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Lighten Up! Go Mirrorless!
This Article Features Photo Zoom Nikon 1 V1 Today, you can choose from a wide line of cameras that are truly compact, produce DSLR image quality and accept interchangeable lenses: the mirrorless...
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Use High Speed Bursts For Sharper Shots
This Article Features Photo Zoom Most photographers think of high-speed shooting as being the domain of sports and wildlife photographers, that is, shooters who are going for sequences where the...
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Gear For Still And HD-Video Capture
This Article Features Photo Zoom Steadicam Merlin; Novoflex MMR Bluebird RedRock Micro Field Cinema DSLR Rig The onslaught of DSLRs that can shoot professional-caliber HD video has not slowed. This...
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The Year Of Full-Frame DSLRs
This Article Features Photo Zoom Landscape photographers, in particular, have some very good reasons for adopting a full-frame workflow. While action and wildlife shooters get some specific benefits...
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Which Camera Should I Buy?
This Article Features Photo Zoom What camera should I buy? It's the question that we get here at OP frequently. The answer always is, "It depends." In the past couple of years, the range of camera...
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Mirrorless Systems For You
This Article Features Photo Zoom Five years ago, if you wanted to travel light, you had to choose between a DSLR and a compact digital camera. The former offered great image quality and versatility,...
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Full-Frame: DSLRs For Landscape Master Work
This Article Features Photo Zoom One of the many things Ansel Adams was known for was the superb image quality of his prints, which exhibited excellent detail and a magnificent range of tones. Of...
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DSLRs & Lenses For Landscapes
This Article Features Photo Zoom Because of their size, ease of use and many advanced features, DSLRs are finding a great deal of popularity with landscape photographers. But can they produce great...
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Compact DSLRS
This Article Features Photo Zoom Ever since the tiny Olympus OM-1 35mm film SLR was introduced in the early 1970s (and perhaps even before), there's been a desire among many for smaller and lighter...
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Top DSLRs For Wildlife
This Article Features Photo Zoom A ring-billed gull doing some fishing. Landscape photographers are concerned primarily with low-ISO image quality—the ability to record fine details, wide dynamic...
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The New Wave Of Mirrorless
TOP: Samsung NX300, Fujifilm X-M1; FAR LEFT TO RIGHT: Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX7, Sony NEX-6, Olympus PEN E-P5 The original concept behind the mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera was to provide DSLR...
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Best Cameras Under $1000
This Article Features Photo Zoom Nature photography encompasses a wide range of subject matter, from landscape vistas to birds in flight. Naturally, some cameras are better for some types of...
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Sony Alpha a7 And Alpha a7R
This Article Features Photo Zoom One of the main reasons why mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras were designed was to provide DSLR image quality without the bulk. From the very start (the first...
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Olympus OM-D E-M1
This Article Features Photo Zoom The original Four Thirds System was introduced in 2003 based around a 17.3x13.0mm image sensor that was smaller than the 23.6x15.6mm APS-C sensors used in most DSLRs...
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The Essential Zoom
This Article Features Photo Zoom 1) 1⁄200 sec., ƒ/2.8 , ISO 800, 134mm (effective 214mm), Tamron 70-200mm ƒ/2.8, Canon EOS 7D, 7:39 p.m. There was a time when the 70-200mm ƒ/2.8 was the workhorse zoom...
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Super Charged!
Megapixel count is the most talked about digital camera spec by manufacturers and users alike. Megapixels are to cameras what horsepower is to cars: a simple specification that one can compare across...
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The Modern View Camera
Large-format view cameras have been a mainstay of high-end landscape photography for a century. Photographers like Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter and others used large-format view and field...
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Into The Wild
With its 24-megapixel sensor and EXPEED 4 processor, the Nikon D750 takes features from Nikon's other high-end DSLRs, the D610 and D810, to create a powerful tool for nature photographers....
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Can You Go No Low-Pass?
In 2012, Nikon introduced the D800 and the D800E, which were identical, but the D800E had the effects of its anti-aliasing (AA) filter removed. Since an AA filter slightly blurs the image at the pixel...
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Max Mirrorless
Mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras came into being because many felt that DSLRs were too bulky to carry around much of the time. The idea was to provide DSLR image quality in a noticeably...
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To Mirror Or Not To Mirror
For many years, 35mm SLRs were the mainstay of "general" photographers. Medium- and large-format offered better image quality through their larger film sizes, and held sway among fine-art,...
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What’s In A “Pro” Lens
The term "pro lens" gets tossed around a lot in nature photography circles, but what exactly does it mean? What makes one lens fit for pros while another is relegated for amateur shooters? Which is...
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Full Frame For Everyone
Digital cameras with full-frame sensors can provide better image quality than digital cameras with smaller sensors, and that’s their main attraction. Larger sensors also have room for more pixels of...
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Colby Brown Made The Switch
YOSEMITE, BRIDAL VEIL FALLS There's a shot of Yosemite, Bridal Veil Falls. That was one of the first big marketing campaigns that I was working on with Visit California. I was there, I had a film...
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Gabe Rogel Made the Switch
I grew up doing a lot of climbing and skiing. Those were my passions into my college years. I ended up going to school for photography, and so seeing all these climbing and skiing photos printed in...
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Chris Burkard Made the Switch
WHICH ONE WOULD YOU TAKE TOMORROW If I had to grab one camera and just go it would probably be my A6000. If I want to go somewhere, I really want to go. I don’t want to be held down by a camera. And...
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State-Of-The-Art Mirrorless
Sony a7R II It’s a bit of a misnomer, the way we talk about a “mirrorless” camera, especially in the digital age. That’s because the term “mirrorless” is used to indicate that these cameras aren’t...
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Don Smith Made The Switch
THE DECISIVE MOMENT IN LANDSCAPE There is a moment in anything that is photography… Cartier-Bresson talked about the decisive moment. And I don’t care if you are an architectural photographer, a...
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Ben Moon Made The Switch
ON WHAT INSPIRED THE SWITCH David McLane just kept mentioning that he was working with these Sony guys…. They were way ahead of the curve, but I couldn’t get over the fact that they were Sony. They...
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Ultra High Res
Canon EOS 5DS & EOS 5DS R The Canon EOS 5DS and EOS 5DS R are fraternal twins, sharing the same body, 50.6-megapixel sensor, 61-point autofocus system and an ISO range of 100-6400. Externally,...
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