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Whether you need strobes for freezing motion, portable power for location work or continuous illumination for filmmaking, these new lights can help get the job done. K5600 EVOLUTION KIT A [...]

From color management to scanning and transferring large files, these peripherals can help keep your workflow humming. LEXAR PROFESSIONAL WORKFLOW HR2 The HR2 is a compact storage hub that blends [...]

Photographers often spend just as much time behind a keyboard, managing their business, as they do behind a lens. Studio management software and services can ease some of the grunt [...]

The first annual PDN and Rangefinder (Rf) Gift Guide is the perfect companion this holiday season. Pick out some products for fellow photographers and filmmakers, or cut along the dotted [...]

No other camera category has seen as much innovation and novelty as the mirrorless market over the past several years, and the latest crop of models are a testament to [...]

LEICA SL Leica styles the full-frame SL as a truly 'professional' mirrorless, implying that all other mirrorless systems are mere pretenders to the throne. That's a characterization many companies, not [...]

POWERSHOT G3X Compact cameras with large image sensors typically pack fixed focal length lenses. Think Fujifilm's X100T or the Leica Q. Meanwhile, cameras with incredibly long zooms are generally paired [...]

VSCO CAM In late July, VSCO updated its popular Cam app (iOS and Android) with a new feature dubbed Collections, a curation tool that lets you save and share other [...]

For many DSLR filmmakers, the phrase '8K' may seem more than a wee bit premature. But it's a testament to how fast video technology is changing that at least one [...]

THE DEVELOPMENT OF photography is intimately bound with the development of support gear (those camera obscura were backbreaking). And while tripod technology doesn't advance at the pace of Moore's Law, [...]

'WHEN DIGITAL SLRS started shooting video, photographers became filmmakers and filmmakers became real filmmakers.' That was 'real' filmmaker Stu Maschwitz's quip, overheard at a Red Giant panel discussion at the [...]

THE FAMED PHOTOGRAPHER Yousuf Karsh said that the 'heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.' Unfortunately, those tend to be a bit difficult to upgrade. Getting the [...]

NEED A CONTINUOUS light for video, a motion-freezing strobe or creative lighting effects on location? Here's a selection of portable options offering a range of features for every shoot. ELINCHROM [...]

WHETHER YOU'RE AT HOME in the urban jungle or out in the real thing, these new camera bags will keep your gear safe and sound through your next photographic adventure. [...]

WHETHER YOUR IDEA of a good time involves hurtling down a mountain at high speeds or simply rigging a point-of-view camera for someone else willing to risk their life, there [...]

THE FAA MAY have clipped the wings of commercial drone photography in the United States--for now--but that hasn't stopped companies in the States and abroad from forging ahead with new [...]

STOP US IF you've heard this one before: The best camera is the one you have with you. For many of us, that camera often happens to be attached to [...]

Now that the dust has settled after Photokina and PhotoPlus Expo, photographers have a towering pile of new and soon-to-be released products to consider. While the Consumer Electronics Show looms [...]

Like a roaring fire that dwindles down to a few warm coals only to be stoked again, the embers of film photography are glowing as a new generation of photographers [...]

RICOH PENTAX K-70 The K-70 sits just above the K-S2 in the Pentax pantheon of entry-level DSLRs. While it doesn't share the steeper price tag of its higher-end siblings, it's [...]

MANY PHOTOGRAPHERS SAW THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION'S long-awaited ruling on drones (Part 107, in FAA regulation-speak) as the final 'all clear' for the unfettered use of drones for commercial photography [...]

Artificial Intelligence is shaping the photo industry. Is it for better or worse? You've just returned from a shoot with a card full of images. You load them into your [...]

YOU DON'T NEED A BLOCKBUSTER BUDGET TO ENJOY THESE MOVIEMAKING-QUALITY CAMERAS. KINEFINITY TERRA The Terra is perhaps closest in spirit to a RED camera in the sense that the boxy [...]

NEW STORAGE SOLUTIONS KEEP FILES SAFE AND 4K WORKFLOWS HUMMING ALONG. CALDIGIT T4 The T4 is a four-bay drive enclosure with several RAID configurations, including 0,1, 5 and JBOD. It [...]

For Toronto-based commercial photographer Giancarlo Pawelec, one of the main benefits of tethered shooting is getting a clearer look at your images. 'Nothing beats looking at a photo at 15 [...]

After Canon launched the EOS R, there was a reasonable expectation that its next foray into full-frame mirrorless would be a more advanced camera. After all, the company's key competitors [...]

It's something of a cliche to complain that we'd be lost without our phones, but for professional photographers and videographers, it's increasingly difficult to do business without them. Whether you're [...]

When it's time to turn your pixels into prints, turn to these papers and printers. RED RIVER PAPER PALO DURO SOFTGLOSS RAG This 100-percent cotton rag offers a lightly textured [...]

SIGMA QUATTRO DPO The fourth member of Sigma's advanced compact family, the Sigma Quattro dpO shares the same features as the other dp Quattro cameras but differs in the focal [...]

Atop a crest of hype and venture capital, virtual reality is generating excitement among developers and marketers who see it as an appealing new way to engage viewers and consumers. [...]

Virtual reality is no longer a thing of futuristic sci-fi films--today, with virtual reality headgear on the market for under $25 (thanks, Google), there's intense interest in adapting it to [...]

The Italian poet Cesare Pavese reportedly said, 'If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light.' Of course, Pavese meant shedding your emotional baggage, but photographers can relate to [...]

Whether you shoot in the cozy confines of a studio or atop mud-streaked mountains, a good tripod is a must. As HD video recording has become an integral feature in [...]

NOT EVERY PHOTOGRAPHER WHO GRABS AN HD-DSLR CAN LEGITIMATELY CALL HIMSELF A DIRECTOR. Over the course of an 11-year directorial career, however, Sam Jones's work in film and video has [...]

Photographers in the market for a full-frame mirrorless system have, seemingly overnight, an embarrassment of riches. Nikon's Z 6 is the lower-cost, lower-resolution model in Nikon's budding full-frame mirrorless camera [...]

Fujifilm's X-T30 looks superficially like its predecessor but as with people, so with cameras: It's what on the inside that counts. Features The X-T30 uses Fujifilm's fourth generation, 26-megapixel APS-C-sized [...]

While few photographers will get rich off of selling stock images, it can be a nice source of passive income. We've looked at the contributor agreements posted by some of [...]

While we're living through a flurry of activity around full-frame mirrorless cameras, there's still a strong case to be made for APS-C format sensors. Sony's latest addition to its a6000 [...]

The market for VR/360-cameras is no longer teeming with new entrants hoping to hitch their fortunes to the next big thing. But while competitors pump the brakes, Insta360 has, if [...]

According to Leica, the original Q was a top seller for the company when it launched in 2015. For its second edition, the company is hoping that lightning strikes twice [...]

What kind of support can pros expect when they buy into a camera system? We unpack the details There's more to a camera system than a body and a lens. [...]

Hasselblad broke ground with the X1D-50C mirrorless medium-format camera by managing to cram a huge sensor into a camera body smaller than many DSLRs. Since its launch, the company has [...]

In the wild, mantises have a fierce reputation. Females eat and sometimes decapitate their mates. They're notorious hunters, spearing prey with their bendy, spiked arms. Their heads turn a full [...]

Leica's digital rangefinders are known for their unobtrusiveness. The M10-P and M10-D take that to the next level with the quietest shutter mechanisms ever incorporated into an M series camera. [...]

Before the launch of the Z7, we would have never imagined that people could work themselves into a lather about card slots. Clearly, we underestimated the Internet.Depending on your view [...]

A revolution in the making or a giant pile of digital hype? Blockchain could be a bit of both.Talk to people about blockchain and sooner or later you'll hear this [...]

Depending on your inclination, the mobile revolution has either been a boon to productivity or a deathblow to downtime, enabling us to squeeze in work when we would otherwise be [...]

TO APPRECIATE HOW digital storage is progressing, consider this: You're reading the first hard drive roundup in PDN history to use the word 'petabyte' (that's 1,000 terabytes, or 1,000,000 gigabytes). [...]

THE TERM 'B-ROLL' may carry a faintly derogatory air, like the 'B-team' some of us were relegated to in high school sports. But that's merely the rhetorical baggage of the [...]

'The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.' This was the memorable warning issued to Arnold Schwarzenegger in Pumping Iron, and it nicely [...]