Moose Hates Tripods | Moose Peterson – What’s in Your Bag
Join Photofocus’ Melissa Niu and wildlife photographer Moose Peterson about using tripods for long lenses and how they restrict camera movement.
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Manfrotto’s New Aviator Backpack Is Designed Specifically for DJI Phantom Drones
Manfrotto has launched a new lineup of backpacks made specifically for drones. The first bag in the series is the Aviator D1, a traditional style camera backpack that swaps the traditional gridded insert design for medium-sized drones, specifically models found in DJI’s Phantom lineup. The bag is made of an extra-lightweight material that Manfrotto claims […]
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday Photography Deals Round-Up
.Black Friday might be a week away, but that hasn’t stopped retailers from getting in on the action. Already, manufacturers have started dropping prices and offering one-off deals on cameras, lenses and accessories. To save you time, we’ve created a list of the best deals out there. This list will be continually updated now through […]
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Photojojo Has Announced a Brand New Lineup of Smartphone Lenses
Moment, Olloclip, Manfrotto. Those are just three of the many brands that have developed lenses specifically for smartphones. Now, you can add another name to the growing list. Photojojo. Today, the Photojojo team unveiled the Iris lens series, a trifecta of lenses made specifically for smartphones. Photojojo’s lineup consists of a fisheye, wide angle and […]
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DJI’s Concept Phantom X Presents the Future of Drones
The future has never seemed less exciting. A new video released by DJI presents the Phantom X Concept drone, including a bunch of new(ish) and (kinda) useful technology. Claiming to “turn wide-eyed dreams of future possibilities into fact”, the Phantom X includes multi-angle shooting, artificial intelligence, obstacle avoidance and free-flight object tracking. Enlisting help from […]
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Understanding your Subject | Moose Peterson – What’s in Your Bag
Join Photofocus’ Melissa Niu and wildlife photographer Moose Peterson about understanding your subject. 
Lytro announces A first ever Light field virtual reality camera – Immerge
Lytro just announced the first ever Light field virtual reality camera. This is an interesting shift in direction for a company that on one really got what they were doing. While their previous cameras were somewhat gimiky, this new camera may actually have real application in the emerging VR production world. Immerge, a spherical camera captures light […]
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Save Your Neck and Lose That Strap
You know that neck strap that came with your camera? Yes, the one that has the big Nikon/Canon/Sony/Fuji/Panasonic/Olympus logo on it. That thing should stay tightly locked in the box your camera came in. Neck straps, especially the stock ones, are much more trouble than they are worth. Lose the strap and not only will […]
Sony α68 Leaked Announcement and Specs
In what we suspect to be a leaked announcement ahead of Sony’s “Surprise” event in Sweden tomorrow, Sony Alpha Rumors posted the full specs and press release of the α68. The new camera inherited many features from the more advanced α77 II, such as 4D FOCUS, and is aimed at newcomers to advanced amateurs. The […]
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1998 Canon D2000 Goes Head-To-Head Against The 2015 Canon 5DSR
Sometimes we complain about how our cameras function. Even if we are not doing so out loud, there is this voice in our heads that says “If only the ISO could go higher…” or “If only the card was faster…” or “If only the camera was lighter…”. And this is OK. Or course, those complaints […]
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