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If you're a Micro Four Thirds fan who loves shooting stealthily, there's good news for you today from Panasonic. The company has just launched the 20.3-megapixel Panasonic GX9, a followup to 2015's popular GX8 that, first and foremost, looks to be focused on reducing size *and* cost. There are nevertheless...

Click here to read our Panasonic ZS200 Hands-On Preview

 

 

When Panasonic launched the ZS100 compact travel zoom camera in March of 2016, we were impressed by the camera's image quality and its impressive 4K video and 4K PHOTO features. However, we were a bit let down by the camera's ergonomics and lens performance....

 

 

White balance is a very important component of any color photograph. One of the best reasons for shooting RAW, for example, is that you have full control over white balance when processing your images without degrading your file. It's often the case that you want to have a neutral white balance for some types of...

 

 

It's important to know what sort of things you should do when photographing people, but it's perhaps just as important to know things you shouldn't do when capturing portraits. In the video below, Manny Ortiz gives us five things you should avoid when shooting portraiture.

The first thing you should not do is go...

 

 

We've seen a number of videos of Ben Horne as he shot in Zion National Park and it's fascinating to see a large format film photographer at work. In his latest video, he is in a very different location, Death Valley. Like Zion, it's a place that Horne has visited before.

Of Death Valley, he says it's a place that...

 

 

There are different types of hard drives for different uses in my workflow. For single or dual drive arrays, I generally keep them under my monitor stand as a “business” or documents repository. I also use them to send footage across the country for various reasons. This is their designation because I don’t need a...

 

 

If you enjoyed last week's video with Morten Hilmer in which he photographed mountain hares in the Scottish Highlands, then you'll be glad to find that he has uploaded a second behind-the-scenes video.

The weather is quite different this time around and Hilmer has shifted his focus toward showing us how to...

 

 

We've waited until the dying embers of the day, but this week, Firmware Friday is nevertheless an exceptionally brief affair. In fact, there's not even a single firmware launch in the mix, with the sole piece of news being on the software front. (We call it Firmware Friday, but we don't discriminate against...

 

 

It's pretty much expected to see huge support from camera companies when it comes to global sporting events. If you've followed camera news for a while, you've probably seen the photos: Huge rooms filled to the brim with camera bodies, stacks of lenses, hardworking support staff. But no matter how many times I see...

 

 

Yesterday, we saw the first episode of the newest season of Adorama's "Through the Lens." The second episode is now available in the new Canada-centric season.

In the video below, we follow Toronto-based photographer Jamal Burger. Burger has a very distinctive look centered around monochromatic images and much of...

 

 

It's 2018, but here we are, comparing film and digital. Can you tell the difference between the two? Which one looks better? This time the comparison is being done by Jay P. Morgan and The Slanted Lens. Morgan and company create great video tutorials, but they sometimes look specifically at camera gear as well.

Click here to see the press release and specifications for the Sigma 14-24mm f/2.8 Art lens

 

 

Sigma has announced the new Sigma 14-24mm f/2.8 HSM Art lens for full-frame cameras. This fast ultra-wide-angle zoom lens delivers a constant f/2.8 aperture and is packed with impressive optical features to help it deliver...

 

 

Adorama's "Through the Lens" is back for another season. This time, the documentary web series is heading north of the border to Canada. The series will spotlight 10 Canadian and Canada-based photographers and go behind the scenes with them to show how they are pushing the boundaries of art and technology.

Sal...

 

 

We have been covering new episodes of Dave Morrow's "Landscape Photography Journals" for a few weeks now and he has released a new video about his focus stacking technique.

Focus stacking is an excellent technique for landscape and macro photographers to learn in particular because it allows you to produce images...

 

 

Photographers Daniel Norton and Joe McNally have collaborated in conjunction with Adorama to create a series of portrait study videos. In the first video, seen below, Norton and McNally work to utilize light to emphasize the character of their portrait subject.

In this case, Norton and McNally photographed an...

 

 

How often have you edited a group of images in Photoshop only to realize that you want to batch resize them? Perhaps you want to upload all the edited files to a website or send them to someone but don't need, or want, to deal with the full-size files. Sure, you could open the images in Lightroom and deal with it...

 

 

Back with another episode in his regular "Two Minute Tips" video series, photographer David Bergman has a great tip for placing your subject within the frame. Bergman, a Canon Explorer of Light, is a very experienced photographer so he certainly knows a thing or two about great composition.

Bergman says that it...

 

 

If you are keeping a safe distance from Reddit (which is actually sometimes highly recommended, coming from this avid Redditor), you probably haven't heard of DeepFakes. DeepFakes is a subreddit (Reddit language for "community" or "forum") with a very clever algorithm at its core. The original code was written by...

 

 

Olympus today announced a new Micro Four Thirds interchangeable lens camera, the Olympus PL9. The PEN E-PL9 includes Olympus' familiar 16-megapixel Live MOS sensor, which has a 2x focal length multiplier due to its size. Targeted at photographers moving up from their smartphone or another straightforward and simple...