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Our Firmware Friday roundup returns bringing news this week from three companies: Fujifilm, Nikon and Sigma. There are a fair few cameras in the mix, including both the Fuji X-H1 and T2, several of Nikon's Coolpix A-series cameras and the W300, plus three Nikon DSLRs. (That's the D610, D810 and Df, if you were...

 

 

Do you need a great portrait rig for an important event, but don't want to spend the big bucks? We have you covered in our Best Portrait and Lens combinations under $1000!

Let's face it: Smartphones are great as your quick and easy "go-to" camera, but they just can't get the job done for serious portraits. Some...

 

 

Leica has announced the new C-Lux premium compact travel zoom camera. The C-Lux is essentially a Panasonic ZS200 camera, utilizing the same 20.1-megapixel CMOS sensor and built-in 15x zoom lens, which offers a 35mm-equivalent focal length range of 24-360mm.

The camera has a built-in 0.21-inch 2.33-million dot...

 

 

While you can get amazing and natural-looking results using artificial lights outdoors, sometimes it's best to keep it simple and shoot just with natural light. That's exactly what Jessica Kobeissi does it in her latest video with model Sonya Esman.

It's a fun shoot in Los Angeles in which Jessica uses a Canon 5D...

 

 

When you need to shoot at higher ISOs, the tradeoff is that you often have an image with a lot of visual noise. This can simply reduce fine details, but it can also introduce false colors into your shots. In any case, it's unsightly and there are many ways you can reduce noise during post-processing.

In a new...

 

 

Recently we reviewed the latest G-Drive with Thunderbolt 3 from G-Technology, and found it to be a pretty solid drive aside from its relatively average read/write speeds. It seems G-Tech wanted to prove they could go faster with the release of the G-Drive Pro SSD, and boy did they ever. Rated to hit 2800 MB/s, this...

 

 

You already know that the position of the light source in your photos can dramatically change the overall appearance of your shots. However, nothing beats a real-world illustration. If you want to see this principle in action with some very helpful examples, the latest video from Adorama's series, Exploring...

 

 

Following up on their 300mm f/4 PF ED VR AF-S telephoto lens, Nikon has announced the development of their second lens featuring Phase Fresnel (PF) technology. The new AF-S Nikkor 500mm f/5.6E PF ED VR lens will be designed to offer "exceptional agility and optical performance in an incredibly compact and...

Click here to see our Canon 5D Mark IV Video Features & Analysis

 

 

When the Canon 5D Mark IV debuted a couple years ago, it was not met with particular applause. Quite the opposite actually, with fans uttering a collective "meh" at the DSLR, especially at its video capabilities. With the expectation of it being...

 

 

Last week, Ted Forbes released a video discussing the intent of the photographer. He focused on multiple famous photographers who all utilized the same color film stock, Kodachrome, to create images with vastly different styles. Not only were the images different in terms of composition, use of light and much more,...

 

 

Photographer Mads Peter Iversen is, as evidenced by the Instagram feed linked above, a very talented photographer. He doesn't limit his work just to the ground though, he's also a drone photographer. Since 2016, he's been utilizing a drone to capture beautiful images.

In the video below, Iversen shares five tips...

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The Fujifilm X-A5 is the company's successor to 2016's X-A3, and while the two cameras look very similar, there are a handful of interesting changes made under the hood. The headlining feature is the X-A5's new sensor, which while offering the same 24-megapixel...

 

 

We all know the importance of light in photography. When specifically doing landscape photography, we often seek rich, dynamic light, be it at sunrise or sunset. What about when the clouds are dense and the light is flat? That's bad, right? It doesn't have to be.

Photographer Nigel Danson has made a new video...

 

 

Recently, there has been a proliferation of great timelapse gear. It used to be that creating a motion timelapse was difficult and expensive, but there are so many well-built and reasonably affordable options out there today. Although on the more expensive end of the spectrum, photographer Adam Gibbs recently shot...

 

 

Photographer Nigel Danson has captured a lot of landscape photos. With that experience comes knowledge not only about how to get the most out of his gear, but also which gear he values the most as part of his landscape photography kit. In the video below, Danson shares three landscape lenses he loves.

For Danson,...

 

 

The good landscape shooting doesn't have to end when the sun goes down. Photographers Andrew Marr and Richard Lefroy recently had a successful sunset shoot and decided to double down and go for an astrophotography shoot later, after the moon had set.

There are numerous challenges when shooting at night, not the...

 

 

When you are out in the field, are you a photographer or a data collector? Blake Rudis of f64 Academy considers himself both, perhaps tending more toward the latter. What does it mean to collect data using your camera?

When you capture an image using a digital camera, the sensor captures a lot of data. Light...

 

 

This week's Firmware Friday roundup is a pretty lengthy one, encompassing eight pro-oriented Canon video cameras and four of the company's reference displays, plus eight Nikon DSLRs and two Coolpix long-zooms, Panasonic's Live Production Center accessory and the Ricoh Theta V 360-degree spherical panoramic...

 

 

Continuing his Laws of Light video series, photographer Jay P. Morgan of The Slanted Lens is covering shooting in direct sun. Shooting in direct sun is challenging for a few different reasons, not the least of which is that the light is typically very harsh, which can easily cause unsightly shadows on your subject....