Digital Photography Review Newsletter: Tuesday, April 10, 2018

DJI released two professional gimbal controllers at NAB 2018: the Master Wheels and the Force Pro. Built for "every level of filmmaker and scenario," offer high precision control and simplify the shooting of complex and fast-moving scenes.

Nikon-owned MRMC brought its high-speed 'cinebot' camera robots to NAB 2018. And in a fit of "just because we can, probably means we should" they choreographed a little dance number for them on the showroom floor.

The iFixit team have opened up the triple-camera Huawei P20 Pro smartphone, and they found a nice surprise: there's optical stabilization hardware on all three cameras in the triple-camera setup.

This new CINE lens lineup from SLR Magic features five lenses in all, four of which will be ready to ship next month: a 25mm T1.5, 35mm T1.3, 50mm T1.2, and 75mm T1.5. An 18mm T2.9 will follow "by Q3 2018."

The free firmware update allows users of the Atomos Shogun Inferno and Sumo19 to begin recording in both ProRes RAW and ProRes RAW HQ right away using any of the nine supported cinema cameras from Panasonic, Sony, and Canon.

Swiss lighting manufacturer Elinchrom has officially announced that it will "take a breather" from this year's Photokina trade show, and according to industry rumors, other brands like Profoto might follow suit.

The new OWC ThunderBlade external SSD comes in capacities of up to 8TB, and boasts read and write speeds of up to 2,800MB/s and 2,450MB/s, respectively. Plus, you can daisy chain up to six of these together for even more storage and speed.

For more than 40 years, photographer Lynn Johnson has turned her lens on hidden and at-risk communities all over the world. In this video she explains how a grant from Sony helped her to complete a long-term project in Cambodia focusing on the effects of drug-resistant TB.

Sony has announced the impending arrival of its latest professional Super 35mm camera, the FS5 II. Aesthetically, little has changed compared to its predecessor, but the features included with the FS5 II mean you won't have to shell out money for firmware updates like the FS5.

LaCie has taken its iconic lineup of rugged external drives to the next level with the announcement of its impending Rugged RAID Pro. It's thinner, lighter and faster than its predecessors, with USB-C connectivity and an integrated SD card reader.

Blackmagic Design just released a massive update to DaVinci Resolve that integrates VFX editing and motion graphics into an all-new Fusion module. That makes DaVinci Resolve 15 the only post-production tool to combine video editing, color correction, audio production, and visual effects into a single tool.

Blackmagic has finally announced an update to its Pocket Cinema Camera, and it looks like it was worth the wait. The Pocket Cinema Camera 4K is packed full of pro video features, but has a mouth watering price of only $1295.

Atomos new Ninja V packs all of the features you've come to expect from an Atomos external recorder into a smaller 5.2-inch form factor that's better suited to filmmakers using DSLRs and mirrorless cameras.

Western Digital has just revealed the newest generation G-Technology G-DRIVE Pro and G-SPEED Shuttle SSDs, an incredibly fast lineup of solid state drives that are built to work with 4K and 8K RAW video.

Ezio's new 31.5-inch ColorEdge CG319X DCI-4K HDR monitor features a built-in calibration sensor that can recalibrate the display while you work, hybrid log-gamma (HLG) support and a perceptual quantization (PQ) curve for editing HDR video footage.

Memory card manufacturer ProGrade Digital has publicly demonstrated its upcoming CFexpress cards at NAB 2018 in Las Vegas. Due out later this year, the cards top out at 1TB in capacity and have maximum read/write speeds of 1,400MB/s and 1,000MB/s, respectively.

The Super-Vario-Elmar-SL 16-35mm F3.5-4.5 ASPH is the first ultra-wide angle zoom for Leica's full-frame mirrorless SL-system. It promises "unparalleled imaging performance and versatility, coupled with supremely quick and quiet autofocus."

The Pentax K-1 II has a new Pixel Shift mode that can be used hand-held. We compared it to traditional tripod-mounted Pixel Shift and standard non-Pixel Shift shots to see how it stacks up.

Fujifilm has revealed plans to discontinue several film products this year, starting with the popular B&W ACROS 100 stock in October. The ACROS news was first leaked last month, but Fuji has now released an official timeline.

At DPReview, we’re in touch with camera and lens manufacturers all year-round. Our best opportunity to really tap into how the leaders of those companies are thinking though comes at the CP+ show in Yokohama Japan. Here's what we took away from those conversations this year.

With spring rolling around, the Panasonic ZS200 / TZ200 is likely catching the eyes of photography-minded travelers with upcoming trips. While our testing continues, we thought we'd post a few more samples (including some Raws) from this handy little travelzoom.

49 years after it was taken, this photo of a 50-70 meter tall lava 'bubble' captured during a 5-year-long eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is spreading across the internet like wildfire thanks to a #ThrowbackThursday tweet by the US Geological Survey.

Meet SELDI, the newest gadget to hit up the photo community for some crowdfunding. This odd contraption is a 7-in-1 wearable video rig designed for action cameras, smartphones, 360-degree cameras, and compact digital cameras.

Western Digital's new Black 3D NVMe SSD was built for hardcore gamers, but it's ideal for video production because of its ability to rapidly and seamlessly handle 4K/UHD graphics.

Filter maker NiSi surprised everyone this week by unveiling a set of cinema primes. The new NiSi F3 cinema lenses can cover a full-frame sensor and will be available in PL, Canon EF, and Sony E mounts.

In 2010, wildlife filmmaker Ivo Nörenberg asked Canon to create a lens with a seemingly impossible set of specifications. Four years later, Canon delivered the $78,000 CINE-SERVO 50-1000mm T5.0-8.9 lens.

In an interview with TechCrunch, Apple reveled that the professional community will have to wait a little bit longer for the totally re-designed Mac Pro. The company didn't mince words, saying "the Mac Pro is a 2019 product."

Following an incredibly successful Kickstarter campaign for the 3-in-1 Neptune Convertible Art Lens System, Lomography has added the new ultra-wide front lens to the lineup. Meet the Naiad 15mm F3.8 Art Lens.

Apple just released version 10.4.1 of Final Cut Pro X, and the big news is a brand new video format called ProRes RAW. The new format combines the editing flexibility of RAW video with the performance benefits of compressed ProRes.

The Olympus PEN E-PL9, that company's entry-level mirrorless camera, is coming to North America after launching just about everywhere else two months ago. The camera is now available for $599 body-only and $699 with the 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 EZ lens.

The HP DreamColor Z27x G2 display boasts some serious specs. This 27-inch Quad HD display boasts 99% DCI-P3 coverage and an integrated pop-up sensor that calibrates your display on demand or on a regular schedule.

The new HP ZBook Studio G5 and Studio x360 G5 feature the latest 6-core Intel Xeon processors, the 'world's brightest' 4K laptop display with Wacom pen compatibility and 100% Adobe RGB, powerful NVIDIA graphics, and up to 32GB or RAM.

In a couple of technical blog posts, Samsung has revealed some details about the stacked image sensor technology in the Galaxy S9, and how it allows the smartphone to shoot super slow motion.

We caught up with Ricoh at CP+ to talk about the K-1 Mark II, as well as the future of both the GR series and 360 imaging with the Theta line.

Leica's prices are about to go up in the USA. Starting May 1st, expect to pay hundreds more for 66 different Leica products including most Leica M cameras, nearly all Leica M lenses and more.

Adobe has updated Premiere Pro CC and After Effects CC with some cool new features, including an AI-powered Color Match and color grading split-view that will save video editors a ton of time when color grading their footage.

YouTuber Marques Brownlee recently took a trip to Portland, OR to learn about (and play around with) Motorized Precision's incredible camera robots. Watch as they create shots no human camera operator could hope to duplicate.

A few days testing Huawei's new flagship device has us convinced that it's the most advanced smartphone camera to date.