Editors’ note: This article was first published Nov. 17 and has since been updated with B&H and Adorama Black Friday deals. Also, expired deals have been pruned. There aren’t many Black Friday deals on cameras to get excited about — at least not yet, unless you want to wade into some murky shopping waters. For instance, …
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Everyone has that photo: The first time they realized their phone’s camera was more than just a toy. For me, it came not long after the release of the original iPhone in 2007. Laura, my then-girlfriend-now-wife, and I stayed up to buy “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” on release day before we started off on a journey to New …
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This is part of our Road Trip 2017 summer series “The Smartest Stuff,” about how innovators are thinking up new ways to make you — and the world around you — smarter. Well before sunrise, I pull my SLR, a super-sturdy carbon-fiber tripod and a gargantuan $11,500 camera lens out of my car’s trunk. I’d driven two hours through the …
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Nikon delivers a trio of new lenses aimed at very different types of photographers, from the budget-focused consumer to the quality-focused pro. The AF-P DX Nikkor 10-20mm f4.5-5.6G VR’s focal range overlaps somewhat with the typical 18-55mm kit lens, but if you’ve got one of the four-digit dSLR models, its aggressive $310 price is pretty attractive for fulfilling any wide-angle …
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This morning I received the sad news: email notifications from B&H Photo breaking that Nikon was discontinuing its DL series of enthusiast-targeted fixed-lens cameras — actually, discontinuing efforts to produce them at all. This is almost a year since the company announced them at CP+ 2016. Then came the terse press release from Nikon USA confirming B&H’s note, with the …
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Now playing: Watch this: Big news! Apple is not killing off a port 1:20 Enlarge Image Apple’s alleged new connector is an old off-the-shelf connector used with such products as Nikon cameras. http://www.jcshop.co.uk/ Apple blog 9to5Mac reported today that Apple was planning a “new smaller Ultra Accessory Connector (UAC) for Made-for-iPhone accessories,” which created a small uproar in the blogosphere. …
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Nikon added a new specialized pro lens to its family along with a welcome update to the staple 70-200mm f2.8 pro model. The first is a special-purpose PC Nikkor 19mm f4E ED. PC stands for “perspective correction,” Nikon’s terminology for its tilt-shift lenses. Tilt-shift lenses can either be used when wide-angle is necessary but distortion is undesirable — such as …
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