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Possibly one of the most popular speedlights ever is gone, Nikon's venerable SB-910. Strobists all over the world came to depend on this very popular hotshoe flash. Why is it gone? Nikon has stepped up their game to add radio control to their lineup, extending the Creative Lighting System to become the Advanced Wireless System (AWS). The first in the family is the SB-5000.
Read MoreWhat the hell were these people thinking? At at time when things are not getting easier for professional creatives, we are increasingly inundated by people without skill or capability lowering the market price for services by charging very little for what they allege is professional grade work. A surprising number of these idiots work for free thinking that this is actually a smart decision.
Read MoreI have been a Macintosh owner and user since 1984. I like, with varying levels of enthusiasm, Macintosh OS in its various denominations. I like the former simplicity and effectiveness of the Macintosh platform. I am an Apple customer on iOS as well. While I have disagreed with Apple decisions in the past, I am particularly disturbed by Apple's recent attempt to call at best prosumer products, professional products and by their continued abandonment of the professional creatives marketplace.
Read MoreChoice. Flexibility. A workflow that supports your level of engagement. The tools you want, without the clutter of ones that you won't use.
Read MoreAurora HDR 2017 is now shipping. If you make images and you process on a Mac, follow the link in this article to get a free trial.
Read MoreI want to acknowledge Broncolor Canada, for making this kit available to me for review. It's a big step, and demonstrates confidence in the quality of the product that they represent. Their confidence is well founded as the Siros L is a wonderful product.
Read MoreNo matter what camera I look at, regardless of features, specifications and incredible functions, one very subjective thing has enormous impact on how I feel about the camera and my personal ability to use it effectively. That very subjective thing is how the camera fits me.
Read MoreI'm back to the standard news update. After the drenching from Photokina week and the follow on, we are back to mostly regular news releases.
Read MoreThis post is a summary of all the announcements that I found interesting enough to share from Photokina the week of September 19, 2016. If I miss something that you were really interested, email me and I will look into it. Please do note that I don't cover smartphones or point and shoots so they won't be here.
Read MoreI was visiting with the folks at Profoto Canada this morning, and Managing Director Jaehong Park graciously showed me an early version of the Pro-10 Flash system announced yesterday at Photokina.
Read MoreAs I finish compiling this, Photokina is opening. I will try to keep the Photokina announcements together, but some came early and so you will see them here. Photokina is a hugely exciting time for photographers with new offerings from a multitude of providers. Expect the next release of the news update to be filled with new gear
Read MoreWhen DXO announced the DXO ONE, I wrote a scathing article asking if the superb software company had lost their mind. Who would pay upwards of $600 for a camera that plugged into the Lightning port on an iPhone? It's over a year later and the DXO ONE is now becoming readily available in the Canadian market. Let's see how it fares.
Read MoreI am a confessed lighting junkie. It's a disease for me, but I come by it honestly having trained with many deities of lighting including the incredible Joe McNally. Today, Profoto announced the next generation of their D series AC powered moonlights, this new edition is called the D2.
Read MoreThe folks at Macphun have something exciting coming, it's Aurora HDR 2017 and if you take advantage of the pre-order promotion, you're going to get extras valued at over $300 USD at no additional cost. Which to me, sounds like a pretty cool deal.
Read MoreIf you edit your photos, particularly your RAW images AND you print OR you make large JPEG images for live display AND you do not regularly calibrate your editing display, you are not getting the image quality that you could get and should be getting.
Read MoreWith Sony, Fujifilm, Olympus and Panasonic / Lumix killing it in the mirrorless space, a popular question is where are Canon and Nikon? Both companies have had mirrorless products for a while, but they just haven't taken off. In this article, I take a deep dive on the Canon EOS-M3 to see how it fares.
Read MoreHey everyone, here's your photo video news update for September 10, 2016, curated by The Photo Video Guy!
Read MoreI was recently doing a long term evaluation on Sony's awesome PXW-FS7 video camera and wanted to see how using my Canon L series glass on the camera would work out. There are many mount converters available to mount alternate brand lenses on the Sony E mount, but the only one that said it would provide both complete aperture control as well as Autofocus was the Speedbooster Ultra from Metabones.
Read MoreWhile I surely do not advocate capturing in JPEG, it's a given that the format is a great way to share images of reasonable size. As our cameras become more sophisticated and have more megapixels in the sensors, the definition of "reasonable" starts to float up there, and that's the rationale behind JPEGmini.
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