The last time Olympus introduced a new camera body in their E-M5 product line was back in February of 2015, more than four and a half years ago. To say that the E-M5 series was long overdue for an update would be quite an understatement. At long last, Olympus finally introduced the OM-D E-M5 Mark III earlier this year. Like the outgoing Mark II model, the EM5 Mark III is compact, lightweight, and features excellent weather sealing. The refreshed EM5 Mark III features the 20 MP Live MOS sensor, TurePic VIII Image Processor, and the same 121-point Phase Detection Autofocus System that we’ve previously seen within the EM1 Mark II, itself a now three-year-old camera. Was this update worth the four and a half year-long wait?
2019 has been an excellent year for those who love seeing new photography gear hit the streets. There are have been many pieces of photography gear that have warmed our hearts in 2019, including the excellent Fujifilm X-Pro 3, and Sony’s Megapixel monster, the A7R IV. These two cameras made the top 10 list as you would expect, but they are joined by other photography gear that may surprise you. Join us after the break to see what cameras, lenses, and lights were popular among our readers in 2019.
“Lucky for me they never asked to see a portfolio because unbeknownst to them, I had just purchased my first digital SLR only a month before,” explains Glenn Batkin to us about how he got into photography. This sense of adventure sets the tone for the experimental playfulness that we find throughout his series on butterflies. Glenn is an NYC based photographer and has been shooting for over a decade. His work is mostly documentary-based, and these days he identifies as a street photographer. When you’re used to reacting to things happening in front of you, it seems that photographing a subject like a butterfly could be almost too easy. But Glenn does it masterfully in a way that we’ve never really seen before.
If you’re still on the hunt for excellent camera deals, and maybe need to pick up a light on the cheap, read on. The Canon EOS R with a Godox V1 round head flash is still just $1,499, and Canon 5D4 with the same flash is only $1,999, and the EOS RP is only $999. The Nikon D850 with Godox V1 is $2,796.95, and the new Nikon Z50 with two lenses is just $1,196.95. Sony’s A7 II is $898, the A7R II with a lens is $1,498, and the A7 III with a huge accessory kit is $1,798. The Godox/Flashpoint V1 can also still be yours for $159 (multiple platforms), and the Fotopro iSpeedy F64 tripod with ball head has a discount of over $179, which makes it just $99.99. Come and see all of the camera deals and more after the break.
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If you recently purchased, or received a DJI Mavic Mini, and had wished that there were some lens filters that you could use on its capable camera, you’re going to love this news. Earlier this week, Tiffen announced that they would be releasing two kits of lens filters for the spiffy little drone, which should help you get even more out of your flying camera. Join us after the break to find out more details
While Kodak is still around, it remains revered for its rich film legacy and not really for any of its digital offerings. In fact, the Kodak disposable camera (or single-use camera, if you’d rather call it) is more popular today than any of its EasyShare digital point-and-shoot cameras. It’s actually puzzling, as a commercial from the mid-1990s reminds us of the time that the company seemed to have understood what it meant to take pictures further.
“You know it kind of makes sense that it mostly focuses on Manhattan because everything happening there through those years,” my good friend Tyson Ho tells me as we make our way down 5th Ave. The exhibit on the Museum of the City of NY’s 3rd-floor spotlights works from Janette Beckman, Bruce Davidson, Helen Levitt, Ruddy Roye, Richard Sandler, Gail Thacker, James Van Der Zee, Harvey Wang, and others. Those names are enough to make most folks smitten with the romanticism of old New York book their tickets. And quite honestly, the curators did a pretty darned good job. They not only tried to condense the diversity within NYC but also tried to show its unification in a time when we all feel so divided.
Another year, another opportunity to get better at photography! Regardless of the genre you want to specialize in, one of the fun things you can do is to take on photography challenges. Among the most famous of these is the photo a day challenge, like today’s featured list from Nikon. If you need some ideas to jump-start your creative photography, consider this one of the photography cheat sheets to use as reference and inspire you this year.
While some photographers will endeavor to use the Canon EOS R’s magic touchbar for changing their ISO, that’s not the best use. Personally, I set my lens control ring to aperture and set ISO and shutter speed to the camera’s dials. So then what’s the touchbar useful for? Honestly, not a whole lot while shooting. But where it really comes into use is with playback.