News entries for March, 2019

 

 

Our weekly Firmware Friday roundup returns with the arrival of another weekend, and this time around it's a story that's dominated by Sony and its flagship A9 mirrorless camera. The Sony A9 v5.0 firmware update is clearly this week's showstopper news, and so we'll be covering it first of all in this week's article....

 

 

I had a chance to sit down with a group of top Nikon executives and engineering managers last month, as part of my yearly pilgrimage to Yokohama, Japan for the annual CP+ trade show. We talked about lens design and how it's impacted by the new Z-mount -- we're frankly amazed by their new 14-30mm f/4 lens,...

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Olympus E-M1X Field Test Part I

 

 

Although both my colleague Dave Pardue and myself have had some hands-on shooting time with the big, beefy and pricey Olympus E-M1X, we thought it would be a great idea to have our resident landscape and wildlife photographer, Jeremy Gray, take...

 

 

Photographer Adam Gibbs recently traveled to China. One of the areas he visited is the mountainous Huangshan region. In the pair of videos below, we first go behind the scenes with Gibbs as he searches for images on a snowy morning in China, sharing a variety of selected images with their accompanying settings. In...

 

 

While dodging and burning is often considered within the context of editing in Adobe Photoshop, you can also dodge and burn inside of Adobe Lightroom. As photographer and educator Serge Ramelli showcases in his latest tutorial video below, by mastering dodging and burning techniques in Lightroom, you will be able...

 

 

Here at Imaging Resource, we have featured numerous photography guides from photographer Anton Gorlin, including tips for better sunrise photography, a guide to seascape photography and a lengthy guide covering composition. Gorlin's latest photography guide is centered around desert landscape photography. Of desert...

 

 

Though they are not yet revealing the price, Panasonic has announced a time frame for the highly-anticipated video-centric firmware upgrade that will be available for the Panasonic Lumix S1 full frame camera. When Panasonic's latest camera comes to market in early April, it will come loaded with many video features...

 

 

Sony has announced the RX0 II, what they are billing as the "smallest and lightest premium ultra-compact camera." A waterproof, dustproof, shockproof, crushproof and extremely small "premium" camera, the RX0 II is capable of internal 4K recording and now includes a flip-up screen that tilts upwards 180 degrees and...

 

 

When returning from a successful photo adventure, be it a day trip or an extended period of time, you may find yourself needing to go through hundreds or even thousands of images. After a productive trip to the Faroe Islands, photographer Nigel Danson had a ton of photos to process in Lightroom. In the video below,...

 

 

LEE Filters has introduced a revised version of the filter holder at the foundation of their popular LEE 100 filter system. For the unfamiliar, the LEE 100 filter system allows for the use of compatible 100mm filters by attaching a filter holder to an adapter ring on your lens. For example, you can attach a ring to...

 

 

It's been quite some time since our friends at Olympus last brought us a new piece of glass. In fact, it's safe to say it's been well over a year! That's a long time waiting, but then again the new Olympus 12-200mm f/3.5-6.3 covers quite a bit of range! As expected, this latest offering has drawn quite a bit of...

 

 

Nature macro photographer Ghislain Simard has been photographing insects since he was 10 years old. As an accomplished photographer, his childhood love of photographing agile flying insects has remained. Simard has become well-known for high-speed photography and has even designed his own tools to freeze bugs such...

 

 

I had a chance to sit down with Kenji Tanaka from Sony, as part of my usual round of interviews at this year's CP+ 2019 trade show in Yokohama. Tanaka-san is the Senior General Manager of Business Unit 1 of Sony Imaging Products and Solutions Inc's Digital Imaging Group. That's a typically...

 

 

It's been a while since we had a really brief Firmware Friday post, but this week rectifies that with news of just three updates: One from Sony, and two from Canon. (And the latter aren't actually available yet, just in development.)

So what's new? Well, Sony's A6000 mirrorless camera has just received...

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As Fujifilm continues to expand their GF lens lineup for the GFX medium-format system, photographers have more options than ever. Until the new Fuji GF 100-200mm lens debuted, however, there was only a single zoom lens for the system, the GF 32-64mm f/4. While...

 

 

If you are just starting out with photography, Imaging Resource is the place to be. We have very detailed laboratory tests and real-world evaluations of many of the most popular cameras at every price level. What is the best way to digest all this information and select the right first camera for you?

 

 

Landscape and nature photographer Simon Baxter would much rather spend his time behind the camera rather than sitting at a desk working on images. This approach to photography informs not only his capture techniques, but also his post-processing workflow.

When capturing an image, Baxter aims to be clear about his...

 

 

When creating high-key portraits, it is difficult to retain the trademark bright look of a high-key portrait without having your image become somewhat flat. In the video below, photographer Mark Wallace showcases his high-key lighting setup, which includes four lights.

By utilizing kicker lights, you can add a...

 

 

Sometimes you don't have access to a fast lens or perhaps are not in a position to utilize a fast aperture within a given situation. In times like these, you can use Photoshop to create a shallow depth of field during post-processing. In the video below, Unmesh Dinda of PiXimperect shows how to nondestructively...