News entries for October, 2017

Click here to read my Fujifilm GF 23mm f/4 R LM WR Field Test

 

 

As the widest lens in the Fujifilm GF lens lineup, the Fujinon GF 23mm f/4 R LM WR is an important optic for landscape photographers, in particular. In my hands-on time with the lens, the 18mm-equivalent prime has impressed greatly. Its 99.9-degree...

Click here to read our Canon 6D Mark II Review Conclusion

 

 

The Canon 6D Mark II was a long time coming, and we have just wrapped our review of Canon's latest full-frame DSLR camera. Is the Canon 6D II everything fans have been hoping for?

That depends. As you can see in our Print Quality Analysis, the 6D II...

 

 

In October of 2012, I became the editor for IR's Photo of the Day contest, and one of the first things I noticed was that Canon and Nikon DSLRs dominated the competition as the primary imaging tools for the most successful prize-winning photographers. As mirrorless camera offerings continued to grow in popularity...

 

 

Photographer Thomas Heaton has published a new video, seen below, about perfection. "We have this thing where everything has to be perfect," Heaton says, we are generally obsessed with tack sharp images, perfect exposures, no noise, sharp corners of the frame, perfect color balance, everything has to be perfect,...

 

 

Our Firmware Friday roundup this week is all about medium format. All three cameras receiving new firmware in the last seven days are medium-format models from Hasselblad, including the X1D-50c, H6D-50c and H6D-100c. And interestingly, the X1D and H6D-series cameras' new firmware are quite different from each...

 

 

Since 2011, Macphun has been developing software for Mac computers. Their first software, FX Photo Studio Pro, was launched on Mac App Store and the developer continued to make more products, many of which have won awards from Apple themselves.

Earlier this year, Macphun started developing software for Windows as...

 

 

Photo critiques are an important part of the learning process for photographers of all skill levels, from beginners to longtime professionals. No matter who you are, you can always find ways to improve. On his show, "The Grid," Scott Kelby invited his brother Jeff Kelby onto the show to do photo critiques of...

 

 

It seems like we haven't heard a lot about new Pentax K-mount lenses lately, but Ricoh has updated their K-mount lens roadmaps for their general K-mount lineup and also their full-frame lineup.

Pentax APS-C camera owners have a new HD Pentax-DA 11-18mm f/2.8 lens to look forward to in the summer of 2018. On the...

 

 

Instagram isn't just for photos of food and cats thanks in part to accounts like the GettyFlashback page. GettyFlashback is an account dedicated to sharing rare old photos from Getty's massive archive of images. The images come with informative captions, which makes perusing through their past posts an educational...

 

 

Last month, Tamron announced the development of their new 100-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di VC USD lens, but did not disclose pricing or availability information at that time. At this year's PhotoPlus Expo, Tamron announced that the "lightest lens in its class" will be available on November 16 for US$799 in full-frame Canon...

 

 

Does it feel like a Hasselblad X1D day here at Imaging Resource? Earlier we shared the video from Hasselblad Chief of Strategy Ming Thein and his X1D experience in Iceland. Now we have news from DxOMark, who have reviewed the X1D sensor. 

As a "cropped" medium format sensor, the sensor found in the X1D-50C (and...

 

 

While we have plenty of sample images from the new Sony A7R III for you to peruse in our Gallery, Sony has also been publishing some very neat videos about the new camera.

Below we have shared a pair of Sony A7R III videos from time lapse professional Drew Geraci and adventure photographer Chris Burkard...

 

 

The Sony A7R III on paper appears to do some seriously impressive stuff. Packing 10 frames per second into a high-resolution 42-megapixel sensor is extremely unique, and add to that a fully revamped autofocusing system and you have yourself a camera that appears to be capable of more than any other camera it could...

 

 

Photographer and Hasselblad's Chief of Strategy, Ming Thein, recently travelled to Iceland for a week with Hasselblad's X1D Field Kit. Thein had never been to Iceland before, but he was able to see a lot of the Nordic island nation and capture some beautiful imagery with the medium format mirrorless Hasselblad X1D...

 

 

Let's not bury the lead here, the Sony A7R III is now available for preorder. Sony's newest high-resolution full-frame camera has impressed us so far, as you can read about in our hands-on coverage.

If you want a clearer idea of what the new 42-megapixel A7R III is capable of, we have also published a wide...

Click here to view our Sony A7R III Gallery Images

 

 

Not long after Sony's big unveiling of their latest full-frame mirrorless camera, the Sony A7R III, we were given the opportunity to shoot with this all-new high-res and high-performance camera at a Sony-organized press event. We've now been given the green...

 

 

If you're a fan of really bright prime lenses, Olympus has great news for you today. The company has just unveiled two new M.Zuiko ED Pro-badged f/1.2 optics with 17mm and 45mm focal lengths, respectively. The pair are similar in many respects to the existing M.Zuiko ED 25mm f1.2 Pro prime lens, which we...

 

 

In the wee small hours of last night, Sony announced its new Sony A7R III mirrorless camera body, as well as a new compact, lightweight standard zoom lens, the FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS. The company also revealed that it's developing a G Master-branded 400mm f/2.8 optic which should be arriving next summer.

 

 

DxO OpticsPro is no more. However, don't panic, as the software has been rebranded and relaunched as DxO PhotoLab. There's much more than a name change here too as the software now features comprehensive local adjustments leveraging the power of Nik's U Point technology. That's right, DxO has acquired the Nik...