The new TanuckLITE 40 could just be the camera backpack to consider whether you’re just getting into outdoor photography or taking it to the next level.
With camera backpacks for adventure and outdoor photographers now a must, we have yet another for you to consider for your next trip. Mountainsmith, creator of backcountry equipment and recreational outdoor gear, continues its partnership with outdoor lifestyle photographer Chris Burkard, who co-designed the newly-launched TanuckLITE 40.
Instax Wide backs for the Mamiya Universal Press and Polaroid 600SE cameras were readily available, until they weren’t.
If you’re browsing eBay, the equivalent of an Instax Unicorn has surfaced on the web: an Instax Wide back for the Mamiya Universal camera. This adapter lets you load up Fujifilm Instax Wide film and shoot it with the medium format lenses used by the system. In addition to that, the system gives you full manual control over the image. With that said, you have full manual control over a modern Instant film format–currently the largest available on the market to consumers. Serious portrait photographers will adore the ability to do this with a camera that can fire off flashes and do so much more. The only other cameras that is nearly this versatile is the Mamiya RB67 and RZ67 series of medium format cameras.
The ONA x Tutes capsule collection features the Bowery and the Camps Bay, ONA’s most popular camera bag and backpack.
Camera bag and accessories purveyor ONA is at it again with stunning editions of its best-selling bags, giving photographers more options for their next camera bag purchase. For the latest of its special edition collections, the company has partnered with Bronx-based photographer Jose “Tutes” Tutiven and New York camera store Adorama to launch the ONA x Tutes capsule collection.
Been looking for your next fashion photography inspiration? This short video featuring Australian fashion and beauty photographer Max Papendieck will give you just that.
Whether you want to do fashion portraits as a hobby or you want to do it professionally in the long run, it always help to get some tips and be inspired by those who are already successful in the field. In this quick video by Henry Thong, we get our fashion photography inspiration from Australian fashion and beauty photographer Max Papendieck, who has photographed a good number of high-profile personalities for an impressive list of brands and publications.
Fujifilm recently took to New York’s Grand Central to display a number of photos in their FUJIFILM Print Life Photo Exhibition.
Fujifilm is arguably in one of the best positions to push the idea of the printed photograph onto a modern audiences, perhaps even more so than Canon. Go to almost any lab or printing service in America and they’re most likely using Fujifilm’s color paper. Recently, Fujifilm raffled off a few Instax cameras and told participants that their images would be displayed in their new Print Life Photo Exhibit. In additional return for submitting images, Fujifilm let participants know that they’ll be sending them an 8×8 print of their photo after uploading their images. The result: over 13,000 entries–which may not sound like a lot but considering the scope of the prizes and what most folks in marketing will tell you, was significant.
All images by Bax+Towner. Used with Creative Commons permission.
When Jason Bax and John Towner, more popularly known as the commercial photography duo Bax+Towner, went to Cuba in March 2018, one of their main goals was to meet and take portraits of the tobacco farmers working in the fields of Viñales. The resulting series is called The Farmers of Viñales and it’s exactly what it says on the tin. The Oakland, California-based duo shot the men as they tilled the soil and harvested crops, with each image looking unsurprisingly like a print ad.
Buying photography software, presets, tutorials and accessories doesn’t have to scare your wallet.
If you are on the look out for some spooktacular deals on photography software, and photography accessories you’ve come to the right place. Cheap Photo is all about finding you the best deals on the gear, software, and accessories you want. With Halloween right around the corner, now is the time to purchase and use some fantastic presets and actions that can really help make your Halloween pictures stand out from the crowd. For just $29 you can get over 4000 Halloween presets and actions for Lightroom and Photoshop. Already planning your winter shoots? We have you covered there too with a great deal where you can save $1,671 on winter overlays.
If precision editing is vital to your workflow, TourBox is a customizable controller especially designed to let you do just that.
Ever dreamed of having more levels of control over your Photoshop or Lightroom work? With the TourBox controller, you can now have more than just your keyboard controls, mouse clicks, or tablet taps to make edits as precise as you need. The TourBox is poised to be the most advanced creative controller for Photoshop, Lightroom, SAI, and other image processing software. Especially designed for photographers and designers looking to boost their work efficiency, this fully customizable device promises to provide a new, state-of-the-art method for editing content.
All images and text by Laura Palladino. Used with permission
I’m Laura Palladino, a freelance photographer currently residing in a small beach town near Los Angeles. I was born and raised in New Jersey by parents who got me involved in everything from sports, to dance to art. Luckily, art stuck and eventually the drawing and painting transformed into photography. Ever since, I have been shooting film and digital imagery at school, for personal projects, for corporate clients, and for small businesses. I use a Nikon DF with a Sigma Art 24-105 lens when I shoot digitally. When I shoot film, my go-to is my old Minolta or Polaroid Land Camera. Digitally, I shoot in RAW, then edit in Lightroom and/or Photoshop. With film, I develop in a traditional black and white darkroom using Fiber paper.
The Peak Design Everyday Messenger 2 is better than the previous version, but it’s not perfect.
The first version of the Peak Design Everyday Messenger bag was a hit with many people, although personally I wasn’t a huge fan of it. The original Peak Design Everyday Messenger wasn’t very ambidextrous and although the second version has surely made strides forward, there is still something very awkward about the bag that I think appeals more to tech bros more than anyone else. There is a lot of great technology and ideas in the bag, yet for what it’s worth I’m still not its biggest fan. Perhaps it’s because I’ve mostly moved over to backpacks, but the Peak Design Everyday Messenger 2 still doesn’t feel like a camera bag to me. Instead it feels like an every day bag that happens to be targeted at photographers.
You probably need to take a crash course on film photography if you don’t get these.
Dad jokes are everywhere, and if you think you can escape it in the photography world, you’re sorely mistaken. Today, we bring some brilliant (or face palm-worthy) bits of humor peppered with puns and sprinkled with wit. One thing to note: you’ll have to know your film photography well to get everything and join in the fun.
Cue the breakfast food jokes, no but really, these pancake lenses are as sweet as maple syrup.
If you like to keep the weight of your gear down to a minimum, don’t want to draw attention to yourself, and absolutely do not want to compromise on quality, these small, lightweight pancake lenses could be exactly what you’re looking for.
Pancake lenses have a special place in the hearts of many street photographers, and documentarians. They get their name from their small, thin form factor, and from their weight (or lack of it). With these lenses attached, photographers can pick up cameras and walk around with them almost like they are a point and shoot. When it comes to smaller Mirrorless bodies, when they have a pancake lens attached you can just about throw the camera in your pocket and go on about your day.
If you’ve been wondering how the Hasselblad XCD 80mm f1.9 performs in actual shoots, this quick video is worth a watch.
In case you missed it, Hasselblad introduced last month three new additions to the XCD lens family, one of them the XCD 80mm f1.9, pegged as the company’s fastest lens ever. That, of course, also means that the mind-blowing wide aperture brings the bokeh-licious aesthetic to the X1D-50c, along with increased light-gathering ability. If you’re toying with the idea of grabbing this lens for your mirrorless medium format camera, you’re surely curious about how it performs during an actual shoot. We got just the right video for you to check out.
Sports photographers need to capture game winning plays, and with these lenses, your odds of being the MVP of sports photography will improve.
It can happen in the blink of an eye. The game winning pass, the half court shot, the game saving tackle. In these situations you have to be able to rely on your gear to keep up with the action. Lenses for sports photography need to be able to handle the elements well, cover multiple focal lengths, have great image quality, and be fast to focus. These five lenses offer all of that and more.
If you like your smartphone with not one, not two, but THREE Leica lenses, the newly-launched HUAWEI Mate 20 Series is something you might want to check out.
Huawei continues to make significant enhancements to up its mobile photography game with the announcement of the HUAWEI Mate 20 Series. Building on the camera system of their P20 Series, the company equipped the HUAWEI Mate 20 Series with an additional 16mm Ultra Wide Angle Lens that also supports macro distance. With this powerful addition, the company’s latest flagship smartphones promise that you can easily go wide (and fit more people into your group selfies) or get close (to capture as much detail in your favorite latte shot as possible).
The new Nissin i400 flash is an ideal option for mirrorless and introductory DSLR cameras.
If you’re looking into doing flash photography using your mirrorless or entry-level DSLR camera, you might want to look into the new i400 Flash recently announced by Nissin. This new offering is pegged as a compact and powerful all-around flash for several major mirrorless and DSLR camera mounts.
Though CMOS sensors do so well, I yearn for the CCD sensor found in the Leica M9.
Digital photography in my opinion has become too simple; and that’s fine if you’re a beginner but I also think that it breeds a number of bad habits based solely on human laziness. You may call it evolution, but in the world of communications and journalism there is the idea that as we create technology, we become the technology. So we end up just relying on it to do all the things for us. And indeed that is true–I still laugh at my old teachers who told me that I’d never bring a calculator while grocery shopping. These days, I simply order my groceries via Fresh Direct unless I need something specific that I can get a few blocks away.
Backers have started to receive their Yashica digiFilm units, but they’re not happy about it.
If you’re one of the backers who helped bring the Yashica digiFilm Y35 to life, you’re most likely very unhappy about it. Either you still haven’t received your unit or you’ve just discovered that it’s actually a crappy camera with lots of issues. The Kickstarter campaign’s comments section is exploding with all the angry feedback from backers, and the skeptics are most likely relieved that they had no part in this fiasco.
Portrait photographers will love the Sigma 105mm f1.4 DG HSM Art lens; and not just for the bokeh!
Marketed by Sigma as the “Bokeh Master,” the Sigma 105mm f1.4 DG HSM Art lens is one the latest additions to the Japanese optics manufacturer’s Art series of lenses. The ninth lens in Sigma’s Art series to feature a wide aperture of f1.4 (six for Full Frame, three for APS-C), it is also the longest focal length currently available in the series. Bokeh addicts will sing songs of praise about the Sigma 105mm f1.4 DG HSM Art lens, provided that they’ve got the adequate arm strength to wield it.
So with that said, start doing those arm curls–because you’re gonna need it.
Read this especially if you backed lenses from brands under Net SE via Kickstarter and have yet to receive them.
The Internet is now abuzz with reports that Net SE, the German company behind brands Meyer Optik Görlitz, C.P. Goerz, and Oprema Jena, as well as several Kickstarter campaigns, is now officially bankrupt. We first spotted this report over at Mirrorless Rumors, which had German website Photoscala as its source. Given this major development, the chances of backers receiving their pre-ordered lenses, or at least their money back from Net SE – who’s also behind Emil Busch A.-G. Rathenau, Ihagee Elbaflex, and SCHACHT – now looks very, very slim.
These latest creative solutions recently unveiled at the Adobe MAX could be of interest to you if you’re a long-time HP user.
On the first day of the Adobe MAX Creativity Conference, HP Inc. showcased its latest creative solutions especially geared at creative professionals, combining its lineup of high-performance computing systems along with its leading print and packaging capabilities. You may find the announcement’s highlights interesting, especially if you’ve been eyeing the Z by HP portfolio.
