This is one of the more unusual videos I’ve made so far, but I might just be happier with it than any other I’ve done. My goal was pretty simple: to take a realistic “landscape” photo on my kitchen table.
How Camera Companies Can Survive The Smartphone
For the past few years, the camera market has been contracting at an unusually fast pace, resulting in decreased sales of DSLR and mirrorless cameras. The point-and-shoot market is already dead, and entry-level camera sales have also seen huge declines worldwide. This is mostly attributed to the rise of the...
Apple iPhone 11 Pro Camera Review
The iPhone 11 Pro is the latest generation iPhone from Apple. Released in September of 2019, it was designed to appeal to creative photographers and videographers, looking for a versatile, yet compact tool with excellent features and decent image quality. In this review, we will take a look at the...
New Nikon Lens Rebates
Nikon has just announced its new instant rebate program, which includes a total of 28 Nikon F mount lenses. The instant rebates range from $20 to $650, depending on the lens. Below is a quick summary of the lenses that are being discounted, with our recommendations. Below is the full...
A System to Pick the Right Shutter Speed, Aperture, and ISO
In this week’s video, I’m covering a topic I’ve wanted to write about for a while, but couldn’t find a good way to put to paper. Ultimately, I think it works much better as a demonstration format instead.
Fuji X-T200 Announcement
Fujifilm has announced yet another X-series camera in its line-up, the Fuji X-T200, an upgrade to the popular X-T100 mirrorless camera. Unlike other Fuji X cameras with X-Trans sensors, it features a 24 MP Bayer sensor. Although the sensor is very similar to that of the X-T100, Fuji was able...
Fujifilm GF Lens Roadmap
Fujifilm has just updated its GF lens roadmap for its G mount, which basically includes all the upcoming lenses for GFX medium format cameras. The updated roadmap now includes two additional lenses, the GF 30mm f/3.5 R WR and GF 80 f/1.7 R WR, to be released in 2020 and...
Why Nikon Should Not Make DSLRs Over 36 MP
For the past few years, we have seen many manufacturers push for a lot more resolution. With sensor ISO performance pretty much leveling across the field on most cameras, manufacturers are now pushing to increase the resolution to differentiate new cameras from their predecessors and the competition. Except in some...
Photographing the 10 Elements of Composition
For this week’s video, which I published a couple days ago on Youtube, I went to Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado in an attempt to photograph the ten elements of composition in 24 hours.
Recommended Fuji X-T3 Settings
As the third iteration of the X-T series cameras, the Fuji X-T3 is the most advanced and refined camera. Sporting a fast quad-core processor capable of recording high-quality 4K videos, a high-resolution 26.1 MP APS-C X-Trans BSI CMOS sensor, a fast and accurate autofocus system, and superb ergonomics, the X-T3...