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Light is the most important aspect of photography. After all, a photograph is ultimately just a recording of light. We regularly hear about "good light" versus "bad light," but how can we tell the difference and learn to recognize good light?

Photographer Sean Tucker hopes to help us with this in his latest...

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Panasonic has expanded its Leica DG Vario-Elmarit f/2.8-4.0 series to three lenses with today's introduction of the new Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 50-200mm f/2.8-4.0 ASPH telephoto zoom lens. In 35mm terms, the new zoom delivers a 100-400mm equivalent focal...

 

 

Over at The Slanted Lens, photographer Jay P. Morgan has some great tips for creating your own lighting setup at home.

While Morgan has done a similar video before, now he's doing it again using LED lights. There are numerous advantages to LED lights. They're fairly inexpensive, for example, and they are...

 

 

Canon's 4K-equipped EOS M50 mirrorless camera will understandably dominate the headlines, but it's not the company's only new camera announcement today. Alongside its more attention-grabbing sibling, the just-launched Canon T7 is a relatively minor upgrade to the company's most affordable entry-level offering -- in...

 

 

Let's kick the week off with a pair of behind the scenes landscape videos with photographer Adam Gibbs.

The first video is focused on finding order in a chaotic scene. If you spend time in forests, as Adam often does, then you'll come face-to-face with this problem frequently. Even if in second-growth forests,...

 

 

Venus Optics has announced a pair of new Laowa lenses. The first is a 9mm f/2.8 wide-angle prime lens for Canon EF-M, Fujifilm X and Sony E mounts. The second lens is a full-frame macro lens, the 25mm f/2.8 2.5-5x Ultra Macro. Let's look at them in turn.

The Laowa 9mm f/2.8 Zero-D lens has been rumored for a...

 

 

Let's face it, for most of us mere mortals using flash can be really complicated. Pros have it down, but what about us enthusiasts and hobbyists? It seems we spend half our lives just learning the camera part, and then have to learn all this new deep technical jargon about flash!

The new Canon 470EX-AI flash was...

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Canon's EOS M5 has widely been regarded as their most capable mirrorless camera. At least, that was until the Japanese giant announced the Canon EOS M50. This new EOS camera looks a lot like the M5, but it loses some dials, adds a vari-angle touchscreen and comes equipped with...

 

 

Our Firmware Friday roundup this week is short and to the point, with only two new updates landing in the past seven days, and one more announced but not slated to arrive for a few more weeks. Unless you're shooting with a Panasonic video camera or the SIGMA 30mm F1.4 DC DN | Contemporary lens in Sony E-mount...

 

 

We've discussed the Sony RX0 before and gone hands-on with it at various Sony events. The RX0 essentially takes the guts from a Sony RX100 and puts them an in an ultra-compact waterproof/shockproof cube. The camera is designed to be used as part of an array to create incredible video footage.

An example of the...

 

 

As the Canada-centric fifth season of Adorama's "Through the Lens" continues, Adorama and Sal D'Alia have released a pair of new episodes this week.

The fifth episode features food photographer Maria Koutsogiannis, who not only captures excellent images of food, but makes the recipes and prepares the food...

Click here to read the Panasonic G9 Field Test Part III

 

 

In my first two Panasonic G9 Field Tests, I tested the camera's primary imaging and video performance. The G9 performed very well in both respects. However, a camera is more than its biggest features.

In the case of the G9, it has many interesting...

 

 

We've just received a sample of the svelte Olympus PEN E-PL9 and didn't want to waste any time bringing you our trademark laboratory First Shots series of Still Life test target images. You seasoned readers know all about these, but for anyone new to our website, these allow you to not only investigate the camera's...

 

 

Sony has launched a new powerful flagship flash with a guide number of 60, the HVL-F60RM Flash. The connected flash has a built-in 2.4 GHz radio transceiver to allow photographers to quickly and easily create portable, wireless flash setups. There is full support for P-TTL and Advanced Distance Integration (ADI)...

 

 

I am widely known in my friend/work circles as a complainer when it comes to storage: I never, ever have enough. I'm running two huge RAID arrays on my desk right now, and I'm almost filled (that's 40+ TB of total storage). As a video guy, constantly living in fear of running out of storage on my working drives is...

 

 

Tamron is spreading the wealth today with a pair of announcements. For Canon and Nikon shooters, there's a new telephoto zoom lens designed for full-frame DSLR cameras. The Tamron 70-210mm f/4 Di VC USD lens is designed to be compact while delivering good optical performance throughout its range and delivering...

 

 

Last year, Rokinon launched their SP series for Canon full-frame cameras with the SP 14mm f/2.4 and SP 85mm f/1.2, two distinctly fast prime lenses. This year, they kicked things off with the autofocus 14mm f/2.8 and now they're following with the SP 50mm f/1.2 standard prime.

While not equipped with autofocus,...

Click here to read new details on the Fujifilm X-H1

 

 

Last week, Fujifilm announced the new X-H1 flagship X Series camera. The new camera may share many features with the X-T2, such as the image sensor and processor, but the X-H1 has a lot of new features, big and small, including in-body image stabilization, a...

 

 

At the start of 2016, Ricoh finally answered the calls from Pentaxians for a full-frame DSLR with the arrival of the Pentax K-1. We were seriously impressed by this weatherproof, 36-megapixel shooter, which paired great ergonomics with a lengthy laundry list of features, some of them completely unique.

Now, the...