I’ve come to a grim realization recently and that is: There is no perfect camera backpack out there. And while that sounds like a bad way to start off a review, let me follow up my last statement with this one: The Shape Shifter is as close as I have been able to come to finding the perfect camera backpack! I get emails from various companies asking me to review products for DPS and my photography website and that’s always fun, but I want to start out the review by saying that I pursued ThinkTank to see if they’d send me a Shape Shifter for a recent trip to Italy. I searched the interwebs high and low for the perfect backpack for my trip. I had several different models from several different …
When I review lenses I take a look at who they are built for. I realize not every DPS reader wants to lug around a 5lb lens worth a couple month’s rent. While I love my main lens, it’s not for everyone and I’d be a fool to tell you you should buy it if you just want a portrait lens.
With that mentality in mind, I took a look at the Tamron 18-270mm after they sent me a review copy. Was it going to become my new pro lens of choice? No, and that’s not who it is built for.
Who it is built for, in my opinion, is anyone who loves to travel but doesn’t want to carry a quiver full of lenses for most occasions (read: heavy bag). Any zoom …
Another new camera announced today comes from Canon – the Powershot G1X. This camera too comes with a larger CMOS sensor – however unlike many other cameras with larger sensors is an all in one camera with no interchangeable lenses.
Canon are billing it as an alliterative to a DSLR (or a 2nd camera for those with a DSLR who want something smaller) in that it has a higher quality image but in a portable body but I have to wonder whether the recent array of smaller interchangeable lenses are going to make people overlook this option – it’s definitely a statement that they’re not looking to head down that route with their larger sensor compact cameras.
The beauty of not having to include lens mounts means that they’re able to keep the size down, quality …
One of the fastest growing segments of the digital camera market is the smaller bodied interchangeable lens mirrorless cameras that have been released by many manufacturers in the last 12 or so months. Filling the gap between DSLRs and compact point and shoots – these cameras give the flexibility of being able to change lenses with the benefits of not having to lug around a larger camera. Increasingly they’re providing these benefits with a really high standard of image.
One manufacturer doing great things in this space is Fuji who have won a lot of fans in the last little while with their highly acclaimed X100.
Today they went one further and released the Fujifilm X-Pro1 – an interchangeable lens system aimed at the professional and advanced amateur audience. It’s a 16 megapixel camera with a new …
Jared Polin from FroKnowsPhoto.com has just handed me this press release from Nikon on their new D4! Which he says is pure awesome.
Sniff test it? Yes he did… Watch the video below for Jared’s reaction to the newly announced Nikon D4
Potentially available end of Feb 2012 and coming in at around $6,000…
Here’s the video, press release right below it!
Follow @FroKnowsPhoto for more updates (He is spree casting at 11:30 PST)
