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Recently crowned the overall winner of the 2024 Societies of Photographers 20x16 Print Competition and, having won a hatful of previous awards, Jess McGovern is a leading practitioner of dog [...]

There are many occasions when we can't get as close as we'd like. If you're shooting anything from small timid birds to planes at an air show, from athletes to [...]

I'm a fan of 'superzoom' Lenses for walkabout and travel photography, as they give me the ability to react to unfolding photo opportunities at the flick of a wrist, rather [...]

www.sony.co.uk [pounds sterling]1.249/51.200 Everybody Loves 'trinity' wide-angle, standard and telephoto f/2.8 zoom lenses, right? Actually, you can count me out. Especially for use on mirrorless cameras, I prefer 'slower' f/4 [...]

www.sigmauk.com [pounds sterling]1,299 / $1,399 Sigma Lenses have Long impressed me, ever since the 35mm film days of my youth. However, everything shifted up a gear in 2012 with the [...]

The original Sony FE 85mm F1.4 GM was one of the first three G Master lenses that Sony ever produced for its Alpha full-frame mirrorless cameras. It was well received [...]

Q I'm considering buying a Z 6III but have read that its 'partially stacked' image sensor compromises image quality in terms of dynamic range and signal to noise. Is this [...]

Our resident Nikon expert Matthew Richards answers your questions and solves your problems. If you have a Nikon-related question, email it to mail@nphotomag.com Q I do a lot of mammal [...]

canon.co.uk [pounds sterling]499/$299 On the face of it, the Canon Speedlite EL-5 looks like something of a bargain. It shoehorns most of the features of the flagship Canon Speedlite EL-1 [...]

This latest Sports-series lens aims to combine high-end handling and performance with a relatively manageable size and weight. The lens tips the scales at just 1,370g--less than many 70-200mm f/2.8 [...]

A compact standard zoom with compromises www.sony.co.uk [pounds sterling]1.149/$1.098 Sony has been going about its full-frame mirrorless business for over 10 years now, racking up 73 E-mount Lenses along the [...]

A 'pro' lens with a consumer price tag www.viltroxstore.com [pounds sterling]420/$545 The Viltrox AF 27mm F1.2 Pro picks up the baton from some seriously good f/1.4 Lenses that are available [...]

www.fujifilm.com The Fujifilm GF120mm is tailor-made for macro photography. The effective focal length of 95mm (less than the true focal length because this lens is paired with Fujifilm's medium-format GFX [...]

www.sony.co.uk Everybody loves 'trinity' wide-angle, standard and telephoto f/2.8 zoom lenses, right? Actually, you can count me out. Especially for mirrorless cameras, I prefer 'slower' f/4 zooms that are smaller, [...]

www.fujifilm.com I love that tilt-shift lenses enable me to do things in-camera that are difficult or impossible to replicate during editing without some serious compromises. This Fujinon GF 30mm F5.6 [...]

DSLR and mirrorless camera setups have a habit of growing. Once you get beyond, say, a camera and a kit lens, an additional telephoto zoom and a flashgun, regular shoulder [...]

Build and handling Everybody loves a trinity standard zoom, right? They're great for any genre of photography. Well, there's no getting away from the fact that the 28-105mm f/2.8 DG [...]

PRICE: [pounds sterling]399/$369 FOCUS DISTANCE: 0.30m WEIGHT: 930g Build and handling Most dedicated macro primes have a focal length of around 105mm, so the AstrHori 120mm f/2.8 Macro 2x is [...]

Build and handling Just occasionally, I feel that twice as much really is twice as good. The GF 500mm is Fujifilm's longest telephoto medium-format lens to date, doubling the reach [...]

DOWNLOAD TEST SHOTS https://bit.ly/DPH282 Build and handling Sigma offers a diverse range of lenses in its 'Global Vision' Art, Sports, and Contemporary line-ups, aiming to offer ideal solutions to all [...]

www.nikon.co.uk [pounds sterling]4,999/$4,797 The Nikkor Z 600mm f/6.3 VR S follows in the footsteps of a couple of impressive Nikon super-telephoto lenses. It has the same kind of design as [...]

www.canon.co.uk [pounds sterling]379/5299 The Canon RF 24-50mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM is designed to take a load off. One of the big attractions of many mirrorless cameras is that they're small; [...]

The Nikkor Z 135mm f/1.8 S Plena has a tough act to follow. We were impressed by the Z 85mm f/1.2 S, but the Plena takes everything to a whole [...]

www.sigma-global.com [pounds sterling]1,999/$1,999 The Sigma 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports for Sony and L-mount cameras has some history behind it. In 2001, the so-called 'Bigma' was born, a unique [...]

On the face of it, the Canon Speedlite EL-5 looks like something of a bargain. It shoehorns most of the features of the flagship Canon Speedlite EL-1 into a more [...]

Sony has been going about its full-frame mirrorless business for over 10 years, racking up 73 E-mount lenses along the way. New for 2024, the FE 24-50mm F2.8 G standard [...]

The Viltrox AF 27mm F1.2 Pro picks up the baton from some seriously good f/1.4 lenses, available in Fujifilm X, Nikon Z and Sony E mount options. We were impressed [...]

Build and handling I'm generally a fan of 'super-zoom' lenses for walkabout and travel photography. That said, super-zoom optics tend to compromise image quality in favour of a supersized zoom [...]

Build and handling Everybody loves 'trinity' wide-angle, standard and telephoto f/2.8 zoom lenses, right? Actually, you can count me out. I tend to prefer 'slower' f/4 zooms that are smaller [...]

www.venuslens.net [pounds sterling]669/$599 Designed for both full-frame and crop-sensor mirrorless cameras, the Laowa Argus 28mm f/1.2 FF from Venus Optics follows in the confident footsteps of several predecessors in the [...]

www.sigmauk.com [pounds sterling]1,399/$1,599 P roducing the 14mm F1.4 DG DN Art was a bold move on Sigma's part. It already has a very good 14mm F1.8 DG HSM Art lens [...]

www.nikon.co.uk [pounds sterling]1,299 / $1,247 The Nikon Z 70-180mm f/2.8 proves that relatively fast f/2.8 constant-aperture telephoto zooms don't always have to be big and heavy. While most 'trinity' wide-angle, [...]

www.canon.co.uk [pounds sterling]11.500 / 59.500 The Canon RF 100300mm F2.8L IS USM is a telephoto addition to Canon's RF 15-35mm F2.8L IS USM, RF 24-70mm F2.8L IS USM and RF [...]

www.nikon.co.uk [pounds sterling]289/$280 The Nikkor Z DX 24mm f/1.7 is Nikon's first DX (APS-C format) prime lens specifically for cameras like the Z 30, Z 50 and Z fc. The [...]

www.sony.co.uk [pounds sterling]1.749/$1.698 The Sony FE 70-200mm F4 Macro G OSS II has a tough act to follow. The original had good glass, fast autofocus, decent optical image stabilisation and [...]

There are often times when we can't get as close as we'd like to. If you're shooting anything from small timid birds to planes at an air show, from athletes [...]

The Godox V1 is nothing if not well-rounded. Compared with regular flashguns that have a rectangular head, the V1 has a circular flash tube that has been designed to give [...]

The article offers information on the Z 6III mirrorless camera from Nikon.

www.nikon.co.uk [pounds sterling]2.999/52.797 The Nikon Z 85mm f/1.2 S has been a long time coming, but the combination of an 85mm focal length and f/1.2 aperture fits the bill perfectly [...]

www.sigma-imaging.co.uk [pounds sterling]850/$849 The Sigma 50mm F1.4 DG DN Art has a heritage that includes the 50mm F1.4 DG HSM for DSLRs, launched in 2014 as the second 'Art' prime [...]

Build and handling This latest Sports-series lens aims to combine high-end handling and performance with a relatively manageable size and weight. The lens tips the scales at just 1,370g--less than [...]