Manfrotto Distribution, Inc., distributor of Bowens products in the U.S., announced today the launch of the all-new Generation X Flash range by Bowens. Debuting in the U.S. at PhotoPlus Expo in New York City later this month, the units seek to spark a renaissance for the lighting manufacturer. After many months of intense market research and product development, the lights are part of Bowen’s new strategy with aethestics, functionality, and cost being at the forefront behind the Generation X Flash design.
Sony’s A6300 is one of the top performing APS-C cameras on the market, and is right up there with the likes of Fujifilm’s X-Pro2 and X-T2 in many respects, but Sony has a new flagship APS-C offering it unveiled this morning, the new A6500.
Sony unveiled their latest RX100 compact camera this morning, and the headline feature of the newly minted RX100 V is an all new hybrid-AF system that should bring with it some serious AF improvements to the compact camera line.
If you wanted to go for a premium point and shoot camera of some sort, then the best of the best is easily awarded to the Sony RX1r II and the Leica Q. With their full frame sensors and fast aperture lenses, they’re bound to be appreciated by many photographers. Both of them have been out for a while now, and with the price differences not too far apart from one another you’re obviously curious about which one you should get. For some, the answer is clear: you prefer a higher megapixel sensor and the 35mm field of view. Others however want to go for the 28mm f1.7 lens and don’t want to fill their hard drives up.
Fujifilm announced the X-Pro2 version 2 firmware update back alongside the X-T2, but the launch was held a month after the X-T2 launch to give Fujifilm engineers and software teams time to solidify its performance and improvements after finishing their work on the X-T2. So for the past month, the X-T2 has had some notable performance benefits over its rangefinder-styled brother, but that changes today with the official release of the Fujifilm X-Pro2 Firmware Version 2.0.
Photographing cosplayers at Comic Con and other conventions leans two different ways: capturing people on the floor and then trying to create images that stand out from all the rest. Most photographers that take pride in their portraits often try to do something that looks good off the main floor where everyone else is. The great thing about comic con is that pretty much everyone is alright with you taking their picture. It’s even better when you ask someone–let alone less creepy!
When you think about Boudoir Photography, chances are you think about a bedroom or hotel room, or at the least a bed. But you can shoot stunning Boudoir imagery in a studio on a paper backdrop as well, and today Lindsey Adler is in the house (or studio, I suppose) to show effectively light a studio boudoir image with two speedlights.
Adobe announced this morning a new partnership with EyeEm, the global photography community, and marketplace, which will bring a selection of EyeEm images into Adobe Stock’s Premium Collection for licensing. The move will make those selected EyeEm images available for purchase directly through Photoshop and Adobe Stock.
The completely awesome experimentation that Lensbaby products allow photographers is really awesome, and today the company is giving you to best of many worlds with the Trio 28. It’s a 28mm f3.5 fixed aperture lens that gives you three different view styles. You get Twist, Velvet and Sweet. Twist is designed to emulate the company’s Twist 60 lens that is a nod to Petzval optics. The Velvet is soft, and the sweet is sharp. The Lensbaby Trio 28 has manual focus too. On full frame cameras, Lensbaby is saying that it will produce subtle vignetting.
“People should always ponder if black and white really brings out their photographic work.”