Sadly, the more recent A7S does not get a price cut. Sarah Tew/CNET To squeeze in a spot for the new version of its A7 full-frame interchangeable-lens camera, the A7 II , Sony’s permanently dropping the prices on several of the existing models just in time for Black Friday 2014. (These are US and UK-only; …

Lensbaby Creative Focus lens prototype Sarah Tew/CNET Lensbaby is taking its signature special-effects lenses for interchangeable-lens cameras (like the Spark and the Edge 80) and shrinking them down to phone size. Now a beyond-fully-funded Kickstarter project, the company plans to ship the Creative Focus Lens for Mobile Phones to iOS backers in July and make it publicly available in August. …

Now playing: Watch this: Apple’s 5S camera is packed with features — burst mode,… 7:32 We didn’t expect much in the way of significant updates to the iPhone 5’s camera, but we got some nice surprises with the iPhone 5S. Here’s what’s new: 1.5-micron pixels on sensor, still 8 megapixels, sensor 15 percent larger than iPhone 5’s 5-element lens with …

It’s a bit of a niche, but disconnecting the pressure-sensitive stylus from its dedicated drawing tablet and enabling use with a more mainstream, general purpose tablet like an iPad is quite liberating for designers and doodlers alike. Wacom, known for its excellent drawing peripherals like the Intuos5, has been strangely slow to jump into this market — but finally lands …