Like Alton Brown in his kitchen, I’m a big fan of tools that can have multiple purposes, and it seems like Phottix was prioritizing versatility with the design of the new Spartan Beauty Dish. The modifier comes in 20-inch and 28-inch flavors, and is quite a bit deeper than a standard soft box, which...

Everyone has a different preference when it comes to camera straps and, with the wide variety of straps currently on the market, it can be tough to decide which carry method is the best. I prefer an ordinary shoulder strap, but I know some shooters who prefer the old-school method of keeping it slun...

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The big news out of the Fujifilm camp today is the introduction of their outdoor-ready X-T2 camera, but the company has also a ounced a notable firmware update for the X-Pro2, as well as its plans for new lenses through 2017. X-Pro2 Firmware The big news with the X-T2 is the revamped autofocus syste...

If the Fujifilm camera lineup was a sitcom family, the X-Pro2 would be the artistic child while the new X-T2 would be the athletic one, built to be stronger, faster, and better equipped to deal with the outdoors. The X-T2 pushes the already-successful camera series, concentrating on things that made...

[embedded content] The initial excitement over inte et videos where things get crushed with a hydraulic press has died down quite a bit, but now a couple old film cameras have suffered a squashing, and for some reason, it’s still fascinating. The squished cameras aren’t that exciting, but the crushe...

There are plenty of bags out there designed to carry around GoPros and other action cameras, but now GoPro has launched a backpack of its own called the Seeker. It holds five cameras inside, but has a variety of mounting options that make it seem interesting for the serious action shooter. The 16-li...

Last April, somewhere outside of Sapa, Vietnam, Sylvie Collier, a semi-retired real estate pro from the Houston area, crossed a creaky wooden pedestrian bridge with a dozen other Mentor Series trekkers. The Tien Sa waterfalls cascaded at their left, and at their right rested three antiquated, bamboo...

It can be difficult to try something new in a real wedding situation. There’s plenty of opportunity to be creative, but there’s rarely time for pure creative experimentation, which is why you should start pla ing a styled shoot if you haven’t already. The basic idea is to set a wedding scene exactly...

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Eye-Fi has been in a rather interesting position for some time now. In case you’re unfamiliar, the company makes SD memory cards with baked-in wifi co ectivity that allow images to be uploaded wirelessly to computers, the cloud, and mobile devices. Of course, camera makers have started making that a...

Tamron has a long history with 90mm macro lenses, starting in 1979 with its manual-focus f/2.5. After autofocus took off, macros grew in popularity, and in 2012 Tamron built in Vibration Compensation, making macro even more user-friendly. This new full-frame SP 90mm f/2.8 Di Macro VC ($649, street) ...

Recently, artists have been going to some pretty great lengths in order to cut down on the number of people taking photos and videos during concerts. Recently Apple was granted a patent for which they filed in 2011 for tech that would allow an infrared transmitter to prevent the iPhone camera from r...

If you’re not a pro photographer or would rather avoid the expense of a full-frame camera, a model such as Canon’s EOS 80D, with a 24.2MP APS-C-sized CMOS sensor, represents one of the best combinations of performance versus cost. In this case, you get enough resolving power to make prints larger th...

[embedded content] Alte ative photographic processes such as wet-plate collodion are as hot right now as they have been in, well, a very long time. But, unless you’re actually there to witness the technique in person, it can be tough to know exactly what you’re getting into. One photographer put on ...

It seems the drone craze has subsided a bit in the past few months, perhaps to make way for the recent influx of virtual reality tech, but apparently there are still plenty of UAVs in the sky, and some of them are making life very difficult for some Califo ia firefighters currently battling some ser...

[embedded content] “Moon Over He andez” is one of the most iconic images ever captured by Ansel Adams and for many photographers, the story behind it is just as legendary. In this video, we actually get to see Ansel describing the scene from when the image was captured. As the story goes, Adams was ...

We were big fans of the original Fujifilm Instax Share SP-1 instant film printer, and now the company has a ounced the follow-up version called the Fujifilm Instax Share SP-2 with a redesigned body and a pile of performance upgrades. One of the biggest upgrades is faster printing, taking just 10 sec...

Coming soon! Unleash your creativity by adding fun #Stickers to your photos on Twitter: https://t.co/Ph92Oivyhy pic.twitter.com/NZoM6nHenD — Twitter (@twitter) June 27, 2016 In some ways, Twitter is awesome. It’s a great way to keep up with current events and it’s often a source of interesting and h...

Photographer Bill Cu ingham, probably the most influential street fashion photographer in the world, died yesterday in Manhattan, less than a week after suffering a stroke at the age of 87. Until the end, he was a ubiquitous presence on the streets of New York, as well as at society parties and fash...