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MindShift Gear is focused on providing carrying solutions for adventurous photographers who like to get outside -- no matter the conditions -- to capture images in the great outdoors. In the pursuit of this end, the company has released a couple of new products, the Multi-Mount Holster and the Card-Again Wallet.

The Multi-Mount Holster lets...

 

 

Finally, Pentaxians -- the moment you've been waiting for has arrived. The long-awaited Pentax K-1, the company's first full-frame DSLR to reach retail, has just landed in our lab, and we've got the first shots to prove it!

Not to toot our own horn too much, but our first shots are big news if you've been...

For the first time in the 40 years of manufacturing lenses, Samyang Optics is releasing autofocus lenses. Announced today in Seoul, both the 14mm f/2.8 and 50mm f/1.4 Sony E mount mirrorless lenses are designed for full frame cameras (such as the A7 II, A7R II, and A7S II) and are compatible with both contrast- and phase-detect autofocus for...

Chris Niccolls of The Camera Store in Calgary, Alberta, recently put Cognisys' StopShot fast action trigger to the test. From Cognisys' website: "Welcome to the world of high speed photography - the world where science and art collide." That's a rather grandiose statement, so does the product live up to the hype? Read on!

The StopShot...

 

 

At long last, we've finally procured our final production-level Canon 1D X Mark II review sample. We therefore wasted no time sending it down to the lab for testing. Although earlier we posted pre-production real-world gallery images, we'd yet to run our standardized lab test shots in order to get a more analytical...

Though we never got a glimpse behind those stormtrooper helmets in the original Star Wars trilogy, as we've seen in later installments, including The Force Awakens, there are, in fact, humans under that armor.

U.S. Marine Combat Correspondent and photographer Matthew Callahan has been working on a personal project capturing humanizing photos...

 

 

Six and a half years is some long wait for a successor! But that's how long it's been since Nikon brought the D300S to the higher-end APS-C market, the follow-up to the popular D300 from 2007. Today the Nikon D500 finally touched down in our test laboratory and our senior lab technician Luke Smith wasted no time...

Many photographers, including Chris Gampat at The Phoblographer, suggest that shooting with film forces photographers to slow down and consider every shot they take. Unlike with a digital camera, there is a very real cost to every image you capture, and this careful consideration can help vastly improve your work.

That cost doesn't have to...

 

 

The good folks over at FStoppers published a new article by Alex Cooke yesterday that really grabbed our attention. Rather logically entitled "10 of the Weirdest Cameras Ever Made", the piece appealed to our love of photography, added a healthy splash of history and nostalgia, then neatly tied it off with a...

 

 

March was yet another absurdly difficult month for the contest judges here at Imaging Resource in casting our votes for monthly contest winners. We spent half the time shaking our heads... how to choose between *this great photo* and *that great photo*? When the images are all so vastly different, it's really more...

 

 

If you've ever been jostled by a crowd of snap-happy tourists, competing for space and jousting with their selfie sticks at a local landmark, you'll know how bothersome the socially obsessed can prove to be for the rest of us. But did you know that selfies can also be deadly? Sadly, it's all too true: The...

Plastic is an incredibly useful material, and in our modern world it's everywhere. Unfortunately, that includes our oceans. English photographer Mandy Barker photographs marine plastic waste , and her latest project focuses on debris found along 30 different beaches in Hong Kong.

Barker had hoped that documenting the incredible amount of...

 

 

At long last, 300mm zoom reach is now available for Sony FE shooters around the world in the form of the Sony FE 70-300mm G OSS f/4.5-5.6 lens. We're in the middle of our full technical review of this lens for you now, but I couldn't resist sneaking it out for a weekend excursion and posting some initial gallery...

 

 

The weekend is here once more, and Firmware Friday just squeaks in under the wire with news of new updates from Leica, Nikon and Sony. In all, seven cameras receive new features or bug fixes this week, all of them interchangeable-lens models.

Sony A7R II and A7S II

We'll start with Sony this time around,...

 

 

Some months back, I kicked off my review of the Pentax K-3 II with a daytime shoot in historic Jonesborough, Tennessee, including an in-depth look at its clever detail-boosting Pixel Shift Resolution function. At the time, I'd intended to follow up with the second part of my field test in fairly short order, but...

 

 

Debuting ahead of 2014's photokina tradeshow, the diminutive Panasonic 35-100mm f/4-5.6 is the perfect companion to the appropriately tony GM1 and GM5 mirrorless cameras and their similarly compact 12-32mm retractable kit lens. Recently making its way through our testing lab, this tiny 70-200mm-eq. telephoto zoom...

Mathieu Stern recently received an E-mount version of Meyer Optik Görlitz's new 100mm f/2.8 Trioplan lens to review. This lens was successfully backed on Kickstarter and will be available to backers in June 2016 for just under $1,600 USD (around 1,400 Euros). After the lens is released, the price will increase by just over $100 (100 Euros).

 

 

Following recording artist, producer and actor Prince's untimely death on April 21st, there was an outpouring of emotions in the media and across the internet. Not surprisingly, a lot of fans and media outlets shared images and videos, many of these perhaps without permission of the rights holders.

Marc Silber's "Advancing Your Photography" YouTube channel recently had National Geographic photographer Bob Holmes on to discuss lighting and capturing images in the National Geographic style.

"Knowing light is absolutely critical," says Holmes, "I'm always looking at light. Always." You have to be consciously thinking about light all of...