News entries for December, 2015

 

 

In the digital age, there continue to be better ways coming out frequently to sharpen images and enhance detail. There are some things that hold true, however, such as the advantages of viewing files at 100% when sharpening and over sharpening can make an image look even worse than one that hasn't been sharpened...

 

 

Amazon has released their sales results from the holidays.

While there are some staggering results, such as Amazon shipping more than 200 million items via free Prime shipping this holiday season and over three million people joining Amazon's Prime service during the third week of December, perhaps the most...

 

 

Professional photographer and teacher Karl Taylor has published a video tutorial for preparing images for exhibition-quality printing. The video tutorial is aimed at photographer's sending their image files to a lab for printing, but these tips can also work for photographers who print their own images at home.

 

 

When Canon released the PowerShot G7X in October of 2014, many users found the camera to offer solid performance, but lamented the absence of an electronic viewfinder. Canon's new G5X addresses this shortcoming and adds new features as well, while building on an imaging platform similar to the G7X.

In my...

 

 

The Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia is currently hosting an Ansel Adams exhibit through March 20th. The exhibit, Ansel Adams: Before & After, displays his work amongst the work of "predecessors, peers, and contemporary photographers."

Atlanta's NPR Station, 90.1FM WABE did a story about the...

 

 

Chinese fashion photographer Chen Man might be China's own "Annie Leibovitz." The thirty-five year old photographer has made waves in both China and internationally, with her work gracing the covers of publications such as Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and more. She is her country's go-to fashion photographer.

CNN Style...

 

 

Unveiled back at the 2014 Photokina expo, the Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 VC lens provides a unique combination of features and amenities not typically seen all together. Sure, there are wide-angle full-frame zooms. There are wide-angle f/2.8 lenses. And their are wide-angle full-frame lenses with image stabilization....

 

 

Photographer Vincent Laforet recently did a TEDx Talk (seen below) about his AIR project, in which he discusses the motivations behind AIR and how the project came to fruition.

It all started when Laforet was hired to capture images to accompany a Men's Health magazine article about psychology and finding order...

 

 

Happy New Year! Well, just about. Although 2015 is almost over, new enticing camera deals are not. With your pockets nearly bursting with all that holiday gift money, there are lots of tempting year-end sales, savings and rebates on cameras and lenses from a wide variety of brands. Check out all the deals below,...

 

 

Wake up with IR - Here's your weekend cup of Caffeine Priority!

The Fujinon 10-24mm f/4 OIS is Fuji's widest XF lens, zoom or prime, by a fairly good margin. At 15-36mm eq. range it bests the next widest, the 14mm f/2.8 (21mm eq.) lens by a full 5mm eq. Wide angle zooms are getting ever better, and this year two...

 

 

The only gripe we have with our November Photo of the Day award-winning image from photographer Dennis Miller is that we don't have a larger resolution file of the image to print for our office wall! In a very rare happenstance this image received first place votes from all five of our esteemed judges this month. A...

 

 

Facing the difficult task of replacing the Epson Stylus Pro 3880, the team at Epson have delivered a significant upgrade with the new Epson SureColor P800. This new 17" desktop printer, the world's most compact printer of this size, manages to improve upon the 3880 in a multitude of ways.

Currently selling for...

 

 

Visual balance is crucial to making a good image. Photographer Eva Polak has written an article, 7 Quick Tips on How to Use Visual Balance to Make Better Photographs, for Digital Photography School that outlines ways to use visual balance to create well-composed and visually interesting images.

Of the seven...

 

 

Following up on the highly successful GX7, the new Panasonic GX8 offers a similar, retro-ish rangefinder design, but with a number of big improvements including a new 20-megapixel sensor, the GH4's Venus Engine image processor, 4K video and impressive Dual I.S. technology. We've just now finalized our full,...

You waited until the last minute, didn't you? Do you still have a gift or two on your list for the photographer in the family? Well, fear not! B&H has extended the cut-off time to December 23rd at 7am EST for free (yes, FREE) Next-Day Delivery on tons of awesome camera deals (and more) so they can arrive just in-time for Christmas.

While...

 

 

With their new 17"-wide imagePROGRAF PRO-1000 desktop printer, Canon has pulled out all the stops. The first printer in a new series of professional inkjet printers from Canon has an extensive feature list that is topped only by its print quality.

Selling for $1,300 USD, the PRO-1000 represents an excellent value...

 

 

If you have an iPhone, your Ricoh THETA camera just became more powerful with the release of Ricoh's new THETA+ Video application for iPhone.

The new THETA+ Video application brings a bevy of new features to your Ricoh camera, such as 10 filters to adjust color and tone, four new video view formats (including...

The Imaging Resource Camera of the Year Awards

Printers, New Technologies and Best Overall of 2015

If you’ve been following our Camera of the Year awards for the past few weeks you will have witnessed the recognition of an array of cameras and lenses that rose above the crowd. Now, we're ready to crown our "Best Overall" champion for 2015,...

 

 

Registration through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) begins today for all users of drones weighing between 0.55 and 55 pounds (250 grams to approximately 25 kilograms).

The federally-mandated registration program aims to make all unmanned aerial vehicles traceable in the event of security and privacy...