Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
The grossly overpriced Hasselblad Lunar and Stellar cameras are on sale in the same price range as their Sony counterparts.
The Hasselblad Lunar is available for $1299 with the kit 18-55mm lens (reg. $6999). The Hasselblad Stellar is on sale for $799 (reg. $2195). Check out all the variations here at B&H Photo.
This week Photography Bay has teamed up with Totally Rad! to giveaway a set of all three of the Replichrome preset packs for Lightroom and Camera Raw to one lucky reader.
Totally Rad! Replichrome presets consist of the Replichrome I: Icon pack (152 presets based on the most iconic, modern films ever made, such as Fuji 400H, Kodak Portra 400 and Kodak Tri-X), Replichrome II: Slide pack (199 presets inspired by both modern and discontinued slide or reversal films including Fuji slide films, such as Velvia, Provia and Astia, as well as discontinued Kodak and Agfa slide films) and the Replichrome III: Archive pack (183 total presets based on 22 rare, expired and eclectic films from across the world). [Read more…]
Epson unveiled its SureColor P600 13″ printer last fall and started shipping earlier this year. As a replacement for the popular R3000, the P600 is a first P-series (for “photo”) printer in the SureColor line. The ink set is entirely new and with deeper black density and improved contrast ratio and dynamic range.
As a 13″ printer, the P600 sits in the mid-range enthusiast and low-end of the pro market, while the 17″ Epson SureColor P800 is the latest Epson P-series printer that replaced the extremely popular 3880.
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Canon USA filed a pair of lawsuits in October against Get It Digital, LLC and several other widely-known gray market retailers in a effort to force them to stop selling gray market Canon cameras and other products in the United States.
I obtained copies of the complaints and exhibits late last week and have reviewed the allegations made and evidence cited within. [Read more…]
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…]
In this video, I sit down with Allan and Lisa Mueller of ALM Photo to talk about their work (both free and paid). We also dig into to:
Here some links to help you connect with Allan, Lisa and ALM Photo:
Let me know what you think about this format and content in the comments. If you are sharing this on social media, use the hashtag #TogTalk so we can all join in on the conversation.
Red Giant recently released its updated Trapcode Suite 13, which includes major updates to Trapcode Particular, Shine and Mir, as well as Trapcode Tao – a new plugin for generating 3D geometries along a path. Trapcode Form, Sound Keys and Starglow also get new features.
Check out the overview of Trapcode Suite 13 in the video below.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-jeXkpwtU4&w=700&showinfo=0&rel=0]More details in the press release below. [Read more…]
Last week on November 10, 2015, Canon produced its 80 millionth EOS camera, which comes roughly 21 months after it reached the 70 million camera milestone. The 80 millionth EOS camera to roll off the production line was the Canon 5DS R. [Read more…]
Photoshop’s automated alignment tools are quite impressive; however, they aren’t perfect. When auto-alignment fails to work the way you need it to, sometimes it just means you have to do the work yourself.
In this video from Ian Norman, he walks us through the process of processing Milky Way astrophotography images by manually aligning them in Photoshop in order to reduce noise and bring out more detail in the images.
If you are looking to improve your astrophotography images, Ian’s videos are worth a watch. Even if you are doing other types of image stacking, you can probably learn a thing or two from Ian’s workflow.
Adobe Lightroom 6.3 and Lightroom CC 2015.3 are now available for download. One of the major gripes with the previous update was the a new import dialog. Those gripes have now been rectified with a rollback the old import dialog we all know and love.
The new updates also add camera support for a number of cameras, including: [Read more…]