The Camera Store TV (link is external) recently found an original Canon Digital Rebel (AKA 300D/Kiss Digital/DS6041) from 2003 on their hands. Curious about how an entry-level DSLR from 12 years ago compares to cameras released these days, the team decided to do a hands-on field test.
I’ve been doing increasingly more portraiture outdoors over the years and most often have been relying on speedlights for their small size and portability. One problem I always faced was choosing a stand to use for supporting the speedlight.
In too many cases, on rough terrain, I found traditional light stands unstable and C-Stands not much better. Because of this I began to experiment with tripods. Tripods have a larger footprint and are more stable, but then height... more (link is external)
A few years ago, husband and wife photographers Ed and Dallas Nagata White captured the Internet’s imagination (link is external) with a spectacular photo of a passionate kiss in the midst of pouring rain and flowing lava.
ZEISS has introduced the 21mm F2.8 to its Loxia lineup for full-frame Sony E-mount cameras, joining the 35mm F2 and 50mm F2. Like its siblings, the 2.8/21 allows the user to de-click the aperture ring for video recording. Read more (link is external)
Adobe has issued an apology over the 'significant crashing bug' introduced in Lightroom 6.2. The latest version of the software was released last Monday, and brought with it a redesigned import experience. That new experience, unfortunately, also introduced instability into Lightroom and removed some import functions; users reported issues with the software crashing and running poorly. ... (link is external)more (link is external)
Hold onto your seats: there may soon be game-changing breakthroughs in image sensors that could take low-light photography to whole new levels. The inventor of the CMOS sensor is working on building a new type of image sensor that packs a billion pixels onto a chip no larger than the sensors used today. What’s more, each of those pixels are designed to detect single photons.
Flickr sent out emails to users today announcing that the service is making videos downloadable in the same way that photos are.
“We’re excited to announce that your friends, family, followers and fans can now download your shared videos, the same way they would your shared photos,” Flickr writes. “As with photos, you control who can download your videos.”
