News entries for June, 2014

Ansel Adams was without doubt one of the most influential America landscape photographers of all time. Besides being regarded as one of the inventors of the Zone System that allows to determine proper exposure all the way from capturing a photograph to its print, his meticulous eye for tonal nuances helped shape the face of black-and-white...

News from the world of imaging sensors, and these couldn't get much stranger. Apparently, Canon is working on a multi-layered sensor not unlike the three layer Foveon sensor inside Sigma cameras, but Canon's version includes two additional layers that are sensitive for ultraviolet and infrared light respectively.

It's not the first time that...

 

 

The popularity of the smartphone being used as the camera-of-choice for many people continues to skyrocket. As a result, many camera manufacturers are feeling the squeeze as sales decline in favor of these multi-purpose, pocketable devices. Camera companies have started adding Wi-Fi and NFC features to their...

 

 

Last week, Google previewed an upcoming release of the Android operating system at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. Tentatively named Android L, and scheduled to arrive at retail in late 2014, the new mobile OS is already available as a developer preview for the Google Nexus 5 and 2013-variant of the...

 

 

This week's Firmware Friday roundup comes a little later than usual, thanks to some thunderstorms rolling through East Tennessee which took us offline briefly. It's a doozie, though, with no less than 15 camera models and one lens receiving patches this week.

Fujifilm takes the prize for the most...

 

 

If you suffer from claustrophobia, you may want to look away from this video. (Or perhaps just take a peek through your trembling fingers.) The folks at Joby recently took a journey to Knoxville, Tennessee, literally just down the road from your humble news editor. They were here to take part in a spelunking...

Only recently Canon celebrated the milestone of 100 million EF lenses, which it honored by asking its ambassadors to talk about their respective favorite EF lenses and favorite photographs taken with each lens. The party still isn't over it seems, as Canon has just launched a new microsite educating photographers about its lens lineup.

The...

 

 

There's big news today out of Cupertino, CA as Apple pulls the plug on two of its longest-running imaging apps. Just shy of its tenth birthday, Apple's flagship product aimed at enthusiasts and pros -- Apple Aperture -- will be developed no more. Nor will iPhoto, its consumer app included on every Mac OS...

 

 

A year ago, tech giant Google took flag for discontinuing Nik Software's Snapseed Desktop app on the Mac and Windows platforms, just six months after it acquired the company. Now, Snapseed Desktop is back -- in a manner of speaking.

An update to Google+ Photos sees Snapseed-like selective editing appearing...

 

 

The 2011 Canon T3 was decidedly getting long in the tooth compared to today's camera standards. With the refreshed Canon Rebel T5, the Big C's entry-level DSLR gained some much-welcomed improvements, including an 18-megapixel sensor -- up from 12.2 -- though it's still paired to the older DIGIC 4 image processor....

 

 

A little more than a fortnight from now, Nikon will finally release Capture NX-D, it's Silkypix-based replacement for Capture NX 2. The app provoked an uproar when it was launched in beta form last February, mostly because it failed to retain the unique U-Point control system of its predecessor.

In fairness...

 

 

Time to save some cash on your next camera or lens upgrade! We've put together a nice selection of photo gear deals today, including a big discount on a Canon DSLR and printer bundle, some nice saving on select Panasonic Micro Four Thirds lenses, and Pentax's recent promo over at Adorama on lenses and camers has...

 

 

Two years ago, Nikon started a trend with the launch of the D800E, a full-frame digital SLR which did without a resolution-robbing optical low-pass filter in the quest for maximum resolution. Today, the company follows up with the Nikon D810, a camera which shares much with its predecessor -- but with some very...

 

 

Our intrepid reviewer Eamon Hickey has put the finishing touches on his Sony A6000 Shooter's Report with his final Part III installment. In this segment, he discusses other performance aspects of the camera (besides autofocus, which he thoroughly tackled in Part II) and physical characteristics of the camera such...

 

 

Some cameras are all about cramming in as many features as possible, even if you'll seldom use them. The Sony A3000 doesn't play that game. This is a camera that's been pared down to the basics -- you get precisely what you need, and little more. But boy, does its thrifty approach ever pay dividends when it...

 

 

When you think of Apple, your mind probably conjures images of svelte laptops, perhaps funky, white desktop computers, iPods, and now recently, iPhones and iPads. Apple is known for helping launch or popularize some major categories of consumer electronics: the personal computer with the Mac, MP3 players with the...

 

 

In my first piece on underwater photography, I offered some quick tips to improve your underwater photos. Here I go into greater depth on a particular style of photography: “Close-focus wide angle” (CFWA). I find this style to be an especially appealing and straightforward form of photography that serves as a great...

 

 

Are your photos and videos securely backed up? For too many of us, the answer is no -- and in a world where cloud storage options abound, many of them with free offers to entice you to their particular platform, that can seem a little crazy. But when you look at them closely, cloud storage prices quickly add...

 

 

If you've made the leap to a compact system camera, you've already done away with one outdated piece of technology -- the reflex mirror. But is there another dinosaur lurking within your lenses, ripe for a modern replacement? It's possible, if research at Germany's University of Kaiserslautern pans out.

A...