Today, just ahead of the official start of CES and via a press release on it's website, FujiFilm unveiled its latest camera: the FUJIFILMX100S. Two years ago, FUJIFILM launched the prestigious X100 with a FUJINON 23mm f/2 fixed prime lens and superb image quality in a...
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UP NORTH from Joël Wagner on Vimeo. From Essen, Germany Joël Wagner (Profile in German HERE) and his brother spent 16 days for their dream adventure trip of a life time, a 750km journey from Whitehorse to Dawson City, Yukon, the month of September, 2012. Their choice of...
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CraigsList All Stars from TheCameraForum on Vimeo. The House of Blues in Los Angeles opened in 1994 and is located in the heart of West Hollywood. Home to unique pieces of art and architecture such as work by Alan Sainte, James Boudrot and their "Jake and...
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Bhutan Panasonic GH3 October 2012 from Ira Block on Vimeo. My friend Ira Block is an internationally renowned photojournalist, teacher and workshop leader who has to date produced more than 30 major stories for the National Geographic magazine and its affiliates, N.G. Traveler and Adventure. Ira tells the...
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[caption id="attachment_2343" align="aligncenter" width="680"] Fuji X-E1 - 1/5th Second 35mm f/1.4 @ f/1.4, ISO 6400[/caption] Back in August, thanks to a kind loan from Will Crockett over at DiscoverMirrorless.Com, I got to try the Fuji XPro-1 for a couple of days. That story is here:http://thecameraforum.com/xpro-1/ I liked it...
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Here's Chris Niccolls from TheCameraStore in Calgary, Alberta, & Nick Devlin, renowned landscape photographer and columnist on Luminous Landscape, testing the Sigma DP1 and DP2 Merrill edition cameras. While certainly not for everyone, these horrible little cameras produce absolutely stunning landscape photographs. I particularly like Nick...
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I always enjoy watching the reviews TheCameraStore produces. I wish I could do reviews this well myself. They cleverly sum up my own first impressions of my GH3. I too admit to being a bit disappointed in the GH3 in the high ISO stills department, but at...
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Shootout of the Mini Shotguns! from Chad Johnson on Vimeo. Each new camera release seems to bring an ever growing list of new features. Some of these are well worth having while to my mind some of them are little more than fluff. One of...
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Looking For Lenses from TheCameraForum on Vimeo. There is something to be said for the hand feel of a good pro grade DSLR. Strong. Heavy. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and still pull off ten frames a second without breaking a sweat....
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It isn't every day that something new comes along in the way of a photography "gadget" that is much more than a novelty; a cute toy we all buy from time to time, normally on impulse . I know I have a drawer full of...
It isn't every day that so...
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USING PHOTOSHOP TO DESIGN A PHOTO LAYOUT Jim Quinn used Photoshop to create the complicated layout of his documentary photo exhibit, "Good Friday in Colonia San Luis Rey," which was shown in the winter of 2012 in the Instituto Allende's Galeria Pergola in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. If...
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The new Olympus 17mm f/1.8 has been officially released for sale! It will cost you. Estimated Street Price: $499.99 And it's worth it, from our first look. With a total length of just 1.4 inches, the M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 17mm f1.8 is light as a feather and incredibly compact. The autofocus performance of...
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Amore Mio is Italian for "My Love." Judging by this excellent wedding production done by Austin, Texas, wedding filmmaker Joe Simon, that love certainly shines too. Joe shot Amore Mio using a prototype software version of the new Panasonic GH3. Joe's thoughts? Well, the quality of...
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By Jim Quinn With some photo subjects, extending the frame to the left or right, or even up or down, can work far better than the usual 3x2 format that photographers have been dealing with since the earliest Leicas. And with the Sweep Panorama feature in...
By Jim Quinn With some phot...
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First up, here are Canon's marketing claims for their first mirrorless camera system, the EOS-M: "Inspired by Canon's EOS technology, the EOS M digital compact system camera allows limitless creativity. Capture full HD video with smooth, quiet continuous autofocus made possible by Movie Servo AF and...
First up, here are Canon's mar...
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Long ago and far away in my distant past - about 25 years to be exact - I had the crazy idea of learning to fly an R/C Helicopter. I wasn't all that interested in the R/C bits of it, my vision was to mount a...
Long ago and far away in my di...
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