Fuji announced the price of its new medium format camera GFX 50S: $6500, even cheaper than the bulkier Pentax 645Z. As the competing Hasselblad X1D-50c was announced with a $9k price tag this will certainly convince more DSLR owners to invest in medium format. In my eyes this is not about megapixels but about sensors – and it will be interesting how Canon and Nikon will compete in 2017.
Fujifilm X-T2
July 7, 2016 by Leave a Comment
The X-T2 isn’t just an X-T1 with more pixels, it looks like a major step forward and a very capable camera:
- 24MP X-Trans CMOS sensor
- 325 AF points (169 with phase detection)
- 5 fps continuous shooting with live view updates, 8 fps continuous shooting with AF (11 fps with grip)
- 4K UHD video at up to 30 fps
- 3″, 1.04M-dot articulating LCD
- Dual SD card slots
Sony a6300 – the camera that both Nikon and Canon fear
February 4, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Sony announced the a6300, a mirrorless camera with a newly developed sensor:
- 24 MP APS-C sensor
- Uninterrupted live view at up to 8 fps
- 425 point on-sensor AF system (phase detection)
- Up to 11 fps
- ISO up to 51,200
- 4K video
One of the last reasons to bet on DSLRs seems to disappear. I’m sure both Nikon and Canon have high end mirrorless cameras in their labs – it will be interesting, when they begin to bring them to market. Now they can’t wait for another 5 years.
Canon EOS-1D X Mark II
February 2, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Canon has announced the new flagship Canon EOS-1D X Mark II:
- New 20.2MP CMOS sensor
- Dual DIGIC 6+ processors
- 4k video at 60p, 1080p with up to 120 fps
- Up to 14 fps (16 fps with mirror lock up)
- ISO 100-51200, boostable to 409600
- 61-point autofocus (41 of them cross-type)
- Up to 170 RAWs in a burst if using CFast cards
First test report on Nikon D5: killer AF and low ISO
January 12, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Ole J Liodden had a Nikon D5 for two months and made 50,000 exposures. He now posted a very interesting field review:
- He reports serious improvements when using long lenses and speaks about a killer AF: “This is a big upgrade, and made photographing with 600/4.0 lens and 2.0X extender even in low light conditions possible.”
- “Based on the jpg-files I have reviewed and edited, the image quality up to ISO 12 800 looks very clean. I would not have any problems including most of these ISO 12 800 images in my image bank or for high quality printing”
- “Based on what I can see in the jpeg-files the High ISO performance is seriously improved”
- He ends with “sets new standards especially regarding the AF-system and High ISO performance”