It uses the same body as the regular Mini 2. DJI After launching in Southeast Asia and South America last month, the new DJI Mini SE is finally available in the US for $299. It’s an upgrade-with-a-lower-price to DJI’s previous entry-level consumer drone, the original DJI Mini, although the internals and camera are the same. It isn’t a replacement for the DJI Mini 2, which remains in the Mavic family lineup for $449.  DJI Mini SE drone details It really is tiny. DJI The DJI Mini SE’s most important feature is its weight: under 250g (8.8oz). For US drone pilots, this means that you are e ..read more

Shown next to an M1 MacBook Air. Stan Horaczek Flat-screen displays have been getting bigger and cheaper in recent years. And while it’s tempting to pick up a massive screen for your desk, creative work requires accurate color. Those cheap screens tend to value punch and vibrance over accuracy and faithful color reproduction. The 32-inch, 4K MSI Creator Monitor PS321URV employs several bits of tech specifically aimed at creatives. While it’s a bit of a departure from MSI’s typical gaming fare, this spacious screen provides a solid canvas for photographers, designers, and video editors. What ..read more

A good memory card reader is an easy purchase to overlook, but the right reader can drastically speed up your workflow and save you precious time when you’re offloading thousands of RAW photos or hours of 4K video footage. Fortunately, there are plenty of fast and reliable card readers on the market. These are our favorites. ProGrade Digital USB 3.1 Gen 2 Card Reader ProGrade Digital Check Price The ProGrade Digital brand is all about uncompromising performance for creative professionals, and their line of USB 3.1 Gen 2 card readers live up to this promise. This reader offers one UHS-I ..read more

Nikon With only a few gaps over the years—most notably from 2005 to 2013—Nikon has nearly always included a powerful 800mm telephoto lens in its lineup, going all the way back to the mid-1960s. Yet for its fledgling mirrorless Z-mount, the lens selection has until now been curtailed at the 400mm mark, at least without having to resort to teleconverters. Today, that changes with the introduction of the farthest-reaching Z-mount lens to date, the Nikkor Z 800mm f/6.3 VR S. The lens’ trim proportions, lightweight design, and overall affordability (for a super-tele at least) are likely to make ..read more

Samyang Back in 2016, South Korean optics manufacturer Samyang (also known by Rokinon) made headlines with its first-ever autofocus-equipped lenses, a pair of primes for Sony E-mount. It has since expanded its AF-capable lens lineup considerably. And late last year, Samyang began overhauling those earliest designs, first with an update to the 50mm f/1.4 prime. Now, it has done the same for the 35mm f/1.4, switching AF motor technologies and refreshing the physical design. Let’s meet the new Samyang AF 35mm f/1.4 FE II. Who’s it for? A quick glance at Samyang’s product page will confirm that ..read more

Fujifilm Film—if you can even find it in stock—is already pretty pricey, and things are about to get worse. Fujifilm plans to increase film prices by up to 60% in the coming months. Let’s dig in. About the note 富士フイルムがフィルム、印画紙、薬品、インクジェット用紙などの他、現像所での処理料金をさらに値上げします。 フィルムはカメラ店、写真店の店頭在庫を早めにお求めになるようおすすめします。当店はメーカー以外の仕入れで値上がり幅を抑えようと思います。 pic.twitter.com/NP8hiDxXyK — ぷりんと工房 小仲台 (@Printkoubou0209) March 21, 2022 This story started with a real-life game of “telephone“: Print Koubou, a camera shop, film retailer, and photo lab in Japan shared a note it recently received from Fujifilm about price i ..read more

Leitz Photographica Auction The 40th Leitz Photographica Auction (which also celebrates the auction house’s 20th anniversary) is taking place this June. It’s the biggest opportunity for photographic collectors to drop five-, six-, and seven-figure sums on important, weird, and otherwise wonderful camera gear. At the 39th Leitz Auction, for example, the headline Leica MP Black Paint No. 55 sold for a cool €1.2 million (~$1.34 million), which is especially wild given that it was only valued at €300,000 to €350,000 (~$334,000 to ~$390,000).  The catalog for the latest Leitz auction is up ..read more

SanDisk SanDisk 1TB Extreme Portable SSD Check Price Get super-fast storage in a small package. Portable SSD T7 Check Price Samsung’s tiny drive promises up to 1,050MB/s transfer speeds. WD 14TB My Book Desktop External Hard Drive Check Price Get ample storage for all of your images and videos. Responsible photographers get to enjoy all kinds of benefits like the camaraderie of photo walks, the thrill of capturing a perfect shot, and the dopamine rush that comes with buying a new piece of gear. if you want to keep your work safe, however, you have to do a l ..read more

Ricoh/Pentax We love limited edition camera releases—some more than others—and Ricoh’s latest special edition camera, the Pentax K-3 Mark III Jet Black, is one of the coolest we’ve seen in a while. As the name suggests, it sports a stealthy blacked-out paint job and even ships with a matching HD Pentax-DA 20-40mm f/2.8-4 lens, with the same Batman-esque treatment. The Pentax K-3 II Jet Black A Jet Black Pentax 20-40mm f/2.8-4 ships with the camera. Ricoh/Pentax Related: Ricoh Pentax is about to drastically change the way it sells cameras in Japan When we say blacked-out, we mean, blacked-ou ..read more

A sample image shot with the new Venus Optics Laowa 20mm f/4 shift lens. Jiang Ji Hang / Venus Optics Meet the Venus Optics Laowa 20mm f/4 Zero-D “Shift” lens. Available in no fewer than 8 mounts, this new manual focus wide-angle optic lets users shift the focal length by up to plus or minus 11mm, something that is quite useful for correcting perspective distortion when shooting architectural exteriors and interiors. Who’s it for The Laowa 20mm f/4 covers a 65mm image circle, allowing it to shift +/- 11mm on full-frame cameras. Venus Optics Related: Venus Optics Laowa 85mm f/5.6 is the worl ..read more