New gear

The NEX-C3 has been around for a while and now Sony has readied the follow up in the NEX-F3. I actually got to do some shooting with a pre-production model. You can check out the images in the gallery to see how it fared. Keep reading for a rundown of the new features.

Just after announcing the M Monochrom black-and-white-only rangefinder in Berlin this weekend, Leica CEO Dr. Alfred Schopf looked at me with a subtle, confident smile: "If we had done the proper market research," he said, "we probably never would've made this camera." And when you consider the Monochrom M, his words aren't hard to believe. Reactions to the unique new camera, which is incapable of capturing color images, swings wildly (and predictably) on the web from unadulterated lust to pure vitriol. But the fact of the matter is that very close to zero of those internet commenters have actually spent any time shooting with what is an undeniably interesting camera. I have, and I'm a little bit in love.

I've been an advocate of wireless functionality in cameras for a while now, so it's nice to see that Nikon is giving it at least something of an effort with their new DSLR, the D3200. The optional WU-1a isn't quite as powerful as the wireless file transmitter meant to work with their pro-grade D4, but it does offer a few cool features.

In addition to their really big news tonight, Canon also has a new flagship flash as well as a wireless flash transmitter to help fire it.