April 26, 2023
When you turn 25, as DPReview has, you start to look back. This week, we asked eight gear manufacturers to join us on memory lane by sharing what they felt were the most significant products launched during the DPReview era.
There was also a batch of lens announcements. We saw some Z and E-mount and 6 (yes, 6) Canon RF-mount lenses.
If you're a regular reader of this newsletter, you know we like to sneak in some Easter eggs and behind-the-scenes information from time to time.
So here's a sneak preview of our next review. We've reached the summit and completed our testing of this semi-pocketable camera with strong social cachet, and we are very close to publishing our final review. Think you know what camera it is? Stay tuned to see if you guessed right.
— Shaminder
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 | | For our twenty-fifth anniversary, we asked camera and lens makers what they believe to be the most significant products of the past quarter century. |
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 | | mood.camera is a new iOS camera app that aims to emulate film photography by offering 14 'film stock' filters, but which, like film, only shows you the results after you take a photo. We found it to be surprisingly fun. |
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 | | 40MP sensor shows lots of detail, with its lens delivering good levels of sharpness at our standard F5.6 test aperture. |
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| The small, lightweight prime lens features internal focusing and EXIF communication with Nikon Z-mount cameras. (Includes sample gallery.) |
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| Sigma has announced it will be offering six of its DC DN APS-C lenses for Canon's RF mount, making it one of the first third-party manufacturers to sell RF lenses under license. |
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| Question of the Week
Do you have a question you'd like to see in this section? Email me.
Last week we asked you: if you could update one camera from the past and bring it back to the market, what would it be? We got many thoughtful and surprising responses, here are five of our favs:
- Cosina CT1-A. It was amazingly light and had simple metering no fuss no choice . Digital has somehow removed the essence of the moment."
That's a deep cut. There were quite a few readers who wanted film camera updates - Shaminder
- "Kodak Retina iic. A wonderful built camera in Leica Quality with the possibility to - just like Fuji x 100 - use wide and telephoto adaptors. Nice in hand, small and foldable - that is the one!"
- "For me the Nikon D300s is special. The sound of the shutter, sounds 'just right' to me. The grip is big and comfortable. I compared it to my D3300 with twice the resolution and it's much sharper, oddly. The menus have nearly all the options I'd like. If I could change the sensor for one with more detail and reduce the weight I'd bevery happy. Now i'm a Z user, I would prefer an EVF, with all the features that brings.
- "The original Olympus Pen-F; or, the last one with a self-timer. Wouldn’t want the middle one with the internal meter, because it darkened the viewfinder."
Speaking only for myself, it sure would be nice to see a new Pen camera in the US. - Shaminder
- "Epson R-D1. No other proper digital camera has come close to it in replicating the feeling of film shooting. Still my favorite camera but could really use a modern refresh."
Here's our next question of the week:In honor of 25 years of DPReview and to piggyback on the manufacturers takes, we want to ask you also: What is the single most significant product of the past quarter century?
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| Camera world is filled with questions, big and small: Why did we use 35mm film? Why is it called an F-stop? What camera was used on the moon? No question is too big or too small. What do you wonder? Submit your questions and we'll investigate the answers in upcoming articles! |
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| We sit down with the Ricoh team to learn more about the new Pentax film camera expected to arrive later this year. Find out why the designers settled on a half-frame design that favors a vertical format, what inspired the optics, and the added complexity of including a manual film-winding mechanism. |
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| Popular photo sharing service Photobucket recently revealed that the 13 billion images it hosts online could be used to train AI models. We explain what changes made this possible and suggest some cloud storage alternatives to keep your data private. |
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