News entries for March, 2017

 

 

It's time for our regular Firmware Friday roundup once more, and this week we have news to report from Fuji, Sigma and Sony. In all, there are a total of 12 updates in this roundup, although a couple are just slightly older updates from earlier in the month which have only just come to our attention. Without...

 

 

Joe McNally has had an illustrious and diverse photographic career, including excellent work in commercial photography and photojournalism. He’s worked with massive clients such as Adidas, Epson, GE and Sony and he has also worked for Newsweek, Sports Illustrated and Time among many others. McNally is also an...

 

 

Ultra-wide lenses such as the Canon EF 11-24mm f/4L USM and Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G are great landscape photography options, but their bulbous front elements are problematic when shooting with filters. You have typically needed special filter holder systems, such as the Lee SW150 Mark II, which while functional, can...

 

 

Beautiful portraits come in all varieties, but commonly they are shot with a shallow depth of field, that’s why many of the standard “portrait lenses” have fast maximum apertures, such as the recent Nikon 105mm f/1.4E. As professional photographer, educator and frequent contributor to Adorama TV Gavin Hoey says,...

 

 

YI Technology has released a new 4K action camera, the 4K+, which according to YI is currently the world’s highest-spec action camera. They also state that it is the first virtual reality-grade action camera to record 4K video at 60 frames per second. This product was initially announced at CES 2017.

What makes...

 

 

Lensrentals.com has over 100,000 pieces of gear, which means they have the ability to test gear in unique ways. Their latest testing involved testing the battery life and recording times of their video cameras. They went through their entire stock and logged recording time (per gigabyte) and battery life for each...

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The Panasonic FZ2500 may look similar to its predecessor, the FZ1000, and uses the same sensor, but there is a lot new here. We have just wrapped up our Panasonic FZ2500 review, so read on to find out how the FZ2500 compares to its predecessor and what...

 

 

Users of Alien Skin’s Exposure X2 RAW photo editor have a brand new update to try out. The Advanced Layers update introduces advanced layering tools to the software which allow for the stacking of effects and creative flexibility. Each layer can be turned on and off, copied and pasted, applied to multiple images...

 

 

Fujifilm has announced the Instax Mini 9 to its lineup of instant film cameras. To start, the Mini 9 will be available in April in three colors: Flamingo Pink, Ice Blue and Lime Green. Two additional colors, Cobalt Blue and Smokey White, will then follow in June.

Like the other cameras in the Instax line, the...

 

 

DIY Photography has shared a pair of excellent videos. The first is about lens calibration and how to make your own DIY lens calibration solution. There are professional solutions you can purchase, such as Datacolor’s SpyderLensCal, which while highly regarded costs about $60 and could be overkill for someone who...

 

 

Ten photographers from around the world have been announced as the winners of the “Open” categories. The Sony World Photography Awards includes Professional, Open, Youth, National Awards and Student Focus categories. The Open competition alone saw more than 105,000 entries across its ten categories.

The winners...

 

 

If you shoot portraits with a gray background, it is very easy to change the background color in Photoshop. Jeff Rojas shows us how in a new video tutorial.

The first step is to create a clean selection of the background. Head up to "Select" in the menu bar and then choose “Color Range.” After doing so, you will...

 

 

If you’ve read our first Field Test of the Panasonic GH5 and want to learn even more about the flagship successor to the GH4, then you should mark your calendars. B&H will be hosting a special live stream on Wednesday, March 29 at 1:00 p.m. EDT, and we will be live streaming the B&H GH5 event on our Panasonic GH5...

 

 

Mechanical shutters, which come in focal plane and leaf varieties, were the only option for a long time. However, many modern digital cameras now have electronic shutter options, either in the form of electronic first curtain shutters or fully electronic shutters. Both mechanical and electronic shutters come with...

 

 

Lightroom is a very popular tool for photographers to both manage and edit their photo libraries. It is a powerful RAW editor, but many users have found that with each update, Lightroom seems to get slower. We have recently seen a couple of resources that will help users speed up their Lightroom workflow.

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Shortly after the conclusion of the annual CP+ tradeshow in Japan, Imaging Resource founder and publisher Dave Etchells headed to Bangkok, Thailand for a tour of Sony's nearby camera factory. As well as a very interesting tour of the factory during his visit to Sony Technology (Thailand) Co. Ltd., Dave was also fortunate to be able to sit down...

 

 

Photographer Robert Andersen has compiled information from a wide range of tutorials that he and others have written for Photography Life and published an excellent, in-depth wildlife photography tutorial. The tutorial covers a massive range of topics in very good detail, including light and weather, lens...

 

 

Jay P. Morgan of The Slanted Lens has been making a “Laws of Light” video series, which you can see more of here. He has published the latest video in the series and the focus this time is on creating dimension and texture using light. After all, an image isn’t three dimensional, but we want to make it look like it...

 

 

Photography is an expensive hobby, but you can save a lot of money by purchasing used gear. However, for those unfamiliar with the various photo gear marketplaces online, it can be a daunting experience. You want to save money, of course, but you don’t want to purchase faulty gear or not have any sort of buyer...