Rajib Mukherjee, Author at Phowd

Ever since the Northlight posted some blurry images which they claimed to be the rumored 5D Mark IV, the rumor mills are abuzz. It was rumored back in July that an official announcement can happen as early as this August. The date appears to be 27th. Canon has already scheduled a new event for that... Read more »

Essential Tips to Improve your Photography

If you have recently migrated from a compact point & shoot to a DSLR you no doubt will be very excited. Finally you are in a position to make ‘better’ photos with your bigger and more professional looking camera. But, there is a problem. Your ‘smarter’ camera somehow isn’t quite able to make better photos... Read more »

The Voigtländer 12mm f/5.6 lens for the Sony E-mount appears to be finally shipping on the 7h of September. The Voigtländer 12mm is a Wide Heliar aspherical lens and has a maximum aperture of f/5.6. This is a full-frame lens and gives an ultra-wide focal length of 12mm on 35mm sensor powered cameras. The... Read more »

Canon could very well be working on a new design for a Wi-Fi adapter and that would be sitting inside your camera’s SD card slot. Yes. You read it right. Though there has not been an explicit implication that the new Wi-Fi adapter is going to look like a SD card or where it could... Read more »

This is just in. Nikon has announced the new Coolpix W100 compact camera. This one is aimed at replacing the older S33 model. This is evidently a camera that is aimed at casual photographers, kids getting started in photography and for those who want a funky looking camera to pull out at events and get-togethers.... Read more »

It’s official! Nikon has officially announced the AF-S Nikkor 105mm f/1.4E ED lens. This would be the auto-focusing iteration of the extremely popular 105mm focal length. Currently, Nikon sells two more versions in this focal length segment. One is the well-built AF DC-Nikkor 105mm f/2D and the other one is the Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8. The defocus... Read more »

Going by the recent updates and rumors, Tamron, it seems, have registered a new 20mm f/2 Di VC USD lens. The lens has very recently been registered in Japan. This lens is the latest among a series of other lenses that have been patent filed by Tamron. These include a 70-200mm f/4 VC, a SP... Read more »

The full frame Rokinon 50mm f/1.4 auto-focus lens for the Sony E-mount has quietly become available for pre-order on B&H. The Rokinon full-frame 50mm f/1.4 E-mount is designed for the Sony E-mount full-frame camera. Auto-focusing is quick. Plus, the lens has full-time manual focusing override. The lens, compatible on smaller APS-C Sony cameras as well,... Read more »

It appears camera drones are after all really useful tools provided, they are in the right hands. There has been a lot of negative news flowing in the media about insensible drone pilots. News such as drones interfering with firefighting efforts or nearly crashing a police chopper or when a drone pilot crashed a drone... Read more »

It appears that Canon is planning a digital display on their future lens designs. We could likely see how this works on the replacement for the 70-300mm f4 – 5.6 IS lens. The display will be similar to what is there on the Zeiss Batis lenses. The Zeiss Batis lenses (both the 25mm f/2 and... Read more »