Latest articles by Rod Lawton
Voigtländer Nokton 75mm F1.5 Aspherical for Canon RF arriving in April 2024
News The Nokton 75mm F1.5 is one of a select few third party lenses to appear for the Canon RF mount
How a 4K monitor cured my pixel peeping – strange but true
Opinion You would have thought a high-resolution monitor would just make my pixel obsessions worse, right?
Vanguard Veo City camera bags to debut at The Photography & Video Show
News Vanguard’s new Veo City Backpacks and Shoulder bags are designed for mirrorless and DSLR camera systems
New Aura 35 Professional Film Scanner to debut at The Photography & Video Show
News Designed for the pro photo lab market, the Aura 35 is built for resolution, speed and crystal-clear scans
New KEKS KM02 OLED and KM-Q light meters just clip straight on your camera's hotshoe!
News Vintage camera owners and manual shooters alike will love the look of these hotshoe-mounted meters, and they’re smart, too!
I bet Fujifilm wishes it hadn’t stopped making these cameras…
News Sometimes cameras hang around too long, but sometimes they get dumped prematurely. Fate can be cruel.
Long live film! Analog specialist Capix reveals new film development products
News Film fans can drop by the Capix stand at The Photography & Video Show to see its new analog gear in action
PortraitPro 24 ushers in generative AI to fix bad teeth and blurry faces in your photos
News Now you can fix bad teeth, subdue reflections in glasses and sharpen up blurry faces, all with the power of AI
DxO PureRAW 4 launches with improved image quality and workflow
News With better edge sharpening, a new preview option and more, PureRAW 4 can make your raw files look better than ever
DxO PureRAW 4 review
Review Your raw files never looked so good! DxO PureRAW 4 can extract amazing quality from the most mediocre camera gear
Best lenses for the Fujifilm X-S10 and X-S20
Buying guide What are the best lenses for the Fujifilm X-S10 and X-S20, two of Fujifilm's most affordable, versatile and compact cameras?
Best lenses for the Panasonic Lumix G7 in 2025
Buying guide The best lenses for the Panasonic Lumix G7 can extend this budget camera’s capabilities without breaking the bank
The Sony 24-50mm F2.8 G is a new compact and powerful standard zoom
News The Sony 24-50mm F2.8 G addresses a full frame mirrorless issue – lenses that are too big for compact full frame bodies!
OM System OM-1 firmware update will come, but it won't be what fans hoped
News The OM System OM-1 Mark II brought new features that many hoped would come to the Mark I as a firmware update...
Super-wide Sigma 15mm F1.4 DG DN Diagonal Fisheye lens aims for the stars!
News The Sigma 15mm F1.4 DG DN Diagonal Fisheye looks ideal for astrophotography with exotic glass and weather proofing
Sigma 500mm F5.6 DG DN OS Sports is a surprising downsized super-telephoto
News The Sigma 500mm F5.6 DG DN OS | Sports goes for the gap between consumer zooms and pro telephoto primes
Laowa says new Nanomorphs are world’s first “Affordable Anamorphic Zooms”
News Launching on Indiegogo, these two T2.9 Nanomorph zooms will cover a combined focal length of 28-100mm
Now you can buy the wonderful Phase One XC medium format camera body only
News It means that if you already have a Phase One IQ4 digital back, you don’t have to buy another!
Manual focus lenses helped me rediscover the magic of depth of field
Opinion Depth of field measurement used to be easy. What happened?
Why did I ignore back button focus on my camera for so long?
Opinion Why does your camera have to focus the instant before the shutter releases? Why can't you decide when to focus?
I love DSLRs but mirrorless cameras are so much better at manual focusing
Opinion Sorry, but optical viewfinders just can't offer the magnified precision of EVFs
How I fixed my lens’s focus with kitchen foil and a pair of scissors
How to What do you do if your lens goes to infinity... and beyond?
Voigtländer 35 mm/1:2.5 Color Skopar P-Type II review
Review The Voigtländer 35 mm/1:2.5 Color Skopar P-Type II is an old-school rangefinder lens, but can modern sensors handle it?
