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  • Hands-on with Android 4.2’s Photo Sphere

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    While most smartphones still lag behind dedicated cameras in image quality they come with a lot more processing power and the ability to install apps. This allows you to do things on the move which, when done with a digital camera, would require a computer, a piece of software and some serious screen time. Android’s Photo Sphere feature is a good example – it allows you to stitch individual images into a 360° Photos Sphere and immerse yourself in a scene. Photo Sphere is part of the camera app of Android 4.2 – the latest version, as featured on the Nexus 4 smartphone. We’ve taken it out and had a play with it, click through to see how we got on.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Just Posted: Sigma 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 DC Macro OS HSM

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    Just Posted: Our review of the Sigma 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 DC Macro OS HSM. The latest version of Sigma’s stabilized superzoom is smaller and lighter than the existing non-macro version, yet is able to add improved close-focus performance, helping it compete with the similarly-sized Tamron 18-270mm VC. These long-range all-rounders are a popular choice, so we’ve had a look at how Sigma’s latest performs. We’ve also added DxOMark’s test data for a selection of its competitors, to give a sense of context.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Canon EOS 6D sample images added to hands-on preview

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    We’ve added a gallery of real-world and studio images to our Canon EOS 6D preview. The EOS 6D won’t be available until at least December but we’ve been able to borrow a pre-production model for which we’ve been allowed to post samples. We’ve shot with the camera in a series of lighting conditions, using a variety of lenses, including the EF 24-70mm f/2.8 II USM and the EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6L IS USM. We’ve also shot an ISO sequence under challenging low-color-temperature artificial light. Click here to see how Canon’s latest full-frame challenger performs.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • USA gets Holiday deals on smartphones and accessories

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    Over at Connect we’re assembling a list of Holiday deals – with the first smartphone and accessory deals listed today. We’ll be highlighting more interesting offers as they come to our attention. The period around the Thanksgiving holiday is particularly prominent for shopping in the USA, with the Friday afterwards (known as Black Friday) and the subsequent Monday (dubbed ‘Cyber Monday’) being a focus of in-store and internet deals respectively. A recent survey suggests that smartphone usage could see Thanksgiving itself become ‘Mobile Thursday’ as people shop from their ‘phones.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Just Posted: Tamron SP 24-70mm F/2.8 Di VC USD samples gallery

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    Just Posted: Our samples gallery from the Tamron SP 24-70mm F/2.8 Di VC USD. The company’s latest fast maximum aperture, stabilized standard zoom was announced back in February, but really comes into its own with the recent announcements of more affordable full-frame bodies from Canon and Nikon. We’ve put together a gallery of images shot in a variety of situations with the Canon EOS 5D Mark III to give a taste for what it can do.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Just Posted: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200 Review

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    We just published a review of Panasonic’s flagship super-zoom camera, the Lumix DMC-FZ200. The FZ200 goes back to its roots, offering a constant-aperture zoom range, like the FZs of old, but in most other respects it’s similar to its well-regarded predecessor the FZ150. Features include a 12MP MOS sensor with a maximum ISO sensitivity of 6400, Raw shooting, and automatic panorama and HDR modes. We collaborated with Jeff Keller of the Digital Camera Resource Page to bring you this review of the FZ200 – click through to find out what we thought. 

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Just Posted: Leica X2 real-world sample gallery

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    Just Posted: Our real world samples gallery from the Leica X2. Following the Sigma DP series, Leica was one of the first companies to offer a large sensor in a compact-bodied camera with its X1. The X2 retains its predecessor’s 36mm equivalent F2.8 lens but adds a 16MP APS-C CMOS sensor. We’ve been shooting the X2 in a variety of lighting situations and at a range of apertures to give a taste for what the camera can do. The 49-image gallery includes a selection of Adobe Camera Raw conversions as well as out-of-camera JPEGs.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Images from the ‘Skyfall island’ – Michael Gakuran goes urban exploring

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    Skyfall, the latest James Bond film, is topping the box office charts around the world and wowing audiences with its cinematography. It includes a sequence set on a deserted island – modeled on Hashima, an abandoned former coal-mining island off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan. Dpreview member Michael Gakuran has written a blog post about his experiences on the island – filming for a Discovery Channel documentary and, earlier, being smuggled onto the island under cover of darkness to perform a little urban exploration (Urbex).

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Overcoming camera phone snobbery with a 1.3MP camera

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    Smartphone photography is taking increasingly seriously as a medium, but this isn’t because the devices have reached a certain standard. In an interview from 2009, actor and photography Joel Grey discusses the work he’s done using a 1.3MP phone camera. He discusses the snobbery surrounding cameraphones (including his own), and points our that ‘pictures are pictures…the subject, light and framing is everything.’

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Lytro adds ‘perspecitive shift’ and ‘living filters’ to light field captures

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    Lytro has announced two extra features for users of its Light Field Cameras – perspective shift and living filters. Perspective shift allows the viewer to re-render the light field as if captured from a slightly different position – moving this viewing position around shows off the depth information captured by the camera. Meanwhile the ‘living filters’ are depth-aware versions of the processing filter modes that have become near-ubiquitous in cameras in recent years. And, because the Light Field Cameras download all the light field data to your computer, these effects will be available with all existing captures.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)