News entries for November, 2016

 

 

In mid-November, DJI announced their new DJI Inspire 2 drone, which was advertised to be faster, lighter and offering better imaging capabilities. All of that should still hold true when the Inspire 2 starts shipping in December, but DJI has announced that the top speed of the Inspire 2 will not be as high as...

 

 

For many sports fans, their beloved memories are best represented by iconic images. Sports photographers like Mark Leech are responsible for capturing the highs, lows and sometimes crucial social context surrounding what are ultimately children’s games. Leech is a United Kingdom-based soccer (football as it’s known...

 

 

When I first got acquainted with the new Olympus E-M1 Mark II, it was up in Iceland, an absolutely stunning place filled with awe-inspiring landscapes anywhere you turned as well as some rather harsh weather conditions. I was able to get a good sense for the E-M1 II's overall image quality performance and its build...

 

 

Updated on December 5: Added information about "Rediscovering Genius: The Works of Edward S. Curtis" show

November is National American Indian Heritage Month, and as such it seems particularly appropriate to take a moment to look at the legacy of American photographer Edward S. Curtis.

Edward S. Curtis was an...

 

 

Astrophotography is a particularly demanding genre of photography that emphasizes a distinct set of qualities and characteristics of lenses. Qualities such as autofocus speeds (or being capable of autofocus at all) and sharpness when stopped down become less important, whereas characteristics such as having a focus...

 

 

The AirSelfie is a drone so small, the company is betting you'll give up your selfie stick and use it instead. Currently on Kickstarter - with under a month and fully backed - the AirSelfie weighs only 52 grams and is designed in such a way as to seamlessly integrate with your Android or iOS smartphone.

The drone...

 

 

Early in October, we were surprised by the launch of the Sony A6500 mirrorless camera, just eight months after its sibling the A6300 hit the market. And now as we near the end of November, I've just published my first Sony A6500 Field Test, bringing you my thoughts on this impressively speedy little shooter.

For...

 

 

If you've ever come home from a shoot only to find out later that you're missing a piece of your gear, you can certainly appreciate the sentiment behind a new product launched on Kickstarter. GearEye proposes to be "The Ultimate Gear Management System", using an RFID tracker, and adhesive tags applied to your...

 

 

The uses of 3D printers never cease to amaze us. Photographer Mathieu Stern designed his own 135mm f/1.8 lens, using a single lens element, and had it printed for him by a French 3D printing company. While the corners are a bit soft, the center is impressively sharp!

You can read more about Mathieu's design on...

 

 

Black Friday is now upon us, regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season and one of the heaviest shopping periods of the year. Retailers have traditionally offered deep discounts and incentives to move a larger volume of products.

If you've been following our Black Friday 2016 article, you'll no...

 

 

The highly-popular social media app, Instagram, has been updated with two new features. The first of the additions is live streaming. It's very simple to start live streaming from your phone as you only tap the start live video button in the camera menu and then you are good to go. When live streaming video, the...

 

 

While Black Friday isn't officially until tomorrow, the holiday sale of the year has already started in earnest, with several big-box stores already having rolled out their door-crasher sales. There are still great deals to be had over the weekend though, and we're going to shine the spotlight on a few of those...

 

 

'Tis the season for shopping. If you're purchasing any new camera gear (see our Black Friday Deals page for your bargain hunting needs) then you may need a new bag to carry and store your gear. To help you save your hard-earned money, Think Tank Photo has opened an Outlet Center. The Outlet Center has many Think...

 

 

Facebook strips metadata from photographs and images when you upload them. The popular social site has not officially commented on this, but there are some potentially good reasons for their doing so. The site is used by over a billion people per day and many of them upload photos with potentially private...

 

 

Another 1"-sensor fixed-lens compact camera has hit the market, this time from Panasonic. Joining the premium compact camera fray is the Panasonic LX10, equipped with a 24-72mm equivalent lens that offers an impressive f/1.4-2.8 maximum aperture range. I recently field tested the LX10 and you can read my findings...

 

 

Without reading ahead, how many stops of improvement would you guess that APS-C camera CMOS sensors have undergone over the past ten years? I'll give you a second. Okay, if you guessed 1.5 stops, then you were right on the money!

You might be thinking, "No, it must be more than that, image quality has improved a...

 

 

Reality television personality Kylie Jenner has her own cosmetics line, Kylie Cosmetics, which recently launched their holiday campaign. You would think that with the money behind the brand, they could afford to be original with their photography. This is apparently not the case as Kylie Cosmetics has essentially...

 

 

Black Friday is fast approaching and you know what that means…great camera deals! We have been compiling them on our "Black Friday Camera Deals for 2016" page, but we realize that there are a lot of deals to keep track of, so we are starting a daily round-up of some of the standout deals.

Before we get to the...

 

 

WestLicht Photographica Auction held their 30th camera auction on November 19 and sold a Nikon One camera for a staggering €384,000 (US$407,735 at current exchange rates). The Nikon One camera in question was manufactured in April 1948, one month after the Japanese company started producing cameras. It is believed...