There are few things I've found in my life as a photographer of any real lasting value: My older pre-ASPH Leica lenses, an old Domke bag I've had forever, my hat, and a small library of books - SONY A7/A7R:FROM SNAPSHOTS TO GREAT SHOTS now being...
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Once again from our favorite Canadian reviewers Chris Nichols and Jordan Drake from TheCameraStore.TV. We have their hands on field test of the new Panasonic GH4. After our own preliminary look at the new GH4 at the WPPI show last week, I would concur with...
Once again from our favorite...
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Editors Note: Today we introduce a gentleman who needs little introduction, the Master of Brevity, the Don Juan of Optical Benches, Master researcher of a7r light leak, the Master Myth Buster of Camera Porn himself, President of LensRentals.Com, Mr. Roger Cicala! BAD-A-BOOM! Roger has agreed to...
Editors Note: Today we introdu...
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I had never been to WPPI, the Wedding and Portrait Photographers International show in Las Vegas, so when Paul Gero told me he was going I made an on the spot decision to join him. The Sunday afternoon drive from Los Angeles to Las Vegas...
I had never been to WPPI, th...
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There are some problems reported using a Sony A7R with a Leica 28mm f/2 Summicron ASPH. Smudged "blurry sides and edges" and serious "color smearing" repeated in discussion forums and on the major social networks. Some go so far as to report the 28mm 'Cron...
There are some problems report...
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Chris Niccolls is joined by Nick Devlin discussing the just released Fuji X-T1 camera. The X-T1 is the latest in the Fujifilm “X” series camera lineup, and may be the first Fuji X that crosses the line into the “general” camera category. Appealing to a...
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Published on YouTube Jan 28, 2014 Randy Halverson is a driven person, as driven as anybody living in rural South Dakota can be I guess. Randy and his two Canon 5D Mark III's sure did some traveling last year, covering South Dakota, Wyoming, and Utah shooting in...
Published on YouTube Jan 28,...
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It seems so long ago, but it has only been about eighteen months since Panasonic announced the GH3. The GH3 has proved to be an able follow-on to the GH2, and an improvement in every regard. Panasonic saw the light with the wide acceptance of...
It seems so long ago, but it h...
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ANTIMEDIA - PHANTOM MIRO SHOWREEL from ANTIMEDIA on Vimeo. How do you avoid annoying AutoFocus? Mount a manual focus lens. How do you get slow motion? Insanely fast frame rates with a Phantom Miro. in this case, 1,200 frames per second, then you slow it down to a...
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Zoom Q4 from TheCameraForum on Vimeo. Zoom calls their Q4 a Handy Video Recorder. Sony refers to their HDR-MV1 as a portable Music Video Recorder. But what is in a name? In the end, what sold me was features. The Zoom Q4 is packed with them,...
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https://youtu.be/cA0X-gLU_LM Introducing the new Zoom Q4 Music Video Recorder. I don't know if it is the exuberance of it being New Year and the Chinese Year of the Horse or what, but for some reason this year is starting with a plethora of good sounding, purpose designed...
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Great story, client with low production budget, good but public shooting location, no lights, crew or assistants? I grabbed my Panasonic GH3, and Panasonic's fantastic 12-35mm f/2.8 Lumix zoom, and went for it. The Panasonic GH3 is a fine video camera for a lone storyteller. All...
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In addition to improvements in just about every area, Fujifilm has also brought some interesting new features to the X-E2. What's the coolest? To me, one has to be the new Digital Split Image™ for interchangeable lens cameras. Split image focusing was originally used in manual...
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From: OutbackPhoto.Net We recently found some fun to photograph again some animals and birds. For our Nikon and Canon systems, faster long tele lenses or zooms (at least 400mm and f/4) were never a real option. Why? One may think first of the price and rightly...
From: OutbackPhoto.Net We r...
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While most of the country chilled out inside avoiding the "Arctic Vortex," thousands of brave souls battled the crowded isles for the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week in Las Vegas, NV. Show attendance was reportedly brisk again this year, where the features were focused...
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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="582"] The SD Deck of Cards. What A Confusing Mess![/caption] Christmas is past but the Grinch left me one more New Years present. I discovered a new 32GB SDXC card bit the dust, and took my whole Happy New Year along with it....
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