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I totally agree. A disclaimer in any article about drones should be there. Not having it is irresponsible journalism.

Commercial use in the uk requires a CAA approved pilot to verify your ability to fly and operate it. Fly it without that anyone even seeing it in the sky on a commercial job can sue you, oh and the CAA can too.

Information like this needs to be in these reviews!

That is a terrifying solution as so far the creative cloud has been an absolute disaster for people who rely on the software for income.

I got barred for nearly a month as I double paid my bill and then they got hacked.

"yeah no problem I'll have that set of images back in an hour" ... "oh adobe's servers are down"

I expect to hear a lot of that on their support forums when it's commercially available.

I've used a D3s extensively and if I didn't calibrate a lens to the body, focus could be off a lot. This was with lenses that cost 4 figures to ancient manual lenses. If I pointed it into the sun and had area focus on it would overexpose as the algorithms that Nikon started with in the 80's and have persisted always take the dominant meter exception as the point of focus and expose for that, so therefore in most of these shots the metering is bang on for the dominant features.

Finally as a long time AP reader and having seen Barney's photos in the past in the print magazine it's disappointing to see that this has been allowed to be undertaken in this state, as I vividly remember an article on manual Nikkor lenses on an 35mm F and the virtues of learning how to utilise a meter correctly. Therefore, treating a camera with guide price of £1599 as a compact and demonstrating it in this way has really put me off ever treating what was once a very reputable photo journalist with any trust.

I'm reading the comments here and I'd like to point out some simple points about pro range bodies.

1: Pro's understand how and when to use exposure comp as meters are never perfect... also with CMOS overexposure is less of a problem Canon is actually making up for muddy shadows pulling from bad data in underexposed areas. So complaining an algorithm is off when shooting directly into the sun is stupid.

2: Most people who buy a pro body find this interesting think called focus adjust. It means you take some time to use your expensive lens on your expensive body and match the 2 together. It's called workflow. Google can assist here.

3: Real world I have found in the market for this camera and for the actual intended use i.e sports and high speed applications is not taking pictures of miniatures backlit on a beach or pointing the camera into the sun. Real-world could replaced with " I had to post some stuff and left it on auto for a weekend"
Defeating many peoples hard work.

Actually wait... Has Damien been hanging out with Ken Rockwell? As Re-reading this it would appear that realism has gone out the door again.

Yes it's expensive, but so were super zoom 35mm compacts. Pentax Nikon, Canon never complained of the exorbitant sales income from them as there is a market for them.

In the same way until digital a vast number of low level manufacturers never complained about their low cost SLR sales.

Please excuse the rage.. but realistically writing an article titled " Search engine Optimisation for the LX100 and GX7 could have been a better title, to drive on page ad revenue" could have been a more apt title for this piece.

no. they have strategised 2 independent markets.

but hey we all know that journalists understand everything, never get it wrong and also understand every demographic in the world.

Ah, but the sudden upsurge in M mount sales is due to mirrorless and the Nex/A7 tribes ;)

In which case they happily mount.

Although as an M9 user myself. It's still not a portrait lens. You would hope a photography journalist knew at least that much.

Any reason why there is a link on the homepage to a link onto the photokina feed? Or is it better for Ad revenue ;)

Alas Schneider-Kreuznach doesn't capture the attention that Zeiss does in the US and UK markets. So why waste the corporate AOL account on promoting them as much as reporting a fast wide angle lens from Zeiss as a portrait lens ;)

I think this is a very clever move on their part. The cameras are aimed squarely at a medium format digital demographic. and if you look at the PR shot, this now makes the camera have the near identical grip and handling as say a hasselblad or a phase one body.

Well done sigma ;)

In terms of iso gripes, software gripes etc .. keep in mind there is a large group of photographers that use very leftside cameras already for specific work at lower ISO's. Alpa users for instance require a digital back, lens shift and uncompromised mechanical engineering. I have actually just recommended a pair of DPmerrills to an artist as her brief was detail retention and well corrected lenses above all else. With the warnings in place over handling, she saved literally £2000 over replicating that workflow and level of technical output over a nikon or canon system.

Also most sigma users know DPP is slow .. you factor it in and assume you export early on to TIFF then into an editor.

Oh I'll add to my comment below ..

90% of tripods don't have arca head attachments. The majority are manfrotto / gitzo style so again. This further pushes it to a lovely niche market. Adding in you would probably need to buy a new plate adapter / head for your tripod to see the benefit.

... "CAMS claims can withstand more than 175 pounds of weight."

YOUR LENS MOUNT CAN'T!

Yay yet another very expensive strap solution.

It will only work if it was supplied with a camera from the manufacturer.

Also with a very obvious shift in the market to mirrorless small light cameras or things like the ricoh gr and x100/s it's negated as the weight factor goes.

So in effect they have managed to create the combination of half of a really right stuff plate and slingshot attachment for pro's who have a requirement for heavy telephoto lenses.

Expecting about a $100 price tag .. that would buy you a really nice all weather resistant Lowepro shoulder bag ( with a really nice big comfortable strap!) that has a top opening so you can grab your camera on a job, protect it in transit and also if you really have the requirement to hang it off your body you can use the amazingly cheap (free) strap that came with the camera, or shell out $10 for a neoprene one. Add to that $10 on a generic arca plate that is smaller and lighter.

Well done DPReview again "news" of note.

I'm not from the US, UK actually and to be honest I can't stand the amount of press this overhyped sport gets. As many others have said watching millionaires run about faking injury isn't my cup of tea. Not to mention it's organised by a largely immoral body, Fifa. Who demanded in Brazil they changed their alcohol laws just to appease Budweiser, the sponsor. As we all know too beer and sport activities are one in the same thing.. not money! Oh yeah and the authorities have killed 12 people now in protest of what Fifa did to the country .. beautiful!

Lets have a sample of sport pictures with a theme as the summer is sporting season .. in this case it could have been team games, or ball games. Alas no.. what DPreview team did here was take a bunch of very similar looking pictures, bundle them into a front page article and tried to get some more hits due to the world cup being on. Wow! Even the curation is dull, no story, no depth and no continuity. The Advertisers are really happy now

Nikon: "Hey Sony can we have one of your new sensors"
Sony: "No, we are releasing then first in our cameras now, they are going to be something no one thought possible before"
Nikon: "Ok say 6 months?"
Sony: "Ok, just don't think you can ever get a sensor up front again though!"
Nikon: "Ok. Guys get out the guide to selling snake oil and shave some buttons off an existing body, we got us a camera release to do!"

My d3s was the perfect camera in terms of iso performance vs practical file sizes vs resolution. I think video aside Sony has released a very interesting and needed product here. I'm just gonna cross my fingers that the microlenses will play happy with leica m fit wide lenses and there is a new king in town! A small body that can take small lenses and shoot in lowlight, plus easily do an A3+ print.

Fingers crossed!

It's an unfortunate fact that history and similar projects like 3d imaging and the nimslo type imaging have fallen over to 2d with the expensive nature of printing and display of such items. Even 3d film finds it hard now to be as persuasive to the general public in all but animated features, so however good the concept is people like prints or uncomplicated viewing, which I expect is the major hurdle any light field camera needs to overcome before commercially it will successful.

Keep in mind as well that 2d flat field images now and their method of capture are incredibly good. Also the concept of a picture is to capture a moment in your perception of it, so post manipulation is also a tricky concept lytro need to work on to be made practical, rather than a toy like gimmick.

Nikon, Canon and Leica all make their pro bodies out of alloy.. they have done for years and it's proven that metal survives a world of pain and drops.

I've had 3 bodies made of polycarb destroyed over the years. However my nikon D3s I could hammer a nail in the wall when I needed to.

This will be built to last, as with other leica products. Keep in mind the M3 was made in 1953 and 90% or so are still in use. It's testament to those materials being right for long term survivability in everything from the home to a war zone.

At least Leica have been in the business long enough to know thankfully that you need good lenses to launch a system.

Sony take note A7/r needed this and still has not been delivered. Even before it's out Leica have 2 lenses ready and have 2 away to move into production at no compromise optical designs. Zeiss doesn't use IS.. that's for the same reasons. Quality of image over all else!

Price wise, yes it's high, but people who have experienced true leica products, not re-badged panasonic ones, can vouch for why that build matters. My M9 feels like it has been carved out out stone, not polycarb build that feels like the slightest drop will render it dead. My film leica's from back in the day and my R8 slr were the same. Solid, dependable and more enough to take a picture.

I'll hold out for all the tests for people using M glass before I consider anything, but if it supports the legacy stuff well. Every digital M owner will jump on this as a realistically priced option as a backup.

tripodfan: How often do people change iso that instead of a single button push on any other fuji body they need a dial? the other issues if you really want fast AF, better brighter more accurate VF, Weather sealing... buy a pro body SLR either nikon or canon. I can fit a d800 and a prime lens in the same size of bag I could fit my M9 and the smallest M mount lens in.. the M being much smaller than the fuji.

Petka: Yes everyone can afford 2 bodies, that's why when I'm out in Ferrari with a super telephoto taking pictures of stuff I think to myself that the EVF on the xpro 1 is really not worth it.. it's nearly unusable in comparison ;)

LaFonte: Once again.. X-Pro push the lever and you have the same thing.. EVF kicks in same sensor same image quality and once again if you want a big bright VF and fast AF you want a proper SLR with phase detect AF and lenses that match up in terms of speed.

This camera is a slight shift of position on the VF and very little else.