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Nikon Z9 Nikon has officially launched their flagship Mirrorless camera - the Z9. The camera, which in some ways takes over the position of the D6 as the era of DSLR's slowly wind down boasts a 45.7MP sensor with no mechanical shutter, 8K recording and 120fps shooting. The Z9 features a Full frame 45.7MP Stacked CMOS sensor with 493 AF points and has Hybrid Phase detection AF. The sensor has a sensitivity of ISO 64 to 25600 (32-102400 expandable) and considering that has an electronic shutter, it can reach 1/32000 shutter speed (max) and if you want to use a flash it can hit a maximum of 1/800 through HSS (high speed sync) . The sensor features IBIS and with VR enabled lenses, it can hit 6 stops of vibration compensation and it has a Vibration Lock to protect the sensor and the mechanism if it detects high levels of vibration or unintentional drops. Due to the lack of a mechanical shutter, the sensor can hit a maximum of 20fps RAW (1000 image buffer is available), 30fps JPEG and if...

It's no secret that Android is the most saturated operating system ever, the variety of applications running the software has caused issues when scaling as manufacturers use a variety of screen sizes when designing their product. But Android does have the ability to scale and since Android 4.0 attempts were made to scale apps accordingly, but with more form factors in the horizon, Google has re-visited the concept and has announced the Android 12L feature update (L for Large).  The new update, which according to Google is said to be targeting the growing Android tablet market and the Chromebook market and it has thereby created new features including improved notification shades, a taskbar with drag and drop support and native multitasking support. Google's new APIs also include support for three classes of devices with smartphones , Mid size foldable devices and small tablets and larger wide screen tablets and Chromebook/notebooks. google is also said to be updating app compat...

DJI has announced their latest Action Camera - the DJI Action 2. The camera, a departure from the Original DJI Action which went toe-to-to with GoPro cameras has now followed a modular philosophy (Kind of like the InstaOne360 series and the now dead GoPro Session series) and thus is sealed up basically making it more of a cube which you can easily mount to any surface or wear easily. The cube- which measures at 39x39x22.5mm weighs only 59g has only four noticeable features on the chassis - one is the camera - which is a 1/1.7" sensor with f2.8 aperture and a ultra wide 155 degree field of view. The sensor allows you to capture 12MP photos and it can record 4K at 120fps and has Rockstready 2.0 image stabilization and a horizon lock feature called "horizon steady". The camera does record 4K but you can record only to the internal 32GB of storage as MicroSD cards are only available once you attach an external modular cube. Speaking of Modular, the cube has an array of pogo ...

Sony has gone big with its new Xperia Pro - I , the phone, equipped with a 1" sensor is currently one of the largest smartphone sensors around and thus it can practically compete against pretty much any smartphone or compact camera around. The phone, based of a familiar Xperia design philosophy, has a no notch - 6.5" 3840x1664 OLED display with HDR10 and 120 hz refresh rate, the front - protected by a sheet of Gorilla glass victus - also houses a 8MP front camera with Gyro-EIS. The rest of the design features a utilitarian inspired side engraving and it also incorporates a 3.5mm headphone jack, a customizable button for any function and a shutter release button harking back to the days of old.The chassis also has a lanyard strap on the bottom size and it also has IP68 ingress protection. The rear of the phone features the best bits of the phone - the cameras. The first and the most noticeable one is the centrally mounted 12MP 1-Inch sensor with variable aperture - f2-4 and OI...

Sony has officially launched their latest iteration of the Alpha A7 - the A7 IV (Mk4), the new camera, announced as a successor to the A7III from a few years back brings many improvements such as improved autofocus,4K in 60fps, a fully articulating screen and a new sensor that comes close to the first gen A7R in terms of megapixels. The design of the new A7/4 brings no noticeable design changes and thus it looks similar to previous sony bodies with the exception of the larger chassis found on the A7S III and the R4 series, the major differences between the models now lie in the form of a fully articulating screen which can now be moved 180 degrees unlike predecessors who were restricted to just tilt-up-down functions, the new display also has a 1,03 million dot 3" touchscreen with Sony's new menu system which grants touch access across the whole menu. The top of the camera features a new customizable wheel with a push button to lock and unlock the wheel - this spot was previou...

DJI has announced their latest revolutionary product - the DJI Ronin 4D. The camera - which looks like a mid size cinema camera with a OSMO gimbal stuck on it, is basically as described - a Cinema camera with a Gimbal. The camera which has a cubical body with various controls and ports for mounting a battery - a top handle, input sources and handle grips - including a manual focus pulling grip which can be slid in from the side is basically all mostly metal while the gimbal is carbon fiber. The camera also support a wireless supported focus pulling system for lenses without AF. The main attraction of the camera is the gimbal and the camera pod. The system, which boasts 4 axis stabilization also has the power to support lenses from DJI's DL mount - 24-35-50mm as well as a plethora of Sony E mount lenses from basic wide-angle lenses all the way to 24-70 lenses and Anamorphic lenses as well (~1kg), these lenses require you to disconnect the lens mount and swap the stock DL mount to a ...

Google has made their Pixel 6 phones official, say hello to the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro. The phones, developed as a replacement for the mediocre Pixel 5, is all about a new improved design and performance thanks to Google's in house chip - Google Tensor and a new camera array at the back. The base Pixel 6 model features a 6.4" LTPO 90hz display with FHD+ resolution and a 8mp punch hole camera while the bigger Pixel 6 Pro features a 6.7" LTPO 120hz display with QHD+ resolution and a 11.1 MP front camera. The internals of the Pixels consist of Google's custom Tensor SoC, which is Google's first custom designed processor, the chip, designed around a 5nm fabrication process consists of 2 ARM X1 cores, 2 ARM A76 cores and 4 Arm A55 cores and A 20 core  Mali G78 GPU as well as multiple security layers and a Titan T2 Security chip for added security. The chip is paired with either 8GB of RAM on the base Pixel 6 or 12GB on the Pro model. Storage wise, both models have 128...