The Panasonic Lumix GF6 is a compact mirror-less system camera based on the Micro Four Thirds standard. Announced in April 2013, it comes exactly one year after the GF5 and replaces that model. Existing GX1 owners who are finding the newer GX7 is a step too far may also find many of the upgrades tempting.…
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The Olympus PEN E-P5 is a mirror-less compact system camera based on the Micro Four Thirds standard. Announced in May 2013, it’s the successor to the E-P3 launched two years previously, which makes it the new flagship in the Olympus PEN series. Note the PEN series are smaller models without built-in viewfinders, while the OM-D…
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The Sony Cyber-shot HX300 is Sony’s flagship super-zoom. Styled like a DSLR, it sits above the HX200 which remains in the line up, sharing many of the same features, but extending the zoom to an impressive 50x with a 35mm equivalent range of 24-1200mm. To match the increased zoom range, Sony has improved the Optical…
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The Sony Cyber-shot HX50V is the World’s smallest and lightest compact camera with a 30x optical zoom range. Announced in May 2013, it slots roughly between the even smaller WX300 with its 20x optical zoom and the chunkier DSLR-styled HX300 which sports a 50x optical zoom. The HX50V zoom takes you all the way from…
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Fujifilm’s X100S is a compact, retro-styled camera with a large APS-C sized sensor, fixed 35mm f2 equivalent lens and the choice of screen or viewfinder for composition. Announced in January 2013 it’s the successor to the X100, a model that revitalized the market for fixed-lens cameras aimed at enthusiasts. The X100 proved there was demand…
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The Olympus XZ-2 is a compact aimed at the demands of enthusiasts. Successor to the XZ-1, it sports the same 28-112mm equivalent 4x zoom with a bright f1.8-2.5 maximum aperture, but swaps its predecessor’s 1/1.63in 10 Megapixel CCD sensor with a 1/1.7in CMOS chip with 12 Megapixels. The processor is also updated to the latest…
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The Nikon D7100 is the company’s latest upper mid-range DSLR aimed at enthusiasts and aspiring photographers. Announced in February 2013, roughly two and a half years after the D7000, it slots between that model and the D600 in the range. Nikon intends to keep the older D7000 in the current line-up. Nikon describes the D7100…
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The Samyang Rokinon 8mm f2.8 is an affordable Fisheye lens that’s designed exclusively for mirror-less cameras with an APS-C sensor – at the time of writing, Samyang offered three different fittings for Sony E-mount (NEX), Samsung NX and Fujifilm X (X-Pro1 and XE-1). Like other Samyang lenses, it’s manual focus only and also requires manual…
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The Nikon COOLPIX A is a compact camera with a large APS-C sensor and a fixed 28mm equivalent f2.8 lens. Announced in March 2013 and aimed squarely at enthusiasts, Nikon claims it’s the World’s smallest camera to feature an APS-C sensor, the same size as those in the company’s range of DX-format DSLRs. It also…
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The Fujifilm X-E1 is the second mirrorless model from the company to use the X-mount. It was launched in September 2012 and has the same rangefinder aesthetic and analogue controls as its forerunner the X-Pro 1. In many ways the X-E1 can be seen as a slimmed down, more affordable version of the X-Pro 1,…
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