News entries for February, 2018

 

 

Australian photographer Andrew Marr recently headed to Lancelin along the Australian coast near Perth. While there, he wanted to photograph the area's famous sand dunes. Marr started by scouting the area for a potential composition, which he could photograph when the late afternoon sun got lower. His focus was on...

 

 

Photographer Mathieu Stern has been featured in our news many times, largely due to his very interesting videos about vintage lenses he adapts to his Sony mirrorless cameras. One of his ongoing series is "3 Vintage Lenses," in which he photographs the same model with three different vintage lenses. It's amazing not...

 

 

Being able to tell a story through your photography is very important and something that can be difficult to achieve. Professional photographer and Sony Artisan Me Ra Koh is at WPPI with Sony and gave a presentation about the four keys to storytelling portraits.

The first key is "light." We know of the importance...

 

 

Tokina has announced a couple of lenses over the past week. Let's look at the first lens announced, the Tokina 20mm f/2 FE AF FiRIN. This lens is the autofocus version of the existing FiRIN 20mm f/2 FE super wide angle full-frame prime lens for Sony E-mount.

The new autofocus version uses the same optical design...

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The Light L16 is the first hardware device from a company who claims their clever multi-lens computational photography technology will be a "DSLR killer." After years of hype and teasers, we finally got our hands on one, and suffice it to say, the image quality and...

 

 

Sony's newest full-frame mirrorless camera, the A7 III, will be available for preorder later this morning. If you're reading this and it's past 11:00 AM ET, the camera is already available and you can order yours right now by clicking here.

When you put the Sony A7 III head-to-head with similarly-priced cameras...

 

 

Aimed at creative professionals, Wacom has announced the new 24-inch Cintiq Pro pen display. This third addition to the Cintiq Pro lineup, joining 13- and 16-inch models, will be arriving this spring.

Much of the Cintiq Pro's form is the display, which is 4K and displays 98% of the Adobe RGB spectrum. The display...

 

 

When you look at a portrait, one of the first things that often jumps out at you is the subject's eyes. It's often said that eyes are the windows to the soul, so it only makes sense that a good portrait will depend upon the eyes. Human eyes are very reflective, which can be used to your advantage. However, it can...

 

 

It's already a good day for Sony fans with the company announcing the new Sony A7 III last night, and Sigma has added even more excitement for Sony mirrorless shooters. Sigma Corporation has announced that nine of their Art lenses will be released in native Sony E-mount versions, including their two new lenses,...

 

 

Sigma's Art series has proven very popular with photographers, enthusiast and professional alike, due to its excellent blend of performance and price. It also delivers lenses unique to a specific lens mount. With today's announcement of a pair of new Art lenses, Sigma has created its first Art macro lens and also...

 

 

Large-format film photographer Ben Horne recently visited Death Valley and on his third day in the iconic location, he thought that the conditions were looking promising for sunrise. He packed up his gear and headed to a peak to try to get above dense fog. However, his gear is not as easy to set up in the dark as...

 

 

Big news, full-frame fans: The brand-new Sony A7 Mark III just entered stage left, and it's the talk of the WPPI show! Following hot on the heels of the popular A7R Mark III, the A7 Mark III is significantly less expensive, putting it within reach of many more photographers. But make no mistake, this is not merely...

 

 

Huawei just announced two new products that may be of interest to creative professionals: the MateBook X Pro and MediaPad M5 Series. With signature Huawei design both inside and out, the new notebook and tablet are built to excel at work, at home or on the go.

Both the HUAWEI MateBook X Pro and HUAWEI MediaPad M5...

 

 

Professional nature and wildlife photographer Morten Hilmer was recently in Scotland to photograph mountain hares - which you can see here and here - but he also took some time to photograph wild stags while visiting Scotland. Hilmer's been in the Scottish Highlands for three weeks so far and his third week has...

 

 

Light is the most important aspect of photography. After all, a photograph is ultimately just a recording of light. We regularly hear about "good light" versus "bad light," but how can we tell the difference and learn to recognize good light?

Photographer Sean Tucker hopes to help us with this in his latest...

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Panasonic has expanded its Leica DG Vario-Elmarit f/2.8-4.0 series to three lenses with today's introduction of the new Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 50-200mm f/2.8-4.0 ASPH telephoto zoom lens. In 35mm terms, the new zoom delivers a 100-400mm equivalent focal...

 

 

Over at The Slanted Lens, photographer Jay P. Morgan has some great tips for creating your own lighting setup at home.

While Morgan has done a similar video before, now he's doing it again using LED lights. There are numerous advantages to LED lights. They're fairly inexpensive, for example, and they are...

 

 

Canon's 4K-equipped EOS M50 mirrorless camera will understandably dominate the headlines, but it's not the company's only new camera announcement today. Alongside its more attention-grabbing sibling, the just-launched Canon T7 is a relatively minor upgrade to the company's most affordable entry-level offering -- in...

 

 

Let's kick the week off with a pair of behind the scenes landscape videos with photographer Adam Gibbs.

The first video is focused on finding order in a chaotic scene. If you spend time in forests, as Adam often does, then you'll come face-to-face with this problem frequently. Even if in second-growth forests,...