We are very sad to report the death of Michael Reichmann, founder of Luminous-Landscape.
Luminous-Landscape and dpreview.com came of age at around the same time. While we focused on lab testing and measured performance, Michael's perspective was always that of a passionate photographer.
Michael Reichmann, founder of Luminous-Landscape has... more
It may not be the first place that comes to mind, but the Soviet Union is a great place to start if you’re looking for a good quality piece of glass on the cheap…. well, what’s left of the Soviet Union anyway.
We’ve shared a number of do-it-yourself camera projects involving Raspberry Pi in the past. If you’re interested in trying your hand at one, it’s now even cheaper: the ultra affordable $5 Raspberry Pi Zero now has a camera connector.
The Raspberry Pi Zero computing board was launched last November in order to drive down the price of DIY computing projects even more than the original... more
Over on Tumblr, there’s a new blog called Guns Replaced with Selfie Sticks. As the title suggests, the site features movie stills from action films with all the guns Photoshopped out and replaced with selfie sticks.
This is some serious dedication. When wedding and adventure sports photographer Nathan Welton fell through the ice and into a frozen lake while shooting a wedding ceremony in Colorado, he didn’t stop or let his assistants take over. Nope… he just kept on shooting.... more
Accurately selecting a subject’s hair is not an easy task; a bit of frizz is enough to make a photographer pull their own hair out. But have no fear, there’s an advanced Photoshop tutorial for that.
Several cameras have now been released that feature some type of “high resolution mode”the Pentax K1‘s Pixel Shift and Hassy’s Multi-Shot, for example. But it sounds like Olympus is planning to change the game with their own high res... more
It’s difficult to discover something fresh in a market as saturated as wedding photography, but Tahiti-based photographer Helene Havard has. Using drones, she captures a fresh, stunning take on couple photography that you probably haven’t seen before.
The Tamron 85mm F1.8 claims the title of the world's first fast-aperture 85mm lens with stabilization. The focal length will certainly appeal to portrait photographers, and the combination of Tamron's vibration compensation with an F1.8 aperture might just give it an edge in low light situations. We've been shooting with it over the past couple of weeks, both on full-frame and crop sensor... more
