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Nikon Z5 IIC Announced: Full Frame Stripped Down
Nikon just announced a new camera, the 24-megapixel Z5 IIC. It's billed as a Z5 II without the viewfinder, although it's trimmed down in a few other ways, too. It is also, however, lower in price at $1400 body only. That's the same as the original Z5 at launch, ignoring inflation.
Photography News: Canon EOS R8 Mark II, Canon and Fujifilm Sales
We’ll open today’s Photography News with a little puzzle. While going through photographs from one of my now rather historic expeditions, I came across a pair of almost identical images. Apart from showing the same landscape, they also share one technical characteristic—they were taken with the…
Tips and Tricks for Shooting with Fully Manual Lenses
These days, when lenses come with lightning-fast autofocus, powerful image stabilization, aperture control from the camera body, transmission of aperture and focal-length information to the EXIF data, and a whole host of other clever features, using fully manual lenses might seem like pointless…
From the Galápagos: Photographing the Rarest Gull on Earth
When I first visited the Galapagos, the Lava Gull (Leucophaeus fuliginosus) was one of my target bird species. And, as these things usually go, once you start looking for something, you can’t find it. When I returned to the Galápagos this year, I let the gulls slip a bit from my focus and…
Sony 400mm f/4.5 and 600mm f/6.3: I’m Jealous!
For the longest time, Nikon has been the king of lightweight and relatively affordable supertelephoto primes. They were the only game in town at one point with the 500mm f/5.6 PF. True, Canon already had the optically-excellent Canon 400mm f/4 DO II lens, but that lens wasn’t particularly…
DJI Avata 360 Review: Seeing the Andes Through the Eyes of a Condor
It’s just before five in the afternoon, and I’m hiking up a narrow trail toward the summit of one of the many hills surrounding Ecuadorian Mindo. Only moments ago, a light rain was falling from the sky, but now soft plumes of mist are rising from the canopy of the surrounding cloud forest, and it…
Photography News: A New PEN, Rumored Sony Light Telephotos, Leica Deals
Photography should bring joy from beginning to end. Whenever possible, it certainly shouldn’t end up as a fleeting collection of ones and zeros on a hard drive, but as a quality print hanging somewhere on a wall.
Lightroom’s New “Render to DNG” Feature Is a Big Change
Here's a story that may sound familiar to Lightroom users: You're editing a difficult photo, and the sliders, gradients, and brushes are adding up. Even if the photo is looking better, a wall is looming ahead - specifically, new edits are interacting poorly with your prior edits, and there's no…
The Sand Dunes of Florianópolis
Gentle tendrils of vines surround the trunks of trees, trunks covered by mosses and lichens and ants. Sunlight filters weakly through the foliage and struggles to reach the forest floor. Once in a while, the stillness is permeated by the raucous and jarring calls of chachalacas and toucans.
Photography News: Fuji 400mm f/4.5 Announced, Gitzo Sales
Yesterday, while going through photographs for an upcoming article, I came across this portrait of a European green frog and had to laugh. You see, wildlife photography can often be a rather lonely pursuit. You sit in a hide for hours on end, or wander through the wilderness without encountering a…