Digital Photography Review Newsletter: Thursday, December 27, 2018

Simon Joinson was DPReview's second general manager, during a time when the site underwent enormous changes, not least our relocation to the U.S.A. In this interview, Simon looks back at his time at the helm.

The Nikon P1000 is a bit of an oddity, but the unique shooting opportunities it makes possible are why it's Editor Jeff Keller's pick this year.

The open source Lightroom alternative darktable has released a major update in the form of darktable version 2.6.0.

As DPReview enters its 20th year of publishing, we spoke to the site's founder, Phil Askey. He takes a look back at the first ten years of DPReview's development from its original conception, through a period of massive growth, to the site's acquisition by Amazon.

Sigma has released 'Sigma X3F Plug-in for Photoshop', a Raw conversion plugin for processing files from its Foveon Merrill and Quattro sensors.

Editor Dan Bracaglia's pick is the lens that he's recommended more than any other in 2018 – and the one he feels Sony's mirrorless system desperately needed.

The four thieves made off with more than $50,000 in cameras and accessories from Hunt's Photo and Video in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Portrait and photojournalist Sabrina Weniger goes hands-on with Zeiss' yet-to-be-released ZX1 camera in Düsseldorf's Little Tokyo.

Senior Editor Barney Britton's pick this year is the camera that he describes as "close to perfect" for the kind of photography he does.

For weeks, we've been getting hammered with the question "Will Chris and Jordan continue their tradition of doing a Best and Worst year-end episode?" Oh yes, dear readers, they will. And here it is. Pour yourself a cocktail and enjoy.

ON1 has released its first update for ON1 Photo RAW 2019, free of charge to current users.

French company GT Company has licensed the AgfaPhoto brand and launched a range of new budget products.

Technical Editor Richard Butler's pick helped him capture his favorite images of the past 12 months: all 17,100 of them. Specifically, two series of 8MP images. Shot at a rate of 23.97 frames per second.

Officials say 'rogue drones' have caused 'chaos' and shut down London's Gatwick airport.

With many users creating very large albums using the new Live Album feature, Google has decided to double the image and video limit for albums in Photos.

As promised, Sony has delivered an incremental firmware upgrade for its a7 III and a7R III mirrorless cameras that fixes issues found in firmware version 2.0

We've never taken sides in the row over whether image stabilization should be provided in-body or in the lens, but we'll now list the absence of in-body stabilization as a Con in our camera reviews. Here's why.