Nikon announced today that its developing a super-telephoto 500mm f5.6 lens with image stabilization that’s small and light enough to be used handheld. Super-telephoto lenses are a prized possession for sports and wildlife photographers, but they are large and back-breaking to haul around. The upcoming AF-S Nikkor 500mm f5.6E PF ED VR, designed for the …
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Sigma’s latest addition to its Art line of wide-aperture lenses seems like it’s on the pricey side at $1,600, but when you consider that only Nikon offers a similar model for twice as much, this feels like a bargain if you can afford it. Sigma plans to ship the 105mm F1.4 DG HSM full-frame lens in June in Canon, Nikon …
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Tara Miller sees the world through the diameter of a straw, but that doesn’t stop her from capturing the exact moment when a new bride throws her bouquet into the wedding crowd. Miller is a legally blind commercial photographer in Winnipeg, Manitoba. You might think photography relies on seeing the moment, but Miller uses hearing and instinct. If shooting baseball, “I …
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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, Abe’s of Maine deals are …
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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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For years I’ve been urging Adobe to rebuild its Lightroom image editing software on top of a more robust database than its years-old problem child that randomly corrupts itself and doesn’t speak network, among other things. From now on, I’ll be careful what I wish for. At this year’s Adobe Max conference, along with feature and performance updates to the …
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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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Thinking about buying a camera but don’t have a clue where to start? We’re here to help. And even if you know it all, you may find some alternatives you hadn’t considered. If you’re standing in the middle of a store wondering what to buy, start with our current top picks: Cheap dSLR camera: Nikon D3300 General purpose compact camera: …
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