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Nikon Z 28mm f/2.8 Review

Sometimes, a lens that's enjoyable to use will find a permanent place in your bag, even if it has some optical flaws. That's how I feel about the Nikon Z 28mm f/2.8, which is one of Nikon's smallest and lightest lenses ever. I carried the Nikon Z 28mm f/2.8 around the...

Nikon Z 40mm f/2 Review

For years, one of the biggest reasons to choose a mirrorless camera over a DSLR was to save weight. Not all of today's mirrorless cameras follow that pattern - just look at the Canon EOS R3 and Nikon Z9 - but saving weight is still a high priority for many...

Behind the Photo: The Rapids of the Yellowstone River

A couple of months ago, I took an abstract/intimate landscape photo that I was happy with, and some people have asked me how it was made. It's a somewhat tricky image to parse, so today I thought I could go behind the scenes and show how I took it. Here...

Nikon Z9 Review

In this comprehensive review of the Nikon Z9 professional camera, we take a close look at its features, specifications and capabilities, and compare them to other top cameras on the market. Few cameras have been as hotly anticipated as the Nikon Z9. Of course, that’s partly due to Nikon’s own...

Nikon Z 24-120mm f/4 S Review

The Nikon Z 24-120mm f/4 S has been one of the most highly anticipated Nikon mirrorless lenses yet - but it almost didn’t exist. In early versions of the Nikon Z roadmap, a 24-105mm was shown instead. Thankfully, Nikon scrapped that plan and eventually went with the 24-120mm design we...

Bringing New Life to an Old Camera

Maybe this has happened to you, too: You head out with your camera, ready to take some great photos, only to find that you left your memory card at home or forgot to charge your battery. (If this hasn't happened to you, maybe you're less distracted than I am.) In...

What is Purple Fringing in Photography?

Within the broader category of chromatic aberration in photography, purple fringing can be a particularly tricky problem. Purple fringing usually appears as unwanted purple outlines around high-contrast objects in your photo, like leaves against a blown-out sky. In this article, I’ll take a closer look at what causes purple fringing...

How to Get Better Image Quality in Drone Photos

Modern drones can produce excellent image quality, but they're still limited by physics. With smaller sensors and difficulty using multi-second exposures, images from drones can be noisy or low in dynamic range. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to fix these drone image quality issues. In this guide, I’ll show...