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Capturing the look with Christian Sorensen Hansen and the Fujifilm XF 23mm and 33mm F1.4 R LM WR
Published Jan 10, 2022 | Sponsored content, created with the support of Fujifilm [embedded content] The Fujifilm Fujinon XF 23mm and 33mm F1.4 R LM WR are high-quality prime lenses for the company’s APS-C X-mount mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras. Fast, versatile and weather-sealed, the XF 23mm and 33mm F1.4 provide focal lengths equivalent to 35mm and 50mm in full-frame terms, making them ideal for everyday photography. In this video, we join lifestyle and commercial photographer Christian Sorensen Hansen as he uses...
read moreSolving the Problems of Photography in Very Cold Temperatures
Cameras usually aren’t specced to shoot in very cold conditions. A small handful have a negative operating temperature (in Celsius at least), like the Nikon Z9 at -10° C / 14° F. Most others are rated for a pretty pedestrian 0° C / 32° F. But if you’re aware of the issues, you can work in temperatures colder than that. As someone who does a lot of landscape photography in winter, I’ve run into almost every common problem associated with working in the cold. It’s a rewarding time to take photos, and many subjects look amazing in the snow (see...
read moreLandscape composition explained – Part 1: Masses and lines
An interesting viewpoint on Fagradalsfjall Volcano, Iceland, showing one of the vents in the center, sending rivers of lava in various directions. What makes this composition appealing? DJI Mavic 2 Pro, F7.1, 1/30 sec, pano stitch, April 2021. When it comes to landscape photography, composition reigns supreme as the single most important factor that determines the appeal of a shot. It’s a complicated subject, and people have different views and opinions about it. But over my career as a nature photographer, I’ve found that a few...
read moreDPReview TV: Nikon Z fc review – Did Nikon finally get retro right?
Published Jan 8, 2022 | dpreview staff [embedded content] Chris and Jordan ventured into the frigid Canadian winter for their full review of the Nikon Z fc, earning Chris a beard full of ice. The good news? All those old-fashioned dials worked great with mittens. Watch this week’s episode to see their verdict on this retro-looking camera. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. Nikon Z fc sample gallery from this episode Gear in this story We recently got our hands on a production Nikon Z fc and...
read moreVideo: Watch how a Nat Geo wildlife photographer selects his best image from a photoshoot
[embedded content] With digital cameras, it’s all too easy to capture hundreds or even thousands of images. Shooting high-speed bursts of images is excellent when trying to capture the perfect moment, but you end up with many photos that you don’t need or want. If you don’t have a good workflow for culling images and making selects, your hard drive will be jam-packed with unwanted images in short order. National Geographic contributing photographer Steve Winter worked with WIRED on a new video that outlines the thought...
read moreOnePlus reveals photo details of its 10 Pro smartphone: 10-bit color, RAW+ and a new 150-degree camera
A couple of days after teasing its new OnePlus 10 Pro smartphone, OnePlus has fully unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, and the phone’s camera system isn’t quite as new as we had hoped. It turns out that the new device will feature a mostly similar triple camera array as the OnePlus 9 Pro. There are some minor differences with the overall camera hardware to discuss. The main, ultra-wide and telephoto cameras all include the same megapixel counts as last year’s model, 48MP, 50MP and 8MP, respectively. However, the...
read moreSigma CEO says it couldn’t keep up with demand in Q4 2021, might see chip shortage affect production in 2022
A Sigma employee inspects finished elements before they’re installed into a lens and shipped to customers. This image was taken from our Sigma Aizu factory tour in 2019. If you think the likes of Sigma have been spared from the semiconductor shortage, think again. While Sigma hasn’t released any notices or announcement regarding the ongoing chip shortage, Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki has taken to Twitter to confirm semiconductor shortages have — and will continue to — affect production of some of its products. The information came from a...
read moreFilm Friday: A psuedo-review of the FED 6TTL, an electronic-shuttered Soviet rangefinder that never made it to production
Photo by: William Parkinson via USSR Photo, used with permission from Kosmo Foto. For this week’s installment of Film Friday, we’re featuring a psuedo-review of the 6TTL, a camera from Soviet manufacturer FED that went through a great deal of prototyping, but never made it to market amidst the collapse of the Soviet Union. This article is a summary of the full piece by Stephen Dowling on Kosmo Foto. In 1990, Soviet camera manufacturer FED started work on its next-generation rangefinder, a camera designed to take on its incredibly popular...
read moreHoldFast Money Maker Dual Camera Strap Review
If you’ve spent time around wedding photographers, you’ve probably seen the camera straps I’m going to discuss in this article. HoldFast is a small company that makes a variety of (primarily) leather camera accessories. They take pride that all their gear is made at their facility in Oklahoma, USA. HoldFast’s flagship product is the Money Maker, which is a dual-strap system. Over the past several years, these straps have become quite popular, particularly among wedding photographers. However, they are hardly cheap at $230 for the...
read moreMoment’s new CineFlare Streak filters promise anamorphic-style flares without a specialized lens
Moment, the company behind numerous photo accessories like filters, bags, cameras and much more, has announced the CineFlare Streak filter. The new filter is the ‘secret sauce for adding anamorphic-like flares to your footage without using a specialty lens.’ Rather than shelling out the money for a specialized anamorphic lens, something that Moment itself offers for mobile devices and drones, you can attach the new CineFlare Streak filter to a traditional camera lens on your mirrorless or DSLR camera and achieve a classic...
read more717-gigapixel image of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ is the largest to ever be published
The Rijksmuseum, located in the Netherlands, recently published the largest and most detailed image to date. The Dutch museum’s website now hosts a 717 gigapixel (717,000,000,000 pixels) rendition of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ (1642). Part of the ‘Operation Night Watch,’ the name given to this gigapixel undertaking, is to restore parts of the masterpiece that have been damaged and preserve the artwork in incredible detail. Starting in 2019, conservationists used a 100-megapixel Hasselblad H6D 400...
read moreNikon more than doubles the dual-format burst performance of the Z9 with 1.10 firmware update
Nikon has released a firmware update for its Z9 full-frame mirrorless camera that increases the camera’s burst length for dual-format capture, more than double the rate possible in the Z9’s 1.00 firmware. According to Nikon, firmware version 1.10 for the Nikon Z9 allows photographs to be captured at 20 frames per second (fps) for up to eight seconds when shooting in ‘NEF/RAW (high-efficiency★) + JPEG basic (large)’ mode. This is a five second increase from the previous firmware version. Of course, these stats come with caveats, with Nikon...
read moreJust published: Production sample images from the Nikon Z9 (with Raws)
The arrival of a full production sample of the Nikon Z9 at our Seattle offices just before Christmas last year coincided with a heavy snowfall and extended period of cold weather in the Pacific Northwest. But undaunted, we ventured out into the ice and snow, to capture images in a variety of (mostly very cold) environments in and around Seattle. In this gallery you’ll find images shot on various lenses, including the new Z 24-120mm F4 S and the Z 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 VR S, with and without the Z TC 1.4X teleconverter. This is a...
read moreRoundup: The best portable chargers and power banks for every situation
Over the past few years, more and more camera manufacturers have added USB charging to their respective camera models. It’s not always easy to determine what chargers will work with a specific camera model, as Chris and Jordan noted in a recent DPReview episode, but if you’ve confirmed your camera can be charged over USB, we’ve taken the time to round up a few of the best power banks in various capacities to help you get the power you need on the go. For this roundup, we’ve chosen a few power banks across various capacity levels, as each...
read moreThe best portable chargers and power banks for every situation
Over the past few years, more and more camera manufacturers have added USB charging to their respective camera models. It’s not always easy to determine what chargers will work with a specific camera model, as Chris and Jordan noted in a recent DPReview episode, but if you’ve confirmed your camera can be charged over USB, we’ve taken the time to round up a few of the best power banks in various capacities to help you get the power you need on the go. For this roundup, we’ve chosen a few power banks across various capacity levels, as each...
read moreColorized video clips reveal what California looked like almost a century ago
[embedded content] A YouTube creator who goes by NASS revived video footage obtained from the Internet Archive, and colorized it with added sound, to reveal what California looked like almost a century ago. In the 2 clips, taken in the 1940s (above) and 1930s, respectively, viewers are taken on a tour of bustling areas including downtown Hollywood and Orange County’s Balboa Peninsula. The original clips are black and white with no sound. A scene from downtown LA has been colorized. While not accurate, it was added in for ambience....
read moreRazer’s new Blade 14, 15 and 17 laptops have improved design, faster performance, better displays and more
At CES 2022, Razer has unveiled refreshes for its performance-oriented Blade notebooks. The Razer Blade 14, 15 and 17 feature new components and improvements, including the latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs, faster memory and faster Intel processors. The different sizes of the Razer Blade laptops include different improvements. The 15-inch and 17-inch models receive the latest 12th-generation Core H-series Intel processors. The larger two models have included 4K display options before, but the 4K display now has a 144Hz refresh rate,...
read moreVideo: A cheeky hands-on ‘review’ of a limited-edition ‘Vintage Camera’ LEGO set
[embedded content] Back in November, LEGO website Brickset released a very limited-edition ‘Vintage Camera’ set for Black Friday that could only be acquired by using VIP points awarded for making purchases on the site. While availability was scarce, YouTuber Wizard of Bricks managed to get their hands on one and subsequently created a tongue-in-cheek video ‘review’ of the 179-piece LEGO set. The six-minute video is a cheeky parody of the usual trends and stylizations of hands-on camera reviews seen on YouTube. It goes over the overall build...
read moreChina’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft sends back stunning photos of the probe above Mars
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has published four photos of Mars captured during the Tianwen-1 Mars mission. The Tianwen-1 probe released a camera that captured photos of the orbiter above Mars. It’s a unique and impressive view and the first full photo of the orbiter in space. As of now, the Tianwen-1 spacecraft is around 350 million kilometers (217 million miles) from Earth. Since launching in July 2020, the spacecraft has traveled 475 million km (295 million mi) and entered Mars’s orbit in February 2021. In...
read moreDPReview TV: The episode in which we predict all the big camera news of 2022
Published Jan 5, 2022 | dpreview staff [embedded content] It’s a brand new year! That means it’s time for Chris and Jordan to look into their crystal ball and predict all the big camera news of 2022 – before it happens. Find out what products and trends they expect to see in the coming year. Editor’s note: Jordan had a minor microphone mishap shortly after filming began that went unnoticed until later. We apologize in advance for some minor audio issues. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV...
read moreDPReview Readers’ Choice Awards 2021: Product of the Year
Published Jan 5, 2022 | dpreview staff Product of the Year 2021: the results The final round of voting has closed and a winner has been chosen in our annual Readers’ Choice Awards! Beginning in December, DPR readers picked their favorite cameras, zoom lenses and prime lenses released in 2021. The winners of that initial round of voting were then pitted against each other for the title of Product of the Year. Take a look and see which products came out on top. Gear in this story A plane crash leaves the mirrorless flagships overexposed...
read moreSkydio 2+ drone introduced at CES featuring improvements on the original model
Today at CES 2022, Skydio, a California-based drone manufacturer, announced a new, enhanced version of its autonomous and obstacle-avoiding Skydio 2 model. Skydio 2+, released a little over 2 years after its predecessor, offers up improved flight range, longer flight time, a Skydio Care program, and a new Keyframe mode. The latter is aimed at cinematographers and creatives. The Skydio 2+ is equipped with two pop-up antennas, found on the top-front arms of the aircraft, and a 5GHz Wi-Fi radio for connectivity at longer distances. Skydio claims...
read moreDell new XPS 13 Plus laptops have OLED displays, a unique touch function row, 12th-gen Intel CPUs and more
Dell has announced the XPS 13 Plus, a revamped version of its XPS 13 lineup that features an intriguing new design, an updated OLED display and Intel’s new 12th-generation processors. Dell’s XPS 13 lineup has cemented itself as the sleek and stylish laptops in the company’s expansive lineup. This year, however, Dell has taken it to a new level with a much more minimal design highlighted by a ‘capacitive touch function row’ and a ‘haptic ForcePad.’ The new ‘capacitive touch function row’ eschews physical keys for touch-sensitive buttons that...
read moreOnePlus teases new smartphone featuring a redesigned Hasselblad camera system
Last March, OnePlus teamed up with Hasselblad for its new OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro smartphones. OnePlus has announced its new flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 10 Pro 5G, and it features a redesigned Hasselblad camera array. The OnePlus 9 series phones kicked off a three-year partnership between OnePlus and Hasselblad, with Hasselblad co-developing OnePlus’s next-generation camera systems. The OnePlus 9 benefited from the relationship primarily through its Natural Color Calibration and Hasselblad Camera for Mobile software. The new OnePlus 10...
read moreThrough a different lens: why we’re changing the way we process lens images
Digital lens corrections, once seen as a way to keep lens size and cost down, are now an inherent part of the design of pro-grade optics, such as Nikon’s Z 24-70mm F2.8 S Technology moves forward, sometimes in incremental steps, other times in leaps and bounds. What’s not always easy to recognize is the point at which everything has changed so much that your existing way of working no longer makes sense or, at least, is no longer optimal. That’s the point we feel we’ve reached with our approach to processing images...
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Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.