First impressions from the M1 – Mirrorless camera by Xiaomi YI

Yi is a definitely a weird company in the camera makers word. While Sony, fuji and the likes are marketing their cameras as part of of a complete life style story, YI is more focused on technical specs and price. This is how they marketed the YI 4K, and this is their approach with the […]

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Yahoo hacked, 500 million passwords stolen, change your Flickr password

If you own a Flickr account you should probably change your password the minute you read this post. Yahoo says that the data breach occurred in late 2014 and “The account information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords (the vast majority with bcrypt) and, in some cases, encrypted […]

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SanDisk just unveiled a massvive 1 Terabyte SD memory card

So how many photos do you think you can cram in a 1 Terabyte memory card (spoiler: it’s this times 2)?  This question just move from a theoretical question into a practical question as SanDisk just showed off their first prototype of a 1 Terabyte SDXC card. While this is not the first consumer 1 Terabyte […]

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GoPro’s HERO5 has a touch screen, built in waterproofing and voice control

GoPro just announced their new line of cameras (along with the Karma drone) and frankly I am not that excited. The new line from GoPro is called Hero5 (no big surprises there) and it features only two cameras: a more advanced GoPro Hero5 Black and a smaller GoPro Hero5 session. That, I think, is a […]

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Fujifilm announces a medium format 51.4 megapixels mirrorless monster, meet GFX 50S

Here is something interesting that is coming from this year’s photokina. Fuji just announced the GFX 50S. It is a medium format camera with a sensor that is 70% larger than a full frame DSLR. The sensor for this new camera is a G Format 43.8 x 32.9mm sensor, and it will shoot in the following […]

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Olympus announces the uber retro Pen E-PL8 Micro Four Thirds camera + lenses and a strobe

With Photokina coming it is no surprise that many announcements are reeling in. Olympus just Olympus announces the uber retro Pen E-PL8 Micro Four Thirds camera (pre-order here). The PEN E-PL8, follows the Olympus line of retro cameras only doing it with more style. So this camera has quite a design dialog with the recently announced […]

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This is what Burning Man playa dust will do to your camera [horror story]

Burning man is probably one of the best places in the world to get some exciting photos going. Sadly, not without a price. Roger Cicala of LensRental tells that after each Burning Man festival he s faced with the task of cleaning (and sometimes scraping) the gear  that came back from the Playa. It is not […]

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