LET US ROAM - Ray Barbee from Let Us Roam on Vimeo. Ray Barbee is a legendary professional skateboarder from San Jose, California, who now resides with his wife and two children in Long Beach, California. He made his first appearance in the skate film...
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DIY Pancake Lens from Mark Toal on Vimeo. Panasonic Rep and great mirrorless pancake lens photographer Mark Toal recently got an inspiration for all of us who yearn to make our own hand built pancake lens. Mark uses conventional store bought Aunt Jemima brand frozen pancakes...
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The Optikos Bench First and foremost, if you aren’t at least a little Geeky, this post is not for you; unless you’re one of those people who thinks "just take some pictures, dammit," when I write some article about resolution testing. In that case, you might...
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What is Decentering and What Does it Do? Strictly speaking, decentering would involve one or more of the lens elements being off of the central axis of the lens. This would prevent the curved surfaces of the lens from bending the light properly. In severe cases...
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Michelle Yu, The Gentlemen's Press from anotherbeautifulstory on Vimeo. Self described on Etsy as "The Gentlemen are an alliance formed by tired and unhappy men in funny hats. It was formed mainly to facilitate weekly seances and relentless left-wing debates on the impending zombie apocalypse." {Michelle Yu...
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The Panasonic HX-A500 4K Action Cam is just the latest in what is becoming a long line of mirrorless camera magic from Panasonic. Panasonic has been on a tear making great strides in mobile video cameras in recent years. The Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH2 was probably the first hybrid digital...
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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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Ernest Goh - COCKS, Chicken Beauty Pageants from anotherbeautifulstory on Vimeo. Good stories are found all over the world. Thanks to modern day portable video recording technology to the rapid proliferation of the internet into every country at the household level, many of these stories are finally...
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Despite the best efforts of the top camera and smartphone manufacturers, personal video hasn’t exploded the way still photos have. However, like still photos, many say that personal video has the potential to break out from its role as "memory clips" and become an even...
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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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When I went to school photography education consisted of a brownie box camera, five rolls of 127 B&W film, five pre-paid Kodak processing mailers, and a teacher/advisor who supervised the yearbook student staff. "Go out and get us some great pictures!" was about the extent of...
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Video: Australian photographer Karl Taylor presents Parabolic reflectors vs other professional light shaping tools. As with everything else in photography these days, studio lighting is changing rapidly. So fast, I find it hard to keep up with the various types of lights, light modifiers, light sources, CRI...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Fujifilm X-T1 combined with the XF 23mm 1.4R prime lens is an amazing combination. This is the sharpest Fuji lens we have seen so far, even beating the very good XF 35mm 1.4. The widest opening of f/1.4 allows lovely background blur. In some...
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