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Say hello to the biggest, baddest supertelephoto lens for Micro Four Thirds! Ok, well, "biggest" isn't really the correct term, as the new Panasonic 100-400mm f/4-6.3 Leica zoom lens is shockingly compact and lightweight when you consider its impressive 200-800mm equivalent focal length range. With Leica-approved...

 

 

Following up on 2014's G7X, the Canon G7X Mark II includes many improvements both to the camera body itself and to its performance specs. The sensor and built-in lens are unchanged, but the camera includes a new DIGIC 7 processor and a variety of small adjustments to the body design.

The G7X II proves to be a fun...

 

 

Portrait photographer Damien Lovegrove has made a successful career taking beautiful and flattering portraits. He's a Fuji X-Photographer and has been working extensively with Fujifilm to create a number of helpful portrait tutorials.

In the videos below, Lovegrove uses a Fuji X-Pro2 as well as an X-T1 with a...

 

 

Bill Cunningham, a fasion and street photographer perhaps known best for his work for the New York Times, passed away Saturday in Manhattan at the age of 87 following a recent stroke.

Cunningham worked for The Times for nearly 40 years, capturing an extensive library of images that when viewed together create a...

 

 

While we work on Part II of our Canon 1D X Mark II field test (see Part I here), a potential image corruption issue has been announced by Canon.

The issue is apparently isolated to SanDisk-brand CFast memory cards. When recording a RAW file, the bottom right portion of your image can be corrupted. JPEG files, on...

 

 

Ansel Adams' "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" is one of his most well-known photographs with Adams making over 1,300 prints of it during his career. A print was auctioned by Sotheby's in 2006 for over $600,000.

Part of what makes the photo particularly interesting is how it was created. Adams, his son Michael...

 

 

On Friday, Sony Japan released an update on the impact the Kumamoto earthquakes are having on their camera production. Sony is far from the only company impacted as Ricoh, Nikon and others have been affected by the devastating earthquakes.

In their statement, which includes an apology to all of the people...

 

 

With a seemingly steady stream of news about more and more companies ceasing production of different films, it might surprise you to hear that there's a store in England that is not only holding onto film, but eschewing digital altogether.

West Yorkshire Cameras is located in Leeds Corn Exchange and they buy,...

 

 

Studio lights don't come cheap. Kino Flo LED lights in particular come in at some very high prices that are sure to scare away most portrait photographers. But what if you could create your own set of LED lights, perfect for headshots and portraits for under $300?

Photographer Joe Edelman has done just that and...

 

 

Long exposure photography is a lot of fun, but purpose-built neutral density filters can sometimes get quite pricey. Mathieu Stern, who you may remember for his "weird lens challenge," has a much more affordable alternative: welding glass.

In the video below, Mathieu used shade 11 welding glass, which you can...

 

 

Smartphone pictures don't need to be confined to the digital realm, certainly not when you have a Fujifilm Instax Share printer. Fujifilm has just announced the Share SP-2 printer, which features a completely new design, more features and better reported performance.

Bring your smartphone photos to life on...

 

 

The distinctly-shaped Sigma sd Quattro was announced back in February yet without any pricing or availability information provided. Sigma has finally given us the details on their new mirrorless camera body and you won't have to wait much longer to get your hands on the Foven X3 Quattro camera.

Releasing in July,...

 

 

Since we first announced the existence of the Panasonic GX85 back in early April, the camera has been climbing the charts on our site. Taking a look at our homepage today shows the GX85 as #2 in overall popularity for all cameras we have pages for, second only to the uber-popular Canon G7X II and yet besting models...

 

 

German-based WhiteWall has been producing high-quality prints on a wide variety of substrates from their Frechen, Germany photo lab since 2003. Their online service, WhiteWall.com, has been operational since 2007, and earned an enviable reputation for quality in that time.

Many high-end photographers around the...

 

 

The new 20-megapixel Panasonic ZS100 is the first ZS-series model to include a 1"-type sensor. It combines that with a 10x optical zoom lens while maintaining a compact, pocketable size, which altogether, results in a rather versatile travel zoom camera.

With solid image quality across a respectable range of...

 

 

If you've got an overnight flight and a bit of luck with regards to conditions, you might as well try your hand at some photography through the window, right? Ian Norman of Lonely Speck has put together a tutorial for photographing the Milky Way from an airplane.

It isn't easy, but it can be done. There are...

After the announcement yesterday morning, reviewer Eamon Hickey then had an opportunity to get some hands-on time with a prototype of the new Hasselblad X1D medium format mirrorless camera during their press event in New York City. As a pre-production model, some of the finer details, such as image quality, AF performance and a number of...

 

 

Famous surfer Tia Blanco recently took to the waves in Nicaragua, accompanied by Sony Artisans David McLain and Gabe Rogel to make "Tia Blanco 'My Journey'" for Sony.

The 4K video, which you can see below, was mostly recorded using a Sony A6300 with a Sony 20mm f/2.8 lens. Rogel handled the majority of the...

 

 

Phase One has updated their popular open-platform imaging software Capture One Pro 9 to version 9.2. The software, which offers tethered capture, raw image conversion and extensive image editing tools, is considered integral to many professional's and enthusiast's workflows.

Capture One Pro 9.2 includes new...