Gear

DSLR Underwater Camera Housing Options for Portrait Photography and Video

Jul 23, 2016 JP Danko

It’s mid-summer and I have been doing a lot of underwater portrait photography lately…which has started me thinking that it might finally be time to…



Full Frame Sony A7II vs. Crop Sony A6000, which is better for portraits?

Jul 21, 2016 John Aldred

When you’re looking to pick up your first portrait camera, the whole full frame vs crop thing can be confusing. Technical explanations can be difficult…



Canon patents 40-800mm F4.5-5.6 lens, it would be great if it’s made, but I am skeptical

Jul 21, 2016 Udi Tirosh

Canon just patented a 40-800mm lens. Isn’t this just incredible. In old point and shoot terms the box would have been marked X20. You have to…



Phottix drags Sony flash into the 21st century bringing it in line with Nikon and Canon

Jul 19, 2016 John Aldred

There’s no question that Sony make some ridiculously good cameras (don’t tell Udi I said that), but one of the things that seems to have…



The best lens for street photography

Jul 19, 2016 Nicholas Goodden

For street photography the choice of cameras and lenses is, simply put, huge. So where do we start? What IS the best lens for street photography?…



Is a full frame camera really worth it?

Jul 18, 2016 Alexander J.E. Bradley

Since I got my Nikon D7000 camera 6 years ago I’ve used it almost everyday. That is a lot of shutter clicks, 148,558 to be…



GoPro Hero5 to shoot Full Ultra HD 8K video and 3D video at 4K?

Jul 18, 2016 John Aldred

GoPro, like many companies, tends to keep pretty quiet when it comes to new products, letting very little out until an official announcement is ready…



Samyang’s new lens doesn’t have autofocus – It’s a 135mm T2.2 cinema lens

Jul 18, 2016 John Aldred

Samyang recently put out a teaser to build up some hype for five new lenses it was about to release.  There was much speculation abound…



Aputure’s versatile new light is the size of a credit card and costs only $49

Jul 18, 2016 John Aldred

Small lights are fantastic and well designed ones are extremely versatile. Whether you’re shooting stills or video, you can throw them in dark corners to balance…



Optical zoom finally comes to the mass drone market with DJI’s new Zenmuse Z3

Jul 15, 2016 John Aldred

Everybody seems to have a drone these days of some sort or another for all kinds of different things. Most of them have cameras attached,…