Category: cameras

Pentax revives analog with its first film camera in over 20 years – and the pricey retro package has won me over

Pentax has unveiled its first film camera in over 20 years, the Pentax 17. It’s camera number one in the Pentax Film Project, announced at the end of 2022 with one goal: to develop film cameras for today’s TikTok generation. Film photography has enjoyed a revival in recent years and…

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Panasonic’s new Lumix GH7 is a seriously powerful video camera with world-first features – and it’s what the GH6 should have been

Panasonic has unveiled the Lumix GH7, and it looks like a seriously powerful video camera with an impressive world-first feature, and potentially one of the best-value video cameras.  It succeeds the Lumix GH6, a micro four thirds (MFT) camera that we already rated highly on its 2022 release, but one…

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The first Leica M12 images have leaked – and it could be a revolutionary redesign

The first Leica M12 rumors have started circulating in recent weeks, suggesting that the premium camera maker’s next model could get a design overhaul. And while there’s still some doubt as to what the camera will be called, newly leaked images point to some impressive and surprising upgrades. Leica Rumors…

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Popular Snapseed photo editing app finally gets an update, but it’s not getting AI

Snapseed lives to fight – or should I say edit – another day, following a recent update that was rolled out on the Play Store for Android devices, according to Android Police.  I’m thankful – the long time app, which is owned by Google and has over 100 million downloads,…

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Leica’s cheapest compact camera just got a successor with Leica Q-series features

Compact cameras aren’t dead – at least that’s if Leica has anything to do with it. Following the full-frame Leica Q3, which was one of our favorite cameras in 2023, the maker of premium red-dot rangefinders has announced the D-Lux 8, a successor to its long-in-the-tooth D-Lux 7. Previous speculation…

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Forget full-frame, the new Fujifilm GFX100S II delivers affordable medium-format quality

The new GFX100S II is Fujifilm’s cheapest medium-format camera with a 100MP sensor yet at launch, and it’s aggressively priced at $4,999 / £4,999 / AU$8,699 body only. That high-resolution medium-format sensor offers a degree of detail in your pictures that full-frame cameras can’t match – even the class-leading and…

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