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Today I’m excited to announce the release of our newest Online Workshop: Secrets of Professional Photographers with Libor Vaicenbacher! This 2 hour, 41 minute course takes you behind the scenes with two eminent Czech photographers, Ondře Prosický and Magdaléna Straková, revealing their secrets in two in-depth interviews.
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If you like shooting video, you might be wondering how to make your footage more stable. The in-body image stabilization of modern cameras is great, but it’s really tuned for photography rather than videography. To go beyond IBIS when you’re filming videos, the two main options for enthusiasts are video gimbal stabilizers and the video heads for tripods. These have important differences. Which one is right for you?
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Why should a tiny bird like a Thorntail—barely two grams in weight—take up such an enormous amount of space on my hard drive? It seems the folks at DxO may have heard my quiet complaint. Instead of the usual gigantic 150MB DNG files, the recently introduced DxO PureRAW 6 can now shrink its DNG outputs to just 24MB. That’s roughly half the size of the original RAW! I’ll soon take a closer look at how such massive compression affects image quality. For now, the first results look very promising. But let’s move on to the photography news of the past week.
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When we talk about a “kit lens” these days, we usually mean a zoom covering focal lengths from wide-angle to short telephoto. But back when my beard was still chestnut-colored (or didn’t exist at all), cameras were commonly sold with a fixed 50mm lens. If you want a 50mm lens today, it may not come as a kit, but you have no shortage of options. For Nikon Z-mount alone, you can currently choose from no fewer than thirty-two different 50mm primes! In this review, I’d like to take a closer look at a recent addition to this rapidly growing family—the Viltrox AF 50mm f/1.4 Pro.
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During a recent dive into the depths of my wildlife catalog, I realized that quite a number of telephoto lenses have taken turns on my Nikon Z9—starting with the Nikon AF-S 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR and ending with beasts like the Nikon Z 600mm f/4 TC VR S. We’ve already published reviews of all of them on Photography Life, including their lab-measured sharpness Imatest scores. But sometimes, real photographs can tell you more than a column of hard data.
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