We recently did a post where we recommended our favorite cameras from each brand for low light performance – mix of low light AF and high ISO image quality. But now that we have talked about all of the brands on a market level, we wanted to dive into the individual brands to talk about the low light performance from their cameras – today we start with Fujifilm.
One of the most popular picks in the compact film camera scene, the Contax T2, has retained its allure almost three decades after it was introduced. It was created with the professional market in mind, at a time when the “luxury compact” was in vogue around the 90’s. Its titanium body (for which the “T” stands for), sleek design, handy size, and excellent optics (an f2.8/38mm multi-coated Carl Zeiss T* Sonnar lens) cemented this superstar status in the photography world.
The Rokinon 35mm f2.8 FE comes in at a significantly more affordable price point than what Sony’s offering is–and the only major difference is its lack of weather sealing vs it’s Sony counterpart. In fact, that’s the only difference that most people may consider besides marginally slower autofocus performance. The lenses even look alike in some ways in that they’re pretty much the same size but with different casings. But Rokinon has brought out autofocus abilities with the Rokinon 35mm f2.8 FE–making this the company’s first autofocusing lens for the Sony full frame E mount system. Indeed, it fills a niche of the photography market that is not really saturated: a place for good, affordable lenses of the Sony FE camera space.
While some photographers these days may just use a Polarizing Filter for the color benefits, there are other uses. Surely, many of us have struggled with the problem of glare on our photos for countless times. Glare from window reflections, glass displays, and even water have ruined one too many photos. However, before you resign your future snaps to removing glare with Photoshop, you might want to get some help from the trusty polarizing filter first.
“…if you didn’t know any better, you’d probably just completely skip the fact that there is indeed black and white instant film out there.”
The MS Optics 28mm f2 Pancake lens offering is a lens that should be permanently glued to a Leica CL if you have one. Now, don’t go doing that for real now, but more to the point this is a lens that really should be glued on. Why? It’s incredibly small. The MS Optics 28mm f2 is pretty literally one of the smallest lens offerings for the Leica M mount with perhaps only Lomography’s Minitar 32mm f2.8 lens rivaling it. In fact, both of those lenses have unique image qualities to them as well as drastically different price points. Their operation is really quite similar though due to their being this small.
The concept behind CAIUL Clear Acrylic Photo Magnet Frame is actually really simple. You put your print in between two acrylic blocks which are held together securely by tiny but strong magnets on each side. With this, you can switch photos in your frame with ease and display your prints completely without leaving tape residues or risking damaging them.
360-degree cameras are not something that has really penetrated the professional market yet on a grand scale, but as far as the consumer end of photography these cameras are becoming quite the party trick. It’s been four years since Ricoh introduced their first Theta 360-degree camera and now they are launching their fifth iteration on the concept, the Ricoh Theta V.
Ever thought of playing around with colors for your fashion snaps and powerful portraits? You can now do it when you post-process by converting them into modern and stylish duotone artworks. Thanks to design resource website Pixelo, you can now give any image a vibrant new look with their free Duotone Photoshop Actions.
There’s a brand new entry into the weather sealed camera world today in the form of the Sony RX0–the company is finally listening to the public and putting a large sensor into a weather sealed body. The new camera, which is being announced today at IFA, seems to be a bit like a GoPro but also seems to be tackling larger premium point and shoot offerings. Besides weather sealing, the camera is waterproof, shockproof and creshproof. At the heart of it is a 1 inch 15.3MP Exmor CMOS image sensor with a 24mm f4 Zeiss lens. The camera can shoot at up to 1/32,000 and 16fps.