Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
In this video from Phaidon Press, Taking My Time photographer Joel Meyerowitz discusses some deep concepts in his street photography about how he isn’t necessarily interested in photographing a singular thing but rather the relationship between things.
He also emphasizes the importance of the Leica rangefinder, which allows him to see both what’s in the frame in one eye and the context of the external world surrounding that frame.
If you’ve ever crashed a drone before, you know how sickening that can be as you walk toward the crash site. However, seeing an eagle attack a drone and knock it out of the sky has to be one of the most satisfying drone crashes I have ever seen.
As the drone operator points out, “This is the last thing a small bird sees when a Wedge-Tailed Eagle decides that you are dinner…”
The pilot notes that he hung around the crash area to observe that the eagle was fine after the attack. “[S]he was massive, and used [her] talon’s to ‘punch’ the drone out of the sky.”
And a word of advice going forward:
“Do not fly drones near birds of prey, they clearly attack seeing you as a threat or the right sized dinner. This will cost you money and potentially harm to the bird. This one was fine.. the drone needed some attention before it could fly again.
If you see a bird of prey while flying. Land. I have added this to my operating procedure.”
[via Gizmodo]
Nikon has issued a firmware update for its new P900 superzoom. Firmware version 1.2 provides the following improvements:
You can download the firmware update here on Nikon’s website.
Think Tank Photo has launched “Roller Flair” kits for its rolling camera bags. The new flair lets you customize your wheels, zippers and padded handle wraps on your Think Tank Photo rolling camera bag with one of four available colors. [Read more…]
OGIO has announced a trio of new camera bags for GoPro and other action camera shooters.
The new bags include:
The Hogo, Access and Backstage retail for $40, $90 and $200, respectively.
Case Logic has released its new Kontrast collection DSLR Zoom Holster, which is designed to hold a single DLSR with zoom lens attached. It looks very similar in form and function to Lowepro’s Toploader Zoom line of camera bags. [Read more…]
New rumors suggest that the Canon 1D X Mark II will get a bump to 14fps frame rate for RAW image capture. That’s up from 12fps in the original 1D X, albeit the original shot 14fps in JPEG format. [Read more…]
Rokinon has announced a trio of new cinema lenses for a variety of camera mounts. The new lenses include: [Read more…]
With the latest iteration of the Rebel series, Canon stepped up its game by provided a more advanced Rebel model (the T6s) to bridge the gap before you get to the prosumer models like the Canon 70D.
The Canon Rebel T6s and T6i offer virtually the same image quality; however, the features, controls and flexibility are unlocked on the Rebel T6s in order to accommodate the more advanced shooters that still operate on a budget. [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…]