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What was your first camera?

For this week's Throwback Thursday, I asked fellow DPReview staffers to write a few paragraphs about their first cameras, film and digital. I'll go first.

Jeff Keller

Unlike most of my colleagues, I wasn't a huge film photographer. I recall owning one of those flat 110 cameras,... more

Episode 159 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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“Goodbye Apple, hello Windows.” It’s a phrase many a photographer is considering these days, but if you’re afraid to make the jump, have no fear. Photographer Trey Ratcliff has already... more

There’s a simple way to make your subject’s eyes pop in a portrait, and it doesn’t involve touching vibrance, saturation, luminosity, or any other color-based edit. In fact, you can make the full edit in 30 seconds.

This quick Photoshop tip comes to us from photographer... more

Chinese lighting manufacturer NanGuang has launched a new kit that consists of a pair of flexible LED light panels designed for studio or on-location still and video work. The two panels are effectively 30x60cm rubber mats with 288 embedded bi-color LEDs each, which can be adjusted to produce color temperatures anywhere between daylight and tungsten 5600 to 3200K.

The mats can be bent to surround a still life subject or for a head shot to produce a wrap-around lighting effect, but... more

We know it’s coming; Fuji’s told us it’s coming. The Fujifilm Instax SQUARE camera and SQUARE instant film has already made its teaser debut, but today, newly leaked photos give us our fist look at the new camera and its special square film.

Fuji first mentioned Instax SQUARE back in September of 2016 at Photokina, announcing... more

I once read a Quora question that went, What can I learn in one minute that will be useful for the rest of my life? I dont know about the rest of your life, but if you’re a photographer, head over to the... more

Veydra, a California-based cinema lens maker, has reported the theft of more than 200 lenses from its headquarters. According to a post on Facebook, someone broke into the company's California HQ on Sunday and stole 200+ lenses from the Veydra Mini Prime lenses inventory... more

One of the most popular location scouting and photography planning apps in the world is getting its long-(long-long-long-)awaited debut on Android. Android users, meet PhotoPills.

After a full year of... more

In the summer of 2016, I experimented with creating animated GIFs using multiple cameras. I wanted to animate a moment, frozen in time, from several angles.

It wasn’t my first experience with animated sequences of images, for years I’ve been incorporating animated GIFs in my wedding, engagement, and portrait work. They have been a big hit with my clients. I created the animations below using bursts of still shots from a single camera (other photographers are making... more

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