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The Verge
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Verge
Sony's gamer-friendly X90L TV is on sale for a new low price
If you're excited to smash your way through the excellent Donkey Kong Banaza on the Nintendo Switch 2, you should play it on a TV that takes full advantage of the system's ability to play games in 4K or up to 120 frames per second. Thankfully, Sony's X90L, which checks both boxes, is currently on sale at Amazon, B&H Photo, and Best Buy in its 65-inch configuration for around $898 ($301 off), an all-time low price. The X90L is a full-array LED TV, which means it has significantly better backlighting and contrast than an edge-lit set. You won't see as much blooming — aka, unnatural-looking pockets of brightness around a bright object — which can be distracting when you're watching a movie or playing a game set in a dimly lit area. The TV also runs on Sony's Cognitive Processor XR, which automatically adjusts color and contrast based on whatever it is you're watching or playing. In terms of specs, two of the TV's HDMI ports are HDMI 2.1, which means they can accept a 4K video source at up to 120Hz and are well-suited for current-gen consoles. If you connect a PS5, the TV will switch to the 'Game' picture mode, enable 'Auto HDR Tone Mapping,' and turn on ALLM (Auto Low Latency Mode) to minimize latency, which matters most if you play fast-paced first-person shooters or platformers. If you're a cinephile, you'll enjoy Sony Pictures Core, a streaming service exclusive to Bravia TVs that lets you download and stream 4K movies at near-4K Blu-ray quality. Its library is limited, but Sony includes five credits for movie downloads and a 12-month subscription to stream titles from the library. Sign up for Verge Deals to get deals on products we've tested sent to your inbox weekly.
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Fujifilm's latest lens emulates its eternally sold-out cameras
When you use DPReview links to buy products, the site may earn a commission. Fujifilm has announced the XF 23mm F2.8 R WR lens, a wide-angle, 35mm equiv. pancake lens for its APS-C cameras. It's a similar focal length to the lens used by the much-coveted X100-series and has similar dimensions, though its maximum aperture is a stop slower. The lens is very light and compact; it's 23mm (0.9") long and weighs in at 90g (3.2oz). Despite that, it has a fair number of features: it has a clicking aperture ring that can be locked into the auto position, its manual focus ring has a "high frequency position" detector to make it easier to focus despite its short throw, and it's water and dust resistant. The silver version of the lens even has a matched grey gasket on the back, rather than a black one. Optically, the lens is made up of 8 elements in six groups with two aspherical lenses. It has an 11-blade aperture and a 20 cm (7.9 inches) minimum focusing distance. The lens will come in black or silver, and will retail for $499. Fujifilm says it won't be available on its own until December, though it'll start making its way into customers hands as a kit lens for the X-E5 later this summer. See the sample gallery Buy now: Buy at Adorama Buy at B&H Photo Buy at B&H Photo Press Release: Fujifilm Introduces the Versatile, Ultra-Compact, Lightweight FUJINON XF23mmF2.8 R WR Lens VALHALLA, N.Y. - June 12, 2025 – FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Electronic ImagingDivision, announces the launch of its FUJINON XF23mmF2.8 R WR (XF23mmF2.8 R WR) with portability in mind, XF23mmF2.8 R WR was developed to be thin and unobtrusive while delivering powerful resolution and autofocus (AF) performance. 'The first word that comes to mind when thinking of XF23mmF2.8 R WR is 'versatility',' said Victor Ha, vice president, Electronic Imaging and Optical Devices Divisions, FUJIFILM North America Corporation. 'The lens is adaptable to handle standard, wide-angle, close-up image making with ease, while at the same time offering an ultra-compact form factor and user-friendly functionality. From street photography and travel/landscape, where the big picture tells the story, all the way to tabletop photography, where close up, intricate details are critical, XF23mmF2.8 R WR is the ideal everyday carry, designed to work with you on the move.' Main Features: Ultra-compact and lightweight design with high resolution performance XF23mmF2.8 R WR is designed to deliver high resolution performance compatible with the FUJIFILM X Series' approximately 40.2 megapixel X-Trans™ CMOS 5 HR1 sensor. By adopting 8-elements in 6 groups, including two aspherical lenses, XF23mmF2.8 R WR minimizes aberrations from the center to the periphery. The lens has been made optically compact through Fujifilm's latest lens development which reduces size by increasing the number of metal components to make parts thinner while maintaining durability. XF23mmF2.8 R WR features a focal length of 23mm (equivalent to 35mm in 35mm format), an overall length of only 23mm2 and a weight of approximately 90g (3 ounces). The lens's 11- blade aperture diaphragm also delivers smooth, circular bokeh for excellent subject separation, most notably at wider apertures. Close-up photography and high-precision, high-speed autofocus (AF) XF23mmF2.8 R WR excels at close-ups, down to the minimum object distance of 20 cm (7.9 inches) from the sensor. The lens uses a full-group focusing system, which suppresses aberration variation depending on the focus position, enabling high image quality photography even at close range. A powerful direct-current (DC) motor is integrated into the lens to achieve high-speed AF. Stylish yet durable user-friendly design Knurling at the base of the lens allows for a secure grip when changing lenses. The manual focus (MF) ring is equipped with high frequency position detection for high precision manual focus with minimum rotation angle. A fixed spacer between the manual focus and aperture rings makes for easier adjustment of either setting when composing through the viewfinder. With 9 sealing points, the lens is dust and moisture resistant to temperatures as low as -10 degrees Celsius (14 degrees Fahrenheit) and can be used safely in light rain, cold, or dusty environments. The FUJINON XF23mmF2.8 R WR lens will be available late 2025 at a Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price of $499.95 USD and $559.99 CAD. For more information, visit 1 X-Trans is a registered trademark or trademark of Fujifilm Corporation. 2 Equivalent in size to XF27mmF2.8 R WR. Principal specifications Prime lens APS-C / DX 23 mm Fujifilm X F2.8 F16 Yes 11 8 6 2 asph 0.20 m (7.87″) 0.15× Yes Stepper motor Yes Unit No No 90 g (0.20 lb) 62 mm (2.44″) 23 mm (0.91″) Aluminium Yes Black, Silver 39 mm Yes No
The Verge
04-06-2025
- Business
- The Verge
The terrific HoverAir X1 selfie drone has plunged to its best price yet
Whether you're sightseeing or taking group selfies, the HoverAir X1 offers a fun, hands-free way to capture your summer vacation. And right now, it's available for around $268.99 ($80 off) at Amazon and B&H Photo, which is the best price we've seen on the selfie drone. Though fairly basic with a max resolution of 2.7K at 30fps, the HoverAir X1 excels at the essentials. The pocket-sized drone is quick and easy to set up – in under 20 seconds, my colleague Thomas Ricker was able to unfold it, power it on, and choose from six preset flight paths: hover, follow, orbit, zoom out, bird's eye, and a customizable mode – before capturing hands-free footage. It also comes with a companion app that lets you adjust distance, altitude, and other settings for each preset. To keep costs down, Zero Zero Robotics omitted some features that pricier drones from rivals like DJI offer, such as obstacle avoidance sensors and a physical controller. The HoverAir X1 also struggles in windy conditions and can't keep up with faster activities like road biking. It lacks GPS too – though the company included a VIO (Visual Inertial Odometry) system to compensate, which works well enough. Still, it does a great job covering everything most users need from a drone, making it a solid choice if you're looking for a budget-friendly, quick, and easy-to-use option. Zero Zero Robotics HoverAir X1 $34923% off $269 The pocketable HoverAir X1 keeps things simple, with a 2.7K at 30fps max resolution and six preset flight modes for easy, hands-free shooting. It lacks GPS and obstacle avoidance, but it launches in seconds and is easy to use. Three more deals worth checking out Amazon's latest Echo Spot is on sale starting at $49.95 ($30 off) at B&H Photo, which is the lowest we've seen it go for this year and $5 shy of the semi-circular smart display's all-time low. The Spot doubles as a great alarm clock that lets you gently wake up with your favorite music, while boasting a customizable 2.83-inch screen that shows useful information like the weather. It also offers Amazon Alexa integration, letting you control smart devices like lights with your voice right from your bed. Read our review. You can pick up the 6.3-inch Google Pixel 9A for $449 ($50 off) from Amazon, Best Buy, and directly from Google, which is its best price to Pixel 9A builds upon its predecessor with more robust IP68 water resistance and a slightly bigger and brighter screen. It also features an impressive camera system for the price and a 5,100mAh battery that should comfortably last over a day, along with seven years of promised OS updates. Read our review.
WIRED
24-05-2025
- Business
- WIRED
DJI Mavic Pro Review: Powerful and Easy to Use
Having reviewed dozens of drones of all shapes, sizes, and prices, I'd recently come to the conclusion that smaller, lighter, and cheaper drones were the way to go for 90 percent of consumers. Premium drones, with all their equipment and flight regulations, just didn't make sense. But then DJI launched its new premium-priced, jumbo-size flagship consumer drone, the Mavic 4 Pro, and made me fall in love all over again. Yes, this drone is seriously impressive. But before I deep-dive the phenomenally good camera and ridiculously long range, it's important to note that the Mavic 4 Pro will not be officially available in the US. Yet. As well as ongoing issues around flight restrictions and security, a DJI spokesperson told WIRED, 'Like many global companies, we have had to adjust our market strategy as local conditions and the industry environment have evolved. While we do not have a timeline for when we can introduce the product to the US market, we are closely monitoring the situation and actively exploring every possible solution.' The Mavic 4 Pro is, however, listed on B&H Photo for $2,699, which is teasingly optimistic. It's not for sale, yet, but there is at least some hope. Focal Hero So what makes the Mavic 4 Pro great? It's mostly down to the camera. Or cameras, I should say. Just like its predecessor, the Mavic 3 Pro (9/10 WIRED Recommends), the Mavic 4 Pro has three cameras. There's an ultra-high-spec wide-angle camera partnered with slightly lower-spec medium-telephoto and telephoto cameras. The trio's equivalent focal lengths are 28 mm, 70 mm and 168 mm, respectively. They're all improvements over the Mavic 3 Pro's cameras. And the star of the show features a new 4/3 sensor capable of 100 MP photographs and 6K video capture at up to 60 fps (or 4K at 120 fps, for slick slow-motion playback), with an astounding 16 stops of dynamic range. It also has an adjustable aperture, allowing pilots to pick anything between f/2.0 and f/11.0. The other cameras' sensors are a little smaller in size, their video is limited to 4K resolution, and their apertures are fixed at f/2.8, but all three cameras can capture video at 10-bit quality using the D-Log, D-Log M, or HLG color profiles. In other words, all are built for pro-quality aerial movie making. And better yet, it is all mounted on a completely new design of gimbal that's able to freely rotate and tilt. Not only does this mean it can be pointed directly upward, it can also rotate to capture true portrait-oriented content, perfectly formatted for the likes of TikTok, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts. All of the above makes the creative capabilities of the Mavic 4 Pro something to behold. It's a fantastic aerial camera in almost any lighting conditions (the 28-mm Hasselblad is particularly capable at night-time, for instance) and its range of motion and choice of focal lengths makes it incredibly versatile. If there's something else this accomplished in consumer drones, image-quality wise, I've yet to encounter it. Flight Club The drone's flight capabilities are impressive, too, right down to new time-saving touches like the fact it automatically powers on when unfolded. Battery life is now 51 minutes, a notable improvement over the Mavic 3 Pro's 43 minutes, while the more aerodynamic design of the drone makes flight both faster and quieter. The 4 Pro is also the first Mavic model to come with a front-facing Lidar sensor, which, when teamed up with the low-light vision sensors that poke out in all directions, gives this drone a lot more situational awareness and anti-collision capability, even in less-than-ideal lighting conditions. This works well with its tracking capabilities, which allow it to accurately keep the camera focussed on people, boats, and vehicles while being flown either manually or autonomously. Return to home capabilities have also been upgraded. The drone's enhanced visual skills now let it automatically fly back to its take-off point without the use of GPS. I was also able to move the home point to the current controller position rather than the take-off point, which is a handy feature to have if you're piloting the drone from a moving car or boat. Controller Upgrade DJI sent me both a regular RC 2 controller and the new RC 2 Pro controller ($1,299) to test with the Mavic 4 Pro, and while the former works well enough, the RC 2 Pro really improves the experience. Its screen is larger and brighter and can rotate through 90 degrees to act more like a smartphone (it runs on Android, so you can install third-party apps), and it powers on automatically when you lift the screen from the body. This movement also results in the two thumb sticks popping up, meaning you don't have to screw them on each time you use the controller. Photograph: Chris Haslam All in all, the Mavic 4 Pro represents a major upgrade over its already impressive predecessor and makes the idea of owning a larger drone once again very appealing. While it's true that heavier drones are subject to a lot of (often tiresome) restrictions compared to ultra-lightweight models, but the extra paperwork and care around flight locations seems like a price worth paying when they perform as well as this does. As for the actual price of the Mavic 4 Pro, I'd call it expensive but good value—provided you're going to actually make use of this drone's vast array of capabilities. If you're just looking for something to get in the air and capture a few good-looking shots, the much cheaper DJI Mini 4 Pro (8/10 WIRED Recommends) is all you need. If you want the flexibility and power to create something special, the Mavic 4 Pro has it—and more. I just hope DJI is able to navigate around the ongoing uncertainty of the Trump administration's tariffs, as it'd be a true shame if this brilliant drone were not available in the US.
WIRED
24-05-2025
- Business
- WIRED
DJI's New Flagship Drone Is Astonishingly Powerful and Easy to Use
Having reviewed dozens of drones of all shapes, sizes, and prices, I'd recently come to the conclusion that smaller, lighter, and cheaper drones were the way to go for 90 percent of consumers. Premium drones, with all their equipment and flight regulations, just didn't make sense. But then DJI launched its new premium-priced, jumbo-size flagship consumer drone, the Mavic 4 Pro, and made me fall in love all over again. Yes, this drone is seriously impressive. But before I deep-dive the phenomenally good camera and ridiculously long range, it's important to note that the Mavic 4 Pro will not be officially available in the US. Yet. As well as ongoing issues around flight restrictions and security, a DJI spokesperson told WIRED, 'Like many global companies, we have had to adjust our market strategy as local conditions and the industry environment have evolved. While we do not have a timeline for when we can introduce the product to the US market, we are closely monitoring the situation and actively exploring every possible solution.' The Mavic 4 Pro is, however, listed on B&H Photo for $2,699, which is teasingly optimistic. It's not for sale, yet, but there is at least some hope. Focal Hero So what makes the Mavic 4 Pro great? It's mostly down to the camera. Or cameras, I should say. Just like its predecessor, the Mavic 3 Pro (9/10 WIRED Recommends), the Mavic 4 Pro has three cameras. There's an ultra-high-spec wide-angle camera partnered with slightly lower-spec medium-telephoto and telephoto cameras. The trio's equivalent focal lengths are 28 mm, 70 mm and 168 mm, respectively. They're all improvements over the Mavic 3 Pro's cameras. And the star of the show features a new 4/3 sensor capable of 100 MP photographs and 6K video capture at up to 60 fps (or 4K at 120 fps, for slick slow-motion playback), with an astounding 16 stops of dynamic range. It also has an adjustable aperture, allowing pilots to pick anything between f/2.0 and f/11.0. The other cameras' sensors are a little smaller in size, their video is limited to 4K resolution, and their apertures are fixed at f/2.8, but all three cameras can capture video at 10-bit quality using the D-Log, D-Log M, or HLG color profiles. In other words, all are built for pro-quality aerial movie making. And better yet, it is all mounted on a completely new design of gimbal that's able to freely rotate and tilt. Not only does this mean it can be pointed directly upward, it can also rotate to capture true portrait-oriented content, perfectly formatted for the likes of TikTok, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts. All of the above makes the creative capabilities of the Mavic 4 Pro something to behold. It's a fantastic aerial camera in almost any lighting conditions (the 28-mm Hasselblad is particularly capable at night-time, for instance) and its range of motion and choice of focal lengths makes it incredibly versatile. If there's something else this accomplished in consumer drones, image-quality wise, I've yet to encounter it. Flight Club The drone's flight capabilities are impressive, too, right down to new time-saving touches like the fact it automatically powers on when unfolded. Battery life is now 51 minutes, a notable improvement over the Mavic 3 Pro's 43 minutes, while the more aerodynamic design of the drone makes flight both faster and quieter. The 4 Pro is also the first Mavic model to come with a front-facing Lidar sensor, which, when teamed up with the low-light vision sensors that poke out in all directions, gives this drone a lot more situational awareness and anti-collision capability, even in less-than-ideal lighting conditions. This works well with its tracking capabilities, which allow it to accurately keep the camera focussed on people, boats, and vehicles while being flown either manually or autonomously. Return to home capabilities have also been upgraded. The drone's enhanced visual skills now let it automatically fly back to its take-off point without the use of GPS. I was also able to move the home point to the current controller position rather than the take-off point, which is a handy feature to have if you're piloting the drone from a moving car or boat. Controller Upgrade DJI sent me both a regular RC 2 controller and the new RC 2 Pro controller ($1,299) to test with the Mavic 4 Pro, and while the former works well enough, the RC 2 Pro really improves the experience. Its screen is larger and brighter and can rotate through 90 degrees to act more like a smartphone (it runs on Android, so you can install third-party apps), and it powers on automatically when you lift the screen from the body. This movement also results in the two thumb sticks popping up, meaning you don't have to screw them on each time you use the controller. Photograph: Chris Haslam All in all, the Mavic 4 Pro represents a major upgrade over its already impressive predecessor and makes the idea of owning a larger drone once again very appealing. While it's true that heavier drones are subject to a lot of (often tiresome) restrictions compared to ultra-lightweight models, but the extra paperwork and care around flight locations seems like a price worth paying when they perform as well as this does. As for the actual price of the Mavic 4 Pro, I'd call it expensive but good value—provided you're going to actually make use of this drone's vast array of capabilities. If you're just looking for something to get in the air and capture a few good-looking shots, the much cheaper DJI Mini 4 Pro (8/10 WIRED Recommends) is all you need. If you want the flexibility and power to create something special, the Mavic 4 Pro has it—and more. I just hope DJI is able to navigate around the ongoing uncertainty of the Trump administration's tariffs, as it'd be a true shame if this brilliant drone were not available in the US.
