Nice move Canon, the Canon EOS 7D can be had for great prices. Amazon and B&H Photo have these specials on offer: Canon EOS 7D (Body Only): $1,499 – $500 Savings = $999 Canon EOS 7D with EF-S 18-135mm F3.5-5.6 IS Lens Kit: $1,799 – $500 Savings = $1,299 Canon EOS 7D with 28-135mm F3.5-5.6 […]
By MARTIN KALAYDJIAN I just took a look at the CIPA shipment numbers for April 2014, and they really are depressing. CIPA reports that new camera shipments continue to fall, losing about a third of their market each year. This isn’t meant to be about doom and gloom. It is only “crying wolf” if the […]
Match prints to their monitor displays — or why not just finally have a properly calibrated computer screen. The Datacolor Spyder4PRO Display Calibration System sells for $99, that’s nearly 50% off list price. Can be used with desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets. Special price limited supply only, order here.
From a Top Rated Plus eBay seller: Canon 70D with EF-S 18-135mm IS STM Lens for $1,099 instead of $1,741 list price. Limited time only. Order here.
A lot has been said about Apple pulling the plug on Aperture. Not only Aperture, iPhoto is a goner, too! Loyal Aperture users are considering the transition to Lightroom, giving in to monopolist Adobe that’ll rule the digital imaging processing world. Not that Apple drops digital imaging altogether. The upcoming Photos app will replace and […]
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Holy consumerism. Sometimes you wonder how much people of the first world still have to work. In some countries it’s down to a few hours a day while people enjoy lots of spare time for recreational pursuits, such as sports, outdoors, video games, smartphones, travels — and photography. Electricity lets us people of the first […]
In this Kickstarter era, going public with great new gear ideas and consumer hardware startups is extremely hot. GoPro is the latest American dream of a now self-made billionaire who had a great idea, believed in it and made the dream come true. Especially in the field of photography many gifted innovators are courting the […]
Esther Honig‘s idea was as simple as brilliant. Not that she’s an outstandingly beautiful women, she’s certainly good looking — but as the ideal of beauty depends on the beholder and his or her cultural background: how would Honig’s “ideal” appearance look like if she’d live in another culture? So she sent a portrait photo […]
Interesting Guardian article on the city of Rochester, New York, home of film giant Kodak which collapsed in 2012. Now, using Kodak film, Magnum photographer Alex Webb and his wife Rebecca Norris Webb have captured the streets of the rundown town, creating a eulogy to the days of transparencies. Either see the death of the […]
Everything gets a little bit better with this repeat champion of DSLRs — Nikon just announced the D810 (specs) with a redesigned mirror mechanism and electronic first curtain shutter option to reduce the risk of “shutter shake” reducing resolution. Also, Nikon drops the optical low pass filter for improved resolution and dynamic range. Meaning, there […]
The Wall Street Journal blames Nikon’s poor overall performance on missing the mirrorless boat. “Nikon needs to start breaking some mirrors,” the paper says. “That isn’t usually seen as a way to good fortune, but mirrors — specifically, the ones that add bulk to its high-end SLR cameras — are one of Nikon’s biggest problems […]
George W. Bush firing at a poster of Putin, Queen Elizabeth II reading a book on the loo, David Beckham frying fish sticks wearing underpants serving his victoria — photos every paparazzi is dreaming of. Well they’re fake and the creation of Alison Jackson, a British contemporary artist whose photographs are “convincingly realistic work about […]
Kate Upton floating in space. Her trademark assets have seen about every place on earth — now she conquered the last frontier: the universe. Or nearly. For a Sports Illustrated “Zero Gravity” swimsuit shoot, a project that took four years to complete, Upton went up up up for the rest of the world to see […]
The Sony Alpha A7 lineup is a classic already — full-frame performance in a compact, versatile package. Now the 24.3MP A7 with tiltable screen is on sale — $200 off the body or kit with the FE 28-70mm F3.5-5.6 OSS zoom. That’s $1,498 only for the body and $1,798 for the kit! And check out […]
Want to experience how astronauts see our planet? That’s not a problem, made possible by a project called Daily Overview with its stunning, daily updated collection of digital images, shot from space, looking down on our planet’s spectacular, vulnerable nature and man-made impact and geometries. It must be a very special feeling when astronauts see […]
Rumors have become fact, Amazon announces its first smartphone, the truly unique Fire. It’s in no way surprising that Amazon wants to sell stuff, therefore much of the phone’s technology is developed for this very purpose with quick identification of and access to products, music, movies, etc. Quite interesting is the phone’s advanced camera system […]
Hard to miss the Sony A7S doxology currently running rampant in websites and online fora. The camera that can see in the dark. All of a sudden 12MP are king. I’ve been saying all along that less is more and that too many megapixels are more of a burden than a blessing. Now everybody seems […]
New gear available for preorder: Probably one of the best all-rounder and travel optics out there, the Fujifilm XF 18-135mm F3.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR lens for the X series system: Fujifilm X Mount 27-206mm (35mm Equivalent) Four Aspherical and Two ED Elements Super EBC Lens Coating Five-Stop-Effective Image Stabilization Inner Focusing System & Linear […]
Film’s never gonna be dead. What nicer than a camera garage sale, and not just any camera garage sale, but one where the newest gear is the occasional digital Olympus Pen. Vintage retro and film cameras as far as the eye can see, that’s the photographer’s delight that just took place at the Foto-Flohmarkt in […]
Buying a camera and or owning a camera system says as much about a person’s character as the partner, pet, car or house the person has. Deciding which camera or system to shoot with is in fact a highly intimate, deeply personal choice that’s quite meaningful to read and understand a person’s character. You shoot […]
By NATE THAYER The “Selfie”: A History and Modern Cautionary Warning — In 2013, the Oxford Dictionary named “selfie” its word of the year. They define it as, “a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.” But the selfie is […]
Act fast, Nikon lenses deals are back — both Adorama and B&H Photo have them: Deals expire Saturday, June 14, 2014.
By BENGT NYMAN This probably makes you think of a miraculous electronic device mounted in place of the lens on your camera. Maybe some day, but not today. My thought today is to take the lens correction technology offered by DxOMark and others a step further to solve a problem with long focal length lenses. […]
It could be one of the most famous photographs ever, The Falling Man by Richard Drew, a longtime Associated Press photog who was one of four press photographers present at the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. Drews famous 9/11 photo depicts a man falling from the World Trade Center towers following the September […]
Inspiring stuff by National Geographic photographer Cory Richards. Feel like your photography is stuck and want to bring it to the next level? Well leave your comfort zone. That’s what Richards is telling us in this video “tribute to discomfort.” A school dropout and for the most part homeless, photography became the language to translate […]
Photokina 2014, world’s biggest photography show, is around the corner. Taking place mid-September in Cologne, Germany, all major players use the stage to show off their latest and greatest gear. What’s in store for this year’s biennial Photokina? More DSLRs by Canon and Nikon? New curved and organic sensors? Compelling reasons to upgrade? Let’s have […]
Excellent Adorama promotion: Save $200 on a Zeiss Touit 12mm F2.8 or 32mm F1.8 lens for Sony NEX and Fujifilm X cameras. Better even, get both Touit lenses together with an $800 instant rebate! That’s nearly half price for stellar Zeiss Touit glass… better hurry. Here’s the link to all offers. The 2-for-1 Touit offer […]
Great Amazon deal on a Sony NEX-6 kit: Get the NEX-6 with 16-50mm power zoom for $519 only, that’s $380 or 42% off list price.
Blesseth the curfew… Never had to kill more time at an airport than when checking in for a plane departing hours after the 10 p.m. Thai curfew kicks in. What better than just, well, look around. Same old Df / Distagon 28/2 combo. Now that third photo could have more easily been shot with a […]
