Cameras

The New Nikon D5 Shooting at 12 FPS Is the Most Satisfying Sound You’ll Ever Hear

Revealed this past week at CES 2016, Nikon’s D5 is the company’s new flagship DSLR with a 20.3-megapixel full-frame sensor, and a hefty $6,500 price tag. But watching this video of the camera’s new 12 frames-per-second, 153-point autofocus system in action will still make you lust for one. The folks at DCFever spent some quality…

Kodak Reveals a Digital Super 8 Camera That Records on Film… Wait What?!

Screw 360-degree film cameras on drones or Vines on 16-megapixel smartphones. Kodak’s going old school with these little beauties. The design is inspired by the Super 8 fad from half a century ago, and these new cameras that shoot film on, well, actual film. Kodak made the announcement today at CES. Industrial designer and Jawbone…

Nikon D5: The Super Overkill DSLR Strikes Again With 4K Video

There are fancy cameras, and then there are flagship professional DSLRs—big super powerful overkill machines designed for ultra-fast performance. Nikon teased its latest monster, the D5, in the fall. Now, it’s been formally introduced. This overhaul is the first major refresh of Nikon’s top line since the company announced the D4S two years ago. The…

Capture Your Vacation Videos in Glorious 4K With Panasonic’s New Compact Shooter

Instead of forcing your family to endure a grueling slideshow of your vacation photos, Panasonic wants you to treat them to stunning 4K videos of your hotel room, random meals, and various takeoffs with its new Lumix DMC-Zs100—a compact shooter with a hefty one-inch sensor. Available starting in March with a black or silver housing…

Buy FLIR’s Tiny New Thermal Camera If You Want to Spy on Your Dog

The FLIR Scout TK is a compact night-vision camera, with heat sensors capable of taking thermal images from up to 100 yards away. Unlike other FLIR offerings, you don’t need your smartphone to use this one, it weighs six ounces, it doesn’t need ambient light to operate, and its four-inch length means it’s easy to…

Are You Paranoid Enough For Netatmo’s Outdoor Nanny Cam?

Do you need eyes on your front door at all times, lest a burglar creep up to your doorstep? (Or at least to make sure that your dog doesn’t run away?) Netatmo’s got a new outdoor nanny camera to keep watch. Always-on, web-connected security cameras are nothing new, but while the indoor market has been…

This Medium-Format Camera Captures a Staggering 100 Megapixels 

By now, we all know that megapixels alone don’t make a good camera. But that doesn’t make the new Phase One XF 100MP any less impressive, with an image sensor that captures 100 of the things while also promising to provide more analog-like images. The medium-format camera’s CMOS sensor was co-developed with Sony to capture…

GoPro’s Hero4 Session Just Finally Became a Solid Buy 

The Hero4 Session is GoPro’s smallest camera. It’s a little, unibody cube that’s waterproof on its own and is even more versatile in the ways it can be mounted thanks to its lightness, its shape, and its size. We liked it a lot when we tested it, but there was a problem: At $400 it…

Everything You’ve Ever Wanted To Know About Digital Camera Sensors

You don’t need to know enough about it to build one yourself, but a little knowledge of how digital cameras actually work can help improve your photography game. So if you’ve got an extra 13 minutes at your disposal today, watch this wonderful explainer of how a camera’s sensor works. The video, hosted by John…

Nokia’s Ozo Is a $60,000 Camera For Capturing VR

Nokia started life as a pulp mill and spent a while making gas masks, before capturing the hearts of dumbphone users everywhere with the 3310. So it kinda makes sense that its next Big Thing is a $60,000 all-in-one solution for making VR experiences. The Ozo camera was first teased back in July, but now…

The Sound From a Camera Strapped to a Boomerang Is Wonderful

Given humans can’t fly (on our own) it’s no surprise that we’re utterly captivated by first-person videos of objects in flight. Strapping a stabilized camera to a spinning boomerang is no exception, but it turns out the sounds of it slicing through the air are even more amazing. Before you watch this latest video from…

Canon G9 X and G5 X Review: Cameras That Feel So Nice, But Have a Speed Problem

What makes a great small camera? For some, it must have comfortable controls. For others, it must actually fit comfortably in a pants pocket. So picky! Canon’s two new high-end compacts have two different beautiful exteriors that almost make me forget their few key shortcomings. What Is It Two new compact cameras with the same…

Cameras for Beginners Who Want to Become Pros

It’s time you stepped up your camera gaming, ditching your smartphone lens for something with more photographic muscle. If you’re just starting out, check out this selection of cameras that are great throwing you (or a friend) into the world of high-end photography. Sony RX100 Mark II Buying a bag’s worth of lenses is expensive…

Night Shooting With the A7s Mark II: Damn, Technology Is Cool

No photographer likes shooting where there isn’t enough light. Dim scenes make us aware of how feeble photography is compared to the sensitivity of our own eyeballs. Technology is amazing, though. Shooting photos at night with Sony’s A7s Mark II made me pause and think about just how far digital photography has taken us. If…

Lytro’s Immerge System Could Capture the Most Convincing VR Video Yet

Lytro’s had a rough go since introducing the world to its very cool light field capture technology just over four years ago in 2011. Following a few consumer camera flops, the company’s rolling on to the pros. Immerge is perhaps the most sophisticated virtual reality camera yet. In short, Immerge is a big ass 360-degree…

A Simple Filter Change Could Make Low-Light Photography Much Better

Good low-light photography is one of the toughest nuts to crack: to get good pictures in the dark normally requires some combination of fast lenses and big, expensive sensors. But tweaking one filter that lives inside the camera could help big time. Most cameras have a Bayer filter, which sits in front of the camera’s…

Watch the First Film From InVisage’s Quantum Dot Smartphone Camera

Five long years ago, a company called InVisage showed off a new kind of smartphone camera sensor called QuantumFilm, which used quantum dots for improved sensitivity. Now, you can finally see a short film shot using the technology. This 7.5-minute short is called PRIX, and it’s supposed to provide a sense of what InVisage’s hardware…

The Polaroid Snap, a quirky digital camera with an integrated printer, is finally on sale. $100 gets you your choice of white, black, or blue; the 32GB microSD card and 80s hipster fashion are optional extras. [Amazon]

Build Nikon’s Very First SLR With This New Nanoblocks Set

Despite being tiny Lego imposters, Nanoblocks have managed to gain a healthy fan base by doing the same thing its competitor does: licensing brands and popular properties. Remember those Nanoblock McDonald’s sets? Now Nikon is getting in on the building fun too. Available exclusively from the Japanese Nikon Direct online store, this Nanoblock set is…

Leica’s New Mirrorless Camera Is Brilliant but Back-Breaking

You have to marvel at the way Leica dives in to things unapologetically, even when its choices seem like those of a madman. Consider the Leica SL, an entirely new full-frame mirrorless camera. Bundled with a lens it runs over $12,000 and it weighs more than some small boulders. I got to use it for…