Category Archives: Equipment

Take More Photos, Spend Less Money Photography can be an expensive pursuit, and the cost of things (and the pressure to buy them all, buy them new, and buy them now) can get in the way of putting that money in better places.

The Smartphone vs The Camera Industry The camera market is continuing to shrink, and now we’ve got the iPhone 11 Pro

Fujifilm X-Pro3 Launch Blog: First Look Reviews, Samples, Pre-Orders and More – Fuji Rumors

Fujifilm Unveils the X-Pro3 with Plasma Hardening and Hidden Screen Fujifilm has announced the new X-Pro3, a rangefinder-styled mirrorless camera that was designed with street photographers and photojournalists in mind.

Lens Rentals | Blog Since the release of the Sony Alpha series of cameras back in October of 2013, Sony has been on a steady pace to take over the professional camera market. But that steady takeover has come with a lot of releases. Nearly six years later, ten different cameras have been released into […]

Sony Introduces Alpha 9 II Adding Enhanced Connectivity and Workflow for Professional Sports Photographers and Photojournalists – sonyalpharumors: Sony today announced Alpha 9 II (model ILCE-9M2). The latest model from Sony’s acclaimed line-up of α™(Alpha™) full-frame interchangeable lens cameras has been created specifically to support working professionals in the fields of sports photography and photojournalism.

Sony Unveils the a9 II with ‘Enhanced Connectivity’: The Sony a9 II is best described as a “refinement” of the original a9. It uses the same 24.2MP stacked CMOS sensor from the first a9, boasts the same 20fps black-out free shooting with the electronic shutter, and can perform the same 60 calculations per second with […]

The Fuji X-Pro 3 – A digital camera design philosophy I can get on board with! – 35mmc: The Fuji X-Pro 3 is the first digital camera that’s genuinely piqued my interest in a long time – and it’s not even been officially released yet. Fuji did some sort of pre-announcement presentation sometime last week, […]

Fujifilm Reveals X-Pro3 with Titanium Body, Hidden LCD and New Film Simulation Three hours ago, during the Fujifilm X Summit in Tokyo, Fuji officially announced the development of the X-Pro3 rangefinder. This camera, which was a long time coming, promises better performance in a more durable and lightweight package that should particularly delight street photographers.

Using a 31-Year-Old SLR for Fast-Paced Photojournalism Introduced in 1988, the Nikon F4 was the world’s first professional autofocus camera, and it made its way quickly into the hands of many working photographers. But despite the incredible leap in technology it represented, it was apparently quickly overtaken by the competition, which built on the solid […]

Is Your 24MP Camera Obsolete? How to Future-Proof Your Photographs The problem with technology is that it can look dated the older it gets. How good does a VHS tape look on your 4K TV? The same thing can happen with cameras. While 24-megapixel cameras are making great pictures, what they are going to be […]

Sony Unveils RX100 VII with 90fps Bursts and a9-Level AF Performance Sony has just unveiled the RX100 Mark VII, and the latest iteration of their popular, powerful point-and-shoot camera is a veritable speed demon. Thanks to a new sensor, the RX100 VII can shoot at 20fps with no blackout and full AF/AE, can perform 90fps […]

Sony Unveils a7R IV: The World’s First 61MP Full-Frame Camera During a live presentation in New York City this morning, Sony revealed its latest full-frame mirrorless camera, breaking new ground in this ever-more crowded market with the Sony a7R IV: the world’s first 61MP full-frame camera, with a burst speed of up to 10fps, and […]

Why I Got Rid of My Photography Gear, Revisited I stopped using all my gear. I put away the Broncolor lighting and all the beautiful Canon glass and picked up a rangefinder. I needed a simpler process, a guide, a set of basic rules that I could bend and push my creativity against. Abundance is […]

Silent Sony a9 a ‘Great Advantage’ for Photographer at Democratic Debate But New York Times photographer Doug Mills wasn’t among those who had brought along a Canon or Nikon DSLR, which are still the dominant tools of choice among photojournalists. Mills was shooting with the Sony a9 mirrorless camera, which can shoot at 20 frames […]

Hasselblad X1D II 50C is a Faster and Cheaper Medium Format Mirrorless Hasselblad today announced the new X1D II 50C medium format mirrorless camera, a followup to the X1D, which became the world’s first compact medium format mirrorless camera when it was unveiled back in 2016.

Fujifilm GFX100 Unveiled: It’s a Game-Changing 102MP Mirrorless Camera Fujifilm has announced the new GFX100, a 102-megapixel medium format mirrorless camera that the company calls “a game changer in digital camera technology and capability.” It’s the new flagship camera of the GFX line.

A new camera can photograph you from 45 kilometers away – MIT Technology Review Developed in China, the lidar-based system can cut through city smog to resolve human-sized features at vast distances.

The Cameras That Shot the Winning Photos of World Press Photo 2019 While Nikon surprisingly took the crown from Canon in 2018 with 52% representation among winning photos compared to Canon’s 30%, Nikon’s time at the top didn’t last long. This year, Canon struck back and was behind 46.4% of the winning photos compared to […]

Lens Rentals | Blog For those who are unfamiliar, the Nikon P1000 is essentially Nikon’s answer to all the amateur photography forum questions asking “If you could have one lens, what would it be?” If you’ve ever stumbled into one of these conversations, you’ll see that it’s a flood of people saying something to the […]