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Improving high ISO performance is one of the most sought after frontiers in modern camera technology, and for good reason. Most every photographer out there needs faster shutter speeds in low light from time to time, and some rely on it for their very careers. Sports photographers crave it, as do handheld shooters...

 

 

I always enjoy the opportunity to meet with camera and lens company executives, and dig a little deeper into some of the behind-the-scenes information and tech details about their products. (I admit it, I'm a pretty serious camera-tech geek :-)

Here's the content of my first executive interview from the CP+ 2015...

 

 

Photographer Jonathan Mannion has captured some of the most iconic images in hip hop history. From Jay-Z album covers to gritty portraits of Nas, the Ohio-born photographer has carved his path through the world of hip hop and photography.

Along the way, he’s gathered plenty of stories and many lessons, a few of...

 

 

Image stabilization comes in two main varieties: in-camera and lens stabilization. But a third type of stabilization technology might be just around the corner. According to a patent uncovered by Egami, Canon is working to develop an external image stabilization unit that you can insert into the lens, between the...

 

 

Some of the best sports photographs happen before and after the game—and during timeouts. Keep your eyes open for those personal moments that say something about the way your favorite athletes feel about competing, winning, and, sadly, losing.

It’s almost impossible to appreciate how difficult sports action...

 

 

The Sony A6000 has been the most popular camera on our website for almost a year now, and had its performance and image quality discussed by many. It's little brother, the Sony A5100, has basically the same image quality in viewing side-by-sides from our lab test images, but in a smaller and lighter package -- and...

 

 

Flickr looks to be testing out a new feature called Camera Roll. Still in beta and not yet live for everyone, Camera Roll is a personal interface within Flickr designed to more effectively help you browse, manage and edit photos and their metadata.

Details on the new feature are scarce, as only one Reddit thread...

 

 

Photography, like most other arts, is one of interpretation. Put a hundred photographers in a room with a common subject and a hundred different images will be captured, each of which encapsulates the photographer’s internal emotions that are projected onto or within the subject matter.

Continually intrigued by...

 

 

A challenge you will inevitably come across in your photography career is figuring out how to capture a portrait of a subject who is wearing glasses. Whether the spectacles are needed for vision or are being used as a prop, the addition of glasses makes it difficult to light a scene without reflecting the light...

 

 

Bergen Co. has released Darkroom, a new iOS photo editor that strives to bring the power of the desktop experience to mobile devices.

Built from the ground up with speed as a priority, Darkroom does away with the idea of importing your photographs one by one. Instead, you’re presented with your iPhone’s entire...

 

 

Edelkrone has released an innovative new tripod head for photographers and videographers. It’s called the Flex-Tilt Head and it features an articulating design for mirrorless cameras and small DSLRs.

The Edelkrone Flex-Tilt Head weighs less than a pound and is no larger than the size of a couple coasters stacked...

 

 

Lens diffraction is a topic often talked about amongst pixel-peepers, but one rarely understood in a comprehensive regard. To help explain the details of lens diffraction and crush a few myths surrounding it, landscape photographer Steve Perry has created a exhaustive video.

In the 14-minute video, Perry breaks...

 

 

Photographer Jay Maisel is known as much for his real estate as he is photography. To some, this might be seen as a distraction from his photo work, the spot light being more on the building he lives in than the art he produces.

But for Maisel, his 72-room, 35,000 square-foot Lower Manhattan mansion plays a vital...

 

 

Fujifilm has announced a few new additions to their X-mount lens roadmap. In addition to the lenses they’ve already announced in 2014 and the known upcoming lenses for 2015 and 2016, they’ve added two new lenses, a teleconverter and given more details on a ‘Super Telephoto Zoom’ that’s appeared on Fuji’s previous...

 

 

Photoshop can be an incredible tool at times, making or breaking an image with the plethora of features it offers. However, even as widely used as it is, there’s still much unknown to its userbase.

One such example is that by placing a blank, white layer on top of a .PSD file, you can dramatically reduce its file...

 

 

Olympus has announced that Chinese drone manufacturer DJI is officially joining the Micro Four Thirds System standard.

Details are scarce, so there’s no telling what this means for DJI’s future products, but it doesn’t take much hypothesizing to come up with a few possibilities.

Most notably, this joining of...

Ahead of the CP+ show in Japan, Sigma, along with announcing the new dp0 Quattro camera, also debuted the newest addition to their lineup of Art-series lenses. The new 24mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art lens, designed for full-frame cameras, is the ninth Global Vision-designed Art lens.

This full-frame optic is an ultra-fast wide-angle lens, that's...

 

 

A year after Japanese camera and optics manufacturer Sigma launched a trio of unusual cameras whose unique sensor design was topped only by their strikingly different bodies, it returns with a fourth model for the family: the Sigma dp0 Quattro. A new, even wider-angle option than past Quattro cameras, the dp0...

 

 

Some cameras cater to the needs of sports shooters or landscape photographers, but there's perhaps no more specialized niche than astophotography. Nevertheless, the niche appears big enough to interest Nikon, with the company set to introduce the D810A, a new astrophotography-specific variant of their popular ...