News entries for January, 2017

 

 

While educator Curtis Judd focuses on teaching techniques for improving video and sound, his videos are often useful for photographers as well, especially his work on lighting. In a recent video, he discusses the differences between hard light and soft light.

While it exists on a spectrum, how can you best tell...

 

 

On November 5, 2016, Apple enlisted a group of photographers to head out and capture photos from sunset to sunrise to help showcase the low-light capabilities of the iPhone 7’s new camera. This marketing campaign, “One Night on iPhone 7,” is now on display in 25 countries as of January 30, 2017.

The photographers...

 

 

If you use old lenses in your photography, it’s possible that you’ve discovered fungus inside your lenses. Removing the fungus is not for the faint of heart, as it requires disassembling and reassembling your lens, but that doesn’t mean it’s an overly complicated process or one which will require you to send your...

 

 

The Panasonic FZ70 was the first superzoom camera to offer a 60x optical lens, and back in 2013 that was a really big deal. Since that time the superzoom segment has been very popular on our site in general, and yet we've seen no new models for quite some time. The Panasonic FZ80 changes that and marks the first...

 

 

Portrait photographer David Parish was a longtime soldier in the United States Army. This background taught him the valuable lesson of how to prepare for the worst. It’s common for military personnel to have what is called a “bug-out bag,” which is basically a bag filled with items you might need at any given time....

 

 

Photographer, retoucher and educator Glyn Dewis has an excellent new video for portrait photographers. This tutorial covers portrait retouching from the original RAW image file all the way to a print-ready file. Now this tutorial is specifically about retouching a male portrait, although there are tips and tricks...

 

 

Photographer Nick Veasey is not your average photographer. Rather than utilize visible light like many photographers, Veasey uses x-rays to capture his images. No, he’s not checking his subjects for broken bones, but rather he is hoping to help people realize that not only can you see a lot more than a skeleton...

 

 

Rokinon has announced two new lenses for Canon EF mount. The two lenses are Special Performance (SP) lenses, meaning that they are Rokinon lenses held to the highest standards and include the company's most advanced optical technology.

The first lens is surely to be of interest to portrait photographers and...

 

 

Adorama has announced Orlit, its new line of TTL flash products. The Orlit line consists of the Orlit Rovelight RT 610 TTL Wireless Monolight, which is the first monolight to include Canon’s RT radio system built in; the Orlit-RT-600C TTL Speedlight for Canon; and two transceivers for Canon and Nikon systems, the...

 

 

Our Firmware Friday roundup this week brings news of just two firmware updates -- one apiece from Sony and Nikon, respectively -- but we also have news to report on the software front from Ricoh's Pentax brand. Sony has updated its A6500 compact system camera, and Nikon its Speedlight SB-500 flash strobe,...

 

 

Do you want the Lensbaby look without paying the Lensbaby price? Photographer Randy Snook has created a tutorial that shows you how to make your own soft focus DSLR lens for around US$15, which he calls "The Pipe Dream."

Why Pipe Dream? Because you make the lens using a pipe. You need a PVC joint union pipe...

 

 

You might need a reinforced coffee table if you want to showcase Peter Lik’s latest photo book, “Equation of Time.” His 528-page book weighs over 100 pounds (nearly 50 kilograms) and has dimensions of 30.25 x 22.25 x 6.25 inches (around 77 x 57 x 16 centimeters). “Equation of Time” was released in November 2015 and...

 

 

Wake up with IR! Here's today's cup of Caffeine Priority...

Touchstone of Simon & Schuster publishing was kind enough to send me a pair of books: "Life Works Itself Out (And Then You Nap)" by Keiya Mizuno and Naoki Naganuma and "Flying Dogs" by Julia Christe.

Both books feature some excellent images and the...

 

 

When you want to quickly change lenses, it’s a great feature of cameras that you can do so easily. However, the ease with which you can remove your lens also applies to sticky-fingered thieves. Professional photographer Rutger Geerling photographs a lot of concerts, often armed with two cameras while in a large...

 

 

Whether you’re a working pro or an enthusiast looking to print an image or two, it is important to check your image file to make sure you’ve cleaned up any editing errors or dust spots. You don’t want to send a file to a client or see a print arrive from a lab and find an issue that could’ve easily been addressed...

 

 

If you like mirrorless cameras for their compact nature but still find yourself missing the attachment to your subject that you can only get from a thru-the-lens optical viewfinder, then Ricoh has great news for you today. The company has just launched its Pentax KP DSLR, and it's been designed from the...

 

 

Update on February 1, 2017 at 5:00 PM EST: The GOES-16 is a NOAA satellite, not a NASA satellite as the first sentence of this article had originally stated. 

The GOES-16 is the first National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) satellite to be launched as part of their next-generation fleet of...

 

 

Are you a professional photographer who has been active for more than three years? You can enter Hasselblad’s Masters 2018 competition from now until June 10, 2017 in the following categories: aerial, architecture, fine art, fashion/beauty, landscape, portrait, product, street/urban, wedding and wildlife. The...

 

 

In Part I of my Field Test for the Sony A99 II, I took an in-depth look at the camera body design and its new image sensor. In Part II, I tested the new autofocus system, video capabilities and took a closer look at overall performance.

The Sony A99 II includes Sony's new 4D Focus AF system. The hybrid autofocus...