News entries for August, 2016

 

 

The Canon 5D Mark III from 2012 was a home run for Canon, a bonafide, hands down shot right out of the ballpark. Receiving a rare 5.0 overall score from us at IR -- and a well-deserved one at that -- the 5D III has been delivering solid images for Canon shooters for four years running with aplomb. Naturally, we at...

 

 

Do you feel like you've gotten stuck in a rut with your photography? If you're constrained by time and budget, it can feel like you're spending all of your time rehashing the same old subjects, and that can sound the death knell for great photos. And if you lose that special spark of creativity, it will show...

 

 

If you want to improve your photography, it pays to look at what the professionals are doing and then learn from them. That's not to say that you should rigidly follow their style or advice to the letter -- the exception to the rule can often be a great shot too -- but pros have a great sense for what works...

 

 

Wine Country Camera has a new 100mm filter holder system on the way and they state their "exquisitely designed" product will excite photographers. Oftentimes a filter holder system can be cumbersome to use, but the Wine Country Camera Filter Holder System looks to be as feature-rich as any filter holder I've seen.

 

 

This story is a bit different, but it's way too cool not to share. I'm sure most of us are familiar with stop motion animation, the filmmaking technique wherein a scene -- often a very small one -- is recorded one frame at a time and then combined to make life-like video footage. For anyone who has ever tried stop...

 

 

Facebook is constantly researching new technology and sometimes it release the results of its efforts to the public for coders to work with. Facebook released three of its image identification algorithms recently in a move that they hope will "help rapidly advance the field of machine vision."

Users of the social...

 

 

For fans of prime lenses, the 50mm focal length is a popular choice. And for those who're shooting on a full-frame Sony E-mount camera, its a choice which will now bear a little more consideration, because the company has just taken the wraps off its third 50mm full-frame, E-mount optic: The FE 50mm F2.8...

 

 

Last October, drone maker DJI branched out in a new direction with its Osmo, a clever gadget that coupled the gimbal camera platform used in its unmanned aerial vehicles with an ergonomic pistol grip. The result was billed as an action camera with a difference: The ability to shoot really well-stabilized...

 

 

The ultra-wide Voigtländer 10mm Heliar-Hyper Wide f/5.6 aspherical manual focus lens is now available for preorder and pricing has been announced. The lens, available for both Sony E and Leica M mounts, will launch with a price just under US$1,100. While that's a moderately high price, consider that there isn't a...

 

 

The Hasseblad X1D-50C was originally slated for a release in late August or early September, but that has been knocked back to mid-September according to B&H Photo. Adorama does not list a release date on their product page for the camera.

It seems that delays are becoming more common. While reasoning for the...

 

 

Off camera flash can be tricky enough to get involved with as it is, but the eternal debate between choosing speedlights or studio strobes makes it all the more daunting for beginners. Photographer Joe Edelman has made a video discussing the pros and cons of both speedlights and monolights and which flash is...

 

 

Portrait photography is difficult because there are so many variables you have to consider -- lighting, wardrobe, background, composition, etc. -- but one aspect of portraiture that a lot of people struggle with is posing. Not only is it difficult, but there isn't a one-size-fits-all approach. Photographer Manny...

 

 

How about some aurora to get your week started off right? Flying over the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland, native photographer Oli Haukur captured beautiful footage of the northern lights with his drone.

Contrasted against the stark Icelandic landscape, the vibrant green bands dance across the sky. Even with a...

 

 

We've just posted some sample photos from our Canon 5D Mark IV shoot with Canon Explorers Of Light Parish Kohanim and Denis Reggie, as well as an initial set of our standardized lab shots, so you can compare its image quality with the 5D Mark III and other cameras. (We posted a video of our studio time with Parish...

 

 

Paparazzi photography elicits many strong emotions when people see it. Is it criminal stalking or is it a form of art? Perhaps instead it's just people doing a job, a business created by society's insatiable desires to get inside the lives of the rich and famous. Whatever it is, Elite Daily followed two Los...

 

 

Long before Photoshop, portrait photographer Phillipe Halsman and surrealist painter Salvador Dalí collaborated many times after they first met in New York City in 1941. Interestingly, the two had both lived in the same Parisian neighborhood during the 1930s, but never formally met. After working an opening of a...

 

 

Great news, photo fans -- the weekend is just about here, and with it your weekly roundup of all that's new in the world of camera firmware! This week, we have news to report on updates from Canon, Nikon and Sony. Two of these are for flagship interchangeable-lens cameras, while the third is applicable to a...

 

 

The Nikon D500 has been a long time coming. Nikon has released numerous APS-C DSLRs since the 2009 release of the D300s, including some very good ones like the D7200, but they didn't truly succeed the highly-popular D300-series until the D500 was released this spring. With a 20.9-megapixel DX-format sensor and...

 

 

As video becomes an increasingly important part of a photographer's workflow, accessory and gear makers are coming up with new and better pieces of equipment. Edelkrone doesn't want a newfound reliance on video equipment to mean that you need to get a bigger camera bag or worry about large, awkward pieces of gear,...