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During an hour-long media briefing and hands-on session at Photokina following the Sony A99 II’s surprise unveiling on Monday, I was able to get some hands-on time, albeit just briefly, with the new flagship A-mount SLT camera.

The primary topic of discussion in the meeting was the A99 II’s impressively-spec’d...

 

 

It's been promised for what feels like an eternity, and now it's finally here: Action camera maker GoPro has taken the wraps off its long-awaited Karma aerial camera platform! Final judgement on the company's first drone will have to wait until the Karma reaches market, but with the specs finally known, it's...

 

 

The gear protection folks at Lowepro have announced multiple new products at Photokina today.

Flipside Trek series

The first new bag is aimed squarely at adventure photographers. The Flipside Trek comes in three sizes and offers body-side access, meaning that you can retrieve your gear without taking the...

 

 

Chinese technology company Yi has announced at Photokina a new mirrorless camera aimed at making the capture of high-end, professional-quality photos more user-friendly and enjoyable. You might recognize Yi's name from our coverage of its Yi 4K action camera or its recent forays into drones.

Details are scarce at...

 

 

Fujifilm hopes that photographers will look back at Photokina 2016 as a game-changing event. Why? Because the Japanese company hopes to reinvent medium format photography with its newly-announced GFX 50S camera.

GFX mirrorless digital camera system

As a bit of background on the new mirrorless medium-format GFX...

 

 

Olympus 12-100mm f/4 IS Pro

Back in 2013 alongside the E-M1, Olympus' first Zuiko Pro lens, the 12-40mm f/2.8, made its debut. This 24-80mm-equivalent lens gained a telephoto counterpart some time later in the form of the 40-150mm f/2.8. These two optics made for a rather versatile combination that provided a...

 

 

The announcements continue at Photokina as Olympus kicks off its press conference. What does the company have to reveal today? The IR team is live at the show, and we'll summarize the announcements below. In the meantime, you can see all of the new products for yourself in the live stream video courtesy of Olympus:...

Earlier today we brought you the Fuji press conference from Photokina in Cologne, Germany, and now the news that they're bringing a medium format system to us in 2017 in the form of the GFX. Read below for the updates as they happened in real time, and stay tuned for much more to come!

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We're live yet again at the fourth major press conference of the day, this...

 

 

Nikon has today announced three KeyMission cameras, including the KeyMission 360 that it briefly teased during CES in January. The trio of action cameras are differentiated not only by their features, but by their lenses and imaging sensors.

The KeyMission 360 is the flagship KeyMission camera, offering a full...

 

 

With the biennial Photokina trade show getting underway tomorrow, the announcements are pouring in thick and fast. We're reporting live from the show as usual, and Senior Editor William Brawley is front and a little off-center at Sony's press conference, ready for whatever new products the company has to offer...

 

 

In addition to the new G85, LX10 and FZ2500 cameras announced today at Photokina, Panasonic teased the next version of their esteemed photo-video flagship camera, the GH5. While only a few key details were revealed, the forthcoming GH5 promises a lot of impressive photo and video technology.

Sporting a brand new...

 

 

It's finally here, ladies and gents: The biennial Photokina tradeshow in Cologne, Germany kicks off tomorrow, explaining the raft of announcements around these parts of late. And now Panasonic has joined in the festivities, launching three hot new cameras that will take its Lumix camera line into the next...

 

 

The Photokina trade show in Cologne, Germany is just around the corner, and we don't want our readers to miss a thing! The show itself starts Tuesday, but Monday is press day, and we expect to see some significant announcements. Photokina comes around only every other year, so companies often hold back at least a...

 

 

Another week has flown by, and it's that time once more: Firmware Friday is here! This week, we have news of updates for three cameras, and in all three cases it's not just bug fixes -- there are new features on offer here too! And for good measure, we also have news of an update for Techart's Leica M to Sony...

 

 

Two years ago, famed lens maker Zeiss launched its new Loxia lens line for full-frame Sony E-mount cameras with a pair of bright prime lenses, a 35mm f/2 and a 50mm f/2 respectively. A year later, it added a little something to the wide end of the range with a third Loxia optic, the 21mm f/2.8, and now the...

 

 

Every photographer is different, and that's likely the one thing we can all agree on. We all have a different matrix of subject matter we like to shoot, different needs in camera gear and lenses, and we all have a different aesthetic eye that we were born with or have cultivated over time. The Fujifilm X-T2 has...

 

 

Unveiled about a month ago and just now appearing on store shelves, the new Nikon D3400 serves as the Japanese camera maker's latest entry-level DSLR. We recently got our hands on this new piece of kit, and given the impressive image quality of its predecessor, we were anxious to get this new model into the lab to...

 

 

Uncage the Soul Productions recently took the specialized Canon ME20F-SH video camera out under the stars to capture footage at ISO 400,000. The camera was paired with a Sigma 20mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art lens and follows a group of high school students from an astronomy camp as they observed this year’s Perseids meteor...

 

 

If you've been waiting patiently in the hopes of a higher-end offering for Canon's EOS M-series lineup of mirrorless cameras, your wait is over: The company has just taken the wraps off the Canon EOS M5, and unlike its entry-level predecessors, the new model looks to offer much better performance in an...