Canon at NAB 2017

At the 2017 NAB Show in Las Vegas, Canon will showcase its line of professional 4K and high-definition imaging equipment for motion pictures, television production, video content creation, and still photography at booth C4325.
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How zooming with your lens and your feet changes relationship between foreground and background

Before you raise your torches and pitchforks, this is not another post about how focal length affects your subject, or whether you should “zoom with your feet” or not. I’m sure you’ve already seen how changing focal length and/or distance changes perspective, but this video answers an important question – what can you do with […]

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This is how you can edit video on a smartphone or tablet

Smartphone video often seems to get neglected. Even here on DIYP. We post a bit about smartphone photography, but little about shooting video with a phone. And it’s something many of us do, even if just for social media. Or, we shoot clips we shoot to edit on the computer alongside other footage. I’ve even […]

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Zeiss Batis 135mm f/2.8 Sample Images

Ahead of our full review, here are some sample images taken with a final production version of the brand new Zeiss Batis 135mm f/2.8 lens.

The Zeiss Batis 135mm f/2.8 lens is a fast short telephoto lens for Sony 35mm full-frame cameras.
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Sigma 135mm F1.8 DG HSM Sample Images

Ahead of our full review, here are some sample images taken with the Sigma 135mm F1.8 DG HSM lens mounted on a Nikon D5 camera body.

The Sigma 135mm F1.8 DG HSM is a fast short telephoto prime lens for full-frame DSLR cameras.
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Irix 15mm f/2.4 Sample Images

Ahead of our full review, here are some sample images taken with the Irix 15mm f/2.4 lens, mounted on a Canon EOS 5DS R camera.

The Irix 15mm f/2.4S is a manual focus ultra-wide-angle prime lens for 35mm full-frame DSLR cameras.
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Dragging the Shutter Part Two: Shake, Spin and Zoom

Dragging the Shutter, as we learned in Part One, is a tricky technique where you light the subject with your flash, and then use a slow shutter speed to pull in the background light. All the basic how-to information on how to balance light to make it “correct” is laid out in the previous article.…