its headquarters for the iPad …

Though the world’s biggest mobile tradeshow hasn’t offically begun yet, Sunday was a big day for announcements. Samsung, HTC, Huawei, Alcatel, Mozilla and Nokia all held events to bring everyone up to date on what’s next for them. And of course, there was a boatload of new products. Here are the highlights of the day’s news and events. (Or all …

The 42.5mm lens looks more like an Olympus than a Panasonic. Panasonic Two new fast Micro Four Thirds lenses are on the horizon from Panasonic, one targeted at portrait photographers and one telephoto macro model. Both lenses incorporate image stabilization and sport metal mounts. The Lumix G 42.5 f1.7, 85mm equivalent, will be able to focus as close as 12.2 …

Sigma’s 150-600mm f5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary is aimed at enthusiasts rather than pro photographers. Lori Grunin/CNET Announced back in September, Sigma has finally revealed the price and availability of its 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary lens, at least for the US: $1,100 (which converts to about AU$1,412 and £722; no pricing or avaliability yet for those locales). Six …

Enlarge Image Fujifilm In addition to the 16-55mm f2.8 it announced at CES, Fujifilm now gives us a peek at what else to expect in its X-mount lenses for 2015 and beyond. If you’re familiar with the last roadmap, there are a few surprises here. The 90mm f2 and 16mm f1.4 look like they’re still on schedule for the first …

Canon Canon gifts its pro shooters with the EF 11-24mm f4L USM, a rectilinear wide-angle zoom that has all the weather-sealed chops of the company’s L series of lenses. Okay, maybe “gifts” is the wrong word. After all, the lens will cost $3,000 (about £1,960, AU$3,850 directly converted) when it ships in February. In addition to the requisite 9 rounded-blade …