- Most Popular Articles
Most Popular Articles
New 32mm f/1.2 Portrait Lens For Nikon 1 Mirrorless Cameras
By Photo-John May 13, 2013
Lenses Mirrorless News Nikon
The new 1 Nikkor 32mm f/1.2 prime lens has a focal length comparable to an 86mm full-frame lens, making it perfect for portraits with the Nikon 1 mirrorless cameras.
Read More »Olympus E-P5 Pen – OM-D Performance With Built-In Wi-Fi
By Photo-John May 09, 2013
Featured Mirrorless News Olympus
The new Olympus E-P5 flagship Pen mirrorless camera has a great retro look, OM-D performance, and brand new for Olympus – built-in Wi-Fi!
Read More »Zeiss Announces Touit Prime Lenses For Sony NEX and Fujifilm X Mirrorless Cameras
By Photo-John May 06, 2013
Featured Fujifilm Lenses Mirrorless News Sony Zeiss
Looking for more from your Fujifilm X-Pro1 or Sony NEX-6 mirrorless camera? Zeiss brings top shelf prime lens performance to Sony NEX and Fujifilm X compact camera system owners with their new “Touit” lens line.
Read More »Panasonic Lumix G6 – 5th Generation Mirrorless Camera Adds Built-In Wi-Fi
By Photo-John April 29, 2013
Featured Mirrorless News Panasonic
Panasonic’s new G6, with built-in Wi-Fi, shows just how far mirrorless camera performance has come since the original G1 was introduced.
Read More »Fujifilm X-E1 Mirrorless Camera Review
By Photo-John April 13, 2013
Camera Reviews Featured Fujifilm Mirrorless Videos
The Fujifilm X-E1 is a beautiful camera with great traditional controls. It also has the best sensor available in a mirrorless camera. Read the complete review (and video review) to learn more about the X-E1.
Read More »Updated & Improved: Fujifilm X-E1 Studio Sample Photos & First Impressions
By Photo-John April 02, 2013
Camera Reviews Featured Fujifilm Mirrorless Samples
Our Fujifilm X-E1 studio sample photos page has been updated again with all new sample images processed with Lightroom 4.4, which has improved RAW processing for X-Trans sensor cameras.
Read More »Pentax K-01 Studio Sample Photos
By Photo-John March 14, 2013
Camera Reviews Featured Mirrorless Pentax Samples
The Pentax K-01 mirrorless camera got a very mixed response when it was announced, a little over a year ago. It was big (pretty much the same size as the Pentax K-30 DSLR) and the funky design, by celebrity designer Marc Newson, was polarizing – either you loved it or you hated it. However, the
Read More »Olympus E-PL5 Pen Camera – Featured User Review
By Photo-John February 08, 2013
Camera Reviews Featured Mirrorless Olympus User Reviews
Thanks to Heather S for her Olympus E-PL5 Pen camera user review. Her review was selected as a Featured User Review because it’s well-written with plenty of detail and she represents the perfect Olympus E-PL5 buyer – a point-and-shoot photographer looking to move up to an unintimidating but high-performance interchangeable lens camera. And the E-PL5
Read More »Sony Alpha NEX-7 Studio Sample Photos
By Photo-John February 05, 2013
Camera Reviews Featured Mirrorless Samples Sony
The Sony Alpha NEX-7 is Sony’s top-of-the-line compact system camera. It was our 2011 Camera of the Year because it was the first mirrorless camera to offer true pro-level performance. It was a very difficult camera to get ahold of, though. I finally got my hands on one and I’ve been using it for a
Read More »New Tamron 14-150mm f/3.5-5.8 VC Lens For Micro Four Thirds Cameras
By Photo-John February 01, 2013
Lenses Mirrorless News Tamron
Tamron announced a new zoom lens for Micro Four Thirds cameras this week at the CP+ tradeshow in Japan. The Tamron 14-150mm F/3.5-5.8 Di III VC zoom lens will be their first for Micro Four Thirds cameras. The 14-150mm focal length is effectively converted to 28-300mm with the 2x Micro Four Thirds conversion factor and
Read More »New Sigma 60mm f/2.8 DN Lens For Mirrorless Cameras
By Photo-John January 30, 2013
Featured Lenses Mirrorless News Sigma
Sigma announced a new 60mm f/2.8 lens along with some redesigned lenses for the CP+ tradeshow in Japan (Jan. 31 – Feb. 3). The new Sigma 60mm f/2.8 DN lens is designed for mirrorless cameras and will be available in Sony NEX and Micro Four Thirds mounts. On an NEX camera the effective focal length
Read More »Olympus 75-300mm f/4.8-6.7 II Micro Four Thirds Lens Updated
By Photo-John January 29, 2013
Featured Lenses Mirrorless News Olympus
One of my favorite things about Olympus’s interchangeable lens cameras is the extra reach the smaller Four Thirds sensor gives me – especially with long zoom lenses. I loved the crazy 600mm reach I got with their original 70-300mm Four Thirds DSLR zoom lens and I was really psyched when they came out with a
Read More »Can The Metabones Speed Booster Really Increase Maximum Aperture?
By Photo-John January 28, 2013
Featured Lenses Mirrorless News
The recently announced Speed Booster lens converter from Metabones has been getting a lot of attention. The Speed Booster allows you to use SLR lenses on mirrorless cameras, making them 0.71x wider (with APS-C sensor cameras) and improving MTF (Modulation Transfer Function). Metabones also claims the Speed Booster converter “increases maximum aperture by 1 stop.”
Read More »Sony Announces 18-200mm OSS E-Mount Power Zoom Lens
By Photo-John January 22, 2013
Lenses Mirrorless News Sony
Sony has introduced a second power zoom lens to their E-mount NEX lens line. Actually, the 11x E PZ18-200mm F3.5-6.3 OSS power zoom lens was already introduced as the kit lens for Sony’s NEX-VG30 camcorder. But it’s now available on its own for Sony’s NEX still cameras as well as the NEX-mount camcorders. Why the
Read More »Sony Announces New 20mm f/2.8 NEX System Pancake Lens
By Photo-John January 22, 2013
Lenses Mirrorless News Sony
Sony has announced a new, compact prime lens for their NEX mirrorless camera system. The new E-mount 20mm f/2.8 pancake lens has a focal length equivalent to 30mm on a 35mm / full-frame camera. That’s a conservative wide-angle focal length – very close to the traditional 35mm focal length preferred by photojournalists and street photographers.
Read More »
