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You don't always have access to a spare battery or a means for charging yours as it drains, but there are steps you can take to squeeze every last bit of power potential from your camera's battery. SLR Lounge's Matthew Saville recently published a list of seven tips to help you stretch your battery life. 

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Based on terrific interest thus far from our readers in our First Shots and Field Test Pt I for the Olympus E-M1 Mark II, we didn't want to waste any time bringing you a deeper dose of coverage in the way of our in-depth analysis of the test results from our laboratory. So please dive in at any point you'd like,...

 

 

Our Firmware Friday roundup this week is rather abbreviated, with only a couple of updates to speak of, and only one of those actually available to download. This time around, we have news to report from Shanghai, China-based XiaoYi Technology -- better known by its "Yi" brandname -- as well as from Fujifilm...

 

 

Olympus' highly-regarded Zuiko Pro line of lenses added a couple of new members back at Photokina this year, the ultra-bright 25mm f/1.2 Pro and versatile 12-100mm f/4 IS Pro. Today, we've just completed our full in-depth review on the former, and boy is it...

 

 

A couple of weeks ago, we published our field test of Ricoh's latest DSLR, the affordable Pentax K-70. Priced at just US$650 body-only, the K-70 offers features you just don't find from DSLR rivals at this pricepoint. And they're features you'll likely appreciate, as well. There's a bright, clear and accurate...

 

 

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have Lightroom adjustments right at your fingertips and feel like you're using your hands to create great images? The Loupedeck photo editing console for Lightroom does just that by assigning Lightroom adjustments and tools to switches, dials and buttons on a...

 

 

For Micro Four Thirds shooters, there is a wide range of body styles, performance features and price points represented by Panasonic and Olympus' lineups. The new Panasonic G85, which follows up on the very good Panasonic G7, offers an interesting mix of DSLR-style controls and mirrorless versatility. Is it one of...

 

 

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FotoJet.com is a one-stop shop for online for photo editing, creating photo collages and graphic design. You can easily create collages, photo grids, photo cards and more using a wide variety of templates. Recently, FotoJet added the ability to edit your...

 

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Photographer Marc Yankus has a great appreciation for the buildings of New York - he has lived in the city since he was 11, and spent 20 years photographing his favorite parts of the city. But in a new exhibition running at the Clampart...

 

 

Adobe's 2017 Creative Cloud updates don't bring much to the table for Photoshop, but they do include a variety of interesting developments for Creative Cloud as a whole. Let's get the Photoshop improvements out of the way first. There are refinements to a variety of tools within Photoshop, including content-aware...

 

 

Unveiled as a development announcement at this year's Photokina tradeshow, the long-awaited Olympus E-M1 Mark II aims to address the (relatively few) shortcomings of the original with some serious horsepower improvements and innovative technical features. Now, with the official product launch and availability...

 

 

It's not often we receive a sample of a camera after it's been announced and yet told we have to wait until a certain date to actually post images, but with the Olympus E-M1 Mark II, this was the case! Well, we're here to tell you that from what we've seen so far in the lab and out in the field, the wait seems well...

 

 

As you can read all about in our Nikon D500 Field Test and D500 review, the D500 is particularly well-suited for sports and wildlife photography. In fact, as the person who field tested it, I consider it the best overall wildlife photography camera I've used due to its excellent autofocus system, high-speed...

 

 

There's been no more popular camera type on our site this year than the red-hot 1-inch-sensor compact. The Canon G7X II has been squarely in the pole position for most popular on our site for much of this year, while the Sony RX100V has been vying for the same spot lately. Some of the Sony's brethren like the Mark...

 

 

Hong Kong-based Chinese company Yongnuo has been manufacturing inexpensive photography equipment for over a decade. Although most well-known for their speedlights, they have made a handful of lenses as well, including a 35mm f/2 and 50mm f/1.8 for Canon and Nikon mounts. Yongnuo has now announced their longest lens...

 

 

Using Photoshop to remove a tattoo isn't new - photo editors have to do this all the time. But when your subject is an ex-gang member from Los Angeles, and tattoos cover most of the body, you have your work cut out for you. Photographer Steven Burton set off on an ambitious project over two years ago, to take...

 

 

Jonathan Andersson, a security researcher for internet security company Trend Micro, has developed a method to take control of consumer-level drones mid-flight. The method involves hacking a remote control protocol used by many remote-operated devices called DSMx, convincing the drone that the hacker is in fact the...

 

 

If you went to any Halloween parties this weekend, you surely saw some cool and clever costumes, but I bet you didn't see a fully-functional camera costume. Photographer Bryan Troll crafted his very own Nikon camera body costume that not only looks the part, but actually functions.

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After a brief hiatus last week, Firmware Friday returns this week with news of updates from both Apple and Sigma. We've covered Apple's iOS 10.1 update, which includes a beta release of the Portrait Camera function for the iPhone 7 Plus, in an earlier article. Hence we'll focus on Sigma's news here.

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