Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a great tool for post-processing your work, especially if you tend to shoot RAW most of the time. It's quick, easy to manage and offers an extremely wide range of color adjustment, as well as other kinds of processing. But what if you need to retouch...
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Hitech Neutral Density Master Kit Review
This is a review of the Hitech Neutral Density Master Kit, which contains a number of filters that I use with the Hitech Filter Holder for landscape photography. Since I personally prefer soft edge graduated neutral density filters over hard edge (doing mountain photography with hard edge can be problematic),...
Nikon 1 V1 vs V2
In this article, I will show feature differences between the Nikon 1 V1 and the newly announced Nikon 1 V2 mirrorless cameras. Judging by the J2 and V2 updates this year, it seems like Nikon will be refreshing the 1 line fairly often, so I am planning to provide feature...
Hitech 100mm Modular Filter Holder Review
It is no secret that many landscape photographers, including myself, heavily rely on filters for field work. As I pointed out in my Landscape Photography Guide and Lens Filters Explained article, filters can be very helpful for, among other things, capturing more dynamic range in difficult lighting conditions, decreasing reflections...
Hitech Pro Stop 10 ND Filter Review
This is a quick review of the Hitech Pro Stop 10 ND Filter, designed to dramatically decrease the amount of light that enters a camera lens. Why and when would one need such a filter? With less light passing through the lens and reaching the film or digital sensor, slower...
Lens Calibration Explained
On DSLR cameras, sometimes lenses don't focus exactly where they should because of the way a DSLR works. Moreover, various factors such as manufacturer defects, sample variation, insufficient quality assurance testing/tuning and improper shipping and handling can all negatively impact autofocus precision.In such cases, you may need to calibrate your...
What is a Mirrorless Camera?
While a DSLR camera uses a mirror mechanism to either reflect light into an optical viewfinder, or pass it through directly to the camera sensor, a mirrorless camera completely lacks such mirror mechanism (hence the name), which means that the light passing through the lens always ends up on the...
Hitech 105mm Circular Polarizer Review
This is a quick review of the Hitech 105mm Circular Polarizer, designed to decrease reflections, reduce haze and saturate colors in photography (see our article on how to use a polarizing filter). The filter is specifically created for the Hitech Filter Holder system to be used with a 105mm plastic...
Nikon D600 / D610 for Sports and Wildlife Photography
As I have pointed out in my D600 Review, I am quite pleased with the autofocus performance of the D600 and the D610. These cameras acquire focus quickly and accurately in most situations and in my opinion works more reliably than the AF system on the Nikon D7000. This past...
Nikon D600 Review
After many months of rumors of a budget full-frame camera, Nikon finally announced the Nikon D600 right before the Photokina 2012 show. Priced at $2,099 MSRP, the D600 was the cheapest full-frame DSLR from Nikon, around $900 cheaper than its bigger brother, the Nikon D800 at the time of announcement....