Today, Fujifilm released versions 2.0 (X-E1) and 3.0 (X-Pro1) of the camera firmware for their X-Mount mirrorless cameras. This has been a long anticipated firmware update, and it adds some great features: Addition of focus peaking to highlight in-focus areas during manual focus Quick adjustment of viewfinder magnification between 3x and 10x using the rear…
Adobe announced today that they are moving all Creative Suite applications to the Creative Cloud and the Creative Cloud only. That is, Adobe Photoshop CS6 (and the other CS6 applications) will be the last stand-alone pieces of software of their kind. From now on, all future versions will require a monthly subscription to use them….
Wow. Photokina kicked off this week, and as one of the biggest (if not THE biggest) photography trade shows, it also sees a ton of announcements. I wanted to get to these earlier, but it’s been crazy busy around here. For Micro 4/3 users, Monday saw the announced release of no less than three new…
Today, Sony made a number of announcements in their imaging division, from a new full-frame SLT camera to a full frame camcorder, to a very expensive full-frame compact camera (I’ll likely follow with some thoughts on that later tonight). However, for those of us who use predominantly mirrorless cameras, the new NEX-6 and NEX lenses…
Yesterday, Samsung announced their new Galaxy Camera…a full fledged point and shoot with essentially a full fledged smartphone built in (minus the voice calling). It’s an intriguing idea, and I feel it likely shows functionality that will become more commonplace with cameras going forward. It’s got a 21x optical zoom lens and a 16.3 MP…
Pansonic today announced a bunch of new cameras…a small sensor superzoom with f/2.8 aperture (which is pretty cool, frankly), a new ‘premium’ compact in the LX7, and their latest Micro 4/3 camera, the Lumix DMC-G5. Panasonic Lumix G5 The G5 is the successor to the G3, and uses a similar, but not quite the same,…
Photoshop CS6 was released yesterday. It includes several big improvements over CS5 including a new processing engine that speeds up the program significantly, additional video tools and some excellent additions to the content-aware toolset, among other changes. But, what if Photoshop is just too darn expensive? I bit the bullet years ago and purchased Photoshop…
Lightroom has been getting more and more powerful. Lightroom 4.0 was just released a few months ago, and Adobe is nearly ready to push out the 4.1 update, which will be free to all Lightroom 4 owners. Usually these incremental updates contain new camera profiles, some bug fixes and a perhaps a tweak here and…