News entries for May, 2014

 

 

Ever wondered whether your camera bag is giving your expensive gear as much protection as you'd hope? Bag maker LowePro has just published a video testing out the Pro Roller X-Series AW camera bag that may provide some reassurance. In the clip, the company's representatives are seen dropping, throwing and...

 

 

Despite 4K video recording as the hallmark feature of the new Panasonic GH4, Panasonic's new flagship mirrorless camera is still a top-notch camera for still photography as well. I had a couple of weeks to spend some quality time shooting with the GH4 -- out on the streets of New Orleans and along South Carolina's...

 

 

Meet the new firmware, same as the old firmware -- or so it would seem in this week's Firmware Friday roundup, which is rather briefer than the mammoth compendiums we've had in the last couple of weeks. The sole camera updated this week is the Leica T (Typ 701), and its update is accompanied by the most...

 

 

When Adobe launched its subscription-only Creative Cloud software suite a year ago, one of the criticisms leveled against the service was that it took choice out of the hands of users. Although you could choose which individual apps from the suite you wanted to install, you couldn't opt to use an earlier...

 

 

As the marketing strategies and priorities of businesses evolve from year to year, so too does the demand for stock photos in the supporting arena of business imagery. Enter Getty Images’ iStock to provide us with their predictions of the stock needs in 2014 and beyond... certainly worthwhile knowledge for the...

 

 

If you're a Bibble castaway who has yet to make the jump to AfterShot Pro, the program's new name post-acquisition by Corel, the company has news it hopes will persuade you to give the renamed app a try. A recently-launched update to Corel AfterShot Pro 2 promises a significant step forwards in performance,...

 

 

There's one thing in common with the latest crop of mirrorless cameras: Pretty much across the board, their makers are claiming a huge step forwards in autofocus and burst shooting capabilities. If you're a sports shooter who's fed up of carrying a bulky DSLR, it's potentially great news, but is it true? That's the...

 

 

Do you have a lot of blank walls in your home or apartment? Perhaps some nice prints of your photos would do the trick to supercharge your wall space. But if the standard high-resolution, full color style is not your thing, how about something black and white and lo-fi?

Well, for only $25 USD, the folks over at...

 

 

You have your standard advertising campaigns on TV, the web and in print, and then there's Samsung's marketing campaigns, which can sometimes be on the more unique side. In the past, Samsung's gone all out to market their products, particularly their mobile devices, with everything from a flash mob in Times Square...

 

 

I was excited to hold the Samsung NX Mini for the first, as it just has this "engineering marvel" feel about it. It's quite compact, yes, but it also feels solid and potent. Naturally, I couldn't wait to sneak it out of the lab for some real world shooting fun.

The trouble is, they only sent us the 9mm (24mm eq.)...

 

 

It's a good day to be a Canon and Nikon photographer if you're looking for a deal or two. We've rounded up a nice selection of DSLR deals including a Canon 70D kit bundled with new printer and a neat bundle with the SL1 and the 40mm pancake lens. On the Nikon, if you want to up your game in the megapixel...

 

 

Many of our readers these days are yearning for more zoom reach in an all-in-one package, or at least it seems so based on your interest in both the compact long zoom and the all-in-one super-zoom categories.

Today we're unveiling First Shots from four of the competitors in the super-zoom heat: the Fujifilm S1...

 

 

Over the years, we've heard some pretty amazing stories of cameras lost and then reunited with their owners here at the Imaging Resource news desk. Probably our favorite until now was the Nikon Coolpix L18 which survived 18 months afloat on a thousand-mile voyage from Aruba to Florida -- complete with an accidental...

 

 

You've doubtless heard the idiom about a watched pot never boiling, but for photographers, a more apt metaphor might be that "a lustworthy camera never ships." Once you settle on preordering that just-announced camera, the wait for it to arrive on your doorstep can feel unbearable -- at least, until it finally...

 

 

Anyone who's ever tried photographing children knows it can be an epic challenge. One of the greatest trophies is an amazing image that captures the personality and magic that each child possesses. Trying to keep the little squirmers in one place may seem impossible, though, and at times it actually might be!

 

 

Selfie fans, put down your camera and back away slowly! We don't care how cool that shot you were about take of yourself with your favorite celeb or performing an extreme sporting maneuver is, it's officially just become redundant. US space agency NASA has taken the not-so-humble selfie and turned it up to 11...

 

 

2014 is a big year for German camera legend Leica. The company reached its 100th year as a manufacturer of lustworthy photographic tools last March, as its very first camera -- the Lilliput, or Ur-Leica -- was completed by Oskar Barnack in March 1914. Not surprisingly, the company is doing plenty to celebrate...

 

 

Last week's Firmware Friday roundup was uncharacteristically large, as Canon, Nikon, Ricoh and Olympus together updated no less than 16 cameras. Although this week isn't huge to quite the same degree, it's still decidedly above average, with another nine cameras receiving updates. Nikon and Olympus are again...

 

 

From the desk of Eamon Hickey:

"The headline news on the Sony A6000 is its claimed improvements in continuous AF (AF-C) on moving subjects. To test those claims, I've shot almost 2,500 photos in more than 150 burst sequences of flying birds, dogs at play, soccer, flag football, sprinters, joggers, and bicyclists...