Category: gear

GoPro Hero5 to shoot Full Ultra HD 8K video and 3D video at 4K?

John Aldred

GoPro, like many companies, tends to keep pretty quiet when it comes to new products, letting very little out until an official announcement is ready to be made.  Official news, therefore, on the GoPro Hero5 is pretty much non-existent, although the rumours and speculation are plentiful. GoPro CEO, Nick Woodman recently told Christian Times that […]

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Samyang’s new lens doesn’t have autofocus – It’s a 135mm T2.2 cinema lens

John Aldred

Samyang recently put out a teaser to build up some hype for five new lenses it was about to release.  There was much speculation abound about what these lenses were. Particularly, was Samyang finally dipping its toes into the world of autofocus? It turns out that the answer is an emphatic no, not quite yet. […]

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Aputure’s versatile new light is the size of a credit card and costs only $49

John Aldred

Small lights are fantastic and well designed ones are extremely versatile. Whether you’re shooting stills or video, you can throw them in dark corners to balance out a scene, add a subtle rim light to your interview subject, or even replace practical lights on-set. They’re also usually quite inexpensive. Aputure’s are taking “inexpensive” to the extreme […]

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Optical zoom finally comes to the mass drone market with DJI’s new Zenmuse Z3

John Aldred

Everybody seems to have a drone these days of some sort or another for all kinds of different things. Most of them have cameras attached, but almost all of those have one limiting feature; they have a fixed focal length, which means the only kind of zoom you’re going to get is digital. DJI’s new […]

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Mindshiftgear’s Moose Peterson bag will auto close on your gear to protect it

Udi Tirosh

Here is a problem nature and wildlife photographers have to deal with. How to protect gear when accesing the bag. Some shoots involve dust, rain, mud and other elements that may “interact” with your $11,000 600mm f/4 lens. And you wouldn’t want that. Mindshift Gear’s (re)newed version of Moose Peterson’s “ears” bag suggests a solution to […]

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Sony finally unleash full frame 50mm f/1.4 lens and 70-200mm f/2.8 pricing

John Aldred

It’s been a long time coming for Sony shooters, but they now have an official fast standard lens available with the newly announced Sony Planar T* FE 50mm f/1.4 ZA. No longer do you need to mess around with metabones adapters and put up with limited autofocus capabilities, at least, not if you want a 50mm […]

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Xiaomi’s new Yi 4K “GoPro Killer” now available to buy in the USA

John Aldred

The Yi 4K Action camera from Xiaomi was launched in China back in May. If buyers in other countries wanted it, they’d have to order from there and deal with often fairly long shipping times. Now, the Xiaomi Yi 4K has been officially launched in the USA and is available on Amazon. Normally, Chinese action cams don’t […]

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Which Camera is the Noisiest? This visual database compares sensor noise

Udi Tirosh

The quality of long exposures is determined mostly by the amount of noise a camera produces. The lower the noise levels, the better the exposure. This is especially true if you are shooting lots of nightscapes or night skies, where most of the photo is black. And Brendan Davey shoots a lot of night photos, in fact he shoots […]

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Why I shoot on film

Michael Turek

After eight years of shooting exclusively [on] digital [cameras], working with film was a revelation. It made me fall in love with the process of making photos. Shooting film heightened the sensation of being focused in the moment, which is at the hear…