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    Cameras

    March

    If you can get your hands on Fujifilm’s latest camera, do

    There was very little wrong with the old Fujifilm X100V, other than it was so popular it was near-impossible to buy. The new X100VI has even fewer flaws, but still has that one.

    • John Davidson

    January

    The Ray-Ban and Meta Smart Glasses work with tinted or prescription lenses.

    Meta’s new face camera heralds a new age of surveillance

    No one – not even my editor, who was aware I was writing this column – could tell it apart from ordinary glasses.

    • Brian X. Chen

    October 2023

    Here’s one camera that lets you be the main character at all times

    With a dedicated vlog mode as well as a product placement tool, Fujifilm’s X-S20 camera is perfect to throw in an influencer’s bag of tricks.

    • John Davidson

    September 2023

    I didn’t have the nerve to point the camera at me, but mounted on the handlebars of a mountain bike was the main way I reviewed the GoPro.

    Action heroes, here’s how you can prove you are one

    Taking professional-looking videos has (almost) never been easier or more fun than with GoPro’s Hero 12 Black.

    • John Davidson

    April 2023

    Two words that could change your view on photography

    Canon’s new EOS R8 combines significant virtues you don’t often see together: low cost, and a full-frame sensor.

    • John Davidson
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    February 2023

    Eight big changes coming to EVs

    From software and greater power to a new focus on traditional design and simplicity – here’s what’s shaping next-generation vehicles right now.

    • Tony Davis

    January 2023

    Over the past few years, nostalgia for the Y2K era, a time of both tech enthusiasm and existential dread that spanned the late 1990s and early 2000s, has seized Generation Z.

    The hottest Gen Z gadget is a 20-year-old digital camera

    Over the past few years, nostalgia for the Y2K era, a time of both tech enthusiasm and existential dread that spanned the late 1990s and early 2000s, has seized Generation Z.

    • Kalley Huang

    October 2022

    Acusensus has camera technology on mobile trailers enabling police forces and government authorities to help stop people using mobile phones illegally while driving.

    Sick of traffic fines? This IPO candidate might have the answer

    Acusensus, which sells “Intelligent Eyes” camera detection tech on mobile trailers to help curb distracted drivers, may soon join the ranks of the ASX.

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    • Simon Evans

    May 2022

    Canon EOS M50 MKII

    Whatever happened to the travel camera?

    Even an inexpensive travel camera like the EOS M50 MK II is streets ahead of the best phone camera we’ve reviewed. L&L May 6 travel special.

    • John Davidson

    April 2022

    Oppo Find X5 Pro

    Is it time to rethink the Apple/Samsung phone duopoly?

    Oppo has paired with Hasselblad to produce the Find X5 Pro, a phone with a camera that might just turn out to be great one day.

    • John Davidson

    March 2022

    Leica M11

    Leica’s M11 is a camera to keep close to your heart

    There’s something about holding this beauty that makes you think: Someone is going to steal this if I’m not careful.

    • John Davidson

    June 2021

    Supplied images by Ceres Tag of Ceres Tag smart tag for livestock tracking and monitoring. 

    Agtech rustles up new answers to an old problem

    The problem with farm theft is that it is too easy to commit. New technology aims to raise the cost of risking it for would-be thieves.

    • Michael Bleby

    December 2020

    These googly eyes we put on the newest smart speakers of 2020 are a friendly reminder that they're both music players and surveillance devices. Shown here clockwise from the upper left are the Google Nest Audio, Amazon Echo, Apple HomePod Mini and Amazon Echo Dot.

    The best gadgets to come out of 2020

    Consider this a cheat sheet to this season's buzziest and best new speakers, phones and cameras.

    • Geoffrey Fowler

    November 2020

    The Leica Q2 Monocrhom.

    This camera costs $8000 but you can't shoot in colour

    That money you haven't spent on travel this year? Feel free to blow it on extravagant tech gifts this Christmas, like the latest camera from Leica.

    • John Davidson

    October 2020

    Sony Alpha A7C compact full-frame camera

    Sony's Alpha 7C reinvents the travel camera

    This full-frame compact model can take the public performance that is tourism and transform it into high art. More Instagram followers are a snap away.

    • John Davidson
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    August 2020

    Grant Petty

    Aussie movie tech specialist eyes listing as sales boom

    A Melbourne video-production equipment maker that regularly works on Hollywood blockbusters has found unexpected success during lockdown.

    • John Davidson

    April 2020

    The new weatherproofing on Fujifilm's X100V won't keep out bullets, but it should keep out rain.

    Shoot to thrill with Fujifilm's X100V

    Emulating the feel of a war-time photographer's camera, Fuji's latest will have you creating master portraiture – just make sure you carry your identity papers.

    • John Davidson

    December 2019

    Surface Pro 7

    Standout gadgets of the era

    Technology has became so embedded in our lives, it's difficult to find anything to get excited about. But as this selection shows, we managed.

    • John Davidson

    November 2019

    All the action happens round the back of the The Xiaomi Mi Note 10 Pro, with its cameras.

    The phone with a staggering 108 megapixel camera

    Like big photos? Most top-end phones have cameras with between 12 and 28 megapixels – Xiaomi's new Note 10 Pro comes in with a lazy 108.

    • Leigh Stark

    October 2019

    One of Atomos' video display screens.

    Video tech company Atomos kicks off raising

    Video editing hardware company Atomos has launched an equity raising, with Morgans as the lead manager on the deal. 

    • Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd