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If you've used a DJI drone, then you're likely familiar with the company's geofencing system, which is designed to help owners keep their drones clear of restricted airspace. DJI has updated their system to make it more restrictive, or as they put it, safer.

The new system, Geospatial Environment Online (GEO), is...

 

 

Fujifilm's certainly made a name for themselves, especially as of late, not only for their sleek and stylish retro-inspired cameras, but also for said cameras' overall excellent performance, high quality images and unique features. A big hit with portrait shooters, street photographers and travelers, Fuji's smaller...

 

 

New lenses are on the way for Fuji X-mount cameras! Fujifilm has revised their XF lens roadmap. Compared to the XF lens roadmap released in February of 2015, the telephoto XF 120mm f/2.8R macro lens has been removed due to user demand for something more compact and lighter and is being replaced with the 1:1 XF 80mm...

 

 

Despite debuting only five months ago, Fujifilm is wasting no time bringing a wide array of new features and performance upgrades to their flagship X-Pro2 camera. Included in firmware update version 2.0 for the X-Pro2 are autofocus upgrades, compatibility with the new EF-X500 flash, power management options and an...

 

 

Per U.K.-based Amateur Photographer, full frame photography fans will soon have a new ultra-wide lens option thanks to Chinese company Laowa (Venus Optics). Although information has not yet been published on Venus Optics' website, Amateur Photographer says that the lens is expected to arrive in August at a...

 

 

You don't necessarily need an expensive strobe to take advantage of beautiful off-camera lighting. Photographer Manuel Ortiz has published a new video showing the difference that moving your speedlite off-camera can make when shooting portraits. The best part? You don't need to spend a lot of money to do this. You...

 

 

Heavy-duty sports and wildlife photography got big boosts this year in the gear department in the form of the flagships Canon 1D X Mark II and the Nikon D5, as well as the slimmer but still quite powerful Nikon D500. And where performance levels for autofocus and burst speeds are ultra-critical, so too is the need...

 

 

Chief Official White House photographer Pete Souza has spent a lot of time with President Barack Obama during Obama's tenure. In addition, Souza's career as a photojournalist spans multiple presidencies, including coverage of Ronald Reagan, and has taken him to the far-reaching corners of the globe to cover both...

 

 

I'm not a portrait photographer, but I can appreciate the challenge that photographers face in trying to balance numerous concerns simultaneously. Lighting, settings and all of that technical stuff is already a lot to take on, but a good portrait photographer also aims to capture the essence of a human being in a...

 

 

Eye-Fi makes SD cards that act both as storage media and Wi-Fi hot spots, which allows you to send images to the company's Eye-Fi Center cloud service. Unfortunately, as an email sent to existing customers disclosed, support is going to be ending for "Legacy" products.

The affected products include: all original...

 

 

If you regularly peruse images of food on Instagram, you could be forgiven for thinking that food photography is simple, but it's not. It's an art form just like any other genre of photography and it comes with numerous complexities and subtleties that separate the cream of the crop from the rest.

New York Times...

 

 

The extensive cuts to journalistic outlets over the years have done more than cut jobs, they've also created opportunities for some enterprising individuals. Canadian photojournalist Victor Biro is one of these people.

He saw an opportunity to document the accidents -- and sometimes horrific crime scenes -- that...

 

 

In April, ON1 software announced ON1 Photo Raw, which our own Mike Tomkins called "perhaps the most promising new raw processing tool we've seen in years…"

The "lightning fast" raw processor is coming this fall, but before then ON1 wants you to give them ideas and let them know what you expect from a raw editor....

 

 

While it's tempting to take photos at a concert with your phone, and I'm sure many of us -- myself included -- have at one time or another, it can easily become a distraction for everyone else. Sometimes it's even against the rules of the venue or the band on stage.

A patent filed by Apple and recently discussed...

 

 

Lightroom presets can be a very powerful tool for speeding up your image editing process. Just so we're all on the same page, presets are particular set of pre-determined settings (think Lightroom adjustment sliders, tone curves, etc) that you can apply to an image (or multiple images) simultaneously.

For...

 

 

As we inch ever closer to the centennial of the National Parks Service, punishment has finally been handed down to self-proclaimed artist Casey Nocket. If you don't know who this is, she defaced seven national parks in 2014 through the use of acrylic paint. You can read a bit about her crimes here.

Her vandalism...

 

 

For many of us, shooting wet plate collodion photography is something we'll likely never get to experience, either for a lack of tools, training or time. Photographer Nède can help you experience the process, however, with a video of his work as it happens.

He attached a GoPro camera to his chest and went out in...

 

 

California-based photographer and teacher Nick Carver loves printing his work. As someone who uses both digital and film cameras, his printing process can vary quite a bit. In the video below, he shows his process of scanning a 6 x 17 negative and framing his work.

He opted to make a large six-foot wide print of...

 

 

Pentaxians: Do you have a lust for full-frame? If so, we've got good news for you! As we work to wrap our review of Ricoh's first 35mm full-frame camera, the Pentax K-1, we've just added several new sections including our real-world field test, image quality analysis, and print quality analysis.

If you're...