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Click here to read our Canon EOS M5 Conclusion

 

 

Canon's mirrorless EOS M camera series is continually evolving. Early models were limited by a lack of features and exhibited rather lackluster overall performance. The Canon EOS M5 hopes to buck that trend, and as it turns out based on our now-completed EOS M5...

 

 

As part of their “Photographing the Bride” workshop, SLR Lounge has detailed five accessories you can use to counteract a distracting background. These are five items any wedding or portrait photographer can have on hand to make sure your perfect shot isn’t ruined by a distracting background.

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This week on the Imaging Resource Podcast, we discuss a few of the week's pressing stories including the Sal Cincotta Shutterfest situation, the quality of images produced by the Sigma 135mm f/1.8 and more. Also, they are joined by Sony Artisan of Imagery Vivienne Gucwa, who talks about struggles she has found with...

 

 

Jesús Ramirez of the Photoshop Training Channel has created an excellent in-depth tutorial about sharpening your images in Photoshop. In the video below, he covers three common sharpening techniques in Photoshop and discusses the pros and cons of each in addition to showing you how to use them.

To make sure all...

 

 

If you’re looking for daring photographers to follow on Instagram, you’d be hard-pressed to beat this group of storm-chasing shutterbugs. While many of us prefer to stay as far away from severe weather as possible, some people opt instead to track down the action and document it as it unfolds.

Take Chris Sanner,...

 

 

Five years ago, Sony wowed us all with the RX100, a compact camera that could slip almost unnoticed into a pants pocket, and yet which featured a much larger-than-average 1-inch image sensor for great image quality, even in low light. Incredibly, that camera is still on sale today, as are all four models...

 

 

When sharing DIY photography projects we see on the web, we try to ensure that they strike a balance between utility, cost and achievability. This one from Mats Wernersson might not check that last box for most of us because he built his own Petzval-inspired 90mm f/2.8 lens, even machining the glass himself. So...

 

 

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft launched in 1997 and has been orbiting Saturn since 2004. It is currently in the “Grand Finale” stage of its mission, which entails the spacecraft flying over Saturn’s poles. As is regularly the case, the images from NASA’s Cassini mission and the Grand Finale are available online.

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Venus Optics, the manufacturer of Laowa lenses, has announced the availability of its new ultra-wide angle prime lens for Micro Four Thirds cameras, the Laowa 7.5mm f/2 MFT. This new lens is the world's widest f/2 lens for MFT cameras and offers a 110° angle of view in a compact form factor. If you're curious, both...

 

 

SLR Magic announced earlier this week a new addition to the full-frame cinema lens lineup, the SLR Magic CINE 25mm F/1.4 for Sony E-mount. The lens will be available through authorized retailers by the end of May and will sell for just under US$400.

The fast wide-angle prime lens has 11 elements in 9 groups and a...

Click here to read our Canon T7i Field Test

 

 

The Canon Rebel T7i is the first Rebel series camera to include the company’s DIGIC 7 image processor, which proved to pay dividends with regard to performance. Despite retaining the same 24.2-megapixel APS-C sensor as its predecessor, the T6i, the T7i delivers...

 

 

We love the chance to honor photographers entering our contest for the first time, but this month in our competition it's all about paying homage to our "regulars" - those dedicated souls who enter the competition month in and month out, and in doing so help keep our competition standards lofty in the quality...

 

 

Who doesn’t love slow motion? There’s something very impressive about high-tech slow-motion cameras. Perhaps none are more impressive than the device a team has built at Lund University in Sweden. Their new fast camera can record five trillion - yes, that’s 5,000,000,000,000! – frames per second.

At these insane...

 

 

Get your biceps into shape and work on your ability to nail critical focus, because a new portrait offering from Sigma awaits you. As we've already demonstrated from our full technical review of this incredible lens, the Sigma 135mm f/1.8 Art is indeed quite sharp and the lab results are definitely something to...

 

 

When photographers are looking for a RAW editor, there are a variety of choices and two of the most popular are Adobe Lightroom and Phase One Capture One Pro. I have been a longtime user of Adobe Lightroom, but I’ve always been interested in Capture One Pro after hearing many photographers talk about its excellent...

 

 

Update on May 2: Portraiture 3 is not available as a standalone version, but only as a plugin. 

Imagenomic has released the third major update to its popular Photoshop plug-in, Portraiture. Portraiture 3’s improvements primarily focus on speed and performance. Imagenomic states that Portraiture 3 is twice as fast...

 

 

Adobe has continually improved the usability of Adobe Stock for its many contributors and they have announced further improvements to its workflow. The team has updated Adobe Photoshop Mix for iOS to allow photographers to upload images directly to Adobe Stock’s Contributor Portal.

Further, the Contributor Portal...

 

 

Firmware Friday is here once again, and this week brings news of updates for eight cameras from four manufacturers. This time around, it's Sigma delivering by far the majority of the new firmware, with Canon, Nikon and Panasonic each offering up one update apiece.

Without any further ado, let's get right down to...

 

 

UPDATE 05/01/2017 02:21 PM ET: Added statement from WPPI, clarifying that employees are prohibited from entering any photo competition put on by WPPI, PDN, or any other organizations that are part of the Photo+ Group. Added a statement from Cincotta that he claims no financial interest due to lack of cash prizes.