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This week's Firmware Friday roundup is uncommonly brief, with just one new firmware update appearing on the scene in the past seven days. It's Sony which sails to the rescue with a significant firmware update for its A6400 mirrorless camera, at least if you're a pet owner or like to take pictures of animals.

 

 

In all types of color photography, color is an important part of the overall mood of an image. All else equal, a cooler image tells a different story than a warm image. When shooting portraits with artificial lights, you can place colored gels over the light to dramatically change the look and feel of a shot, as...

 

 

Landscape photographer Adam Karnacz recently headed out into the Yorkshire Dales with accomplished photographer Charlie Waite. In addition to having an illustrious career as a photographer, Waite also cofounded Light and Land, one of Europe's premier landscape photography tour companies.

In the video below, we...

 

 

One of the most important tools in a landscape photographer's kit is a polarizing filter. Unlike a graduated neutral density filter, the effects of the polarizer cannot be easily replicated in Photoshop or other photo editing software. In the video below, photographer Mads Peter Iversen discusses the various ways...

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Sony 600mm f/4 GM (Video) • Sony 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G (Video)

 

 

Sony has announced two new supertelephoto lenses at two totally opposite ends of the price spectrum. First, the 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G OSS for just $2000. It's also compatible with Sony's 1.4x and 2.0x...

 

 

Nigel Danson is back in the Faroe Islands in his newest video. It's a beautiful location for landscape photography and a great place to try out long exposure photography. When capturing long exposure images, different subjects look best with varying shutter speeds. A long exposure image of calm water may require a...

Click here to read part one of my Ricoh GR III Field Test

 

 

Almost a quarter of a century ago, Ricoh created a cult favorite with the GR1 film camera, the first in a now-decades long series whose latest iteration is the coat pocket-friendly Ricoh GR III. Much like its many predecessors both film and...

 

 

As I usually do, I stayed on in Japan after this year's CP+ trade show, and while there had a chance to visit Olympus' research and development headquarters in Hachioji where I sat down with some of their engineers. My interview at CP+ itself with Shigemi Sugimoto-san, Head of Olympus' Imaging Business Unit,...

 

 

[Update Sunday PM: Now with more Panasonic firmware info added!] Our Firmware Friday roundup this week is perhaps the most unusual we can remember posting. Why's that, we hear you ask? Because while we can tell you of seven firmware updates this week, we can't tell you what two of them involve. And of the...

 

 

In celebrating the 40th anniversary of their SP Series Lenses (which stands for "Superior Performance") Tamron is releasing what they call the "ultimate" lens, their new SP 35mm f/1.4 Di USD (Model F045) for full-frame DSLR cameras. You may recall that the development of this prime lens was announced in February,...

 

 

When I was asked to write this article about Canon lenses, and in particular the new RF line, I thought I should give an explanation of Canon's history with lenses, talk about what we believe customers are looking for in a lens today and how we went about developing the RF series and why.  We value the input from...

Canon EOS RP Video Features, Specs & Analysis

 

 

Pretty much every DSLR and DSLM (digital single lens mirrorless) released in the last five years can capture high-quality video, and in that group every popular camera can capture that video in 4K. So when you say that the Canon EOS RP can shoot 4K video, it's less...

 

 

The Nik Collection has been through quite a journey over the years. The software plug-in suite has long been a staple of many photographer's editing workflows. After originally being released by Nik Software and undergoing regular updates, the software was purchased by Google and released into the world for free....

• Click here to read our Panasonic LX100 II Field Test •

 

 

A compact, fixed-lens camera with a bright aperture that still zooms and a fairly large sensor to go along with it is a rarity in the camera world. The Panasonic LX100 Mark II is such a camera, and our Man about Maine Jeremy Gray has been having fun in...

 

 

Landscape photographer Thomas Heaton has captured many landscape images over the years. Accordingly, he has learned a lot along the way. Although very broad, Heaton wishes that he had gained an understanding of light and subject earlier. What he means by this is that after learning about landscape photography and...

 

 

Sometimes a beautiful photograph is much more than that. The image below, which comes from The Ocean Agency, may be visually stunning, complete with vibrant colors, but it showcases the stark reality facing the world's coral reefs. In the last 30 years alone, it's estimated that over half of the world's live coral...

 

 

While we have shared videos showcasing the creative possibilities afforded to landscape photographers by telephoto lenses, it remains the case that the most popular landscape lenses, wide-angle lenses, have a lot to offer as well. Wide-angle photography comes with its own unique benefits and difficulties. The...

 

 

For many photographers, an enjoyable part of the photographic process comes near the end, when you are able to share your work with others. While printing can be expensive, showing off your images doesn't have to be. In fact, you can create really nice slideshows – with background music – inside of Adobe Lightroom....

 

 

This week's Firmware Friday roundup is more a story of imaging accessories than of camera firmware per se, but we've still a fair bit to discuss. As well as updates for the Ricoh GR III large-sensor compact, and for Blackmagic's professionally-targeted URSA Mini Pro G2 video camera, we've also news of new...