Digital Fossils

A sensible person would sell the a77 when she was done writing up the blog piece, but I really like a couple of the a-mount lenses and I am ...

The Fujifilm X-T2, despite being only a few months shy of a decade old, has a modern enough sensor that you don't need a screamingly fas...

The Sony a77 isn't technically a DSLR. Unlike a single lens reflex camera, in which the mirror flips up out of the way to clear the ligh...

The "fossil" cutoff here at Digital Fossils is ten years old and, while it feels like the Nikon Df is still a fairly new camera, i...

In the summer of 2009, the K20D was supplanted at the top of Pentax's DSLR lineup by the new K-7. While it had an APS-C sensor with in-b...

It's not likely to blossom into real fandom for me, but having put in a fair amount of time with the K20D and the K7 now, I can see why ...

The Nikon 1 V3 was the ultimate iteration of the high-end V-series of the Nikon 1 compact mirrorless cameras. Released in 2014, it was a bi...

A 35mm equivalent focal length isn't normally my choice for shooting vehicle photos, but when you're driving along on a fine summer ...

The Sony ecosystem was my first whack at using full-frame mirrorless for work stuff. I'd used an NEX-5T and an NEX-7 (in Hasselblad Luna...

The Canon EOS 7D was a big hit and stayed in production for what felt like an eternity at the height of the DSLR wars, staying in the catalo...

In the early days of DSLRs, manufacturers faced a dilemma with their pro bodies. Fairly high-resolution sensors were available early on... t...

Released at almost the same time as the Canon EOS 40D, the initial MSRP of the Nikon D300 was five hundred bucks higher, a more than 35% jum...

I was having some early issues with the Pentax K7 and the picture not being composed the way I thought I saw it in the viewfinder. Getting a...

I really liked the EOS M6 , but the system was snakebit from the start with its unique mount and inability to be adapted to full-frame mirro...