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Today at a conference in Tokyo, Nikon Corporation shared their financial results for the second quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2016. While the numbers for their camera business are still markedly down, their outlook seems better than for some of their competitors. 

The results show that Nikon's...

 

 

Jim Hamel says in an article for Digital Photography School that one sure-fire way to get better landscape images, particularly when you're approaching a scene and just don’t know what to do, is to use a wide-angle lens and shoot from behind something on the ground.

By getting behind an object on the ground and...

 

 

I know what you're thinking.... that the new Fujinon 35mm f/2 WR is a professional, weather-sealed lens that belongs on the flagship Fuji X-T1...! And, of course you're right, I can't argue with that.

But the 35mm f/2 is so small and lightweight that my first inclination was to pair it with the smaller and...

 

 

Here's a little feel-good photography to get your week started on the right note: Commercial photographer Brandon Cawood has started the 'When I Grow Up' project with his wife and his sister. Brandon's sister, Malisa Cawood, is a fifth grade teacher and her students are the models for Brandon's project.

The...

 

 

You may remember Apple's 'Shot on iPhone 6' ad campaign, which used images from iPhone photographers from around the world on billboards, magazines, and more. Photographers whose photos were used in the campaign have started receiving special books that feature select work from the campaign.

The books' arrival...

 

 

Photography trainer Mike Browne has shared a new video that discusses using a long lens for landscape photography. While a majority of landscape photos are captured using wide angle or normal lenses, Browne goes on to show that you can capture excellent landscape images with a longer lens.

In the video, Mike...

 

 

We're used to seeing long-exposure waterfall images, but a 500px collection published by Editor in Chief DL Cade makes a convincing statement that not every waterfall image has to be captured using a long exposure. You can capture amazing waterfall images that freeze time. Many of the images in the collection...

 

 

Chinese drone-maker DJI and Hasselblad have announced that DJI has purchased a minority stake in the Gothenburg, Sweden-based camera manufacturer for an undisclosed amount of money.

It is not yet known exactly how much stake DJI has purchased in Hasselblad, but they have purchased enough to earn a strategic...

 

 

Over at Photography Life, author and founder of the site, Nasim Mansurov, has written a guide on building a Skylake-powered PC for photography. Mansurov outlines builds for both a full tower PC and also a more compact and lightweight PC.

Mansurov gives suggestions for all the major components of a PC, including...

 

 

The New York Times takes us on a journey with Victor Thomas as he goes around New York City capturing images. Victor is not just any New York City photographer, he is part of a small group of photographers that refer to themselves as "Urban Explorers", or "UrbExers" for short.

Victor and other UrbExers go to...

 

 

I think I have a problem: I keep buying camera bags. Backpacks, messenger bags, shoulder bags, even a roller bag! I've tried large bags, small bags, ones from tried-and-true camera bag manufacturers, and I've tried the DIY, inconspicuous camera bag route.

So far, nothing's really been ideal. Most of the time, the...

 

 

By IR Reader Omar Attum

I have learned numerous lessons about gear as a result of publishing a book and calendar from my photographic work that spans 13 years. Photographic technology, camera size, and my photographic ability have changed tremendously over that time. The numbers do not lie:  Over 50 percent of...

 

 

Leroy Bellet may be only 16 years old, but his surf images have graced the covers of major Australian surfing publications such as Surfing Life and Surfing World, among others.

Leroy uses a Nikon D810, a Nikon 16mm fisheye lens, and a Nikon SB-910 flash unit inside of an Aquatech housing to capture unique images...

 

 

Adding to their arsenal of high-quality, ultra-fast primes, Sigma's new 20mm f/1.4 Art lens is now their widest of the bunch, joining the previous 24mm, 35mm and 50mm f/1.4 Art-series lenses. Not only is it Sigma's widest full-frame Art lens, but its also the camera industry's first ultra-wide angle lens with an...

 

 

An article by Alison Zavos on featureshoot.com discusses the questions that seventeen professional photographers hate being asked. Some of their responses are questions that I'm sure many of us have been asked at one point or another. Others are harder to relate to, such as Bruce Gilden's response, "Aren't you...

 

 

I was very pleased when my review unit of the Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1000 arrived last Friday. As someone who has been printing on an Epson 3880 for the last five-plus years, I couldn't wait to try out the new Canon printer and see what they have up their sleeves. After a pretty easy set-up process, the PRO-1000...

 

 

Canon Australia has published a video wherein six portrait photographers each take a portrait of the same man, Michael. Each photographer was told a dramatically different story about Michael, which leads to interesting and varied results.

The video is part of a new video series by Canon called "The Lab" which is...

 

 

For several years, beginning in 2012, the Sony RX100 series of cameras reigned supreme in the high-end enthusiast compact camera market, until 2014 when both Canon with the G7X and Panasonic with the LX100 stepped into the fray, making for some interesting competition in that market segment. Now, Canon has recently...