News entries for June, 2015

Earlier this year we reported on the news that lighting and accessory manufacturer Photoflex had filed for bankruptcy and subsequently closed shop and suspended all sales. Less than three weeks later, Photoflex announced it was opening up shop again, temporarily, while they searched for a potential buyer of the business.

Today, Photoflex...

 

 

This is the camera that every Micro Four Thirds photographer will want to own! The Olympus AIR is a tiny camera module that uses your smartphone as its viewfinder and user interface, seamlessly bridging the worlds of Micro Four Thirds photography and smartphones, and is the most downright fun camera I've used...

 

Sony's current 28-70mm F3.5-5.6 FE OSS lens

A recent Sony patent unveils the inner workings of a new 28–70mm f/4.0 OSS FE lens design.

Filed back in October of 2013, the patent (translated) displays 13 elements in 9 groups, including one ED (Extra-low Dispersion) element. Also mentioned in the patent is the...

This past December, Leica acknowledged a widespread corrosion issue regarding the CCD sensors and glass covers inside its M9, M9-P, M Monochrom and M-E cameras.

Dubbed ‘CCDgate’ by La Vida Leica, Leica promised to replace all cameras with the affected sensor (KAF–18500) and glass (Schott S8612) while working on a developing a long-term...

As much work goes into a wedding shoot, the most time consuming aspect of any wedding event is post-production. Wedding photographers rarely shoot less than 1,000 images for an event and when it comes to backing up, sorting through, editing and delivering the images, the hours can add up quickly leaving you spending more time at your desk than...

The Photo of the Day judges at Imaging Resource enjoy both the beautiful and the serene as elements in a great photograph, perhaps as a needed respite from our chaotic work days. As such, many of our winners and runner's-up from this year have fallen into these categories, as our faithful contest followers and participants can knowingly attest.

May's voting results shake...

 

 

Our friends at LensRentals have a pretty special operation. They not only rent a pool of thousands of lenses to photographers all over the US, they have some of the most sophisticated lens-testing equipment on the planet. One incredible machine ("OLAF") was custom-built to their specifications by an optical test...

Tamron USA has issued a service advisory regarding select Tamron lenses due to an issue that was causing autofocus issues used on Canon EOS 5DS and 5DSR cameras.

In the advisory, Tamron says, ‘we have learned that the AF functions of the following interchangeable lenses for Canon do not function in Live View mode when used on the EOS 5Ds and...

 

 

After a brief hiatus last week, Firmware Friday returns today with big news from Fujifilm, Samsung, Sigma, Sony, and Tamron. It's quite a list of updates that we have for you today, so without any further ado, let's get to it!

Sony A7, A7R, A7S and A6000

We'll start with Sony, whose new firmware for the...

 

 

Early in 2012, Olympus took its mirrorless camera line in a new direction with the enthusiast-friendly OM-D E-M5. Now, as we complete our Olympus E-M5 II review, it's time for us to cast judgement on the camera which takes the OM-D series to the next level with an ever more feature-packed design.

Sporting...

 

 

Back in March, Sony expanded their FE-mount lens lineup with four new offerings, one being their first native FE-mount macro-specific lens, the FE 90mm f/2.8 Macro G OSS. We've just taken the wraps off our in-depth review of this high-performance full-frame macro lens over at SLRgear, and while the lens itself is a...

Shaking dogs, shaky golf swings, falling objects, hosed executives and exploding fruit: Some days, working at IR is really a blast, in this case literally!

We just got our hands on a production sample of the powerful new Sony RX100 IV, and all productivity at IRHQ immediately ground to a halt, with all hands on deck playing with its amazing High Frame Rate (super...

Just as they did last year, Adobe has announced its resetting free trial offers for its Creative Cloud platform to all users who have already taken advantage of it.

Earlier this month, Adobe released the 2015 update for its Creative Cloud platform. It included a number of new features for Photoshop and Lightroom, and brought about a new life...

Canon has issued an advisory regarding counterfeit Speedlite 600EX-RT flash products that have recently been discovered in circulation.

In their statement, Canon emphasizes these counterfeits were neither designed nor manufactured by them, despite look nearly identical to Canon’s own products down to the individual trademark logos.

The Think Tank StreetWalker HardDrive Camera Backpack is a very well designed backpack that can comfortably carry a lot of gear. It's the largest in Think Tank's StreetWalker series with interior dimensions of 11” W x 19” H x 6–7” D. Despite its large interior space, the backpack only weighs between 3.8 and 4.6 lbs depending on what is...

Olympus recently invited Imaging Resource to Whistler, British Columbia to shoot with the TG-4, the newest camera in their long-running line of waterproof and tough cameras. While the constant rain was something of a disappointment for the trip, it proved the perfect setting to test the TG-4's waterproofing (and the weather sealing of its distant cousin, the E-M5 II).

The...

With each new video, Ted Forbes of The Art of Photography impresses us with his thoughtful and well articulated insight. But in one of his most recent videos, ‘So You Want To Be A Photographer…’, he goes above and beyond, providing a very necessary commentary to a question and topic that is all too often misconstrued.

As the title of the...

 

 

Sony's latest premium compact camera, the Sony RX100 IV, made its way into our lab, and we have our classic First Shot set of lab images ready for your perusal and scrutiny. As the RX100 family has eveolved, Sony's introduced noticeable technological improvements at every step. The Mark II brought a...

Uncage the Soul Productions recently shared a mesmerizing time travel time-lapse that takes us on a journey through the Portland, Oregon.

Titled Yesterday’s Tomorrow - A Portland Journey, the five minute time-lapse seamlessly and meticulously places historical photographs of Portland into their modern-day locations. It takes ‘then and now’...