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A couple of weeks back, Macphun unveiled Luminar, their MacOS all-in-one RAW photo editor. I’ve been testing a pre-release version of the software for the past week and I have to say, it’s quite impressive. It strikes a great balance between accessibility and power. It also plays nicely with other applications,...

 

 

It's up, up and away for our Photo of the Day contest winners this month, as all three soar into the prize money with several variations on the theme of flight. It was one of the closest voting months in our contest history, but ultimately three excellent images prevailed.

Taking our top prize this month is Bob...

 

 

The internet is abuzz with "supermoon" talk as November 13/14 marked the closest and brightest supermoon since 1948. For a bit of background information, a supermoon is the "coincidence of a full moon or a New moon with the closest approach the Moon makes to the Earth on its elliptical orbit, resulting in the...

 

 

Update on November 16: Panasonic has issued firmware version 1.1 for the Panasonic DMC-G80/G81/G85 camera. You can download it here. Per Panasonic, firmware 1.1 has achieved the following: "Improved image stabilizer performance during the motion picture recording." 

The Panasonic G85 is a very exciting new camera...

 

 

Dubbed by the Slooh Observatory as the "Mega Beaver Moon," the full moon setting on Monday morning will be the largest in apparent size in more than 65 years. For us photographers, this means lunar shooting bliss for anyone graced with good weather and a capable rig for the image capture. The moon rising on Monday...

 

 

The Lowepro Flipside Trek BP AW backpack is designed for the adventuring outdoor photographer who carries more than just their camera gear on expeditions. The backpack features a unique two-tiered design. Photo gear goes in a dedicated compartment which is accessed via the lower back area of the pack whereas the...

 

 

The weekend is beckoning, and with it our regularly-scheduled Firmware Friday post arrives this week with a much longer list of updates than usual. This time around, we have news of updates from seven companies for a total of 13 cameras and optics to cover, so let's get right down to business!

For the sake...

 

 

If you have never used a tilt-shift lens, it can be confusing to understand how they work. Lens Pro To Go has made a video detailing different available tilt-shift lenses and how they are used.

One of the appeals of a tilt-shift lens is how its tilt function allows you to shoot in a distinct way. Traditional...

 

 

It seems to be a golden age for Kickstarter projects related to photography: the latest is the SPUD (Spontaneous Pop-Up Display) created by Arovia, which is essentially an HD projector connected to a collapsible screen. The project is doing terrifically well on Kickstarter: at the time of writing, the project has...

 

 

Update on November 10 at 2:40 p.m. EST: Two Canon 7D Mark II and Pixma PRO-100 deals have been added below. 

Welcome to the first edition of Imaging Resource’s Thrifty Thursday column, where we'll deliver the latest and greatest deals to you as they become available. Don’t worry though, particularly good or very...

 

 

Recently, IR publisher and founder Dave Etchells had the opportunity to meet with executives from Nikon Corporation at the Photokina tradeshow in Cologne, Germany, as part of our ongoing series of interviews from the show. (Sincere apologies for the delay in bringing you this article, but between Photokina...

 

 

After exploring the design and usability of Leica's big (literally) full-frame mirrorless camera, the SL Typ 601, writer Eamon Hickey is back at it with a second Field Test installment. In this write-up, Eamon begins by diving into the camera's burst shooting performance and autofocus performance. Sporting an...

 

 

Early in 2015, Nikon brought its mid-range D5xxx camera series up to date with the launch of the D5500 DSLR. Today, it follows up in some markets -- but not, so far, in the USA -- with the Nikon D5600, and while it's a rather more modest update, that's no bad thing. In our review of the preceding model we...

 

 

In July, Adobe released Lightroom for Mobile version 2.4 for iOS, but the Android version remained at 2.1, meaning that only iOS users had access to 2.4's Raw Technology Preview. That has changed today with Lightroom for Android 2.2.

With Lightroom for Android 2.2, users can import raw files directly into their...

 

 

It's been a tough year for GoPro, after the Hero4 Session camera failed to live up to expectations and the markets continued to eat away at the company's stock price. The release of the GoPro Karma drone was expected to re-energize the company, who have now...

 

 

Since their advent, mirrorless cameras have always lagged behind the enthusiast DSLR's in the complex field of continuous autofocus. This has left serious sports and wildlife photographers continuing to primarily choose DSLR's for these endeavors, and while I've shot many mirrorless cameras in sports and wildlife...

 

 

Back in 2013, Sony's new RX10 long-zoom fixed-lens camera revitalized the once-popular enthusiast-grade "bridge camera" category, providing a host of high-end features, a large 1-inch sensor and an impressive 24-200mm eq. zoom lens with a constant f/2.8 aperture. This Sony reigned supreme for a while, but soon...

 

 

Leica has announced the Leica TL, the successor to the Leica T. The T released in 2014 and the Leica TL sticks with much of the same specs and features, but does include a few new tricks.

The TL has double the internal memory (expanded from 16GB to 32GB), improved autofocus (particularly with regard to continuous...

 

 

David Bergman recently teamed up with Canon to make a video about Canon's new 600EX II-RT Speedlite, which has 2.4GHz wireless radio transmission. The flash has a wireless range up to 98.4 feet (30 meters) which allows photographers like Bergman, a Canon Explorer of Light, to change the way they work with lights on...