Let’s take a long look forward and back – 2020’s Lens of the Year, the Sony 200-600mm f5.6-6.3, has some magnification 2020 has been a strange year for the camera industry – the pandemic has exacerbated trends that were already underway, and there are new trends emerging. We are probably going to lose a camera manufacturer or two (no, not Nikon or anybody else big like … [Read more...]
State of the Business – What we know and what we don’t
Flop? Not so fast – Nikon’s actually selling a very respectable number of Z6s and Z7s, given that they’re upper-end full-frame cameras. There have been some numbers floating around online (from an article in the Japanese business publication Nikkei.com), showing shipment rankings for 2019 among the leading camera companies. Nikkei numbers show shipments (not necessarily … [Read more...]
Sony’s new full-frame baby, Nikon lenses and an Apple fizzle
The Sony A7C – looks a lot like an A6000, but it’s full frame. This one is in their handsome platinum color. Sony just introduced the A7C, which they’re calling the smallest and lightest fully-functional full frame mirrorless camera on the market today. They are quite careful to put conditions on their claim that exclude the Sigma fp, which is significantly smaller and … [Read more...]
PhotoPlus report – digital SLR and mirrorless cameras.
A Fujifilm X-Pro 3 in gleaming titanium. PhotoPlus 2019 was the smallest it has been in the decade or more I’ve been attending regularly. Sony didn’t attend, preferring to host their own event nearby, which was both inconvenient for those of us who knew about it, and I talked to several photographers who said “where was Sony”, not knowing about the separate event. Apart … [Read more...]
Sony A7II Review
A Hands on Review of the Sony A7II Sony plays to win, and hates to lose. A few years ago I sat next to the then president of Sony U.S. at a corporate function, and in the course of discussion he made the point that the company had identified digital imaging as a key business that they were going to be seriously committed to, and though it might take them some time it was … [Read more...]
