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Last week, Hasselblad announced a new version of their medium format camera that is capable of producing 400 megapixel images. Generally the first reaction to this kind of thing is of course, “oh wow, that’s wild!” But for me, it was a resounding, “Why?” Off and on over the course of digital photography, the...

 

 

Photographers Joe Allam and Elly London are in Lima, Peru along with the MINI team for the Dakar Rally. During some of their downtime, they took their Fujifilm cameras around the streets of Peru.

Joe was armed with a Fujifilm X100F, the company's latest fixed lens rangefinder-style camera. Elly used a Fujifilm...

DJI, a brand that’s become synonymous with drones and high tech camera equipment, has just announced their latest: a 4K drone that’s small enough to fit in a jacket pocket. About the size of the DJI Spark but with more high-end features, the newly-announced Mavic Air comes packed with features like QuickShot...

 

 

Nikon has announced that during December 2017, the company took the number one position for market share and revenue for full-frame interchangeable lens digital cameras in the United States. This is thanks in large part to the new Nikon D850 and the older, but still very capable, Nikon D750 DSLRs.

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Landscape and travel photographer Thomas Heaton has been in the American west lately and his latest expedition has taken him to Death Valley.

While in Death Valley shooting video content for Wex Photo Video, Heaton witnessed a cloud inversion. This spectacular weather phenomenon drastically changed the appearance...

 

 

In this edition of Shutter Release, we will look at some great tips for how to take photos of sand dunes, learn how to work with a single light in the studio and watch a pair of professionals edit images. Let's get to it!

Tips for photographing sand dunes - Photography Life

Sand dunes make for excellent...

 

 

Last year, Sony announced the beefed-up A9 full-frame mirrorless camera, which took aim at flagship DSLRs and catered to professional photographers' needs. The A7-series undoubtedly saw use in the professional space, but compared to cameras like the Canon 1D X II and Nikon D5, the A7 models didn't quite have the...

 

 

Photoshop's clone stamp tool is lauded by some as being an incredibly useful tool for editing your images. Others find it to be clunky and difficult to use. Blake Rudis is in the former camp. He's utilized it as part of many of his video tutorials, which can be found here, but had never made a video just about the...

 

 

Jay P. Morgan of The Slanted Lens has five tips for cleaning and maintaining your photo and video gear. It's the new year and the perfect time to perform routine maintenance and create new organizational habits.

It may seem a bit surprising - although it does make a lot of sense - but Morgan's first maintenance...

 

 

It's been a long time, but Shutter Release has returned. There is a lot of interesting photography content out there and we want to share as much of it as possible with you. Today's mix of content includes a neat Lightroom trick for "turning on the lights" in your images, a tutorial for making a reflection in...

 

 

Our Firmware Friday roundup this week is short and to the point. We have news of new firmware from two companies this week, Fujifilm and Panasonic. Fuji has updated its X-Pro2 and X-E3 cameras with new features, while Panasonic has fixed a problem that could rarely cause system errors on the Varicam 35 and HS...

 

 

We know that Nikon is working on a mirrorless camera. The company has been on record as saying as much for a while now. Nikon Rumors has posted a rumor about specifications for the new so-called Nikon "Z mount" mirrorless lens mount and it has a very short flange distance of only 16 millimeters and a diameter of 49...

 

 

Last week we published our field test of the Panasonic GH5S and lauded its high ISO performance which we still stand by when considering how relatively small the sensor of the camera is. However, in that review we compared the results of video from the GH5S to still images from the A7SII via our previous review...

 

 

A few years ago, light painting as an artform was reinvented by the arrival of one seriously cool gadget. Bitbanger Labs' Pixelstick debuted to great acclaim, quickly whistled past its funding goals on Kickstarter, and wowed reviewers and customers alike with its artistic potential.

That's not to say it was...

Sony E 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 Field Test

 

 

Despite all the attention towards Sony full-frame cameras these days, they still make some darn good APS-C cameras. With the recent announcement of the E 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS lens, the E-mount system is still alive and kicking all around. This new travel zoom lens joins a...

 

 

Fog is an interesting weather condition for photography. It robs images of sharpness and color, for starters, but it can add a lot of mood and drama to a scene as well. Tony and Chelsea Northrup have specific locations in mind for fog and during a recent dreary day, they packed up and headed out.

What makes a...

 

 

Learning shortcuts is a great way to speed up your photo editing workflow. Photoshop in particular has an immense number of keyboard shortcuts and mastering them can cut your editing time drastically. In the video below, Kevin Roodhorst covers four tricks to speed up your Photoshop workflow.

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While the coverage for the Lytro Illum camera has not always been positive, and the camera isn't even manufactured anymore, it is still an interesting camera and piece of technology. The Lytro launched with a list price eclipsing $1,000, which many critics and consumers alike believed was far too much for the kind...

 

 

G-Tech is one of the photo and video market's go-to brands for exceptional storage solutions, and one of their more popular products is the G-SPEED Shuttle. The Shuttle is a massive eight bay portable hard disk array that also can be modded to accept a group of different adapters from a host of different companies...