News entries for July, 2019

Click here to read part one of my Canon SL3 Field Test

 

 

Tiny mirrorless cameras are everywhere these days, but that doesn't mean you have to ditch the mirror yourself if you want a compact, interchangeable-lens camera. For a third generation, the Canon SL3 aims to provide a reasonably generous advanced...

 

 

The sixth Nikon Z-mount lens has been announced: The Nikkor Z 85mm f/1.8 S. This fast portrait lens is the longest native prime lens available for the Nikon Z system to date and joins the existing 35mm f/1.8 S and 50mm f/1.8 S to form a trio of f/1.8 prime lenses.

The Nikon 85mm f/1.8 S lens is approximately 3.9...

 

 

A great landscape image is not simply a photograph of a beautiful landscape. It is much more than that. To create a truly powerful landscape photo, your image must evoke emotion in the viewer. How does one use landscape photos to evoke emotion? In his latest video, seen below, landscape photographer Nigel Danson...

Click here to read my Fuji GFX 100 Field Test 

 

 

When Fujifilm launched their GFX medium-format mirrorless camera system in 2017, the GFX 50S immediately impressed me with its excellent image quality. However, the 50S, and subsequent GFX 50R model, both delivered subpar autofocus speeds and sluggish overall...

 

 

Nikon has today announced the winners of its prestigious yearly photography contest, and as a website dedicated to the gear used to capture the images, we're pleased to display the results for you here. And given that the photo contest is now celebrating its 50th year, it's all the more intriguing for photographers...

 

 

Colin Smith of PhotoshopCAFE has a neat trick to help you easily adjust specific colors in your photographs within Adobe Photoshop. The first step in making your colors pop is ironically to apply a black and white adjustment filter to your image. When using the black and white filter, you can adjust the underlying...

 

 

A common situation when doing heavy Photoshop work is having to cut an object out of a photo, either to move it within the same frame or to perhaps create a new composite image. What if you need to cut a person out of a photo? This is certainly a bit trickier than a simple shape, but it doesn't have to be...

 

 

Landscape photographer Simon Baxter is on a photography trip in Wales. In the video below, we join him in a woodland where he had hopes that promising conditions would result in fog. A look at Baxter's Instagram feed reveals that he frequently, although certainly not always, shoots in misty and foggy conditions.

 

 

In the newest video from our friends at Advancing Your Photography, Marc Silber chatted with award-winning photographer Joe McNally. Over the course of his prolific career, McNally has captured cover stories and features for publications such as National Geographic, LIFE and Sports Illustrated and worked with many...

 

 

If you're an early adopter of the spectacularly high-res Fujifilm GFX100 mirrorless camera and you've been experiencing problems with accidental operation of the camera's shutter release, the company has a potential answer for you in a service notice issued yesterday. The company has identified an issue with...

 

 

Leica is the star of this week's Firmware Friday roundup, having released the most significant update of the past seven days for its APS-C format Leica CL mirrorless camera. And not to be left out, we also have news to report from Fujifilm, Nikon and Olympus as well, with two further camera models, one lens...

Sony RX100 VII Preview
First Shots • Gallery Images

 

 

Almost every year since Sony first debuted its pocket-friendly, large-sensor RX100 camera series back in 2012, the company has had something of a tradition. And in the midst of every summer (other than those of 2016 and 2017), Sony has treated us to a...

 

 

When sharpening your digital images, such as in Photoshop, what is actually happening? As Unmesh Dinda of PiXimperfect explains in the video below, digital sharpening involves adding contrast around just the edges. When you sharpen an image, you often see more apparent visible detail, but by adding contrast around...

 

 

If you have ever photographed buildings, you have likely had to deal with the issue of distortion and imperfect perspective in your images. There are numerous ways you can deal with this, including the method outlined by Aaron Nace of Phlearn in the video below.

The technique involves utilizing custom grids...

 

 

Portrait and commercial photographer Daniel Norton is back with another episode of his OnSet video series for Adorama. In the video below, Norton shows how to use one of his favorite light modifiers, one which is not particularly common, the lantern.

The lantern is more often used for video when trying to light...

Click here to read part two of my Ricoh GR III Field Test

 

 

It's been a few weeks since my first field test with the tiny Ricoh GR III, an unassuming little street shooter that offers image quality you wouldn't expect from its compact form factor. In that first test, which you can read here, I took a look...

 

 

Skylum Software has announced that the next iteration of its flagship image editing software, Luminar, will be arriving this fall in the form of Luminar 4. While more details on Luminar 4 will be available as we approach its launch, Skylum has shown off one of the software's primary new features, AI Sky...

 

 

Landscape and nature photographer Adam Gibbs is in Scotland doing landscape photography. In the video below, we join him in the field in Glencoe, which is in western Scotland, to photograph streams and waterfalls.

The first scene Gibbs chooses to shoot is a twisted tree alongside a stream. He quickly identifies...

 

 

Even a photographer as accomplished as Nigel Danson still makes mistakes when out in the field. Oftentimes, his mistakes are ones he has made many times over the years. In his newest video, seen below, Danson shares 13 common photography mistakes he continues to make and provides tips to help prevent photographers...