Digital storage brand G-Technology has announced a collection of new portable hard drives designed to survive in difficult environments. The two available G-DRIVE ev models, equipped with Thunderbolt or USB 3.0 connections, will come housed in what the company calls an ATC – All-Terrain-Case – said to be able to withstand a 2m/6.5 ft drop onto a carpeted concrete floor. The ATC is also water-tight and will float should the drive fall into a body of water, and can also be removed to house other drives in the G-Technology Evolution Series. Read more
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Fujifilm X100T real-world sample gallery posted
The Fujifilm X100T is the third iteration of the company’s enthusiast-level fixed-lens compact, and we’ve followed up our initial real-world gallery from the camera with even more samples. The majority of the images that follow were shot as JPEGs in the Classic Chrome film mode, a new film simulation not included in previous iterations of the camera. See gallery
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Toshiba offers FlashAir III wireless SD card
Toshiba has announced a third generation of its FlashAir wireless SD cards. Like the previous version, the Toshiba FlashAir III acts as its own wireless LAN point for sharing to smartphones, tablets and computers. The newly introduced card boasts ‘enhanced photo sharing and management features,’ and maintains the same Class 10 rating as its predecessor. Read more
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Hands-on with Fujifilm’s new XF 16-55mm F2.8 R LM WR lens
It’s been on Fujifilm’s X-series roadmap for a while, but now it’s real – the XF 16-55mm F2.8 R LM WR is a 24-83mm equivalent, weather-sealed standard zoom for Fujifilm’s high-end X-series interchangeable lens cameras, which offers a fast maximum aperture of F2.8 throughout its zoom range. As CES gets started in Las Vegas, we grabbed a few minutes with the new zoom. Click through for some images
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Asus announces Zenfone Zoom smartphone with 3x optical zoom
At its CES press conference in Las Vegas Asus has announced the ZenFone Zoom, a smartphone with 3x optical zoom lens that is only 12mm thin. The ZenFone Zoom runs Android 5.0 and features a 5.5-inch 1080p IPS screen and up to 128GB of built-in storage. Read more
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Nikon introduces lightweight FX 300mm f/4 and updated DX 55-200mm f/4.5-5.6 ED zoom
Nikon has taken the wraps off of two new versions of existing lenses in its NIKKOR lineup. The AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II and AF-S NIKKOR 300mm f/4E PF ED VR are introduced for the Consumer Electronics Show 2015, underway tomorrow in Las Vegas. Read more
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Fujifilm announces XF 16-55mm F2.8 R LM WR lens
Fujifilm has officially released its XF 16-55mm F2.8 R LM WR lens, which the company teased on last year’s lens roadmap. The 16-55mm is equivalent to 24-84mm when mounted on an X-series body and offers an internal focusing system and ‘twin linear motor’ which Fujifilm says will allow for fast and silent AF. The lens is sealed in fourteen places and has three aspherical and three ED elements and a Nano-GI coating to reduce flare. Read more
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Nikon D5500 adds touchscreen and flat picture profile
Nikon has announced the D5500, an upper-entry-level DSLR and successor to its D5300. It provides a 24.2MP DX-format sensor with no optical low pass filter. Improvements over the previous model include the addition of a touchscreen, which is a fully articulated 3.2-inch 1.37M-dot affair, as in the D5300. A flat picture profile is added as a video mode option, which offers 1080/60p recording like its predecessor. Read more
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Hands-on with Nikon’s new D5500
Nikon’s D5500 is, on the face of it a pretty minor update to the D5300, but with the key addition of a touch-sensitive rear LCD screen and slightly altered ergonomics. In almost every other respect the D5500 is a compact, lightweight 24MP entry-level DSLR cut from almost exactly the same cloth as its predecessor. We’re at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where we got our hands on a pre-production camera. Click through for some pictures
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Nikon acknowledges ‘issue’ with flare in some D750 bodies
Nikon has released a statement to reassure users of the D750 that it is ‘working on measures to address’ an issue some models have with unusual flare patterns that can occur when bright light sources are just outside the frame. Although the effect seems to occur only in certain units, and comes about only when the light source is at a particular angle, it appears as flare at the top of the image with a darker band closer to the top of the frame. Learn more