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The Imaging Resource Camera of the Year Awards

Best Compact, Fixed-lens and Unique Cameras of 2015

The compact camera market might not be what it once was thanks to the rise of the camera phone, but 2015 nevertheless brought us some very capable new fixed-lens models. It also brought with it some very interesting, specialized cameras, and...

 

 

If you're shooting the Pentax 645Z in a studio environment -- something we'd imagine is true of more than a few 645Z owners thanks to the medium-format camera's spectacular resolution -- then we have good news for you today. Pentax brand owner Ricoh has just released a brand-new tethered capture plugin for...

 

 

As part of Profoto's Ordinary to Extraordinary series, Lin and Jirsa Photography put together an interesting tutorial video on how to create golden hour light using off-camera flash units, in this case, Profoto flashes.

Using a Profoto B1 flash unit, photographer Pye Jirsa recreated the sun and golden hour...

B&H is back with more camera-related deals as part of its 13 days of Super Sales. Today, Day 6, is all about camera bags! Deals include discounts on backpacks, shoulder bags and rollers from brands such as Tamrac, Lowepro, Think Tank Photo and Gura Gear. If you, or someone special, has been in need of a new way to haul camera gear,...

 

 

Do you want to be paid upwards of $100,000 USD to capture images of American National Parks for the National Park Service? Well, you're in luck, because there's a new job opening for exactly that. Just as Ansel Adams started doing in 1941, you can be paid a pretty penny to travel from Washington, D.C. around the...

 

 

New Zealand-based landscape photographer Chris Gin wrote a comprehensive landscape photography guide for Light Stalking a few years ago, though his tips are just as valid today as they were back then. The article is aimed at those who are just learning landscape photography, but there are a ton of great tips that...

The Imaging Resource Lenses of the Year Award

The Imaging Resource COTYs are our chance to recognize the best new cameras, lenses and (new for this year) printer of the year. We'll distill all this experience into a series of 5 articles, beginning today (December 9th) and concluding Monday, December 21st. 

But we also want to hear from...

 

 

We've just put the finishing touches on our Olympus E-M10 II review and have now posted our E-M10 II conclusion page. Feel free to dive in there and work your way back, or jump in from the beginning and catch our entire Olympus E-M 10 II review.

An incredible camera for the money, the E-M10 II caught us a bit by...

 

 

Fuji just keeps knocking them out of the park when it comes to lenses. For those X-mount owners looking for a telephoto lens for their Fuji, we've already shared our elation over the fantastic Fuji 90mm f/2 prime lens. However, if a zoom lens with its extra versatility is more your style, well the Fujinon 50-140mm...

 

 

Another day, another deal! It's Tuesday, and today B&H has another one-day on a wide selection of tripods, tripod heads, monopods, and tripod kits. There are deals all sorts of popular brands from Gitzo and Manfrotto to Sirui and Oben. If you've been waiting to upgrade to some new "legs," or you know a...

 

 

By IR Reader Mihajlo Filipovic

Most photographing devices are created for use in the air. All optical, mechanical and electrical components must have air around them to work properly. So we encase a normal camera in an artificial “air bubble” to make sure it will operate in water. All underwater housings and also...

 

 

Bokeh doesn't have to be only in the background says photographer and Fstoppers writer, Jason Vinson. He has written a guide about how to use foreground bokeh.

When discussing bokeh, we often think of soft, out of focus areas in the background of an image, but Jason argues that foreground bokeh “can be just as...

 

 

Swiss landscape and nature photographer Stefan Forster brings us with him on his trip to Iceland for episode 1 of the web series, Light Hunter. In this first episode, you can see Forster working in beautiful Iceland as he discusses his process of planning images. There is a lot of careful consideration that goes...

 

 

To capture the widest possible shot for his new film, The Hateful Eight, accomplished filmmaker Quentin Tarantino utilized Panavision’s Ultra 70mm cinema format. The Ultra 70mm is the widest cinema format in existence and is very rarely used. It has been used in a very small number of films, including Ben-Hur and...

OK, so we got you squared away with some new lenses and flashes, then upgraded your storage setup with hard drives and SSDs. Now, on Day 3 of B&H's Super Sales promotion, they're having some nice savings on a variety of laptop computers, both Apple MacBooks and MacBook Pros and a selection of Windows notebooks, whichever platform you...

 

 

By IR reader Mike DiRenzo

This past summer my wife, Carol, and I traveled along the East Coast from Maine to the Outer Banks of North Carolina and in our travels we shot several iconic lighthouses. When shooting coastal scenes, as with any other landscape type of shooting, the golden hour (aka magic hour) is...

We're back with Day 2 of B&H's 13-day-long holiday sales promotion. It's "Storage Sunday," which highlights lots of great deals and discounts on hard drives and SSDs for all your photo, video and media storage and backup needs. Deals includes portable hard drives from Western Digital, Samsung SSDs, big RAID arrays from G-Technology. 

Unlike...

 

 

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

Olympus recently released a major firmware upgrade for both their flagship E-M1 as well as their enthusiast-grade E-M5 II camera, and both got a whole host of cool new features including focus bracketing, but the E-M1 was the only OM-D to receive in-camera...

 

 

It's that time once more: Our latest roundup of all that's new in the world of camera firmware has arrived, and it brings with it lots of interesting tidbits for users of cameras from DxO, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax and Ricoh. Let's get right down to what's new!

DxO One firmware version 1.2

We'll start this...