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Canon's new EF 35mm F1.4L USM II lens has some pretty big shoes to fill. Its older brother, now on the market for 17 years, has become both a benchmark and a staple of many a pro Canon shooter's kit. We've had the Mark II version for a few days, and we've spent that time shooting some environmental portraits, landscapes and lots more in between. Read more... more

If you’ve always wanted to go crazy and creative with lens flares in your photos or videos, then Technical Farm’s new Flare Adapter is for you. It’s a see-through lens adapter that lets light leak into your shots from between your lens and your camera.

Matthew Allard of... more

Tripp and Tyler of the audio podcast Hello Today made this humorous 2.5-minute video that pokes fun at GoPro’s action sport advertisements. Using GoPro cameras mounted to various things, they shot footage of themselves doing “everyday stunts... more

Our friends over at Photo District News and Rangefinder Magazine have just published their first ever holiday gift guide, with contributions from Rolling Stone, Tiny Atlas Quarterly, TIME and our very own editor, Barney Britton. Click through to read the full guide!

The G-series of cameras from Canon have always been their enthusiast/prosumer range with features and specs that typically outclass their other compact cameras. With the compact camera segment suffering heavily at the hands of ever-improving smartphones, the enthusiast user is pretty much the only slice of the market which I think has any future. Smaller cameras and smaller sensors, but with controls and features photographers come to expect from more expensive models will still... more

Canon Australia has been conducting a series of experiments that are “designed to shift creative thinking behind the lens.” For the latest one, titled “Evolution,” the company gathered 6 professional photographers and gave them everyday objects to photograph. But there was one simple rule: the same composition cannot be shot twice.

The results can be seen in the 2-minute video above.

Three objects were used as the subjects of the photos: a banana, a... more

Need a light to illuminate clouds or a mountainside? Check out the world’s most powerful flashlight, created by Daniel Riley of... more

Weddings are a seasonal thing. They really pick up in spring, roll on at a steady pace through summer and then spike into the fall. But then comes November, when the frenzy of peak wedding season slows down, it can be tempting to hibernate until spring. If youve had a particularly busy year, it may actually be necessary for you to cool your heels for a minute.

But once you pause to catch your breath, dont succumb to the temptation to binge on Netflix and chill with your... more

FlatCam is a new camera with a technological breakthrough: it uses a thin mask instead of a traditional camera lens, allowing the entire camera system to be thinner than a coin.

Developed by researchers at Rice University, the FlatCam is essentially a sensor chip that ditches the sensor in favor of a mask that has roots in the world of pinhole cameras. Instead of a single hole, however, the mask features a grid-like pattern with multiple apertures that each allow different light... more

For our latest Field Test video we went not-quite south of the border to Marfa, Texas. There, photographer Theron Humphrey and his internet-famous dog Maddie help us test the Sony Alpha 7R II and a collection of Sony FE lenses. Despite the oppressive heat and rough roads of Big Bend National Park, the impressive sunsets are well worth the trip. Read more

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