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When friends ask me to recommend a camera, more often than not they say they're looking to take better pictures than what they get from their phone. But what does "better than my phone" actually mean?

One of those key differentiating factors has been the "pretty blurry background" effect that an interchangeable lens camera is capable of producing. Whether you know the word 'bokeh' or not, you know what a nice portrait looks like: sharp focus on the subject, a soft blurry background.... more

Sony Kumamoto sensor factory: first public footage of the 2016 earthquake

On April 16, 2016, disaster struck in Kumamoto in the Kyushu region of Japan. A series of earthquakes, including an unprecedented 7.0 mainshock struck beneath Kumamoto City where Sony's sensor factory resides. The factory itself was a mere 20 kilometers from the earthquake's epicenter. A foreshock (... more

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Summer probably isn't the time of year when we're all dreaming of getting away to an island paradise to sip colorful drinks on the beach by day and take photos by golden hour... that yearning is gonna hit hard around January. But last August travel... more

Episode 202 of thePetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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It looks like this tiger was about as frustrated with the Nikon KeyMission 360 as we were when we reviewed it. Obviously frustrated after missing golden hour because she couldn't get the camera connected to her Android phone, she just gave up and chewed the crap out of it...

Joking aside, Russell Edwards of RSE Photography captured this strange video when the Nikon KeyMission 360 he put just inside the... more

Is it worth upgrading my EOS 80D to the EOS 6D Mark II?

We already had a simple look at how good an upgrade the EOS 6D II makes for 80D owners, based on our early impressions of the camera. Now we've had a chance to spend more time with it (and to go back and shoot with the 80D again), we thought we'd look at the differences and benefits in more detail.

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In the ever heated debate of Tamron vs. Sigma vs. Nikon vs. Canon, a new lens has arrived. Tamron has released an update of their popular... more

Photographer Murilee Martin has shot auto racing for over a decade now, but recently he decided to give himself a challenge: he covered a race using a “point-and-shoot” camera that contains 100-year-old+ camera technology.

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In this tutorial, I’ll break down how I create light trails from video and how you can create a video panning shot. A panning shot is where a camera pans horizontally to track a subject in a frame, keeping the subject sharp, while blurring the background.

Recently I created a video for Toyota that combined my light-trail/long-exposure video technique and video panning effect:

After this video was released, I got a ton of questions and tutorial requests on how... more

Mount Rainier from Grand Park ISO 200 | 21mm | F3.5 | 1/80th

One of the things that I love the most about my Olympus PEN-F camera is its chameleon-like nature. One minute it can be a tourist snapshot camera, the next a rugged backwoods professional shooting rig. Once I was even chastised for still shooting film by a millennial.

This past summer I decided to take my PEN-F with me on my annual ultra-light hike to Mt. Rainier National Park. Those of you familiar with the concept of ultra-... more

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