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EDITOR Hoshang S. Billimoria TECHNICAL EDITOR Rohinton Mehta ASSISTANT EDITOR Sujith Gopinath PHOTOGRAPHY Mahesh Reddy HEAD-DESIGN & PRODUCTION Ravi Parmar ASST ART DIRECTOR Prathmesh Vichare PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR Dinesh Bhajnik PUBLISH

A review of the cameras and lenses that SP has tested in the last two years has revealed that hardly anyone makes a bad camera anymore. Irrespective of brands, quality levels of cameras and lenses have improved significantly. In fact our reviewers ar

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Panasonic has announced two new hybrid full-frame mirrorless cameras, the Lumix S5II and S5IIX, at the recently-concluded Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at Las Vegas. The company also unveiled the Lumix S 14-28mm f/4-5.6 Macro lens for L-mount. The

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) named the Lumix GH6 a CES 2023 Innovation Awards Honouree in the Digital Imaging and Photography category. The Lumix GH6 was honoured for its cutting-edge technologies, outstanding performance, responsiveness

GoPro has kicked off its fifth Million Dollar Challenge. Open exclusively to owners of the new Hero11 Black and Hero11 Black Mini cameras, the Million Dollar Challenge tasks GoPro users around the world with capturing the most unique GoPro footage po

Nikon India has announced the development of the Nikkor Z 85mm f/1.2 S, a fast mid-telephoto prime lens, and the Nikkor Z 26mm f/2.8, a slim wide-angle prime lens, for the full-frame/FX-format mirrorless cameras for which Nikon Z mount has been adopt

Mumbai Press Club has announced the results of the annual Mumbai Moments photo contest. The contest, conducted in partnership with Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited, received 700 entries from 65 photojournalists. The 13 winning images are feature

Nikon India has unveiled the latest edition of its campaign, Through Her Lens, an annual digital contest aimed at empowering and elevating the voices of professional and amateur women photographers in India. The contest, now in its 3rd season, serves

Sony India has announced the addition of ILME-FR7 to its Cinema Line line-up. This E-mount interchangeable lens camera features a full-frame image sensor and builtin pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) functionality. The camera’s versatile remote control and cinemat

Sony has introduced the FE 20-70mm f/4 G (model - SEL2070G) that boasts a 20-70 mm zoom range in a compact, lightweight full-frame lens, with a constant f/4 aperture throughout the zoom range. The lens boasts the typical G Lens image quality, high sp

• Part I: Birds of Western Ghats, Gujarat and Rajasthan • Part II: Birds of Uttarakhand (reviewed herewith) • Part III: Raptors and Water Birds Uttarakhand is one of the most beautiful districts of India, nestled in the foothills of the mighty Himala

In the good old days, before the advent of digital print technology, we just had silver halide technology to print photographs. These are light-sensitive substrates and had to be used in a dark room. Black and white films and colour films had two dif

Ashok Kandimalla has been in the photographic field for over three decades and has extensive experience in both film and digital photography. Being an electronics engineer by profession and a photographer, he possesses a unique and deep insight into

1 In a hot, humid climate, which of the following is likely to occur? a) Batteries losing powerb) Batteries leaking c) Lenses develop mould or fungus d) The anchorage of some lenses could loosen due to extreme heat 2 When cleaning lenses, what sh