The Hasselblad X1D is a beautiful camera by anyone’s standards and of course the Hasselblad name needs no introduction from me. The Swedish company has been known for producing some of the finest camera and lenses for decades. With the release of their medium format … Continue readingREVIEW: Hasselblad X1D 50c Medium Format Mirrorless Camera-Part 2 Video
Today I spent the morning roaming up and down one of my favorite haunts along the west coast between San Gregorio Beach and Pescadero, California. This stretch of Highway 1 is incredible. Wide open space with rolling hills on one side and shear white-faced cliffs … Continue readingAn Introduction to the New Highline Ballhead from the Colorado Tripod Company
A wise man once told me that a photograph’s quality could be judged simply by how much information it conveyed to the viewer. While this is not an absolute by any means what said has stayed with me through the years. I feel like that … Continue readingREVIEW: An In-Depth Look at the Tamron 15-30mm F/2.8 G2
Let’s talk. Last month Hasselblad sent me their X1D-50c. It’ the world’s first medium format digital camera, packing a monstrous 51MP(8272×6200) sensor. Something oddly unexpected happened while I was evaluating the X1D which has made me re-think(and re-re-think) some foundational ideas about cameras and the … Continue readingREVIEW: Hasselblad X1D-50c Medium Format Mirrorless Camera-Part 1 Video
The climate shifts remarkably fast in the photography world with photographic winds availing from one direction and then another with metaphors between photography and the weather seeming to never end. Back in 2015, which in photo years might as well be the stone age, I … Continue readingOne Giant Leap: ON1 Photo RAW 2019
Want to know a secret? Every photographer wants to take better photos. Shhhh…don’t tell anyone but you, me and yes even those “famous” photographers all want to make stronger and more impactful photographs. That’s the wonderful(and frustrating) thing about photography; there is always room to … Continue reading5 Insanely Simple Ways to Instantly Improve Your Photographs
You’ve done it. You’ve made the leap from a DSLR camera to a mirrorless camera system. It could be a Fuji XT-2 or a Sony a6000, or if you’re like me, you went all out and got a full frame mirrorless camera(Sony A7R for me). … Continue readingHow to Use Any Lens with a Mirrorless Camera
Sweet weeping Christ…. The climate of the photography world has turned grim with forecast winds likely whipping even more torturous in the coming months. Unless you’ve been living under a fairly girthy rock, and lets face it you’d still have your phone, you’ve likely noticed … Continue readingThe Never Ending Race for Mirrorless
Mirrorless. Mirrorless…MIRRORLESS! The long and loud cry about full frame mirrorless camera systems hasn’t ceased since Sony blasted the mainstream DSLR market into oblivion(or at least to Detroit) back in 2013. While mirrorless camera tech is certainly nothing new the advances made into the possibilities … Continue readingREVIEW VIDEO: Tamron’s Brand New 28-75mm F/2.8 Lens for Sony
I’ve always thought keeping things as simple as possible is always best. It seems that so many things today are portrayed as being overly complicated and I’ve never understood that way of thinking which is why I always explain things on a basic level especially … Continue readingVIDEO: Understand Shutter Speed in 10 Minutes