Keith over at Northlight Images just posted a detailed review of the Laowa 25mm Ultra Macro complete with some pretty fascinating sample images. I’ve always found Keith’s reviews to be quite detailed and chock full of great sample images, and this one is no different. Oh, and about the Laowa? Keith has this to say; From an image quality point of view, there was little I could fault the lens with. It shows a slight bit of longitudinal chromatic aberration (purple/green tinges to OOF areas), but not excessive. The 8 blade aperture gives better looking OOF highlights than the 6…
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Fstoppers’s Wasim Ahmad posted an article today on the 4000D, Canon’s new entry level of entry level cameras. Needless to say, he’s pretty put out over Canon coming out with a brand new camera for under $400 dollars. Products like these show a fundamental misunderstanding of the camera market today. Instead of lowering the bar, why not raise it with higher quality hardware and software that can beat the smartphone and convince consumers that real cameras are worth it? It’s time to make an aspirational camera. I have problems personally with this article. For starters, not every camera should be…
MELVILLE, N.Y., March 1, 2018 – Canon U.S.A., Inc. a leader in digital imaging solutions, concluded its One Canon Event, held February 12-14 in Hollywood, Florida. The annual gathering of esteemed industry analysts and press commemorated the Company’s inclusive and inventive approaches to its diverse customers and the continued success of the One Canon business strategy. The exclusive event provided over 45 industry analysts and journalists the opportunity to engage with executive leaders, customers, and business partners, and hear about the Company’s strategic evolution to continue to help foster strong growth and performance drivers going forward. Key executives updated guests on…
Canon news discovered an APS-C zoom lens patent today, and noted this patent applies only for Canon’s powershot lineup. This patent application includes three zoom lenses; 18-85 2.8-7.6 18-105 2.5-7.3 15-105 1.8-6 Canon News notes; These would have to be compact cameras because the image circle at the wide end is not 13.66mm meaning some image stretching is occurring at the wide end. This happens occasionally in the powershot cameras. Also the backfocus of less than 4mm would be quite difficult for an EF-M lens. However, there are several EF-M lenses (11-22, 18-150) that do approach this backfocus distance already.…
CIPA statistics were released for January today, and at first glance it looks like things took a turn for the worst. Total unit shipments were down across the board with only 80.6% shipping on January 2018 versus January 2017, and digital stills cameras as a whole including compacts was 71.8% of January 2017’s volume. While this seems like bad news overall, we have to remember to take into account the Kumamoto earthquake and the fact that many products were delayed until the start of 2017. This produced more shipments in the first quarter of 2017 than what would have normally…