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Two years ago, Canon overhauled its entry-level DSLR offering with the introduction of the Rebel T5, a camera which has since proven to be very popular thanks to the pairing of great image quality and a wallet-friendly pricetag. Today, the company follows up with the Canon T6, and in the process brings its...

 

 

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As we mentioned in our initial posts for the Nikon L840, an 855mm equivalent long-zoom is a lot of muscle to be carrying about for a reasonably small camera with a street price under $200. It's a 38x zoom range all told, with a generous 23mm eq. focal...

Do you want to reduce noise in your images without reducing or eliminating fine details? Jimmy McIntyre has a simple tip for using Photoshop and multiple exposures to reduce noise while preserving the fine details.

To use this technique, you need to capture multiple exposures of a scene with roughly the same brightness. By capturing multiple...

 

 

A 24-70mm f/2.8 is a staple lens in practically any photographer's camera bag -- it covers a wide range of focal lengths for a multitude of subject matter. Plus, the wide f/2.8 aperture makes it a handy lens for all but the most dim of shooting conditions. For Nikon shooters, the brand's long-running 24-70mm f/2.8...

Epson recently launched their Legacy series, an all-new line of premium photographic papers, that are designed to offer the ultimate in quality. I was able to test out the four new papers, Legacy Fibre, Legacy Etching, Legacy Platine, and Legacy Baryta, and during my testing, all four papers proved to be very good and certainly lived up to...

Photographer Jay P. Morgan has published an informative tutorial video for portrait photographers looking to add some off-camera flash to sunset portraits.

Morgan breaks down the scene as he continually adds more lights for the various features of the scene, sharing the resulting images along the way. As he continues to add light and...

Flickr has recently made changes to their feature set and locked the "Auto-Uploadr" feature behind its paid "Pro" service.

The desktop Auto-Uploadr tool allows you to automatically upload photos from your hard drive to Flickr, a feature that set Flickr apart from other free competitors. However, with this new move, Flickr is taking a risk...

 

 

With the Wedding & Portrait Photography International expo in full-swing in Las Vegas this week, there's lots and lots of limited time deals and specials on a wide variety of brands of cameras and lenses. B&H, in particular, has a tons of WPPI-oriented savings, including various Canon DSLR Printer bundles as well...

Nikon ambassador Joe McNally visited Domenick European Car Repair in White Plains, New York to capture gritty, character-filled portraits. McNally is well-known for his adept and creative use of Speedlights in his work, which you can see in the video below.

Using a variety of Nikon SB-900 and SB-910 speedlights, McNally works to illuminate...

Canon's imagePROGRAF PRO series of printers has expanded with the addition of four large format inkjet printers, two of which are designed for the fine art and photographic markets.

The first photographer-oriented printer is the Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-2000. In addition to the 24-inch PRO-2000, Canon has also introduced a larger 44-inch...

With cameras continuing to increase their megapixel counts and overall resolving power, Sony decided it was time to change the way they develop high-end lenses and launched the G Master line of lenses earlier this year. Sony G Master lenses have a baseline of 50 lines per millimeter versus the industry-standard of 30. Bokeh has been an area of...

MindShift Gear recently sent me one of their new UltraLight backpacks to review. I used the UltraLight Dual 36L, the largest of their three UltraLight offerings, and found that it provided an excellent balance between volume and comfort.

According to Mindshift, the UltraLight is the "lighest photo daypack series ever" and the 36L (36 liters...

Fstoppers' Sean Molin has written an article to help address some of the misunderstandings about Lightroom that he encounters as an educator.

Lightroom is not designed to be an alternative to Photoshop. Molin says, "You can look at Photoshop as a glorified Lightroom plugin and Lightroom as a glorified combination of Bridge and Adobe Camera...

 

 

After focusing on the build quality, design and general shooting characteristics of the Sony RX1R II in my first Field Test, I circled back to test some of the RX1R II's new features and performance capabilities -- namely testing C-AF capabilities and the new variable low-pass filter technology. I've also looked...

For times when the 10-stop Big Stopper doesn't block enough light, Lee Filters now offers a 15-stop neutral density filter, aptly dubbed the Super Stopper.

All else equal, a 2 second exposure captured without the use of a filter can be extended to a whopping 17-hour long exposure when using the Super Stopper. Of course, the Super Stopper is...

Sony today announced the new HX80 compact camera, as well as the development of a new wireless lighting control system.

The new Sony HX80 compact camera features a 30x optical zoom and 18.2-megapixel Exmor R CMOS sensor. The HX80 joins Sony's HX90V as the only compact high-zoom cameras with a retractable electronic viewfinder available in...

 

 

By IR Reader John Tranter

Ages ago my daughter and her husband gave my wife and me a little old rose bush which we planted in our side garden. It grew and grew, though droughts in the beach-and-bushfire season (summer, which is January in Australia) and tropical downpours just about any time, and decades later it...

 

 

Imaging Resource founder and Publisher Dave Etchells had a chance to sit down with Masamichi Handa and Toshiyuki Terada of Olympus Corporation's Imaging Business Unit (the division responsible for producing their cameras and lenses) at the recent CP+ show in Yokohama, Japan. Mr. Handa is the Executive Officer...

Sony packed an incredible number of activities and shooting opportunities into two very long days in Miami for us to be able to get an initial feel for the Sony A6300. While this didn’t allow much time to go through images or write up my thoughts during the two days, it did provide me ample opportunity to use the A6300 in a wide variety of...