Camera

Digital or film? Digital AND film? CAMERA magazine's focus is to assist readers to choose and use the tools they need to create memorable images, and to enhance the skills that will make them better photographers. No matter what medium, readers are kept up to speed with all the latest rapidly changing film and digital products, news and technologies.

Camera

HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN

CANON ADDS ULTRAWIDE TO F/1.4 VCM HYBRID LENS LINE

IS THE B&W RICOH GR IV AN EVEN BETTER STREET CAMERA?

CANON CELEBRATES POWERSHOT 30TH WITH SPECIAL EDITION G7X III

LENS WORK... AND PLAY

NEW PANASONIC ON-CAMERA MIC HAS 32-BIT FLOAT RECORDING

CANON DEBUTS FISHEYE ZOOM FOR RF MOUNT

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

SHOOT FOR THE STARS WITH THE OM SYSTEM OM-3 ASTRO

NIKON REDESIGNS Z MOUNT 70-200MM f/2.8 STAPLE ZOOM

LIGHT WORK

MEMORABLE CAMERA LAUNCHES • The Covid-19 pandemic appears to have put an end to the event-style launching of new cameras and lenses, but before that, many camera companies when to considerable lengths - and distances - to show off their shiny new toys, Paul Burrows recalls some of the more memorable he’s experienced over the last 40-odd years.

THIRD TIME’S A CHARM • The entry-level X mount mirrorless body steps up to the current-generation processor for more speed and important boosts to its autofocusing performance and video capabilities.

MAKING MOVIES

VITAL STATISTICS

VITAL STATISTICS

EXTREME VIEWS • You can have both a circular fisheye and a diagonal fisheye in the same lens with Canon’s new RF mount ultra-wide zoom. It’s still a highly specialised lens, but there’s lots of scope for experimentation and turning the ordinary into the extraordinary.

VITAL STATISTICS

OLYMPUS OM-1 • These are the cameras that, in one way or another, had a significant influence on photographers and photography. Before electronics made down-sizing much easier, Olympus completely redesigned the 35mm SLR to create the small camera that was the start of something big.

A CAMERA LENS AND A CLINICAL EYE DOCUMENTING SCICILY'S ENDURING SPIRIT • Davide Conti is a specialist physician and documentary photographer who is based in Rotorua, New Zealand, Originally from Sicily, he has applied skills from both practices to document the place of his birth as seen through the eyes - and lens - of somebody who had been away for close to two decades.

GOING THE LONGER DISTANCE • I’ll see your 100-400mm telezoom and raise you a 100-500mm that’s pretty much the same size and weight. Panasonic goes longer with its L mount offering in a popular telephoto focal range.

VITAL STATISTICS

MAKING A SCENE THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR • No part of the globe appears to have been left unexplored by the dedicated landscape photographers whose stunning images are the winners and finalists in the 12th running of the world’s leading awards for the genre.

IN THE DEEP END TAMARA DEAN’S UNDERWATER STUDIO • Keen to take her underwater photography projects a lot further, Tamara Dean turned to an expert in building freshwater swimming pools ton create a custom underwater studio on her property.

BIG SHOT • The super-sized Mamiya RB67 is an attention-grabber from the way it looks to the way it works, and everything about this mechanical 6×7cm format SLR is B-I-G.

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