The Tamron 35-150mm f/2-2.8 is a versatile third-party lens for Sony E and Nikon Z mirrorless cameras. It features an unusually wide range of focal lengths and a bright maximum aperture of f/2-2.8, making it one of the most interesting zoom lenses available today.
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Cameras are increasingly joining our phones and computers as high-tech computing devices. For some, this may be a reason to get nostalgic for the good old days of cog wheels and fine gears; for others, a reason to rejoice. Whichever group you belong to, it’s hard to deny the excitement of getting new features that breathe life into your camera via a firmware update. This is how the Nikon Z9 – and, a few days ago, the Z8 – got a very exciting high-tech function called Auto Capture.
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The persistent rain outside the windows made me search my archives for photos this week instead of going outside. But it wasn’t a nostalgic trip back in time – it was a focused search for sample images from a particular lens, a review of which you’ll soon be able to read on Photography Life. Can you tell which lens the photo below was taken with? But that’s just a taste of what’s to come. As for what already happened this week, here’s my roundup of recent news in the photography world.
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In North America, the most commonly-known birds are probably the Rock Dove, Mallard, and Ring-billed Gull. The Ring-billed Gull is also one of the most photographed birds in the world, being #21 in eBird’s library with over 120,000 photos! But did you know that the Ring-billed Gull was once fairly rare?
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Nikon just announced a major firmware update for the Nikon Z8, bringing it some highly-anticipated features from the Z9 and Zf cameras. The headlining features are a dedicated bird-detection autofocus option, the addition of Auto Capture (borrowed from the Z9) and a Pixel Shift shooting mode that allows capture up to 180 megapixels (borrowed from the Zf). There are also a variety of smaller things added in Version 2.0, including more custom options when assigning buttons, a new “Rich Tone Portrait” Picture Control, and additional shutter sounds.
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