Your Camera Disasters, Revealed

Plus, all the camera news you missed this week

View in Browser February 8th, 2025,  This week, we asked the community to reach back into their memories and share their worst camera disasters - and what we received back is definitely worth a read.  Several new lenses also dropped from Canon, Viltrox, and Leica - all of which the team discussed in depth during this week's YouTube drop.  As always, thanks for being part of the community and supporting our work.  —Ben Highlights Your camera disasters revealed Our latest Question of the week asked readers about the unfortunate accidents that have befallen many of their cameras and gear. Here are their answers! The DPReview team discusses Canon, Leica and Viltrox's lens news With three new lenses and Viltrox releasing a lens for a new mount, there's plenty of glass for Mitchell, Abby and Dale to discuss. Canon RF 14mm F1.4 L VCM initial sample gallery We went wide with Canon's latest prime lens. Camera settings to change on your new Nikon camera If you have a new Nikon camera, there are some key settings you may want to change right away. Canon celebrates 30 years of PowerShot with a G7 X III you might, briefly, be able to buy Canon has announced a premium-priced special edition of the G7 X Mark III to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its PowerShot series of compacts. What is open gate video and should you care? It's a format that an increasing number of people insist their cameras should support. Should you? News Updates Astro shooters rejoice: Canon's new F1.4 prime is its widest yet The 14mm F1.4 VCM L is the latest entry in Canon's lineup of primes made for both photographers and videographers. Canon's new fisheye zoom has a 190° field of view The RF 7-14mm F2.8-3.5 L Fisheye STM also borrows a trick from one of Canon's lens mount adapters. Viltrox's first autofocus lens for L-mount is officially here Viltrox is kicking off its autofocus L-mount lineup with the AF 16mm F1.8. Coral, fungi and butterflies: check out the winners of the close up photographer contest The winners of the 7th annual Close-up Photographer of the Year contest have been announced. The numbers for 2025 are in, and they show a meteoric rise in compacts CIPA's data for last year tells us a lot of interesting things about the camera industry. Godox's V1mid isn't flashy, but should get the job done Godox has announced the V1mid, a compact and lightweight on-camera flash unit. DPReview 276 5th Avenue, Suite 704 - 3126 New York, NY 10001 You received this email because you subscribed to the Digital Photography Review weekly newsletter. To update your preferences, click here. To unsubscribe, click here. Alternatively, log into dpreview and visit your user profile settings, uncheck the Newsletter Subscription checkbox, then click on Save changes. Click here to forward to a friend. If you're new to this newsletter, you can subscribe here.  Preferences |  Advertise | Privacy Policy | Do Not Sell My Personal Information 2026 DPReview. All Rights Reserved.