Category: Gear Announcement

Fujifilm add the new X-A10 entry level camera to their mirrorless line up

John Aldred

It wasn’t too long ago that Fuji announced the entry level X-A3. The much anticipated update to the X-A2, increases the resolution to 24.2MP, and provides a touchscreen LCD. Now, Fuji have announced the the new Fujifilm X-A10, which sits right at the bottom of their entry level range. So, what’s different? Well, for a start, the resolution’s quite […]

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DJI dominates 2016 with a two-cameras Inspire 2 and Phantom 4 Pro drones

Udi Tirosh

DJI already had 2016 going for it drone-wise. Their Mavic Pro smashed the competition from GoPro and is possibly what everyone is getting for Christmas, but now, they are making another push with two new drones: a pro Inspire 2 and an update to the popular Phantom line: Phantom 4 Pro. Inspire 2 This is a […]

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Zoom solves the issue of bad audio in your videos by building a camera into a microphone

John Aldred

Bad audio is something that’s plagued action cameras since their inception. Some of them don’t do too terrible, and a few even let you plug in external mics. But action camera sound does generally tend to feel like an afterthought. Zoom have come up with a novel way of solving this issue. Instead of trying […]

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Nikon adds Bluetooth and timelapse features to the new Nikon D5600

John Aldred

Nikon have today announced the successor to their entry level Nikon D5500. That comes in the form of the not surprisingly named D5600. While the two don’t differ greatly, there are a couple of significant changes. The first being that Bluetooth has been added. This brings the D5x00 range in line with Nikon’s new SnapBridge […]

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Microsoft’s new Surface Studio wants to kill both the iMac and Wacom Cintiq

John Aldred

Looking at the advert for Microsoft’s new Surface Studio they’re taking a square aim at two very distinct products. Obviously they want to take a big chunk out of the Apple iMac’s share of the designer desktop computer market. It also seems, though, that they want to try and replace the Wacom Cintiq, too. As […]

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This 250° fisheye lens is so wide it can almost see behind itself

John Aldred

Entaniya’s fisheye lenses for GoPro cameras have proven to be quite popular since they were initially released. They led to the creation of something Entaniya calls “One Shot VR“. This is essentially footage shot with a single 250° fisheye lens and then mapped into a VR sphere. It doesn’t contain the complete surroundings, but as […]

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Ricoh’s new Theta SC 360VR isn’t the Theta S upgrade some had been hoping for

John Aldred

As 360° VR cameras go, the Ricoh Theta S has been up there amongst the most popular. In fact, it may be the single most popular 360° camera out there. It has a very loyal fanbase, and if you’re shooting stills it’s a great little camera. For me, though, it always seemed to fall over […]

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Google’s new Pixel phone boasts an 89 DXO mobile score (highest ever given to mobile phone)

Udi Tirosh

Google is definitely giving apple a run for its money. Their new Pixel phone (formerly Nexus) just scored a full 89 on DXO’s mobile camera test. This is the highest score that a smartphone ever got on DXO. It’s true the iPhone 7 Plus does have dual lenses and some pretty awesome features, but as […]

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SanDisk just unveiled a massvive 1 Terabyte SD memory card

Udi Tirosh

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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