July 2024
Leica backs Melbourne CBD revival with world’s biggest store
The famed German camera maker has transformed an entire building in the Melbourne CBD into a retail hub that includes an art gallery.
March 2024
If you can get your hands on Fujifilm’s latest camera, do
There was very little wrong with the old Fujifilm X100V, other than it was so popular it was near-impossible to buy. The new X100VI has even fewer flaws, but still has that one.
January 2024
Meta’s new face camera heralds a new age of surveillance
No one – not even my editor, who was aware I was writing this column – could tell it apart from ordinary glasses.
October 2023
Here’s one camera that lets you be the main character at all times
With a dedicated vlog mode as well as a product placement tool, Fujifilm’s X-S20 camera is perfect to throw in an influencer’s bag of tricks.
September 2023
Action heroes, here’s how you can prove you are one
Taking professional-looking videos has (almost) never been easier or more fun than with GoPro’s Hero 12 Black.
April 2023
Two words that could change your view on photography
Canon’s new EOS R8 combines significant virtues you don’t often see together: low cost, and a full-frame sensor.
February 2023
Eight big changes coming to EVs
From software and greater power to a new focus on traditional design and simplicity – here’s what’s shaping next-generation vehicles right now.
January 2023
The hottest Gen Z gadget is a 20-year-old digital camera
Over the past few years, nostalgia for the Y2K era, a time of both tech enthusiasm and existential dread that spanned the late 1990s and early 2000s, has seized Generation Z.
October 2022
Sick of traffic fines? This IPO candidate might have the answer
Acusensus, which sells “Intelligent Eyes” camera detection tech on mobile trailers to help curb distracted drivers, may soon join the ranks of the ASX.
May 2022
Whatever happened to the travel camera?
Even an inexpensive travel camera like the EOS M50 MK II is streets ahead of the best phone camera we’ve reviewed. L&L May 6 travel special.
April 2022
Is it time to rethink the Apple/Samsung phone duopoly?
Oppo has paired with Hasselblad to produce the Find X5 Pro, a phone with a camera that might just turn out to be great one day.
March 2022
Leica’s M11 is a camera to keep close to your heart
There’s something about holding this beauty that makes you think: Someone is going to steal this if I’m not careful.
June 2021
Agtech rustles up new answers to an old problem
The problem with farm theft is that it is too easy to commit. New technology aims to raise the cost of risking it for would-be thieves.
December 2020
The best gadgets to come out of 2020
Consider this a cheat sheet to this season's buzziest and best new speakers, phones and cameras.
November 2020
This camera costs $8000 but you can't shoot in colour
That money you haven't spent on travel this year? Feel free to blow it on extravagant tech gifts this Christmas, like the latest camera from Leica.
October 2020
Sony's Alpha 7C reinvents the travel camera
This full-frame compact model can take the public performance that is tourism and transform it into high art. More Instagram followers are a snap away.
August 2020
Aussie movie tech specialist eyes listing as sales boom
A Melbourne video-production equipment maker that regularly works on Hollywood blockbusters has found unexpected success during lockdown.
April 2020
Shoot to thrill with Fujifilm's X100V
Emulating the feel of a war-time photographer's camera, Fuji's latest will have you creating master portraiture – just make sure you carry your identity papers.
December 2019
Standout gadgets of the era
Technology has became so embedded in our lives, it's difficult to find anything to get excited about. But as this selection shows, we managed.
November 2019
The phone with a staggering 108 megapixel camera
Like big photos? Most top-end phones have cameras with between 12 and 28 megapixels – Xiaomi's new Note 10 Pro comes in with a lazy 108.