Sony Expands Full-Frame Lens Lineup With New FE 35mm F1.8 Prime

Sony’s new 35mm lens is the 14th prime E-mount lens

By Staff

Today, Sony announced a new lens for its full-line of full-frame and APS-C mirrorless cameras: The FE 35mm F1.8 prime lens. Small, compact and lightweight, Sony says this new 35mm lens is ideal for portrait, street photography, landscape, candids and near-macro photos, as well. Sony makes a number of claims for the features on this lens, which we’ll... Read more

Great Deals: Tiffen Cuts Prices On 2 Steadicam Air Monopods

Tiffen, which makes photo accessories for enthusiast and pro photographers and videographers, has made 2 of its monopods more affordable

By Staff

Monopods, like tripods, are incredibly effective tools for improving images and video for photographers and videographers at every level. That’s why Tiffen’s current sale is great news for photographers. The company has reduced each of its two Steadicam Air Monopods by $100: The Steadicam Air 15 Monopod (15lb. weight capacity) is now $299.95 The... Read more

New BenQ Monitors Claim Less Eye Strain

Photographers may benefit by using an additional monitor for reading and research

By Terry Sullivan

A screen grab from BenQ’s website featuring its anti-eyestrain technology. While most photographers and videographers would rather edit their images and video all day long, the truth is most content creators need to do a lot of reading, writing and research. And all of that gazing into a monitor can lead to eye strain, or perhaps, worse. According... Read more

Tamron Adds Fast Prime To SP-Series Lens Lineup

The new 35mm F/1.4 lens marks Tamron’s 40th anniversary of producing this series of lenses

By Staff

Tamron has recently introduced a new fast prime lens, the Tamron SP 35mm F/1.4 Di USD (Model F045), to commemorate its 40th anniversary of producing SP series lenses. The lens, which Tamron says is equipped with a large F/1.4 aperture and high-speed, high-precision autofocus functionality, offers “exceptional reliability, plus other features for increased... Read more

Sony a6400 Firmware Update Includes Eye AF For Animals

Sony’s latest firmware (Version 2.0) allows Sony a6400 to perform real-time Eye AF for animals

By Staff

If you had to name the most important part of a portrait or image that includes living beings—whether human or animal—and has remained so throughout the centuries, going back as far as the Italian and Northern Renaissance right up to the present day, it would be this: The eyes. And it’s perhaps one of the reasons Sony is so focused on expanding... Read more

Sony Expands Lens Lineup With Telephoto And Telephoto Zoom

Sony brings two new powerful but pricey lenses to the market

By Terry Sullivan

Sony has introduced two new powerful lenses into its full-frame lens lineup: The FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS super-telephoto zoom lens (model SEL200600G) and the FE 600mm F4 GM OSS super-telephoto prime lens (model SEL600F40GM). Both offer photographers the ability to capture subjects at the same super-telephoto focal length (600mm), but at much different... Read more

Camera & Photo Learning News Digest: Shooting with Waterproof Cameras, #NoFilter How-To Book And More

Find out what you can learn about photography today

By Terry Sullivan

I shot this photo of my son with a waterproof point-and-shoot after he jumped into a pool. Photo Tips—Waterproof Cameras: Rugged-and-waterproof point-and-shoots have been around for more than a dozen years. But camera manufacturers keep improving them. For example, you can go farther underwater without needing a special housing to keep it waterproof.... Read more

Leaked Photos Show Apple iPhone 11 Could Have 3 Lenses

The new iPhone 11 might have a triple-lens configuration

Joanna Cassidy

Leaked photo of Apple iPhone 11, which appeared on the BRG website. The iPhone 11 is said to be released in September, with possible camera improvements. According to leaked photos posted on BGR, a tech gadgets website, the iPhone 11 could be replacing the dual-lens configuration with a triple-lens configuration. So what does that... Read more

Olympus Makes A Splash With New Waterproof Camera

The new Olympus Tough TG-6 point-and-shoot lets you capture photos and video in places you’d never take your other cameras or phones into.

By Terry Sullivan

If you’ve never shot an underwater photo, or better yet, an underwater video, you’re in for a surprise. Because in many cases, it can turn a simple plunge into the pool into an incredibly expressive photograph or video, in which light, color, movement and the human form are wonderfully distorted in a surreal and almost organic way. And then there... Read more

Camera & Photo Learning News Digest: Garry Winogrand, Adobe Tools And More

Find out what you can learn about photography today

By Terry Sullivan

Fine-Art Photography—Garry Winogrand: There’s a lot to enjoy and learn at the Brooklyn Museum’s Garry Winogrand “Color” photography exhibition, which just recently opened and will run through December 8. Although Winogrand is better known for his black-and-white images that pioneered the “snapshot aesthetic,” the photographer also... Read more

Camera & Photo Learning News Digest: “For Freedoms” At ICP, Google Pixel 3a And More

Find out what you can learn about photography today

By Terry Sullivan

Exhibition: There’s a lot to see and learn about in the current photography exhibition “For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here?”, which is running at the International Center of Photography in New York City until June 16. What’s intriguing about the show is how it re-envisions four painting created by Norman Rockwell in the 1940s, which were... Read more

Adobe Temporarily Removes $10 Option For Creative Cloud Plan, Angering Photographers

The new pricing plan—which includes Photoshop and Lightroom—appeared as a test to increase the digital-imaging service from $10 to $20 a month

Terry Sullivan

Adobe had angered many photographers yesterday when they learned the company had seemingly changed its cloud pricing plan by eliminating the $9.99 per month option so that the cheapest option photographers and content creators could select was now $19.99 per month, according to reports from Petapixel. Petapixel also notes that Adobe has offered... Read more

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