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You know that you were waiting for this. After trashing the Canon 5Dmk4no clean HDMI output, Rolling shutter issues and lack of many video features, finally there is something nice to say about the camera. The final score is 91, which is better than any camera in the Canon line up. But, according to DxO, [...]

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What is it with all these “world’s firsts” lately? It almost seems like companies are trying to outdo each other for an ego stroke, no matter how ludicrous their announcement may be. Well, now, it’s Laowa’s turn. Again. The first new lensisthe 7.5mm f/2 for Micro Four Thirds cameras, the widest f/2 lens ever designed [...]

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How many times have you shown your pictures to someone and said, You should have seen that sunset in person to understand how magic it was! We can make many excuses as to why the photo doesnt look the same, complaining about our equipment, settings or post-production, but lets face reality, maybe there was something wrong with our landscape photo!

Before you open Photoshop, and even before you press the shutter button, you need to plan the kind of image you want to create. Planning... more

CamRanger was almost a solo player in the wireless tethering arena for a very long time. While some suspected that CamRanger was simply an upgraded TPLINK 3040 router, the fact was that it delivered. Now Tethertools aremaking theirentry into this market and I am curious to see how they will match up. Their device is [...]

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A little more information is coming out on the two new Nikon KeyMission 80 bodycam, and KeyMission 170 action cam. The most obvious one being that the KeyMission 80 appears to be coming in multiple colour options. I’m not quite sure what’s going on with the silver & leather look one, though. Perhaps it’s supposed [...]

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My name is Mike Kelley. I’ve been lucky enough to travel the world and see incredible architecture while working for hotels, architects, designers, and developers.

In this article, I’d like to share with you one of my favorite techniques for photographing architecture. If you’ve ever tried to photograph a building at twilight, you know how tough it can be to properly expose all parts of the scene. You know how some areas tend to fall into darkness.

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We knew it was coming. Adobe added raw support to Lightroom Mobile a little while ago for shots made with DSLRs. The newly releasediOS10 also brings raw support to the iPhone’s built incamera. Althoughthe iOS10 native camera app doesn’t yet support it, 3rd party developers have beenquick to jump on the feature. So, it’s hardly [...]

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Creating super long slider or dolly shots is something many timelapse photographers and filmmakers dream about doing. For some, hyperlapse techniques and a lot of post production work is the answer. For others, that’s far too much work. When you look at the whole process, you can quickly see why. For others, the solution is [...]

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Everything good must come to an end. The bad news first, the image manipulation store is closing. Now the good news, we are reopening as RAW Exchange intl. The store is now just to big to simply be swallowed as a sub-site of DIYPhotography and we are giving it the place it deserves. A new [...]

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For anybody who’s seen the legendary movieTop Gun, there’s one scene often sticks out in the mind. In it, a fictionalMiG-28 is cruising through the air. Maverick(Tom Cruise) and Goose(Anthony Edwards) fly above it, inverted, in an F-14 Tomcat. Goose then proceeds to photograph the pilot of the MiG with a polaroid camera. Advertising photographer [...]

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