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A PetaPixel reader attended Maker Faire in Tokyo and saw a very interesting prototype product, a microSD to SD adapter that includes a 3-axis gyro sensor. PetaPixel reached out to the creator, Yoshiaki Sato, to learn more.

The virtualGimbal "measures the angular velocities of [the] camera while recording video,...

 

 

Firmware Friday is short and sweet this week, with updates for one camera and three lenses from Pentax and Sigma respectively. We'll jump right in with the update for Ricoh's just-launched Pentax K-70 DSLR first of all, and then come back to Sigma's lens firmware, which is intended to resolve issues when used...

 

 

Los Angeles-based French photographer Serge Ramelli has a great YouTube channel with a lot of helpful videos and tutorials for photographers. With the launch of the DJI Phantom 4 he decided to get more into drone photography. He has previously used Phantom 1 and 2 drones, but he crashed them and was excited by the...

 

 

Getty Images photographer Al Bello is well-known for his sports photography, having been featured in Forbes, Business Insider, Fox Sports, Yahoo Sports, New York Times and many more publications over his career. At this year's Olympics in Rio, Bello's 11th Olympic Games, he enlisted the help of underwater robots.

 

 

Photographer Stuart Palley recently shared tips and tricks for night photography for TIME. This video should be of particular interest to photographers hoping to capture the Perseids meteor shower as Earth passes through the remnants of the Swift-Tuttle comet. You can read more about photographing meteor showers...

 

 

We recently covered a pair of videos from photographer Thomas Heaton in which he went on a location scouting trip and worked to break out of his comfort zone. His latest video continues in the same vein, as he works to simplify his landscape photography.

The video, titled "Something from Nothing," is about...

 

 

New lens company FZeros has an interesting and very fast lens available for Micro Four Thirds shooters, a 25mm T/0.95 manual focus lens. Although designed for video, the lens of course works for still photography as well. What makes this a cine lens is its "super-precise focus control" which offers a 355° range of...

 

 

London-based Wolffepack created the award-winning Metro and Escape orbital backpacks for general use, but if you're looking for something more photography-oriented, there's good news. It has now followed up with a Kickstarter campaign for the photographer-friendly Wolffepack Capture. The campaign, which has been...

 

 

"The Perseids show up every year in August when Earth ventures through trails of debris left behind by an ancient comet," says NASA. This year might be a particularly good year for viewing the fast, bright meteors streak across the night sky because we are in for a closer encounter than usual. In fact, meteors...

 

 

Photographer Mike Newton has created a Lightroom Mastery Course for Digital Photography School which offers over three hours of video tutorials for the popular piece of photo software for $49 (the package is currently 50% off). However, in the interest of promoting his course and sharing knowledge, he's offering an...

 

 

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Alongside the D5 and D500 DSLR cameras, Nikon also announced the SB-5000 Speedlight back in January. Recently, I've been experimenting with the D5, a pair of SB-5000s and Nikon's WR-10 wireless remote adapter set. While Nikon's flashes have always been...

 

 

To the uninitiated, shooting a motor race can be an intimidating and sometimes frustrating experience. Although the potential for a great shot is high -- race tracks are colorful and interesting places, and race fans themselves can be quite an entertaining bunch -- it can take quite a bit of work to come to...

 

 

If you attend a concert or other live performance these days, you can pretty much guarantee that unless you're in the front few rows, you'll be watching the show above a sea of rectangular screens. Camera phones haven't just changed photography; they've also greatly expanded its reach. Almost everyone is a...

 

 

Street photographer and educator Eric Kim has put together an excellent presentation on street photography, based on his own experiences.

His first tip for aspiring street photographers is to "work the scene." What Kim means by this is not to take just one or two photos and then leave, either because you're too...

 

 

Professional photographers often have amazing stories to share about their experiences around the world, photographing different subjects. But with those incredible moments also come negative events, and Feature Shoot recently asked 13 photographers about their worst moments on photo shoots.

Muir Vidler recalled...

 

 

Are you ready to buy a new camera, or perhaps to add some lenses or other photographic gear to your camera bag? If so, some extra cash would doubtless come in handy -- and we're offering the chance to get just that, when you make your next purchase through a B&H shopping link at Imaging Resource!...

 

 

We've got a couple of outdoor portrait videos to share with you today. First up is a video from Lin & Jirsa Photography in conjunction with Profoto US that discusses how to light ultrawide environmental portraits. These ultrawide portraits make for excellent large prints, but the relatively small subjects can get...

 

 

Longtime friends and travelling companions Jim Slinger and Andrew "Tip" Taylor enjoy spending time on rivers. Over the past 40 years, they've shared about two years on Arctic rivers in particular. And now, over 30 years since their last trip down the Noatak River in Alaska, the duo made their return. Although both...

 

 

Over the last few days, Japanese companies have been releasing their financial reports for the first quarter of their 2016 fiscal year. (That is, for the period from April to June 2016; the Japanese fiscal year doesn't follow the calendar year, but instead runs from April 1st to March 31st.) Among those doing so...