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After a brief hiatus last week, our regular Firmware Friday roundup returns today with news of updates for five cameras from Canon, Olympus and Panasonic, as well as a couple of upgraded software utilities for Fujifilm cameras. We've a fair bit to cover, so with no further ado, let's roll up our sleeves and...

 

 

It's fantastic when nature provides light rays for your landscape images. However, the conditions are often uncooperative. Fortunately, you can recreate natural-looking light rays at home on your computer. Unmesh Dinda of PiXimperfect has created a new tutorial for creating light rays in Adobe Photoshop.

The...

 

 

When creating a final black and white portrait, it is best to know you are going to end up with a monochrome image at the time of capture. This is because there are ways you can light your image which will make a stronger black and white image which may not have a similar impact on a color image.

As Daniel Norton...

 

 

While there is a lot more to a strong image than just its composition, composition is nonetheless a foundational aspect of a good photograph. Today, we have a trio of videos all focused on composition.

The first video comes from Fstoppers and comprises Lee Morris and Patrick Hall sitting down and discussing the...

 

 

Leica has announced the successor to its Leica Q (Typ 116) fixed lens camera, aptly named the Leica Q2. The Leica Q2 shares many external similarities to its predecessor, but inside, much has changed.

The Q2 has a newly developed 47.3-megapixel full-frame CMOS image sensor (up from 24 megapixels in the Q) which...

 

 

Skylum Software has announced AirMagic, the world's first fully automated AI-powered photo enhancer designed for drone and aerial photography. As Skylum states in their release for AirMagic, "While drones let us shoot incredible images from previously unreachable places, the photos themselves often lack quality,...

 

 

A lot of readers (and our own staff!) have been wondering what's up with Olympus' E-M5 line, given how long it's been since its last update. We got to talk with senior Olympus management at the CP+ 2019 show in Yokohama, Japan yesterday, and not only learned the likely reason for this, but also that the...

 

 

Blake Rudis of f64 Academy is a big fan of the Hard Mix blend mode in Adobe Photoshop. It's one of his favorite blend modes to experiment with despite it having challenging default settings. When you first select the mode, the results look really bad. However, once you understand that the Hard Light blend mode is...

 

 

In a new original series for Adorama, executive producer Sal D'Alia offers viewers a passport to countries and cultures around the world which we are rarely exposed to on social media. A variety of photographers will be exploring diverse destinations and defining what it means to them to practice ethical travel...

 

 

Canon's legendary Chairman Fujio Mitarai went on record recently, saying that he expected interchangeable-lens camera sales to fall by half over the next two years. As a result, he would be prioritizing Canon's R&D efforts on the industrial and medical sectors.

 

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As we approach the end of another CP+ camera expo in Yokohama, Japan, I thought it would be fun to share a few of the unique items, concept cameras and other products that I happened to stumble upon while roaming the show floor. Among hands-on reports, gallery images and new product announcements, here's a chance...

By IR reader René Theuillon

 

 

Sauntering in Dialogues’, the main library of Brest (Western France), the city where I am living now, I have been fortunate enough to discover a book about Saul Leiter, a fashion photographer who operated in New York city from the fifties up to the beginnings of the Millennium.

Saul...

 

 

If you have ever tried to make a selection of a portrait subject in Photoshop, you likely know first-hand the struggle that is trying to select and cut out hair. It can be very difficult, but there are ways to make it easier. In the video below, Nathaniel Dodson of tutvid shares five tips and tricks for cutting out...

 

 

During the CP+ show here in Yokohama, we had a chance to sit down with Fujifilm executives and get up close and personal with the new Fuji GFX 100, Fujifilm's upcoming flagship GFX model that sports a 100-megapixel sensor. Although final details and full technical specifications are still unknown at this time, what...

 

 

Nikon continues to expand their lens offerings for their new Z Series cameras, first announcing the ultra-wide Z 14-30mm f/4 S zoom back at CES and then just a few weeks ago, debuting the must-have, work-horse zoom, the Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S. And we can't forget the still forthcoming Z 58mm f/0.95 Noct prime that was...

 

 

Photographer Attilio Ruffo has been busy over the last decade doing landscape photography. During that time, he has learned a variety of lessons. His latest video features 5 tips he learned by making mistakes and Ruffo hopes that they'll help the rest of us become better landscape photographers. While Ruffo does...

 

 

In case you missed it, the Oscars were last weekend and to celebrate the brilliant cinema moviegoers were treated to over the past year, Skylum Software has teamed up with Los Angeles-based commercial photographer, Ilya Nodia, to release a dozen new Hollywood-inspired Looks for Luminar and Lightroom.

Of the new...

 

 

This is going to sound crazy, but as a professional commercial videographer / filmmaker for the last five years in San Francisco, I only recently had to start using external recorders. My clientele was the kind where we didn't have to always shoot in log, we generally could get our shots to look good in camera, and...

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Just yesterday, I was only able to get a brief hands-on look at the new Ricoh GR III, and yet today, I was able to get a full-production sample to take around town here in Yokohama! Over in our Ricoh GR III Gallery, you can get a first look at real-world image quality...