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Falling for color: 20 standout shots from DPReview's October Editors' challenge

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The September Editors' photo challenge

The theme for our October Editors' photo challenge was "Fall Follies."

With the last wisps of summer in the air and days getting shorter, we challenged you to show us what makes fall special. From vibrant leaves to fall harvests and annual traditions, we asked you to show us what Fall Follies looks like through your lens.

Our community of DPReview photographers didn't disappoint, capturing nature's grand finale in a blaze of color. As usual, we were overwhelmed with great pictures – many more than we can present here. Our favorites, showcasing a diverse range of vision and talent, are presented in random order.

Thanks to everyone who participated in this photo challenge. If you want to participate in other photo challenges, visit our Challenges page to see currently open or upcoming challenges, or to vote in a recently closed challenge.

Fall in upstate New York

Photographer: mxzrevman

Photographer's statement: I was very lucky with the timing. The leaves were just perfect, and the weather was perfect with the sun at a nice height above the horizon. This was at Thatcher State Park outside of Albany, New York.

Equipment: Nikon Z5 + Nikon Nikkor Z 20mm F1.8 S

Day of the Dead

Photographer: JeffryzPhoto

Photographer's statement: In Mexico, this time of year means preparations for Day of the Dead, or Día de Los Muertos: the time when departed souls can return to visit loved ones left behind. Marigolds feature prominently, their color and scent helping to guide them.

Equipment: Fujifilm X-T4 + Fujifilm XF 8-16mm F2.8 R LM WR

Hidden gem

Photographer: JC-W

Photographer's statement: The Moselle, a river between Luxembourg and Germany, is a famous wine region. In October each year, you can find these beautiful grapes on the hillsides separating both countries.

Acer

Photographer: TheDispossessed

Photographer's statement: An acer, photographed in Durham Botanic Gardens, England. Capturing these leaves involves being there at the right time on the right day to get the light just right.

Equipment: Canon EOS 80D + Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM

Foggy fall in Norway

Photographer: hach

Photographer's statement: This photo was taken from the roadside overlooking a small farm. Underneath is the Tyrifjorden lake, covered by fog. The location is at Sollihøgda (Sunny heights), just north of Oslo.

Equipment: OM System OM-1 + OM System 40-150mm F4.0 PRO

Follow the colors

Photographer: RacingManiac

Photographer's statement: Early fall colors at the Kiyomizu Dera in Kyoto. I like the treeline, and the roof of the shops all lead to the pagoda on the opposite side of the footpath

Equipment: Sony a7 IV + Sony FE 70-200mm F4 G OSS II

Fall Sunset at Graveyard Fields

Photographer: Sam Bennett

Photographer's statement: Pink echoes in the valley of Graveyard Fields in Western North Carolina as the forest slowly heals itself year over year after the ravages of Hurricane Helene.

Equipment: OM System OM-3 + Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-45mm F4 Pro

Cypress trees

Photographer: Gman58

Photographer's statement: We were taking a fall road trip to visit friends in the mountains of Tennessee when I noticed these beautiful cypress trees, living in the water of the lake, at the terminus of the Ocoee River Gorge.

Equipment: Pentax KP + HD Pentax-DA 20-40mm F2.8-4 ED Limited DC WR

Joe Lay Reservoir, Grand Staircase, Utah

Photographer: MtnBikerCalif

Photographer's statement: I was fortunate enough to be in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah with four friends, mountain biking the Great Western Trail. My OM-1 is too heavy and inconvenient while biking through tough terrain, but my new iPhone was great for photography and helped with navigation. I wasn't expecting the incredible fall colors of the aspens. They were the highlight of the trip. I'd never seen such expanses of golden leaves.

Equipment: iPhone 17 Pro

Autumn leaves

Photographer: SergeAP

Photographer's statement: Autumn is beautiful with its dramatic blend of vibrant, lush colors and the deep lyricism and silence of evening city parks, the already cold and damp air with the amazing taste of fallen leaves, and the warmth of melancholy memories of the past summer.

Equipment: Nikon D800

Fish and fog on the Rogue River

Photographer: Eric Hensel

Photographer's statement: I rarely arise before dawn, these days, with two exceptions: salmon fishing or a photography expedition. I managed to combine both pursuits on this particular morning, as I tried out a lens I had purchased from a local shop for twenty dollars. I couldn't believe my luck when I rested the lens on the handrail of the Depot St. Bridge in Rogue River, Oregon, just as a drift-boat was heading toward me in the fog.

Equipment: Sony a7 + Vivitar series-1 70-210mm f/3.5

Fall in Silverton

Photographer: Tough Gritz

Photographer's statement: When the Aspens bring out their fall display, they make for exceptional landscapes like this one on Highway 550 facing north from Silverton, Colorado, toward the town of Ouray, Colorado, on the Western Slopes of the Rocky Mountains.

Equipment: OM System OM-5 II + OMS 8-25 f/4 PRO

Short lens, long shot

Photographer: decentred

Photographer's statement: Shot way back when, on Kodachrome. The light was low, the ISO was 64, I was crouched down, elbows tucked in, holding my breath, dialing in some self-timer to get the mirror slap out of the way early, and shooting at maximum aperture.

Equipment: Nikon FE + Nikkor AI 35mm

Autumn view of the valley

Photographer: cbf_si

Photographer's statement: The creeping morning mists herald the arrival of winter. But first, nature delights us with an explosion of autumn colors. Photographed from Mount St. James (Sv. Jakob) in Slovenia.

Equipment: Sony Alpha a99 + Minolta AF 35-70mm F4

Happy family

Photographer: wim

Photographer's statement: I'm always amazed by the shapes of leaves. They're all different, just like people. I found these personalities and happily placed them side by side.

Equipment: Fujifilm X-T1 + Fujifilm XF 35mm F1.4 R

Autumn

Photographer: Robert_Schild

Photographer's statement: On a walk through the woods, I came across these branches climbing up trees with a display of beautiful autumn colors. It was still early autumn, and most trees were still green, but these leaves stood out.

Equipment: Pentax K-1

Fall color, Eastern Sierra

Photographer: REHS

Photographer's statement: When you hear the words "near peak," you need to make your reservations, cancel pending appointments, and activate your back-up coverage. Charge your batteries, pack the essentials, and pray for good weather. And then, get there early!!! It all fell into place this year, but the only show seemed to be in the area just west of Bishop, California. I'm so grateful that I didn't miss this event!!! Yaahoo!!!

Equipment: Nikon D850 + Nikon AF-S Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

In the spotlight

Photographer: more cow bell

Photographer's statement: After some morning rain showers, a shaft of sunlight spotlights a fallen leaf whose journey from treetop to earth was interrupted by a tangle of branches.

Equipment: Fujifilm X-T2 + Fujifilm XF 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR

Yoshino colours

Photographer: gnohz

Photographer's statement: Many photos taken here depict a snowy night scene with street and building lights leading to the main Zao Hall building of the Kinpusen-ji Temple (at top right), so I opted for a different take to show the splendid autumn colors instead.

Equipment: Nikon D850 + Nikon AF-S Nikkor 85mm F1.4G

Equipment: Nikon D610

Old tree

Photographer: brian505

Photographer's statement: I captured this photo in a forest back in 2015, showing a giant beech tree that, I was told, might be around a 100 years old. Its trunk was so wide that it would take about four people holding hands to circle it completely.

Equipment: Nikon D7000

Alzheimer’s discovery: How genetic variant disrupts brain's energy supply

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Review: First outdoors exoskeleton puts real power in your stride

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New type of exotic ice forms at ambient temperatures

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Leatherman's all-time bestselling multitool gets biggest update ever

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With DNA linking directly back to Leatherman's very first PST multitool from 1983, the Wave has long served as a cornerstone for the brand. It was the company's first one-handed tool, allowing users to flip out the blade without having to open the pliers, and went on to become its all-time international bestseller. This month, the Wave receives its most significant update ever, bringing us the all-new Wave Alpha. The Alpha adds some serious cutting muscle while improving upon the Wave's staple one-handed operation, hand feel and grip.

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Transparent UV light sensor warns users before skin damage hits

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Inner speech glitch explains why people with schizophrenia hear voices

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For decades, scientists have suspected that the voices heard by people with schizophrenia might be their own inner speech gone awry. Now, researchers have found brainwave evidence showing exactly how this self-monitoring glitch occurs.

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Cameras, jargon and meaning: a reflection on mirrorless

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The M EV1 is, perhaps, the exception that proves the rule, in the sense that by not conforming the existing pattern it helps clarify that pattern that otherwise exists.

Photo: Richard Butler

The very nature of hubris is, perhaps, that you can't recognize it in the moment.

When the Leica M11 was launched, I mused that the increased versatility and precision offered by its live view system might risk making the optical viewfinder and rangefinder design look irrelevant. Having now used a camera shorn of those features, I appreciate their value more than ever.

But there was another, unexpected, prompt for self-reflection when it came to working out how to describe the M-EV1. Namely: is it a Mirrorless camera?

What is a Mirrorless camera?

It's generally been our position that rangefinder cameras aren't Mirrorless. Somewhat facetiously, I've sometimes pointed out that the rangefinder optics themselves typically contain a mirror, but, more seriously, the point is that rangefinders existed for many decades before we ever had need to describe a camera as Mirrorless. And, given the way they are primarily used is radically different (manual focus via an optical viewfinder, rather than via a liveview feed from the sensor), it seemed unnecessary to retroactively include them in the class of cameras we were trying to give a name to.

The M EV1 throws a spanner in the works, though (or perhaps removes one). In every respect it operates like a Mirrorless camera being used in manual focus mode, so surely it's Mirrorless, in both the small and big 'M' senses. And, if it is, then, by extension, all Leica Ms are.

"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean" - Lewis Carroll's Humpty Dumpty

And yet, that's not really how these things work. Mirrorless is an especially awkward example, in that it's become a noun but its origin is descriptive. But most people will recognize that it doesn't apply to literally any camera without a mirror, because that would include all compacts, smartphones and most cameras ever made. At which point we could probably just say 'camera.'

Having helped propose, promote and popularize the term 'mirrorless' in the first place, we're aware of it being an imperfect choice, but it's the one that's stuck. So while I look forward to the accusations of Humpty-Dumptyism, I think it's fair to say enough people recognize what's meant by it, and hence that it's legitimate to use it to mean what we intend, rather than what the word itself seems to imply.

Why do you call it full-frame?

This isn't the only instance of what sounds like an adjective being taken up as a noun in a way that shouldn't be taken too literally. The term full-frame came about because there was a period during which early DSLR users were pairing film-era lenses on cameras with sensors smaller than "35mm" film. Full-frame was a reference to the size of sensor that mimicked the dimensions of that film, using the full imaging circle for which those lenses were designed.

Yes, the German name for the "35mm" format translates as "small picture." Award yourself 10 DPR points for trivia knowledge. Then deduct 20 if you think it's a useful contribution to a discussion about digital photography.

Photo: Carey Rose

We only adopted the term because it avoids using milimeters to refer both to focal length and as a descriptor of a format, often in the same sentence. Somewhat ironically, the term "35mm" sensor itself also sounds adjectival, but in reality no part of a "35mm" sensor measures 35mm.

Again, there's little sense arguing over what the words might appear to mean: the majority of people using the term and hearing the term agree what it means. And that's the way language works. It doesn't matter if logically all systems are full-frame, because that's almost certainly not the meaning that's someone's attempting to convey, and it's not the meaning most people would take from it.

What constitutes medium format?

Apparently, there's still room to argue, even when the terminology doesn't appear to describe something specific. For example, the use of 'medium format' to describe formats larger than 35mm.

It's a definition that was already in widespread use, but that some photographers seem determined now to retroactively restrict it solely to formats used in the film era. This ignores the facts that the economies of scaling semiconductors are radically different (and are unlikely to ever make film-mimicking medium and large formats affordable), and that digital significantly outperforms film, so you don't need the same expanses of sensor to achieve excellent tonal quality and resolution.

Full-frame only directly mimics a film format because there were so many people with significant numbers of then-modern film lenses to prompt its continuation.

Photo: Phil Askey

In my opinion, it's senseless to bind a new technology to the specifics of a dead one and insist on the creation of a new term, when 'medium format' serves perfectly well. Especially given that, as we've seen, the resultant neologisms such as full-frame and Mirrorless might prove even more objectionable.

Does it actually matter?

So what of the M EV1? Is it a Mirrorless camera? Sort of. Probably. Why not? You could see it as the exception that proves the rule, or recognize that it's a question to which the answer doesn't matter.

Rangefinders sell in such small numbers that it really doesn't matter whether the person speaking is including them, when they say Mirrorless, or whether the person hearing them assumes they are or aren't. Either way both probably know, from context, what was meant, so the distinction becomes irrelevant.

It's not just photographers who have this problem. The name for modern pedals that cyclists clip their shoes into? 'Clipless.'

Photo: Richard Butler

The remaining ambiguity will leave room in the margins for someone to say "but what about the M EV1?" or "medium format only refers to 645 and larger."

But that brings us back to the issue of self-reflection. It's worth asking yourself: do you really believe the language is unclear, or that anyone's being misled? Or do you just want to beat someone over the head with a piece of arcane, esoteric knowledge that you happen to have acquired?

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The DPReview team discusses the new Fujifilm X-T30 III

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Earlier this week, Fujifilm released the X-T30 III, its latest entry-level, SLR-shaped mirrorless camera. It is a subtle update over its predecessor, adding a film simulation dial, more film simulations, updated video specs, a new processor and updated autofocus. The company also released a new kit lens, the XC 13-33mm F3.5-6.3 OIS. It offers a wider perspective than most kit lenses and will be familiar to those used to the ultrawide lens on their smartphones.

Editors Dale Baskin, Richard Butler, Mitchell Clark and Abby Ferguson sat down to talk about the new camera and lens. You listen to our discussion in the video above.

If you're looking for more information on the X-T30 III, check out our first look video and initial review. You can learn more about the lens in our separate article covering the announcement.

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