What Camera Quality Settings Should I Use for Photos and Video?

One of the questions I get most often from people who have just picked up a new camera is: What camera quality settings should I use for photos and video? I usually answer that question with another question: Have you ever desperately wished that you only had a low quality version of a specific image […]

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Magic Lantern makes Canon shoot Lossless 14-bit DNGs right in camera

Here is something that can have a huge impact on how Canon shooters will aces their files. Up till now, they were dependant on Canon’s proprietary raw format – CR2. But a recent proof of concept from Magic Lantern shows that Canon bodies can shoot DNG right inside the camera. As a short recap, each […]

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Adobe Camera Raw 9.6.1 Adds Fuji X-T2 Support

Adobe has released Camera Raw 9.6.1, which adds RAW file support for the new Fuji X-T2. The new release also brings a couple bug fixes: Uncompressed DNGs files converted from Fuji X-E2 RAF source images were are unable to be read Errors that preventing customers from creating a panorama from two HDR DNG source images. You […]

Adobe Lightroom 6.5.1 & Camera Raw 9.5.1 Now Available

  Adobe has released Lightroom 6.5.1, Lightroom CC 2015.5.1 and Camera Raw 9.5.1, which add RAW file support for the Pentax K-1 and Sony RX10 III cameras. There are also several bug fixes in both updates. There is a known issue for Mac users that Adobe is still working to resolve: Image flickers when moving an […]

How (and why) I’ve been photographing Disneyland in black and white

I’ve always had a lot of fun challenging myself with creative and/or technical limitations. Like giving myself a photo assignment to spend the day or even an entire vacation with a certain camera/lens combination and a limited shooting style, like to shoot only macro or only black and white, etc. It usually makes me work […]

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Lightroom 6.5 and CC Updates add New Camera and Lens Support

Adobe has updated Lightroom CC and Lightroom 6 to versions CC 2015.5 and 6.5, respectively. The update adds support for a number of new cameras, which include: Canon EOS-1D X Mark II Canon EOS 80D Canon EOS 1300D (Rebel T6, Kiss X80) Nikon D5 Nikon D500 Olympus PEN-F Olympus SH-3 Panasonic DMC-CM10 Panasonic DMC-GF8 Panasonic DMC-ZS100 (DMC-ZS110, DMC-TZ100, […]

Acquiring Images for Photoshop — JPEG vs. Raw [UP9]

Understanding Photoshop is a biweekly column that takes an in-depth look at how digital photographs are built and manipulated.  It is a college-level course in plain English for free at Photofocus.  To learn more see this article. Don’t Skip Column 8 Shooting JPEG vs. Raw When digital cameras became commercially available, the memory cards used to store […]