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With a background in literature and journalism, today Eugene Reznik is the Digital Features Photo Editor at Bloomberg. Before grabbing that gig, he was the Director of Photography of the digital publication... more

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX850 (known as the GX800 and GF9 in some regions) is the brands most compact interchangeable lens camera (as of Spring 2017) and uses the same 16MP Four Thirds sensor as several of its siblings. Sold kitted with a 12-32mm collapsible zoom, stand-out features include a 180-degree flip-up touch LCD, Panasonic's excellent Depth-from-Defocus AF and 4K video capture.

At its core the GX850 represents a combining of Panasonic's style-oriented GF-line with the ultra-... more

I needed a monitor hood for quite some time but wasn’t willing to pay the retail prices charged for them, so I decided to build one myself. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to build your own DIY monitor hood for less than $12.

I searched a bit on the Web and found a few tutorials on how to build one. I was inspired by several of them and started building one myself. The material prices are German prices so it may vary in your location, but the costs should be about... more

Sony is squeezing as much hype as it possibly can out of its impressive stacked sensor technology. Not only did they use this tech to create the 20fps Sony a9, they also created a smartphone that can shoot 960fps super... more

Have you thought about getting a RED Cinema Camera? Sure, they're pretty amazing tools, but do you really need one? Cooper over at Cooper films gives you some questions to ask and some good advice to consider before taking the plunge.

President Donald Trump’s meeting with Russian diplomats is being heavily criticized by US photographers today. The administration’s decision to lock out US media has left them open to accusations of contributing to Russian propaganda, and potentially opening itself up to espionage.

The two related storylines have quickly gained prominence over the past 24 hours. Initially, the story revolved around the absence of any US media in the meeting between President Trump,... more

Yeah, Im in a crevasse, Jamie Mullner radios to his friends after tumbling 60 feet to the depths of a glacier in the Swiss Alps. I had the GoPro recording; how epic is that!?

This GoPro Video of the Day starts with Jamie and his friends surveying the slope in front of them. In a little moment of foreshadowing, Jamie points out an obvious crevasse and says that hes a little bit sketched out. Moments later hes at the bottom of it, having skied in to a section that was... more

Native Nebraskan Bill Frakes has had a long career in which he has photographed in 138 countries and all US states. He has captured everything from Pulitzer Prize-winning images of Hurricane Andrew for the Miami... more

Sony Mobile has released the first super-slow-motion short movie that has been completely recorded on a smartphone. All of the movie's scenes were recorded by 120 amateur videographers from 21 countries on the Tria peninsula near Lisbon, Portugal. The footage was shot under the direction of award-winning director Chris Cairns and using the new Motion Eye mode of the Sony Xperia XZ... more

Sigma has released an updated firmware version for its 30mm F1.4 APS-C lens for the Sony E-mount. Firmware version 0.2 brings the following improvements:

  • Improved peripheral brightness correction when an aperture value of F1.7 is selected on the Sony a6300 camera.
  • Fixed the AF operation when using... more

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