Brilliance in a Small Package

Canon RF 35 mm f/1.8 Macro IS STM

A Versatile Ultra-Wide

Sony FE 20 mm f/1.8 G

Scenic Terrains

Senaritra— fondly known as ‘Sena’ to his friends—is a software engineer by profession.

Poco Announces X3 Smartphone

Poco has launched its latest phone X3. Running on Snapdragon 732G, the X3 offers sustained performance and AI capabilities thanks to its architecture based on the Kryo 470 octa-core CPU and Adreno 618 GPU.

Tamron Launches Telephoto Zoom Lens

Tamron has announced the launch of the 70-300 mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III RXD (Model A047), a telephoto zoom lens for Sony E-mount full-frame mirrorless cameras.

Photographer's Professional Monitor

BenQ SW321C ₹1,87,600

HP Updates Envy and Z Series

HP has unveiled its latest portfolio of Envy with the Envy 15, Envy 13 and Envy x360 13, along with ZBook Studio and ZBook Create in its Z series.

Luminar 4 A Smart Photo Editor Part I

A month ago, we reviewed Affinity Photo – a full-featured yet cost-effective photo editor.

Samsung Unveils Galaxy Devices

Samsung has introduced a new suite of power devices in its Galaxy Note20 series. The Note20 series comes with an all new S pen, Samsung notes app, Nearby Share, Microsoft’s Your Phone app and advanced gaming features that extend to Galaxy Tab S7 and S7+.

Fujifilm Announces Shoe Mount Flash EF-60

Fujifilm has announced the launch of Shoe Mount Flash EF-60, adding another accessory for the X Series and GFX Series of digital cameras. The EF60 is a compact hot-shoe mount flash, offering the maximum guide number of 60. It can be combined with Fujifilm’s Wireless Commander EF-W1, to enable wireless off-camera flash operation. This allows users to control lighting for creative photographic effects.

Digitising your old films

Having been into photography, since the early 70’s, I have built up a collection of negatives and slides that were filed away and had not seen daylight for decades. Many of these images are memories of friends, family, celebrations and events. Some of them were images that I exhibited in Salons in the 70’s.

Sony Launches Alpha 7S III

Sony has announced the long-awaited addition to its acclaimed Alpha 7S full-frame mirrorless camera series, the Alpha 7S III (model ILCE-7SM3).

Finding New Opportunities in Every Crisis

The Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown it has induced, does not appear to ease any time soon, and its impact on businesses is still far from over. Smart Photography spoke to C. Sukumaran, Director, Consumer System Products and Imaging Communication Products, Canon India, to find out about Canon’s strategies to overcome this crisis.

Unchartered Vistas

Rajiv is an electrical engineer by profession with a passion for photography. He loves to travel and explore the world.

Superior performance for creative professionals

Well-designed technology can simplify life by making it more efficient. As photography enthusiasts, you would agree that the right equipment brings composition, angle and lighting to life. An ideal camera adds soul to your images by working efficiently with your creative thought.

Postcards from Vasai Fort

Mumbai’s northern suburb of Vasai is a quaint amalgam of old-world charm and modernity.

Sony Launches Alpha 7S III

Sony has announced the long-awaited addition to its acclaimed Alpha 7S fullframe mirrorless camera series, the Alpha 7S III (model ILCE-7SM3).

Affinity Photo A Low-Cost Photo Editor

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 the technical aspects of digital photography and equipment. He has published more than a 100 articles on photography and some of his writings have also been published in the wellknown international magazine Popular Photography.An avid collector of photographic books and vintage cameras, Ashok has a keen interest in the history of photography and a passion for sharing his knowledge on photography through teaching and writing. He is the only Indian photographer to be featured on the Nikon Centenary website. He is presently working as a Management and Engineering consutant. He can be reached at kashokk@gmail.com.

Panasonic Launches Lumix G100 Camera

Panasonic has launched the Lumix G100, a new digital single lens mirrorless camera designed and developed for content creators.

Optical Engineering Marvel

AF-S Nikkor 120-300MM f/2.8E FL ED SR VR ₹8,06,995

Leica Introduces M10-R Camera

Leica has introduced a new high-resolution version of the company’s rangefinder camera. With a 40 megapixel colour sensor, the new flagship expands the M10 family, which includes the M10, M10-P, M10-D and M10 Monochrome.

Canon Launches EOS R5 and R6

Canon has unveiled its much-anticipated full-frame mirrorless cameras, the EOS R5 and EOS R6.

Let's De-Noise a Noisy Photo

What exactly is ‘noise’? Noise or digital noise as we often call it, is a type of distortion that looks similar to what ‘grain’ was/is with films. There are several types of noise, but to keep things simple, we shall mention only ‘luminance’ (brightness) noise and ‘chroma’(colour) noise.

Ricoh Launches GR III Street Edition

Ricoh announced the launch of the GR III Street Edition Special Limited Kit. Available in a limited quantity of 3,500 units worldwide, the kit combines the Ricoh GR III camera body, finished in a metallic grey colour, with a compact, detachable viewfinder and a genuine-leather hand strap, both designed exclusively for this package.

Upgrade Your Editing Suite

The Nik Collection by DxO is not a single plugin or suite, but a collection of eight plugins for Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, Elements, DxO PhotoLab and Serif Affinity. The collection offers a vast library of exclusive presets along with a host of retouching tools. This collection of plugins allow you to edit your images easily without much technical expertise. Being a pack of plugins, it is not feasible to illustrate the capabilities of each of these in a few pages. While this review might not bring out all the capabilities in detail, we would try to evaluate the Nik Collection as a whole and attempt to look at each of these in details in our subsequent issues. For this review, I am using the Nik Collection from Photoshop.