Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
[Update: Looks like they’re out of stock now.]
Canon USA’s online store has an absurd deal today that I thought was just too good to be true. This is a 1-day only deal for November 4, 2015.
You can use this link to buy one pack of Canon 4 x 6″ photo paper for $9.99 and get 10 packs free. There are 50 sheets to a pack for a total of 550 sheets in your order. [Read more…]
This week Photography Bay has teamed up with Manfrotto to giveaway a Manfrotto Lumie Muse LED Light to one lucky reader.
The Manfrotto Lumie Muse LED Light is a compact LED light that will mount on top of your camera’s hot shoe or any other mount with a 1/4-20 tripod thread. It has a higher CRI of 92% and includes three filters for changing the light’s temperature or softening the light. [Read more…]
The weather was crappy yesterday but I had to take a shot at heading out to the Smokies for one more look at the fall colors. It’s past peak and the atmosphere was pea soup in most places but I stopped at an overlook and shot a 9 frame panorama with the Canon 5Ds R and EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM lens, which you can see above.
The overall file size is 136.5MP for the exported JPEG and is 25,910 x 7,215 pixels (after stitching and cropping) for a whopping 186.94MP image. The stitched panorama Lightroom DNG file is 781.3MB with individual RAW files that make up the panorama weighing in at around 64MB each. Those 50MP files add up quick… [Read more…]
This guide is set up in categories that describe the general type of cameras and accessories – be it a price range or general features. You can scan the headings until you find the right category for you and your special photographer. We’ve got 3-5 top picks for each category.
But first let’s get started with some fun and affordable stocking stuffers… [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…]
Nikon has released new firmware for the D810. The camera’s “C” firmware has been updated to version 1.10.
The firmware update includes the following changes: [Read more…]
GoPro announced earlier this year that the action camera company would be releasing its own drone and now is teasing its coming with some pretty slick stabilized drone footage (above). [Read more…]
Here’s a quick video in which I walk through a very simple technique for correcting too much red in faces using just Lightroom.
I picked this tip up from Aaron Nace’s tutorial on a similar technique in Photoshop. I generally try to avoid going to Photoshop if it is something I can deal with in Lightroom. It’s just faster and a preferred piece of software for me.
If you need to do this in Photoshop, check out this Phlearn video for an explanation of how to accomplish this inside Photoshop, where you’ll have much more control in isolating colors.
Remember the 120MP Canon DSLR that we saw up close at the Canon Expo last month?
Well, Canon may be cooking up a new sensor technology to go along with the high resolution DSLR. [Read more…]
Not that the suggestion of Canon producing a full frame mirrorless camera is revolutionary; however, it is reassuring to hear that one may be in the pipeline. Canon Rumors received a tip from a reliable source that Canon is, in fact, developing a full frame mirrorless camera to be situated alongside its current line of EOS M cameras that feature APS-C format sensors. [Read more…]