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Canon RF 16mm f/2.8 and 100-400mm f/5.6-8 Announcements

September 14, 2021 By Spencer Cox 7 Comments

Canon RF 100-400mm f5.6-8 Official Sample Wildlife Image

Today, alongside the big EOS R3 announcement, Canon announced two new lenses for their RF mirrorless mount: a 16mm f/2.8 and a 100-400mm f/5.6-8. Both aim to be lightweight and portable (at least for their type of lens) and pretty inexpensive at $300 and $650 apiece. They ship in October.

Nikon Z 40mm f/2 Formally Announced + Pre-Order Links

September 13, 2021 By Spencer Cox 16 Comments

Nikon Z 40mm f2 with Nikon Z5 Product Photo

A few months after announcing its development in June, today Nikon formally announced the compact Z-series 40mm f/2 lens and revealed its full specifications. The lens will go on sale “later this fall” according to Nikon, with a suggested retail price of $300.

How Much of a Gap Between Focal Lengths Is Too Much?

September 12, 2021 By Spencer Cox 59 Comments

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When you’re assembling a set of lenses, it can be tempting to try to cover all the important focal lengths without any gaps between them. A kit of 14-24mm, 24-70mm, and 70-200mm lenses is a popular one. So are sets with overlap, like a 16-35mm, 24-105mm, and 70-200mm.

Key Takeaways from the Fall 2021 Fuji X Summit

September 8, 2021 By Meg Faehl 5 Comments

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The latest Fujifilm X Summit was packed with exciting announcements. From updated cameras to new lenses for the GFX and X-Series systems, there’s quite a lot to unpack. This doesn’t just include product announcements but also updated lens roadmaps and other teasers of their future plans.

How to Take Better Photographs Indoors

September 3, 2021 By Meg Faehl 9 Comments

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Many new photographers find that while shutter speed, aperture, and ISO make sense in theory, it is hard to know where to start in practice. Even if you understand basic camera settings, getting high quality photographs – especially indoors – is not always an easy task.

Best Photography Memoirs

August 30, 2021 By Meg Faehl 6 Comments

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If you're looking for good weekend reads in photography - enjoyable books that also serve as education and inspiration - this list is for you. The books I cover below are all memoirs by photographers detailing their creative, photographic, and artistic journeys. Some read like novels and others are crash...

Best Lenses for the Nikon Z5 / Z6 / Z6 II

August 25, 2021 By Spencer Cox 45 Comments

Nikon Z6 with 14-30mm f4 Sample Landscape Photo

I recently published an article about the best lenses for the Nikon Z7 and Z7 II, but the list expands a bit for lower resolution sensors. In this article, I’ll go through every Nikon Z lens plus some F-mount lenses to see how they perform on the Z5, Z6, and Z6 II.

When and How to Upsample an Image

August 21, 2021 By Spencer Cox 14 Comments

Upsample a Photo Tutorial

Upsampling is a tool in most post-processing software that allows you to increase an image’s resolution after taking it. Upsampling lets you boost, say, a 24 megapixel image to 48 megapixels, 96 megapixels, or 240 megapixels! But doing so doesn’t mean you’re actually capturing more detail.

Photoshop 2021’s Sky Replacement Explained

August 18, 2021 By Madhu Manickam 27 Comments

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There are many reasons why Photoshop has so far managed to hold its ground as the undisputed king of the image processing world. One of the primary reasons is that it keeps evolving every year, as it has for thirty-one years. It stays up to date in two main ways. First,...

How to Make Photos Feel More Deliberate

August 14, 2021 By Spencer Cox 11 Comments

Same Photo of Pyramid Dune with Tone Curve and HSL Lightroom Adjustments

Most of the time, when you see a good photo, you’ll get a sense that the photographer took it deliberately. But how can you tell that? What subtle things about the photo make it appear deliberate rather than random? That’s what I’ll cover today.

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