Gear

Planning to photograph the upcoming solar eclipse? You’d better make sure you have the right solar filter to protect your camera. Here’s a 2-minute video that shows how shooting the sun without protection can completely melt your DSLR’s guts. The folks over at Every Photo Store in Dubuque, Iowa, decided ...

After teasing the product and sharing some sample portraits, the Chinese flash manufacturer Godox has now officially announced the A1. It’s a flash, LED, and trigger 3-in-1 unit designed for smartphone cameras. The Godox A1 features an 8W flash with a color temperature of 6000K (+/- 200K) and a 1W ...

The EISA Awards 2017-2018 has announced the winners of the year’s best technology and products throughout the electronics industry, and Sony has dominated the Photography category in the latest awards. The European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) is the world’s largest independent collaboration of experts in multimedia technologies and prides ...

Here’s a 12-minute video in which photographer Steve Perry shows how to use the relatively new “Auto AF Fine Tune” feature from Nikon. If your camera is back or forward focusing, then it’s likely you need to fine tune the autofocus. Often this would involve buying a commercial kit, or doing a ...

If you’re a Fujifilm X-Pro2 photographer who also shoots video, here’s some huge news for you: according to a new report, 4K video recording is coming to the X-Pro2 through an upcoming firmware update. Fuji Rumors is hearing from trusted sources that Fuji is planning to “level up” the X-Pro2’s ...

It was about time that another company released a “Story Mode” on a camera device, and this time it’s a startup called Ubiquiti Labs that has released a new wearable camera that will let all your friends know what you’re up to. The product is called FrontRow. This new “camera necklace” ...

The US Army recently said that it was removing all DJI equipment from its operations due to “cyber vulnerabilities,” in what was a blow to the public image of the Chinese drone manufacturer. In response, DJI has now developed an option to fly without any Internet data transfers in an ...

Yesterday, we reported that Amazon has been issuing refunds to photographers who purchased LEE’s Solar Eclipse lens filters, warning that they were not sourced from a recommended manufacturer. Now it looks like the whole thing was a mistake on Amazon’s part and that a lot of photographers just got free ...

After early camera tests of the new Canon 6D Mark II were published, photographers balked at the fact that the dynamic range of the camera performed so poorly against other modern cameras. Now yet another review is showing that if you often shoot at high ISOs, you may be better ...

For a few years now, I’ve had in my collection one very strange lens. I bought it primarily for its value as a collectible so, up until now, I haven’t really spent much time playing with it. Made in 1975, this manual focus Minolta MC Rokkor-X 40-80mm f/2.8 lens is ...