The Fujifilm Camera That's Basically a Digital Contax G2

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November 25, 2025

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Panasonic Pushes Big LUMIX S Series Update for Hybrid Shooters

By Nilofer Khan

November 25, 2025

Panasonic cameras continue to be ideal options for hybrid creators. Not only are they very popular for their video needs, but they also offer an exciting feature: real-time LUTs. For those who have recently purchased Panasonic's full-frame mirrorless camera, there is also some good news: The company is announcing a series of firmware updates that will improve the shooting experience and provide better functionality. Here's what you will get.

Laowa Announces The 35mm f2.8 Zero D Tilt Shift 0.5x Macro

By Feroz Khan

November 25, 2025

Laowa has officially added a new lens to its tilt-shift lineup. The new Laowa 35mm f2.8 Zero D Tilt Shift 0.5x Macro is the widest and most versatile tilt-shift lens Venus Optics has made. Complementing the well-known 50mm and 100mm tilt-shift lenses in their catalog, this new lens provides a significantly wider field of view for architectural and cityscape photographers who require excellent perspective control.

The Best Screenless Digital Cameras of 2025

By Chris Gampat

November 25, 2025

A new genre of camera has popped up in the past few years: the screenless digital camera. It started really with the original Camp Snap and then a whole bunch of others started popping up. Now, it's a robust category with lots of options for photographers to choose from. I'll admit it, though, I really wanted to put the Chuzhao camera on this list. However, it has a hidden screen. However, if you're looking for a screenless digital camera, consider these options.

The Panasonic Lumix FZ47: Was 12 Megapixels Enough?

By Alberto Lima

November 25, 2025

When it was first announced in 2011, the Panasonic LUMIX FZ47 was considered a “fun” bridge camera that sacrificed some of the features that made its sibling, the FZ150, a premium bridge camera. Among the features sacrificed on the altar of better affordability were the lack of RAW image capture, a now nearly abandoned video standard (AVCHD), and one of its biggest flaws in 2011 – the use of a CCD sensor over the more popular CMOS sensors. Nearly 15 years later, do these flaws still hinder this camera, or should it be on the watchlist of every digital camera enthusiast today?

The Fujifilm X Pro 1 Was Basically the Digital Contax G2

By Chris Gampat

November 25, 2025

"With a design that harkens back to the old Contax G2, it also has stunning retro-style good looks," we said in our Fujifilm X Pro 1 review. But you don’t buy a camera like this just for the looks unless you’re Justin Bieber. Behind the very good glass currently available for it, it also can take some very wonderful images that are easily worked with in the post-production phase." The Fujifilm X Pro series is more or less the best successor to the Contax G2 -- even though they're from much different companies. And considering how beloved the Contax G2 is, why isn't the X Pro series anywhere as beloved?

One of Sony’s Most Iconic Cameras: In a Preset

By Chris Gampat

November 24, 2025

We totally miss the days of the Sony a900, and that's why we worked hard to recreate the look it gave in our preset. Our presets are designed to make editing a minimal task so you can get back to shooting! We're in love with Retro Digital. Luckily, that's when we founded the website closer to two decades ago. So we dove into our image archives, looked at how the Adobe Gurus were telling us how to edit, and adapted those methods to create our Retro Digital Lightroom Presets and Capture One Styles. These are in addition to the popular Photojournalism presets that we released a while back.

Here’s Your Chance To Buy Leica At Discounted Price!

By Nilofer Khan

November 24, 2025

Leica Camera has been coming up with new ways to engage with a newer audience. The company recently announced a flexible payment plan, which is a great way for the company to become accessible to a younger group of photographers. And today, they continue to explore this with the announcement of exclusive offers for the 2025 Holiday Season. This limited edition deal is available for the company's select portfolio. Have a look.

Should You Bother with the Sony a7 V over the Canon EOS R6 III?

By Chris Gampat

November 24, 2025

There are tons of reports going around about the Sony a7 V right now. And the big thing that everyone is wondering about is whether or not they should get the Sony a7 V or the Canon R6 III. We've seen already with the R6 III that photographers don't really care about it as much and are instead getting the older variant of the camera instead because it became cheaper. At this level of camera, Sony doesn't typically give the highest end features, but the company is pretty generous. Still, quite honestly, I'm not sure that either are worth the purchase.

Was Nikon’s Best DSLR Really the D850?

By Chris Gampat

November 24, 2025

If you ask many working or professional photographers, they'll tell you that the last great Nikon DSLR was the Nikon D850. And I very much would agree with them. This camera could easily find people in low light, had great image quality that was very versatile, and overall, it worked perfectly fine for a multimedia journalist. Back in 2017, we'd occasionally shoot videos too as part of our reviews. But we stopped doing that because we're a photography-based website. And if you don't care about video, then the Nikon D850 is basically some of the best mirrorless cameras in a DSLR format.