Camera

Digital or film? Digital AND film? CAMERA magazine's focus is to assist readers to choose and use the tools they need to create memorable images, and to enhance the skills that will make them better photographers. No matter what medium, readers are kept up to speed with all the latest rapidly changing film and digital products, news and technologies.

Camera

IT’S JUST THE BEGINNING

NIKON REPACKAGES THE Z5II TO CREATE A FULL FRAME COMPACT ILC

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

SONY’S FISHEYE ZOOM IS WIDEST FE LENS EVER

PANASONIC ADDS ULTRA-COMPACT ULTRA-WIDE TO LUMIX S SYSTEM

CANON’S MARK II EOS R8 HAS A NEW LOOK AND MANY NEW FEATURES

BYE BYE PENTAX K SERIES DSLRS… FOR NOW AT LEAST

INSTA360 LAUNCHES X6 FLAGSHIP 8K 360° CAMERA

FUJIFILM X MOUNT USERS GAIN 400MM SUPERTELEPHOTO PRIME

OM SYSTEM REVIVES PEN NAME ON COMPACT MIRRORLESS CAMERA

SONY FX5 DELIVERS 5K/60P WITH NEW INTERNAL RAW RECORDING

2027 WORLD FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS OPEN FOR ENTRIES

NEW SONY FE SUPERTELEPHOTO PRIMES ARE GOOD TO GO

LOMOGRAPHY OFFERS BONKERS BOKEH WITH NEW PETZVAL MÉTAMORPHOSE LENS

DOWN IN THE CLOUDS

2027 CAMERA MAGAZINE IMAGING AWARDS • After promising signs of recovery in 2025, the camera industry has again faced a challenging year - as have many others - and mostly all due to external circumstances too. However, in quite a lean last 12 months, there have been some definite highlights which suggest there’s still a strong underlying faith in the market.

PEN FRIEND • The digital PEN is back, this time under the OM System branding, but with plenty of Olympus DNA still in evidence. It’s another serious contender if you’re looking a compact, but capable carry-anywhere camera.

MAKING MOVIES

VITAL STATISTICS

THE SPIRIT OF THE BUSH 2026 • The challenges and rewards of rural life in Australia are celebrated in this year’s edition of the Spirit of the Bush photography competition run by charity Rural Aid.

A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO THE PRO-LEVEL DIGITAL CINEMA CAMERA • We know very few you are likely to be rushing out to buy a pro cine camera, but given in involvement of the ‘traditional’ photo brands in this area, we thought it would be interesting to look at the typical feature set to see what’s important to these users. We’ve picked Fujifilm’s GFX Eterna 55 because it has the same lens mount and 102 megapixel sensor as the GFX series mirrorless cameras.

THE END… OR A NEW BEGINNING? WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE ONCE-MIGHTY PENTAX? • Ricoh Imaging has ended the production of K series Pentax DSLRs with no immediate replacements on the horizon. While the future is very unclear for the Pentax brand, we can at least celebrate the past and 23 years of clever DSLR features, lots of body colours and a rare monochrome model.

POWER RANGER • Nikon has built its 28-135mm power zoom with video-makers primarily in mind, but the focal range, optical performance and its visual look all make it appealing for photography too.

VITAL STATISTICS

GO LONG, GO EASY • If the Fujinon XF 200mm f/2.0 is too short – and possibly too expensive – and the XF 500mm f/5.6 is too long… how about the ‘Goldilocks’ 400mm f/4.5 then? The price could be right too.

VITAL STATISTICS

PANON WIDELUX F SERIES • These are the cameras that, in one way or another, had a significant influence on photographers and photography. The 35mm Wideluxes enabled panorama photography with a relatively compact and easy-to-use camera, making the wide format more accessible. The portability was particularly welcomed by landscape photographers trekking into remote locations, but the Widelux F models found… ahem… wider applications too.

CAMERA HOUSE PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION 2026 • Camera House employees don’t just...