Camera

Digital or film? Digital AND film? CAMERA magazine's focus is to assist readers to choose and use the tools they need to create memorable images, and to enhance the skills that will make them better photographers. No matter what medium, readers are kept up to speed with all the latest rapidly changing film and digital products, news and technologies.

Camera

DSLRs NOT DONE YET?

CANON FIRST WITH DUAL MANUAL/POWER ZOOM LENS FOR FF MIRRORLESS

IT'S TIME

LUMIX IS 25 AND HERE'S YOUR SPECIAL BIRTHDAY PRESENT

EOS R6 V IS FULL FRAME FOR CONTENT CREATORS

SIXTH GEN SONY A7R DOES 66.8 MP AT 30 FPS!

NEW SONY G MASTER 100-400MM HAS CONSTANT MAXIMUM APERTURE

PANASONIC REVIVES HIGHER END ‘TRAVEL ZOOM’ COMPACT CAMERA

NIKON PLANS FAST TELEZOOM WITH BUILT-IN CONVERTER

SUPER COMPACT LUMIX S 40MM F/2.0 IS ALSO A TINY PRICE

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

GO WIDE! • THE 17TH EPSON INTERNATIONAL PANO AWARDS OPEN FOR ENTRIES

ON A HIGH

TIPA WORLD AWARDS 2026 • It may have had a slowish start, but the past 12 months ended up producing a great crop of eligible products to consider for a TIPA World Award. Once again, the process of whittling down the original long list to find 40 category winners yielded an exceptional selection of innovative imaging products and services.

TIPA WORLD AWARDS 2026 WINNERS

BIG SIX HIT • The previous model was already one of the most accomplished mid-range full frame mirrorless camera on the market, but the third-generation EOS R6 goes a lot further in a number of key areas, taking it upmarket and boosting performance to create an even more willing worker. There's a lot to like.

MAKING MOVIES

VITAL STATISTICS

APPETISERS WORLD FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2026 FINALISTS • Feeling a bit peckish? Here's a look at some of the finalists in this year's World Food Photography Awards to whet your appetite ahead of all the winners being announced at the beginning of June.

ALL ABOUT LENSES • Pinhole photography aside, lenses are an essential part of making an image and make critical technical and creative contributions to the process. The basic principles remain unchanged from the very first optical instruments dating back to the early 17th century. Understanding how a camera lens works will help you make the most of their potential to deliver great results.

TRACK WORKER • If you're serious about recording video, you need to be serious about recording audio and that means investing an external microphone which will always do a better job than your camera's built-in ones. Broadcast audio expert Audio-Technica has introduced its first on-camera microphones for video-makers.

VITAL STATISTICS

VITAL STATISTICS

SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2026 • BY FAR the world's largest photo competition, attracting hundreds of thousands of entries from all over the globe, the Sony World Photography Awards winning images once again shine a light on the myriad highs and lows of life on Earth.

THE PURITY OF SIMPLICITY • By the early 1980s, the race for increased automation in 35mm SLRs was well and truly off and running, but one new model stayed resolutely manual and mechanical. Nikon's FM2 was all about the photographer staying in full control and it stayed in production all the way to the start of the 21st century.

SIGMA SHOWCASE

DIGITAL SLR CAMERAS BUYER'S CHECK LIST

MIRRORLESS CAMERAS BUYER'S CHECK LIST