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"The world's most innovative image editing app" is how Pixelmator describes its new Pixelmator Pro software. That's a very big claim, but based on what the software company has shown, Pixelmator Pro may just live up to it when it launches this fall at an undisclosed but "affordable" price.

What makes Pixelmator...

 

 

Lowepro's newest line of bags are a sort of hybrid: designed for those who have the tendencies of a photographer, but without wanting to always have to carry the kinds of bags designed for them. Called the Urbex line, Lowepro says they were built for those with a "digital lifestyle." Ideal for business commuters...

 

 

Back in early August, I had the very rare opportunity to tour Sony's sensor factory in Kumamoto, Japan. We had only limited access to the factory itself, but I learned a lot about Sony's sensor technology and fabrication process while I was there, and will be sharing more on the topic in other forthcoming articles....

 

 

Gorillapod is a photography household name, and for good reason. The compact bendable tripods come in a host of sizes and weight classes with uses from of course tripods all the way to unconventional stabilizers (take a look at any Casey Neistat YouTube video, and you’re bound to see several Gorillapod shots). But...

 

 

While it isn't time yet for a Thrifty Thursday article (keep your eyes peeled for the next edition of that this week), there's a new Olympus promotion we wanted to share as soon as we heard about it. Olympus has a new trade-in trade-up event, which is available at Adorama and B&H.

The trade-in event allows you to...

 

 

Happy Labor Day to our American readers. For today's Shutter Release roundup, we are going to look at a wide array of content. We start with a look at a new Meike 85mm f/2.8 macro lens, then we will see how to turn your signature into a customized watermark, then see a video about 8-bit versus 16-bit images and...

 

 

No matter how many warnings were issued, regardless of the articles and videos that were published warning against pointing unfiltered lenses at the recent solar eclipse, there was still bound to be damaged photographic gear. Lo and behold, there were damaged cameras and lenses returned to Lensrentals following the...

 

 

Most photographers love to capture beauty in some form or another, and in our July Photo of the Day contest we had quite a nice selection of it on display for you. Now the best of the best have risen to the occassion and earned prize money for these dedicated photographers, and we are proud to honor them atop our...

 

 

Professional photographer and Nikon Ambassador Dixie Dixon was recently a guest on Nikon USA's Nikon D850 Live Stream. She has released a new behind the scenes video of her shooting with the D850 on her Vimeo channel, which can be seen below.

In the video, we go behind the scenes with Dixon as she does a fashion...

 

 

On this first day of September, let's kick off your weekend - a holiday weekend for our American readers - with a good variety of info. In today's Shutter Release roundup, we will look at a story of a Swiss photographer stealing work for a photo contest, an overview of different Lensbaby effects, a Lightroom...

 

 

As summer reaches its end and we head into fall, the first weekend of September is here, and with it, our regularly-scheduled Firmware Friday post. This week's roundup is a bit of an unusual one, though, as we've already told you of the week's biggest news, and the bulk of what we have to discuss is actually...

 

 

Official yesterday, Longsys, a China-based computer hardware and storage company, announced that they have acquired the Lexar brand and all products from Micron. In June of 2017, Micron announced that they would be discontinuing the brand and seeking a buyer. Speculation led some to believe Seagate a likely...

 

 

Smaller & lighter, yet still retaining high quality output... that is what many end users have been asking for since electronics were first brought to market. The SL1 surprised the camera world four years ago with its svelte size, while still maintaing the image quality pedigree of its larger Rebel brethren, and...

 

 

IFA 2017, one of the biggest tech shows in the world, has kicked off in Berlin and DJI didn't wait long to make a splash. The company has unleashed news about three of its big products, the DJI Mavic Pro, Phantom 4 Pro and DJI Spark.

DJI Mavic Pro Platinum - Quieter and with longer flight time

The biggest...

 

 

Photonicz inventor - and commercial photographer - Alex Munoz argues that the Photonicz One is the last light you'll ever need. Munoz states, "While camera manufacturers continue to innovate, today's photography strobes are unable to keep up with those advancements…[Photonicz] set out to create a new approach to...

Click here to read our Canon 6D II Field Test Part II

 

 

In our first Canon 6D Mark II Field Test, we looked at the camera's design, image sensor, autofocus and performance. In Part II, we take a look at the 6D Mark II's video features and performance, including HDR video, high ISO video, autofocus and more.

We...

Click here to read our Ricoh Theta V Hands-On Preview

 

 

Ricoh was the first company to provide average consumers with the ability to capture 360 degree photo and video footage way back in 2014, and the fifth generation Ricoh Theta V adds a lot to that legacy. The Theta V is available today for $429.95 and finally...

 

 

From the most prolific innovators of powerful products in small packages comes a new offering today from Sony in the form of the RX0. Looking like a traditional GoPro, but housing a 1-inch sensor (which has over 4 times the surface area of GoPro and competing sensors) the RX0 aims itself squarely at multimedia...

 

 

It's been a while since I had the chance to shoot with a camera before its official announcement, but with the Olympus E-M10 III, which the company has just revealed today, I'm pleased to have been able to do just that. To coincide with the launch, I've just posted my first real-world test of the E-M10 III,...