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A few years ago, we were astounded by a handful of cameras that took high ISO sensitivity ratings into the six digit zone. Starting with the Nikon D3S, we hit ISO 102,400. Then, the Nikon D4 and Canon 1D X arrived offering ISO 204,800. Things made a big leap with the Nikon D4S, which pushed the high sensitivity...

 

 

Imaging Resource founder and publisher Dave Etchells was fortunate to be able to sit down recently with several senior executives from the Imaging Business Unit at Nikon Corp., which is responsible for producing the company's cameras and lenses. On hand to answer Dave's questions were Tetsuya Yamamoto, Corporate...

 

 

IR Founder and Publisher Dave Etchells recently got a chance to sit down with Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki at the CP+ 2016 show in Yokohama, Japan. Topics for discussion included the company's then just-announced mirrorless camera models, what their plans looked like for f/1.8 zooms (following their amazing...

 

 

Life got you down? Your friends all looking the same? Craving portrait subjects with a bit more life to them? Try cosplay!

Costume play, or cosplay, is hugely popular in Japan and a popular subject for photographers. Here in the US, various "Comic Cons" and SciFi conventions are where cosplayers gather to strut...

 

 

By IR reader Jeff Pardoen

I am originally from The Netherlands and moved to the North East of the UK in August 2014. In October 2015 I turned my passion for photography into my own business - Jeff Pardoen Photography. Still a newbie to the whole business thing it is a real challenge!
 
I am in the process of...

 

 

The weekend is here once more, and so too is your weekly roundup of all the latest firmware news for your digital camera. This week, we have news to report from two manufacturers, albeit only one of them with a presence in the US market. Both Casio and Fujifilm have released updates improving two of their...

 

 

French photographer Mathieu Stern has a fascination with attaching old and unusual lenses to his Sony mirrorless cameras.

In addition to his Weird Lens Challenge series, he now also has a Cheap Weird Lens Reviews playlist on his YouTube channel. So far he has reviewed three lenses, a Vivitar 20mm f/3.8, Rokkor...

 

 

Some Fujifilm X-Pro2 users have been experiencing a troubling issue with their new cameras, when the X-Pro2 goes inadvertantly back to factory reset and all of their custom settings have been lost.

The cause of this issue remains unknown, but some users have lamented that it might be related to the X-Pro2's...

 

 

Starting today, the Nik Collection of plug-ins is now available to all users for free. After purchasing Nik software in late 2012, rebranding it and slashing its price in 2013, Google has now decided to make the suite of photo editing plug-ins available to everyone at no cost.

You can read more about this...

 

 

Lifestyle photographer Michael O'Neal was once creative director for Apple, but he is now working for himself and shared his motivation for doing so with Adorama as part of their Through the Lens web series.

Michael studied graphic and advertising design in his native New York before moving to San Francisco,...

 

 

Sometimes, the simplest things are best, and this is certainly the case with the Sigma 60mm f/2.8 DN Art lens. One of the few lenses from Sigma designed specifically for mirrorless cameras -- offered in two flavors: Micro Four Thirds and Sony E-mount -- the 60mm f/2.8 Art-series lens is a small, compact telephoto...

 

 

Is Olympus preparing for a full-frame mirrorless camera? Patents filed this year in Japan may point to that possibility.

Earlier this year, Egami reported on a patent filed by Olympus for a 28mm f/2 full frame lens. At the same time, patents for 20mm f/1.4, 24mm f/1.4, and 35mm f/1.4 full-frame lenses were also...

 

 

Have a full frame camera and need to go really wide and really bright? Well, a new Swiss lens company, Irix, has announced a full-frame 15mm f/2.4 ultra-wide angle manual-focus lens that sounds like it should do the trick quite nicely.

An interesting aspect of this new lens is that it will be offered in two...

 

 

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Fujifilm’s new APS-C fixed-focal length X70 combines a lot of aspects that I’ve liked with previous Fujifilm cameras and brings them to a new moderately compact camera body. The Fuji X70 is a small but highly capable camera that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed...

 

 

The Sony A6300 sports the same resolution and processor as the immensely popular Sony A6000 from 2014, but it's important to note that it's not the same sensor, as this newly configured chip has been designed for speed and performance in both burst shooting and 4K video arenas. And while still dubbed a Bionz X...

 

 

A month ago, Tamron announced two new full-frame lenses for Canon, Nikon and Sony cameras, along with an accessory to be used when updating lens firmware, a device akin to Sigma's firmware-updating, setting-tweaking USB dock. At the time, Tamron told us plenty about all three new products, but one key detail...

[Editor's Note: We meant to publish this article back in February, but just realized it never went live until we looked back for it while editing our CP+ Fujifilm executive interview, which also touches on this interesting technology. Apologies for the delay!]

Back in February, Panasonic announced that they had developed global shutter...

Imaging Resource founder and Publisher Dave Etchells had the opportunity to sit down with Toshihisa Iida and Makoto Oishi of Fujifilm Corporation's Optical Devices & Electronic Imaging Products Division (the division responsible for producing their cameras and lenses) at the CP+ 2016 show in Yokohama, Japan last month. Mr. Iida is the General...

 

 

Wake up with IR! Here's today's dose of Caffeine Priority...

Creative filters? Some love them, some hate them. Enthusiast photographers tend to loathe them, while Instagram has certainly increased the usage of them in general. I never paid much attention to them one way or the other.

Until I fell in love with...