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Tamron USA has announced their fifth "My Travel Exhibit" photo contest. This contest allows Tamron lens users in the USA to submit their best 8-14 images which fit the "travel" theme of the contest. After entering, contestants will be able to view entries in Tamron's unique photo-sharing website, My Photo Exhibits....

 

 

Last March, Sony surprised us all with the launch of the RX10 III, a camera which shared much with the RX10 II that had launched just eight months earlier, but with a whole heck of a lot more telephoto reach. Equipped with an extremely powerful 24-600mm zoom lens with an f/2.4-4 maximum aperture across the...

 

 

Photoshop includes built-in automatic alignment tools for combining multiple images, but they don't always work perfectly. In these instances, you have to know how to do it manually, which can be a tricky task. Photoshop expert Scott Kelby has an excellent tip using an oft-ignored blend mode to perfectly align...

 

 

Drones have been allowing photographers -- amateur and professional alike -- to capture brilliant, distinct images for years now and naturally there are drone-centric competitions that have been started. Dronestragram just recently announced the winners for their third annual International Drone Photography Contest...

 

 

Thanks to the generous two times crop factor of Micro Four Thirds cameras, you can achieve a lot of telephoto reach in a relatively small form factor. Take the Olympus 300mm f/4 IS Pro ED M.Zuiko lens, for example, which is just under 9 inches long despite offering a 600mm-equivalent focal length.

4/3 Rumors has...

 

 

Affinity Photo is preparing for a large update. The version 1.5 update, expected to arrive in early autumn, includes numerous new features. The popular OS X photo editor received Apple's "App of the Year" award in 2015 but with version 1.5 it will finally be coming to Windows as well.

Among the new features is...

 

 

Both Canon Rumors and Canon Watch are reporting on a patent that appeared on Egami for a potentially very interesting lens: A full frame EF 40-800mm f/4.5-5.6 supertelephoto zoom.

The patent for the 19x zoom optic was filed in 2015 and published last week, and the lens length is listed at just over 19 inches....

 

 

As your light source moves further and further away from your subject, it is obvious that the light becomes dimmer. However, the light does not decrease in a linear way, but rather falls off to the square of the distance. This is the inverse square law of light.

This is an important concept for photographers who...

 

 

It was bound to happen eventually, that five different camera companies would be represented atop the podium in our esteemed Photo of the Day contest for our monthly prize winners. And yet, for anyone who follows our contest on a regular basis, you're likely well aware that most months are a battle between Canon...

 

 

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Sometimes a product comes along that is so simple and useful that you can't help but wonder what took so long for it to exist. LensPacks are one of those products.

They're basically small plastic devices with Velcro on one side that stick to the inside...

 

 

Back in May we posted our production-grade First Shots for the immensely popular Canon G7X Mark II compact with its 1-inch type sensor and 24-100mm eq. zoom range. Now, as we're working hard to bring you our final conclusion for this well-received camera, we wanted to go ahead and roll out our G7X II Image Quality...

 

 

Photographer Jim Hamel has six tips for landscape photographers looking to nail focus in their shots. Supposing that you are utilizing foreground in your landscape photos -- which is often a great idea -- it is not always obvious where you are meant to set your focus. As Hamel mentions, portrait photographers know...

 

 

Last month, Panasonic unveiled their latest lens created in partnership with venerable optics company Leica, the Panasonic 12mm f/1.4 Leica Summilux. What's now the widest and brightest rectilinear autofocus prime lens for Micro Four Thirds, it offers MFT shooters a big 24mm eq. field of view as well as excellent...

 

 

For many reasons, being a photojournalist is a tough gig. One of the challenges is that you often take photos of people who might not be in the mood. While photographing a woman feeding ducks at a public park in May in Hesperia, California, Daily Press photographer David Pardo became embroiled in a heated dispute.

 

 

Photographer Nigel Barker is partnering with Adorama to host a new reality competition series on AdoramaTV, Top Photographer.

Top Photographer will consist of five episodes and include five finalists who are all competing for a grand prize package worth US$50,000. The Canon-sponsored prize package includes a...

 

 

Early this spring, Pentax finally tooks the wraps off a camera that had long been rumored, speculated about, and eventually shown in prototype form and under glass at tradeshows around the globe. Today, we complete our review of that self-same camera with the publication of the conclusion to our extremely...

 

 

Travel photographer Elia Locardi is a highly-accomplished landscape photographer and he teamed up with Fstoppers to create a 12-hour video tutorial series aimed at landscape photography from start to finish, including video from out in the field and how to post-process your files.

Frugal photographers or those...

 

 

Hahnemühle has a new canvas product that is designed to appeal to a wide variety of artists, including photographers. The new Art Canvas Smooth is manufactured to produce deep blacks and vivid colors, and with its ISO9706 standard is guaranteed to last a long time as well.

The acid-free canvas is made without...

 

 

Street photographer Eric Kim has shot raw images for much of his life. There are many benefits to shooting in raw format, he acknowledges, yet recently he's been finding himself leaning more towards shooting JPEG. Why? He has eight reasons for this, and I'd like to discuss a few of them.

Firstly, he reasons that...