Cameras

Hi-Tech Studio: Top 5 Accessories For Motion

If you recently purchased your first DSLR with HD video capability and you're starting to experiment with motion capture and even narrative filmmaking, we have some advice on critical accessories to add to your bag.

The Truth About HD DSLRS

It’s safe to say that since HD video entered the DSLR arena, no other feature has garnered as much attention from both photographers and videographers, or seen as much improvement in quality and control.

The Truth About Digital ISO

Recent advancements in DSLR ISO capabilities have brought the topic back to the forefront of our collective photographic conscience. ...

Pro DSLR Roundup

A pro DSLR is a serious photographic tool that provides better all-around performance than lesser models—better weather- and dust-proofing, superior image quality, a higher usable ISO range and more high-level capabilities.

Camera Tech You Need To Know About

Pro DSLRs provide a lot of vital features, many of which have been around since film days

Megapixels And ISO: Have We Reached The Limit?

You’ve heard the assertions before: The “megapixel wars” are over. We’re operating in the land of diminishing returns. It’s all evolution and no revolution.

Behind The Scenes

There’s still a lot of mystery surrounding exactly how still cameras capture video.

DSLRs For Feature Films

As HD video proliferates the DSLR world, more and more still photographers are trying their hand at moving images. Vincent Laforet’s Reverie opened the floodgates, and the torrent has flowed forth.

DSLRs For Low Light

Low-light and action photographers have long fought the good battle with the shutter-speed/ aperture/ISO monster: You need a fast enough shutter speed to capture the action (or to prevent camera shake in handheld low-light shots), a small enough...

Will The Megapixel Wars End?

The single most important specification driving camera sales in the digital era has been the megapixel count.

Will Full-Frame D-SLRs Take Over The World?

Since D-SLRs started to meet the needs of professional photographers, there has been a call for full-frame models. ...

Comparing Photosites

Ever since the first digital cameras appeared, there has been a quest for more pixels. In large part, that’s because the more pixels an image contains, the finer detail it can present and the bigger we can blow it up before the pixels become visible t...

Beyond the D-SLR

While the lion’s share of professional photography is made with conventional, 35mm-type D-SLRs, there are still plenty of situations when a different kind of camera is called for.

Straight To Video

In the new media, where business savvy includes Facebook and MySpace, convergence has taken on a new meaning for the professional photographer. Whether you’re shooting video for online newspapers, designing behind-the-scenes promotional work for your...

First Look: Nikon D3X

Almost from the moment the D3 was introduced in fall 2007, photographers started wondering why it was only 12.1 megapixels. At the time, Nikon already had two D-SLRs in the 12-megapixel range, and while the D3 had a full-frame image sensor (Nikon...

D-SLRs For The Professional

When we last left the D-SLR Wars a year ago, high-resolution LCD monitors and Live View shooting were the hot items. When we last left the D-SLR Wars a year ago, high-resolution LCD monitors and Live View shooting were the hot items. These are still...

RED’y for takeoff

With the introduction of the Canon EOS 5D Mark II and the Nikon D90, the hottest trend in the D-SLR marketplace is video capture.

A Milestone In Time

It was a fairly innocuous start. A hastily assembled, last-minute project conceived and shot in 14 straight hours, edited together in three hours (no time for color correction) and a quick posting to a blog with the link to the completed five-minute...

New-For-Fall D-SLRs Reimagined

This was a Photokina year, and Photokina 2008 included a number of exciting new camera introductions (even if they actually appeared a bit ahead of the actual show). On these pages, you’ll meet new low-cost, 20-megapixel-plus, full-frame D-SLRs from...

Megapixels: How Much Is Enough?

It’s time for the “megapixel wars” to end once and for all. You can bet the march of technology will continue to give us imaging sensors with ever-greater numbers of megapixels, but for most photographers, more pixels won’t give us better images. Sure,...