News entries for September, 2017

 

 

Want the chance to shoot with the legendary Polaroid 20 x 24 inch camera? This is your last chance!

The CLICK! Triangle Photography Festival launches today in North Carolina. With over 70 curated events taking place throughout the month of October in Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the festival...

 

 

After a couple of weeks of shorter posts, this week's regular Firmware Friday roundup is a giant, bringing news of updates to six digital cameras -- one of which we already told you about midweek -- as well as for two professional video cameras and two Micro Four Thirds lenses. And as if that wasn't already plenty...

 

 

As we head into the last weekend of September, we have four videos to share with you in today's edition of Shutter Release. An ongoing regular series, Shutter Release is a way for us to share and summarize interesting photography content we find from around the web. Sometimes we also include small bits of news in...

Click here to read our Sigma 100-400mm f/5-6.3 Field Test

 

 

Earlier this year, Sigma released their new 100-400mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary telephoto zoom lens, which not only covers a full-frame sensor in a relatively compact and lightweight form factor but also has an MSRP just under US$800, making it one...

 

 

A few months ago, we kicked off our review of the Nikon D7500 as we put it through its first round of our comprehensive battery of lab tests. This was followed by several real-world field tests that saw the D7500 shooting in day and night, in stills and videos -- heck even above ground and below. And over the...

 

 

It's a big day for GoPro as they have announced two new camera products, hoping to turn the tide and get their company back on the track they were on a few years ago. Let's get right into it and start with the GoPro Hero 6 Black, which is shipping today.

Hero 6 Black includes 4K/60p video and twice the speed of...

 

 

On Thursday, September 28, GoPro will be hosting their 2017 Launch Event and it will be streamed online right here at Imaging Resource. The live stream is scheduled to start at 12:00 PM EST (9:00 AM PST) and a live countdown will start in the video space below around half an hour before then.

It will be...

 

 

In today's Shutter Release roundup feature we will look at how a $3,000 Canon 80D kit compares when recording video to an $80,000 Arri Alexa professional video camera. Next, we will see a preview for the latest tutorial at Fstoppers with travel photographer Elia Locardi. If you have ever needed to light bald...

 

 

Today is a busy day for Shutter Release. We've got five pieces of content to share with you, starting with some news for Mac users with Wacom tablets. We follow that with news from Kipon about five tilt shift adapters for the Fujifilm GFX 50S camera. Next is an article filled with tips for compositing. After that,...

 

 

We've been given word that Panasonic has just released a major firmware update for their video powerhouse GH5, which includes tethered shooting as well as enhancements to AF performance.

Also included in this update are improvements in both 4K and 6K photo modes, a new 4K HDR video mode as well as an additional...

Click here to read our Nikon D850 Field Test Part I

 

 

Generally speaking, cameras with high-resolution sensors tend to offer slower burst performance, making them more appropriate tools for portraiture, landscapes, architecture and other calmer subject matter. On the flip-side, sports- and action-centric cameras...

 

 

When you think of digital cameras, it's likely you think of capturing landscape images, portraits or wildlife images. Perhaps you think about preserving family memories. There's an important and related aspect of digital imaging happening in museums and other conservation centers around the world, archival and...

 

 

We have five videos to discuss and share in today's Shutter Release roundup. The videos run the gamut and offer a lot of variety in content covered. We start with three tips for shooting better photos in bad locations. Next up is street photography from Japan. After that we look at a new video from Joe Edelman...

 

 

The Vitec Group has acquired JOBY and Lowepro. Vitec is a leading provider of broadcasting and photographic products and JOBY and Lowepro will be joining the company's Photographic Division, which includes well-known brands including Manfrotto, Gitzo and Lastolite.

With the acquisition of JOBY, Vitec is hoping to...

 

 

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

The saga of the "monkey selfie" came to an end earlier this month. For those who are unfamiliar with the story, the gist of it is that an Indonesian macaque, Naruto, used photographer David Slater's camera to take a selfie. That selfie, which is the...

 

 

We hope you had a good weekend, Imaging Resource readers. Let's kick off the new week with a bang. In today's Shutter Release roundup, we will look at using radial gradients in Photoshop to direct your viewer's eyes, a day in the life of a fashion photographer, an Eric Kim article about the "Zen" of shooting film,...

 

 

This weekend, we have four videos to share and more news about Yashica's return. The first video comes from Phlearn and it's about six ways to take better portraits using reflectors. The next video includes five must-know Photoshop retouching tricks. This is followed by a video about low key portraiture using...

 

 

Makers of numerous camera carrying solutions, Cotton, has recently released a new version of their Cotton Carrier Harness, the CCS G3. I have been able to try out the harness (which is essentially an adjustable vest) and it's proven to be a great option for photographers on the move.

Putting on the harness is a...

 

 

Something fishy is in the air for Micro Four Thirds shooters and it's a brand-new circular fisheye lens from iZugar. The 3.25mm f/2.5 fixed aperture lens is a 10mm full circular format fisheye lens and has a 0.6-meter close focus distance.

The lens has 11 lens elements across 10 groups and weighs 160 grams. As...