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The idea of cleaning your cameras sensor fills many photographers with dread. It may seem difficult or complicated but it is actually much more straightforward than you may think. In this article, I will give you a simple guide on how to check for sensor dust and how to effectively clean your cameras sensor.

Today I carried out one of the most daunting yet important tasks when it comes to photography: I cleaned my cameras sensor myself. Whilst I had... more

Forget buying a professional rain cover or carting a shower cap with you, if you want to protect your camera from rain and snow on the cheap, this creative quick-and-easy DIY solution will cost you less than $1.

This DIY solution is brought to us by photographer... more

The Rio Olympics have come to a close, and there's no doubt that these summer games have been memorable. World records were smashed, heroes were made and the best sports photographers in the game captured it all. But what may go down as one of the most memorable images from the games is actually two photos, captured by two photographers a fraction of a second apart.

Photo by Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuter's.Embed... more

Canon engineers have developed a new design for the micro lenses it uses on imaging sensors that it claims will reduce vignetting and false coloration at the edges of the picture. The new designs have a bi-convex lens that uses the upper surface to collect light and the lower to channel the light more effectively to the photodiode. The patent application shows the lower face of the micro lenses with a convex surface featuring an off-center vertex. Canon says these would be placed at the... more

When photo storage site Picturelife shut down, users were left high and dry without a way to access and/or download the images they had stored there. This didn’t sit well with SmugMug, who... more

There was a freezing 4C (39F) dunking pool at the freediving world championships in Turku, Finland… and photographer Daan Verhoeven did not want to let it go to waste. As the competitors took... more

We all have heard about cases of sexual harassment or simply disrespectful attitutes towards females in workplaces, which sometimes get buried under the never ending mazes of bureaucracy, some other times they lead to job losses, penalties, warnings, sometimes plain ignorance.

Weve also seen several cases gain public attention whether through high profile trials in the court that are reported in the media or cases where social media brings them to our... more

If Puma or Nike or anybody else wants to photograph Usain Bolt from now on, the fastest man in the world says they’ll have to do it on Jamaican soil. It’s a decision Bolt made in order to help bolster his country’s economy and help people back home.

The news “broke” in a profile Bolt did for Television Jamaica, in which Bolt said any advertising shoots he does from now on will have to be done in his home country.... more

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Thanks to their use of individual pouches for camera bodies and lenses and the ability to expand their size, ThinkTank's Shape Shifter camera bags are known to be among the most versatile in the business. Now ThinkTank has funneled years of feedback from... more

Ricoh has released firmware version 1.10 for the Pentax K-70 camera. The update is a small one, bringing general stability improvements alongside a couple of minor changes. The download for Windows and Mac, as well as the installation instructions, are available here. The changelog lists the following updates:

  • Enabled ISO sensitivity to change during multiple exposures... more

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