A brilliant seaside capture of a pier in evening light has been crowned our ‘Photo of the Week’ (POTW) winner. Titled ‘Cromer Pier‘ and captured by martin.w, we love the colours and light in this image with the subtlety of the evening sky allowing the architecture to really ‘pop’ from the frame. The building […]

  The 42nd Leitz Photographica Auction has been announced and will take place at Leica Cameras Headquarters in Wetzlar, Germany on the 9th and 10th June 2023.  This year’s theme focuses on photos from iconic photographers and the cameras that they used. The collection includes images and equipment from John Bulmer, Walker Evans and Terry […]

[SECTION]INTRODUCTION[/SECTION]   Looking good with its Samyang 2nd Generation styling, the AF 75mm f/1.8 X adds another lens in Fujifilm X mount. As Fujifilm cameras are APS-C crop format, this equates to a 35mm equivalent of 112.5mm, in terms of field of view, in other words, a versatile short telephoto. In particular, this may give […]

[SECTION]INTRODUCTION[/SECTION]   Hot on the heels of Sigma’s new 17mm f/4 DG DN Contemporary optic, just reviewed, we have here a second lens sharing much of the same design ethos, the Sigma 50mm f/2 DG DN Contemporary. Compact and light, with aspirations of reaching the highest levels of construction quality and optical performance. The 17mm […]

[SECTION]INTRODUCTION[/SECTION] One of Sigma’s Premium compact prime I series lenses, the new 17mm f/4 shares the Contemporary concept of compact, light and affordable lenses. In many respects, it also seems to aspire to the high standards of the Art range, with its all-metal construction and pursuit of the highest possible optical quality. It is a […]

[COMMENT_IMG]portfolio|11324|3619858[/COMMENT_IMG]   The latest winners of our popular daily photography competition which takes place in our forums have been chosen and congratulations go to pink (Day 2 – ‘Rainbows’), whatriveristhis (Day 10 – ‘Woodland’) and Riggers24 (Day 19 – ‘Lighthouses’).     [COMMENT_IMG]portfolio|341568|3651711[/COMMENT_IMG]   Our latest Daily Competition Challenge Winner will receive a Samsung 128GB EVO Plus microSDXC memory card […]

  There’s a free pinhole photography workshop taking place with 20 pinhole photographers from 20 countries and you can take part this weekend.  With the 2023 World Wide Pinhole Photography Day not far away (30 April), 20 pinhole photographers will be getting together on a Zoom event/ live stream which you can watch on the pinhole day website. Each […]

Nikon has once again been praised by the TIPA World Awards winning 3 accolades.  The first product to take home gold was the Z 30, which was crowned the ‘Best APS-C Vlogger Camera’. In the lens categories, the NIKKOR Z 600mm f/4 TC VR S was the winner of the ‘Best Supertelephoto Prime Lens’ award, […]

  The international jury of experts at the TIPA World Awards has honoured premium photo lab WhiteWall with two awards. In the category of “Best Photo Lab”, WhiteWall excelled with the new WhiteWall configurator for wall art & in the category of “Best Frame Design”, the new frames of the WhiteWall Design Edition by Studio […]

  Vanguard has expanded its line of practical and stylish camera bags with the introduction of the VEO City Collection featuring two styles of camera bags in a variety of colours.  Featured in the VEO City Collection are TechincalPacks (TP) and CrossBodyBags (CB), giving photographers solutions for carrying smaller cameras with accessories or larger devices, such […]