The DJI Phantom has become an incredibly popular drone for photography, but it still can’t handle some of the heavier cameras used for film and commercial productions. Enter the Matrice 600, a drone meant for maximum performance. The Matrice 600 comes equipped with 6 propellors and can carry a variety of cameras from GoPros to REDs. The…
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Think Tank Photo makes some of the absolute best camera bags in the business, bags that can not only hold your camera body and lenses but also your lighting equipment, batteries, tripods, cables and just about everything you’ll need on a photo shoot. Think Tank Photo’s newest bag, the Production Manager 50, is surely no exception
One Bag to Rule Them All: The Think Tank Production Manager 50 Read More »
Lee Filters is adding a new neutral density filer to it’s lineup called the Super Stopper. The Super Stopper limits the amount of light that hits your camera’s sensor by 15 stops, meaning that an ordinary 2-second exposure would take over 17 hours to expose through the filer. The new Super Stopper filter joins the
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On March 1, DJI released the Phantom 4 camera drone, the successor to the widely popular Phantom 3. The Phantom 4 is a highly intelligent drone that can literally fly itself using computer-guided vision that avoids obstacles and tracks subjects. Unlike existing guidance systems in camera drones, the Phantom 4 does not follow a predetermined
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GoPro has just released another video with footage captured with its not-yet-announced Karma drone. This time the footage is of freestyle skier Bobby Brown and some of his friends at Aspen Snowmass in Colorado. GoPro has been very secretive about the Karma, only releasing it’s name and not it’s design, features or specs. GoPro’s stock hasn’t
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Ethan Field and Ron Campbell were hiking off-trail in Oregon’s Columbia Gorge a week ago when they found something they would have never expected. On the ground was a strangely shiny object, an old camera covered in dirt and rocks and rust. The camera appeared to be an Exakta VX lla, an East German SLR
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Ultra-long telephoto lenses aren’t just used to see very far away, they can cause distortion to create really creative and dramatic shots. In the movie Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, a 2000mm ultra-long telephoto lens was used to decrease the distance between the foreground and the background. In the scene, a plane lands on a mile-long runway
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We’re excited to partner with Corey Rich, co-founder of our Adventure Photography Workshop, and newly-minted Nikon Ambassador, on his new creativeLIVE course Still and Motion: Storytelling on Location, broadcast free online August 26-28th! During the course, he’s going to be giving away a free tuition to any of our Summit Series of Photography Workshop programs. You don’t want to miss
Making that move to using remote cameras at sporting events (or other events) can be quite daunting. But as AP Photographer, Mark Terrill, says, using remote cameras and multiple cameras “raises your percentage of usable photos exponentially”. “And for the Associated Press, I need a great photo and fast. So using multiple cameras will up
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When I think of some of the most significant events of the last fifty years, I always imagine the still image in my head. Even when there is video or film from the event, the still image seems to capture the essence and emotion and tension in a way that a moving picture rarely seems
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