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If you've just started using a digital SLR or compact system camera and want to learn more about how to pick out the right lens to pair it with, the following how-to video tutorial is a good starting place. It's led by professional travel photographer Kerrick James and focuses on Pentax lenses but the information could...
Over the last couple of days, several Japanese media organizations including Sports Nippon, an affiliate of the famous Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, have published stories suggesting that Olympus might be preparing to further dial back its participation in the DSLR market, or perhaps even withdraw entirely. Today, the company has been quick to...
Several key camera firmware and software updates recently issued by Nikon fix a variety of bugs and should bring an improved user experience for photographers. In all, the updates cover the Nikon V1 mirrorless camera, the professional Nikon D4 digital SLR, and the Capture NX 2 application that's available to accompany the company's various...
Canon's impressive, video-oriented EOS-1D C professional digital SLR has been shipping for a couple of months now, and as early adopters are finding out, it's capable of some mighty impressive 4K movie capture. This summer, though, its video performance could be kicked up another notch.
A product advisory issued by Canon today notes that it...
If you're shooting with a Pentax interchangeable-lens camera made in the last few years, there's a good chance the company has released new firmware for you, among a raft of updates today.
The new firmware covers no less than five different K-mount digital SLRs, as well as the K-01 compact system camera. In all cases, there's only one change...
No one was voted into Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame this year, mainly due to the taint of performance enhancing drugs. But when it came to adding another model to the pantheon of legendary DSLRs, the Canon 5D Mark III -- introduced last spring -- earned IR's full support in just its first year of eligibility. And,...
Sony's been trying to crack the pro DSLR market for years, but with relatively little success until now. With the Sony A99, it looks like the company finally has made a breakthrough: It's a blazingly fast shooter that also delivers 24 megapixels of resolution, and Sony's new dual phase-detect AF system means it can focus rapidly,...
French software company DxO Labs has unveiled a new release of its flagship Optics Pro workflow software for photographers, and announced an important milestone in its production of the modules that let Optics Pro automatically correct common lens-derived image quality problems such as vignetting, aberrations and distortion.
DxO Optics Pro...
How often have you wished you could pan, tilt, and control your camera remotely, without spending a small fortune to do it? A solution is on the way from Satarii, creator of the Swivl.
The original Swivl is a clever, puck-shaped device that holds a smartphone or other device weighing less than six ounces, and acts as a "robotic cameraman" to...
The once-dominant CompactFlash card format has been largely pushed aside in modern digital cameras, but there's one form factor in which it's still reasonably common: digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras, particularly higher end models aimed at professional use. It's precisely this market that Japan's Toshiba Corp. is focusing on with the...
Photography is about solving problems, and the other night I faced a slew of them. I live next door to Pézenas, France, which was planning to celebrate the completion of redevelopment work on its historic center with a live performance by a circus aerial act. At the end of the show, the troupe of fearless performers were...
It's been called one of the most influential digital SLRs of all time, and Canon isn't ready to officially declare it dead just yet.
While all signs point to the four-year-old Canon EOS 5D Mark II being finally put out to pasture, including what appears to be a discontinued notice (in Japanese) for the camera on Canon...
The Nikon D800 caused huge buzz when it was introduced, with owners and reviewers alike marveling at its incredible resolution. If the D800 was great, the Nikon D800E, with the low-pass filter effectively removed, must be even more incredible, right?
As you might guess, low-pass filters are present on cameras for a...
Love it or hate it (we actually love it), this handmade camera cozy for the Canon EOS 7D DSLR is certainly eye-catching. Created by Shireen Nadir, and shared on her blog, The Blue Brick, the camera cozy is knitted from TFA Grape -- as in purple -- yarn.
Nadir says she knitted the cozy (or "cosy" for you Anglophiles...
We've always missed a simple mechanical cable release on our electronic cameras. But no more. With Triggertrap we not only get a cable release, we also get some brains to perform magic with that old Shutter button.
We particularly liked using it for macro shots in Live View. In fact, Live View was a lot easier to work...
A few months ago we published a series of articles showing that certain Canon lenses on the newest Canon cameras -- the EOS 5D Mark III and EOS-1D X -- autofocused more accurately than on earlier Canon bodies for center-point, single-shot autofocus. These combinations actually offered similar autofocus accuracy to that we could obtain with...
We've seen spectacular aerial images before, but nothing quite like these truly unique shots of India by kite photographer Nicolas Chorier.
Chorier spent nine years shooting India with a camera attached to a specially designed kite, and produced the compelling photo book, "A Kite's Eye View: India: Between Earth and...
Shooting with a digital camera like the Nikon D800 is a treat. All the controls are ideally suited for the experienced photographer: Important features have a button or dial, and there are even a few buttons you can program to work just how you want. Built for the rigors of professional photography, the Nikon D800 is...
If you've bought a new SLR or mirrorless camera in the last few years, chances are that you've got more than just a great still imaging tool on your hands. Most interchangeable-lens cameras sold recently are also capable of capturing video, and with their relatively large sensors, their output can be much more appealing than what you'd get...
A recent series of humorous viral videos titled "DSLR Gear No Idea" from Sony Australia are making fun of a certain breed of overly enthusiastic DSLR owners. At the same time, the spots implicitly make a case for buying a Sony NEX series compact system camera -- or at least it appears that's what the company intends by...
