Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
Wedding photo booths are pretty common. But a slow-motion video booth? A bit less common.
For this fun video booth, Seattle video production company Super Frog Saves Tokyo set up a RED Epic at 160fps with 4 Konova 900 LED lights for some great action shots at a wedding reception.
The result is a viral hit that is sure to result in trend of slow-motion booths in the near future.
Imagenomic has announced the release of Realgrain 2, a “finishing” plugin for achieving accurate black-and-white conversion, toning, colorizing and darkroom effects and simulates the grain patterns, color, and tonal range of conventional silver halide films. [Read more…]
Acer has become the first smartphone manufacturer to offer 4K video capture. Why anyone would want to capture 4K video with a smartphone remains to be answered. [Read more…]
Learning to Photograph: Volume 1 and Volume 2 are a pair of new books from photographers Cora and Georg Banek. [Read more…]
More leaks for the upcoming Olympus E-M1…
This time we a treated with an overhead view of the E-M1 with the 12-40mm f/2.8 lens attached. Although, this is not part of the official Olympus teaser.
The 12-40mm f/2.8 lens will result in an effective zoom range of 24-80mm thanks to the 2x crop from the Micro Four Thirds sensor.
The Olympus E-M1 is rumored to be priced at $1500, which is $500 more than the Olympus E-M5 body. [Read more…]
Sony QX100
The upcoming Sony QX100 and QX10 lenses for smartphones are expected to launch on Tuesday this week. More details have surfaced, including images that reveal a closer look a the lenses’ design. [Read more…]
The recently announced Nikon AF-S 18-140mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR lens and SB-300 speedlight are now in stock and shipping at B&H. Additionlly, B&H has free shipping and 4% rewards. Check them out via the links below.
Nikon’s stackable rebates are back with the D7100 and 8 other Nikon DSLRs, 29 lenses, 2 speedlights and 2 teleconverters all eligible for big instant rebates. These instant rebates are valid through September 28. Check them all out here at B&H Photo.
It’s time for our weekly break from the gear for a few minutes so we can enjoy another round of reader photos from the Photography Bay Flickr Group.
Check out the rest of the photos below. [Read more…]
I expect Adobe to drop the full version of Lightroom 5.2 any day now. It’s been a full month since the Lightroom 5.2 release candidate was made available and preliminary support for the 70D was included.
Those of you looking to work on your Canon 70D raw files can do so with the release candidate. Or, if you have Aperture 3, Apple has already made full support for the 70D available in it.