When shooting still photos, we will go to pretty great lengths to prevent the camera from moving. With cinema and video shooting, however, camera movements are a regular part of the process, and doing it right can involve some rather fancy equipment such as sliders and rails. The Edelkrone Wing, how...

[embedded content] At one time, the Nikon D1X was the height of DSLR technology. That time, however, was in the early 2000’s. Here in 2016, we’re use to all kinds of fancy features like insane autofocus systems and sky-high ISO limits. So, what is it like to shoot with an old Nikon D1X here in 2016?...

When you’re photographing a soccer or baseball game, you don’t have to worry about which autofocus mode works best for capturing athletes crawling face down in the mud under a crisscross of sharp barbed wire. When shooting a Spartan Race, however, that’s exactly the kind of sports photography challe...

[embedded content] Moving Stills de Behnam Attar from ANI on Vimeo. A lot has changed over the last 50 years in photography, and if you need evidence of that, check out this rather fascinating short film about photographer David Bu ett. At the time, he was working for Contact Press Images doing docu...

Not everyone is on-board with the semi-recent rise in software subscription plans, and Corel is emphasizing that fact with the release of its new PaintShop Pro X9 and X9 Ultimate photo editing software. There is a handful of new features in PaintShop Pro X9, all of which will likely appeal to specif...

The new Sony Wireless Radio flash trigger system hasn’t started shipping just yet—it’s slated for early September—but Sony is getting its flagship full-frame camera, the A7R II ready with a new firmware update. V3.30 of the Sony firmware brings full compatibility with the new flash trigger system, w...

Every year, we throw one big contest to give photographers a chance to show off their absolute best recent work. We receive thousands of entries and the selection process gets tougher every year and we're expecting this year to be no different. There are Six categories in total: * Objects and Still ...

[embedded content] THE LIGHT COLLECTOR from Dheerankur Upasak on Vimeo. Gear Acquisition Sydrome is something that gets talked about a lot online as a way to describe the overwhelming compulsion many photo enthusiasts feel to constantly buy camera gear. For Dilish Parekh, the urge isn't about the la...

Pro-grade DSLRs like the Nikon D5 or the Canon 1D X Mark II (or standard DSLRs with grips attached) require a big bag. The problem is that the bags typically don’t get smaller when the gear is removed, so you have that Ninja Turtle look even when you’re actively shooting. The Think Tank Shape Shifte...

Large format photography is a fascinating process here in the digital age. It’s slow, wonderful, beautiful, frustrating, and perhaps most importantly, really expensive. Photographer Jay L. Clendenin has been shooting large-format portraits of Olympic athletes in Rio, but he has been skipping the typ...

[embedded content] Lost in Light from Sriram Murali on Vimeo. If you tried to capture the recent meteor shower, you may have found things more difficult than expected. One common culprit for ruining epic night sky photography is light pollution from cities. Heavily populated areas throw so much ligh...

Color accuracy is often one of the most neglected aspects of photography, and it can be costly once you get into things like printing. Datacolor has released a new bundle including three of its popular calibration products in one case for a single lower price. The Spyder5 Capture Pro bundle includes...

Last we checked in on Eye-Fi the company was taking some serious flack for a ouncing that its cards sold before 2015 would no longer be supported and lose functionality because of changes to the software. Now, the company has released a new Mac utility called Eye-Fi X2 Utility to keep OS X users in ...

[embedded content] Robot camera has been in full-effect at the Summer Olympics since the 2012 games, but the tech is continuously evolving and CNN Money got a look at the underwater robot camera currently operated by Getty Images in Rio. As you might expect from a general interest news network, ther...

[embedded content] Getting started with off-camera lighting can be a bit overwhelming. You have triggers, modifiers, models, reflectors, power settings, and a million other things to think about. The best way to start, however, is by keeping it simple. This well-done video tutorial (with help from E...

During a recent studio visit with iconic group portrait photographer Neal Slavin showed off one of his favorite old cameras, the Linhof Master Technika, which he says he has owned since the early '80s. "It's a real workhorse. It has traveled with me pretty much around the world. Wherever I went, I w...

Last week, we shared a picture of the pile of Canon camera gear Getty was bringing to the Olympics in Rio. It was an impressive arsenal, at least it seemed like it until Canon dropped some photos of its official CPS bunker full of an insane camera and lens stockpile. The press release mentions the m...

[embedded content] With most wide-angle lenses, distortion is a way of life. Warped edges and a bulging center are often byproducts of a wide field of view, but Venus Optics created its new Laowa 12mm f/2.8 lens with a promise of “close-to-zero” distortion. This full-frame (35mm format) lens will be...

Setting up one of those “hands-in-bowls” time-lapse recipe videos that are oh-so-popular on the inte et right now can be trickier than it looks because of the camera angle. The Povie is a lanyard-style smartphone camera mount, however, that looks to remedy the problem of how to hold your camera when...

Say what you will about mirrorless cameras, but when it comes to professional photography in challenging situations, most pros still use high-end DSLRs to get the job done. Nikon’s latest, the D5 ($6,497, street, body only), builds on the capabilities of its predecessor, the D4s, to reach new height...