Nikon has released a 4K UHD sample video recorded with the newly unveiled D500 DSLR. The Nikon D500 and full-frame D5 are the first Nikons to offer support 4K UHD capture at 3840 x 2160 at 30p/25p/24p. Open the clip above in YouTube, select 2160p and throw it into full-screen mode for the full effect – though you might want to proceed with caution if heights make you queasy.
I watched this on 78mb dsl so no issue with buffering/bandwidth....it is mush streamed direct from youtube... you can see the compression at work as blocks the size of my thumbnail, square areas which have approx 90x90 pixles are all one single mushy colour.... thats 1 colour for 8100 pixels.
I ripped the 4k and saved as an mkv with little compression/loss from source, and it is a much better....there are some really sharp frames that are truly 4k with fantastic detail...
SO: (1) don't watch then confuse compressed youtube video streaming with source video quality....duh (2) don't judge out of focus areas for 4k quality... blurred is blurred at any resolution... (3) don't think this is a videographers camera, it is not, the 4k on this is just there in case you want to get some video... it is nice that it is 4k (4) don't complain about it if you don't ahdere to (3) because it is basically a freebee that gives you the option if you want it... (5) don't use crApple (c)retin(a) screens
freeze some frames inside the cave, quite the mess. Which makes me think that the ISO performance is also hyped a lot by the new specifications. I am going to be really surprised if this camera is anything more than 1/2 stop better than its competitors.
Well, you are probably seeing lots of compression. Nikon - video - not so much. But 1/2 a stop better than D7200, 10 fps, 200 image buffer depth - yeah, still fantastic.
Absolutely, it is going to be a fantastic camera, I have no doubts. And so badly needed. Just I am not holding my breath on breakthrough ISO performance from both D5 and D500, not as much as hyped at least.
Guys, half a stop would be revolutionary. Means a DXO iso of what? 22-2300? Like a crappy FF sensor from canon? Maybe it's possible. All the APSC in current cams like D7200, D5500, A6000 are probably 4 years old design but still I'd temper my enthusiasm.
Indeed, I seriously doubt it would be that good. I think at best it will be a match to the A7RII at pixel level. But given the video performance in the shadows, I suspect it will not.
it is a long shot but there are potential clues. The smudging is a clear coverup of noise, which seems to make the video in the cave not even passable. Blacks a far better controlled in the A7RII video. As you well put you cannot judge from just a video, but the hyped extreme ISO capabilities smell funny.... after I see this clip.
armandino - again, can't say much about a stills quality from a video. Sony is known for video and I am sure they are using very good, high quality codecs and very high bitrates compared to nikon. So you are seeing lots of artifacts and compression. Stills will be a different story.
@brownie314 I agreed, however I do not only see compression smudging, but also aggressive noise reduction smudging. As I said it is a long shoot, and I hope I am wrong :)
Very sad they did not take the opportunity to upload the video to vimeo also. From what I understand, vimeo doesn't compress / mush up the video as much as youtube.
Use 4K downloader to download and view the original file. Anyway, mush in, even more mushy out. There are plenty of crisp 4K videos on youtube.... The darker scenes, especially in the cave, are painfully bad.
Retina is deceiving, however if you know well enough 4K it should still be obvious. I use a retina display too. Pause the movie now and then, especially in the cave. This video hardly compete with a crisp 1080 footage. Compare with the A7RII Sony sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jor_WkheaE
4k video was included just because it is 2016 and why put in anything less, right. But for this cameras target audience video could have been left out and they might not have noticed. I am exaggerating - but only a little.
You do realize that it's a pro grade still camera that happens to shoot video and along with the D5 the second Nikon, and with the Canon 1DC the third DSLR to shoot 4K period? Pentax is still in 2001.
4K in D500 just show some willingness from Nikon that they are stepping in to the video market. They are so behind in video I think they'll take some time to get it right.
Wow so does this mean when I buy this camera I will be able to climb mountains and walk across a cable hundreds of feet high.. Glad to see Nikon stepping it up in video.. EOSHD claims that the d750 has the best 1080p to any current dslr exluding the 5dc...
Sample video is by Keith Ladzinski who has shot and directed films on all 7 continents as a National Geographic film maker. I am sure DPR sample videos will not look the same ;)
I've just bought a UHD (3840x2160) 4K monitor and although the footage is really detailed and high definition, it's jerky and keeps stopping to buffer all the time. Could it be that I need a better graphics card (got a 1 GB Asus Radeon R5 230 at the moment), a faster broadband connection (12MB at the moment, although it's slower during peak times), or both? Or could it be something else? It's even a bit jerky when played at 1080p, and obviously not as detailed. Thanks in advance for any replies from those more tech savvy than me ;o)
Thanks Joe, the graphs say it all and I suppose I guessed as much. It looks as though I need to go shopping ;o)
I might upgrade my broadband as well, because there are 4 devices using it in my house and at 12MB max, it ain't great to start with.
EDIT: Based on the tip you gave me I've just had a dig around at what I'll need to get 4K playing flawlessly on my monitor and it appears to be out of my price range at the moment, which I wish I knew when I bought the monitor, but never mind, it's still great for photo editing and the price of tech seems to be falling all the time, so I might get there one day. I suspect that 4K will be standard one day. Thanks anyway.
It also looks jerky in places like where the grass is blowing in the wind. Probably they shot the video at a highish shutter speed to avoid blurring when panning that some might think is a lack of equipment resolution.
If you download the entire video with Free YouTube Downloader, you can play it from your hard drive eliminating your broadband connection as the cause of the jerky playback. The file is 146.68Mb and 1minute 43 seconds, so about 1.5Mb/s.
BTW with that with that sort of bitrate, you are not going to expect stellar video quality. Your DSLR records 1080P H.264 using about 4Mb/s. My broadcast quality 1080 camera is double that. YouTube has crushed four times the pixels per frame to one third of the file size of your DSLR 1080p file. Quality can't help but suffer.
It's funny to read all these "knowledgeable" comments about this and that, usually negatives like "my so-and-so camera" can do better for over a year, etc. basically sour grapes as usual when a camera from another maker than the one the person uses comes out. The camera is the best crop sensor (< FF) body for stills, probably the best sensor performance at APS-C factor, and likely more than decent for video. Cheers and congrats to all that will get one, looks very nice.
It is funny to see a disappointing video from a very hyped camera instead, and I think it is fair for people to comment on that. Especially if it meant to market this new product. Deduct your own conclusions from the Sony own A7RII video pre camera release: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jor_WkheaE
scenes chosen to highlight details and ISO performance, for a true evaluation of the sensor capabilities, instead of pumping you up with the excitement of a sport so you forget how mushy the video is. A video that tells you nothing about what the sensor is able to do, it just leaves you in hopes that it is better than what you see here.
Armondino - yes this camera is hyped and has been a long time coming. However Nikon is not known for video. If this was the A7s then yes, criticize away, please. But this camera never was going to be a video monster. Make no mistake - it is a monster, just not for video.
@gonzalu Lift? @brownie314 correct, still I think I do not see a problem with commenting on its video output on an article showcasing the camera video.
Armondino - I agree. Not sure why dpreview chose to put, as a first sample from the camera, a video. Other than, maybe that is all anyone has. This stills produced by this body will be much more interesting to most people. But yes, it is a video.
@armandino, I was joking... all are taking it WAAAYYY too serious as if anyone here is producing the next Avatar or Star Wars big budget on one of these. This camera is 1,000 more capable than anyone posting here negatively can produce. Examples of the productions they have produced will be more telling than "claiming" how crappy this new camera is.
Nice to see what the tiny Panasonic LF1, in AVCHD, mounted on a drone, can do! Now I'm ready to buy me a drone for my LF1 and head out west to Yosemite!
Lousy director and producer, teaching bad safety habits, where are the climbers' helmets? :-)
Nobody wears helmets in Verdon. If you fall from 200m you're probably going to die & people there are careful not to drop their D500 on other people's heads. :-)
That's if they drop to the ground, which is unlikely, but I'm actually talking about the 10 or 15 feet drops, where the side of their head could get badly banged against the rock .. :)
It's the other way round, the habit is not to wear helmets on bolt protected sports routes. Apart from the views, it's just like an indoor gym. With a little more commitment of course :-)
I just watched the video on HD TV (1080P TV, not 4K). The video is not any better than 4K videos I've seen from M43 or even 1" cameras (such as RX10 II).
I like Nikon for photography. My camera does a very good job of that. I don't use video. I don't care for what this camera can do with video.
The feats of those atheletes and the videographer's skills are definitely beyond the ordinary.
@ Photo_AK I think Satyaa has a very good point here: this is such mediocre 4K video that even a 1080 screen is enough to judge that. There is definitely cleaner and crisper 1080 video out there, which means that this footage does worse with 4 times the resolution.
@ Photo_AK it is if you can justify your statement, but honestly I do not think you can as you obviously have no idea of what you are talking about. Indeed if you did you would have avoided embarrassing yourself twice in this short thread.
it's just marketing stuff, not a video you could really judge it's quality. Don't worry it will look excellent enough for a lot of scenarios. Don't worry it still will not be better than the video from the A7S / A7SII / A7RII
Deceiving marketing, they made it sound its all great 4k but they don´t tell you its only avaible on a heavy crop, so you basically need to shoot with a wide lens to get a normal view angle and not telephoto
yes pew pew is right.... this nikon cam is also taking video sampling only in croping area (8MP as still), like panasonic 4/3rds do. i am going to buy it...but since i am using FF lenses, when i put 16-35 to D500 it would become 24-52...that mostly known...i dont know how much further cropped in shooting 4K? i dont know...it will take imapge sampling only 8mp equivalent area from sensor.... thats the point...some more crop factor... now i am using D810 for still and SonyRX10II for 4k vdo.... Sony is with just so called 1 in sensor...but full sensor read out. so its 4k is very smooth with 100MB bit rate. I wanna know more about Nikon 4K and waiting.
For cropped video such as the d500, I expect to try using the Nikon 10.5mm DX lens. For my purposes, on a D4 the distortion was minimal & an acceptable tradeoff. With a metabones speedbooster F-mount adaptor on a GH4 results are very nice at 3840x2160, but at 4096x2160 distortion is easily noticeable. My guess is on the d500 distortion will be slightly less noticeable than on the GH4 so at 3840x2160 which is the only 4k mode on the d500 it might not be too bad of a compromise for getting a wide-ish field of view.
LOL we have a DSLR released and not one great RAW sample but get instead a 4K video. Nikon is this a still camera or a video camera? Let's see some HQ JPG and RAWs please!!
for a company like Nikon, nobody challenge the IQ for still, whether RAW or otherwise. Even if the don't improve much, it's still great. But everybody ask "can Nikon do a serious job for 4K??"
Don, nowadays the DSLR/mirrorless cameras are the best tool for making amazing quality videography, if you are not willing to pay into dedicated cinema gear. All you need is to set a proper rig around your camera, and the controls, size, etc are not that important once it gets into a big, heavy rig, anyway...
Sorry but you buy D5 for the AF performance, not for the still image quality as that is not challenged or questionable! The new feature with D5 and D500 are the UHD video recording capability, and that is the game changer for many action and nature explorer who are now capable to record UHD video without a secondary camera system (m4/3 with GH4) and are capable to use that to have great freedom in video editing and telling the story by combining photographs and video.
The real challenger for Nikon here is the Sony A7r II that attracts Nikon users with the AF performance, IBIS and UHD/4K video recording capabilities. And this is direct strike back toward Sony that Nikon users can get great video too without need to go and change their bodies.
"not for the still image quality as that is not challenged or questionable!"
I don't fully get your meaning ... if you mean that the IQ is great that is true, but quite low res for today standards, and a D800/810 gives you much better IQ for good light photography for half the money.
If you mean that the D5 is not challenging in any way the cameras that compete for the best IQ (D810, A7R2, 5DS), then it's ok, i get it.
This would not be my first choice of camera to carry while climbing in Provence. BTW This video has been out since the announcement of the camera and I cannot really say much about it. I don't see anything really eye popping here.
Is there a source for the D5 time extension other than a rumour site?
I remember Damian McGillicuddy going out of his way to assure me and another photographer that the Olympus E-M5 (which did 30fps video only) would get 25fps in a firmware update that would be along in a couple of months. It never did.
Yes, the 3min or 30min limit is problem only when you need to be able stick camera on tripod and let it roll, this while you have multiple cameras doing same. And then in edit you bring all these multiple cameras to timeline and you just select what camera angle you want to use.
This exactly like in the play, a ballet, conference etc. But that is meaning you need to have like a 5-10 cameras and then something small like GH4R is way better for that use than D5 or D500.
The D5 and D500 are great for the purpose the cameras has been designed, action and nature. You are in sports event or you are in wild and you need to get that few minutes worth of video, and there the 3 min is even no problem.
Panning is very choppy, and that is common with many other cameras, as well. I wonder - what is the point of high spatial resolution if the time resolution/compression is so poor?
That's a result of the shutter speed settings. Maybe they didn't have enough ND with them and needed to control exposure with the shutter. Maybe it was deliberate in order to show off the detail captured in lieu of motion blur.
I'm not sure what J A C S is seeing, but there's not much motion blur when the climbers lose their grip and fall. They're definitely working with shorter than normal exposures.
I'm just saying: when I see choppy video on YouTube, I don't blame it on the camera that happens to be of a brand that is not my brand-of-choice. That's all I'm saying.
And I said that the brand was irrelevant; I do not think that my brand of choice takes better videos aside from the dedicated video cameras, maybe. Also, as I said, I did not blame it on anything. I just said that it looks choppy, which it does.
Youtube or not, that was Nikon's choice, not mine.
Nice to have 4K but I don't think I'll use it. Monstrous file sizes, slow editing, slow downloads, internet system collapse and total planetary failure. I can't be part of that!
I find that IMovie has the main features for a quick edit, fast interface and post processing, good balance quality/speed. It does not feel particularly hefty. With Premiere Pro a different story....
@ srados IMovie is not a professional tool but not to be underestimated for quick and effective editing for general use videos. For instance, my IMovies videos easily put this video to shame. And for what matters wows more than better videos yet filmed at 1080 just because of the 4K resolution factor. I would give it a try if I were you rather than snobbing it altogether.
@ hammarbytp "One of my favorite photos was taken on a 7MP camera". That is completely irrelevant. Odds are that if you took the same picture with a 36MP camera you would likely be even happier of the result. One of my best pictures ever was taken with a 1DII @ 8MP, nevertheless I wish it was taken with a 1DX or better a D810.
If you've followed the other D5/D500 comments, you would know that tecnoworld magically knows how Samsung cameras stack up against unreleased products. It's an amazing talent.
Rishi, Textbook definition of what? I know that DPR staff are people too but I am a little disappointed that you should get down and dirty with comments about a user. You can ban him you can censor him if you wish but these comments are kind of unprofessional.
photomedium, I didn't really understand that comment addressed to me. But I also don't advise any reason for a possible ban or censorship for my posts. I'm never offensive, and I try to be as unbiased as possible, just referring to specs and scientific and demonstrable quantitative values.
tecnoworld, no one needs to prove you wrong. The prove of burden is on he who makes a claim, not on the opposite party. The D500 hasn't been released yet and you are already making statements about its video quality, based on no evidence.
The fact is about cropped 4k video, which is stated among the specs. Nx1 does 4k from full sensor readout downscaled from 6.5k. Outstanding, for whom understands what this means in terms of quality and...technology.
lol tecno is right , nx500 is a 1.5x camera and also has crop on 4k video correct? Well it so happens that d500 is also a 1.5x camera with additional crop on 4k video. NX1 has no crop on 4k I think
It's not too far fetched to assume that samsung nx500 and d500 could be on par in video. Samsung has been more focussed to video than nikon. Yet that could still be taken with some compliment, could it not? My d810 can only do 1080p (with bad bitrates with recording to memory card, external maybe better), whilst a LX100 (or my GX8) can capture better video than my d810 ?
Lassoni, the fact is that nikon is trying to push on the video part of its d500 and d5. It didn't so with previous cameras. This is because 4k is formally there and ppl who ignore the differences among....4k and 4k could easily be fooled, if nikon is written on the chassis.
No reason to ban tecnoworld at all, but my suggestion that he may not be unbiased given his recent comment that DPR will summarily lose all credibility if the D500 gets a higher rating than a NX500 is not entirely unfounded...
1) nx1 has far superior tech than d500, on paper. It has every single quantitative feature surpassing that of d500 (except buffer depth, but nx1 has 28mp hence 40% bigger raw). Nx1 even seem to have better build, but that's yet to be seen. 2) dpr reviewed it with an old fw and never updated the review, when latest fw improved af speed by a big margin and introduced several new important features 3) d7200, yet being arguably inferior (but almost as expensive as nx1) got almost the same rating as nx1 4) d500 will cost 50% more than nx1 at launch 5) video specs in d500 are laughable compared to nx1
Hence, I say it again, if d500 gets a superior rating, then FOR ME dpr will lose credibility.
tecnoworld, DPR gave the NX1 87%, a gold review and a stellar review - what the heck are you expecting more? That they declare it to be the best camera ever made in the history of mankind? They even wrote "In fact, for those who are curious about why our review took so long to publish, you can blame those firmware updates. Imagine having a review practically written and out the door when a firmware update suddenly changes much of what you've just written about.", so your complaint about them not including changes through firmware updates is moot.
Photomedium, there have been gorgeous deals floating on the web. Btw I guess nobody will say that d500 is expensive, yet it costs 30% more than nx1 at launch (and lacks most of its top end features, as already noted, while coming on the market 1.5 years later).
There's foley work on the audio since drone noise is all you'd hear on the aerial shots. A video like this shows a lot more about the filmmaker's talents than the capability of the camera.
yes, however it's very poor from a technical point of view. If you invest some (tens of) thousands in a system to make some serious video centered around this camera, you are pretty annoyed. maybe you want to record 3 and a half minute .... or 5 :)
Anyway, i've seen someone said in a comment here that they fixed the limit for D5 in firmware update, so it is also 30min.
My big question is, can it focus properly during 4K video?
Sony can keep steady focus on a subject during 4K video, but only with a $3400 body.
Panasonic has 4K, but with DFD focus still has a tendency to wobble. If a subject is moving towards me from my experience it has issues.
The Nikon 1 has 4K but only at a mostly unusable rate of 15 FPS.
So far the only DSLR that can keep focus during video is Canon, but no 4K.
The only ILC cameras so far that can maintain usable focus during 4K (and during 1080/120p) are from Samsung...and the NX1 was able to do it over a year ago. But their future is more than cloudy. Better to burn out than to fade away I guess.
The little RX100 Mark IV from Sony does an OK job of keeping focus for 4K video at 30p. 1080 60p (XAVC S HD) too, but not at 120p. In my (to date limited) experience. Of course, not an ILC.
Depends on what you want to focus on and in what light ETC.
I mostly only use manual focus for video with my A7s (internal full HD only) but when I DO want to use AF, a lens like the 55 1.8 does ok in video focusing between subjects in fairly low light even at wider apertures FF (EG switching from one person a few feet away to another ten feet further behind and then back again at f2). It will still focus in really low light too though will likely hunt a bit more.
It did pretty well in some challenging situations. The 8-bit processing is showing in some places, though - it looked like the red channel was clipping on the climber's jacket. Although, it's hard to tell what's from the camera and what's from YouTube compression.
it looks pretty muddy in the shadows or darker images, but hard to really judge from a generic sample youtube video, but it seems to lack the crispness of my A7RII.
correction after looking at it twice. Pretty muddy, period. This is as good as a 4K from a smartphone, somewhat worse than a really good 1080P footage. I hope that this is not representative of the true camera capabilities.
The D500 4k mode is easy to understand: it does a full sensor readout 1:1 of a 3840x2160 window from 5568x3712. Which is a 1.45 crop horizontally or 1.52 diagonally (2.33 35mm-equivalent). So, we know all pixels in that window are read out and the sensor has no Bayer-AA filter.
Therefore, the sharpness is determined by lens, demosaicing (the JPG-engine) and compression/hdmi-readout.
I expect no difference vs. other cameras doing the exact same thing. Of course, the iso-performance will be close to other cameras with 2.33 crop, like 1" sensors.
@Sports Dad A7RII in crop mode is better than FF, but if you are shooting a relatively low ISO it should deliver still a very good result. Were you shooting high or low bit rate? Also what lenses were you using? I agree that youtube degrades a lot, but my youtube videos are a lot better than this in both crop and FF mode. @falconeyes compression can play a really big factor here. A7RII can shoot at either 50Mbps and 100 Mbps. And at 100 it is pretty durn good.
I agree. But that is Youtube compression (known to be bad).
But the UHD sample gave a soft look, like you would had a normal soft Nikon objective, but then again many were taken from far away that causes air compression to soften everything. And then when the camera was close to the subjects, ZAM and it was sharp enough to be usable for downscaling to 1080p.
@ Fri13 below is a quick behind the scene I took with my A7RII. The video is ok as I am the photographer and really I put just enough effort to have records of the shoot. Youtube for youtube, considering that I am working indoor with low light (expecting to see much more noise or muddier details) and wide open, the difference is striking for my taste. Note that the video was already compressed to 1/10 of the original size before upload: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvv4tgvxPII
@PVCdroid That was mostly in crop mode as I am shooting indoor and the at the end very dark too. I really do not have much need to shoot full frame as I can use cheap and small lenses like the 16-50 pancake (crop) or the 28/2.0 (FF). If want some really sharp images I stick the Sigma 20/1.4 or 35/1.4 art but I need to focus manually here. I have shot FF video and I am still very pleased with the results, I can hardly detect a difference unless I am pushing iso. Thank you for the comments on the video. I tent to keep my volume really low, I did not noticed it being loud,good to know :-)
the benefits are beyond the shear number of pixels. I do not think this camera is particularly good at 4K yet it beats easy pretty much any 1080 DSLR in terms of sharpens and details.
@blackcoffee17 - I do agree that "future proofing" is a smart thing to do, but if we're talking about generic content creation, is it really necessary? For instance, let's say someone (a consumer - not a professional) wants to make a movie of XYZ (some ability for instance - rock climbing, skate boarding, surfing, whatever) this year. So they do it in 4k. Is it realistic to expect that in 5 years, they'll be even better at that activity? Is it also realistic to expect that in 5 years, they'll be producing even MORE content that is CURRENT (and lord knows, the internet basically revolves around the "now", yesterday is ancient history). To be transparent, I'm not arguing against 4k and I'm quite excited about it as a technology hopefully available and workable by everyone, I just think the future proofing argument is pretty overblown. Very few people watch "old stuff" very often.
Personally I assumed that @nicolaiecostel was asking for a reason similar to what I was thinking (shoot, I can't really make a good judgement about 4K quality because I don't have a 4K monitor to view it on). If that's the case, then really it's about being able to tell if folks are truly critiquing it's 4K abilities or are they actually critiquing what it's 4K sampled down to 1080p looks like.
At least I hope that's where they were going with the question since the alternative (arguing the value of shooting 4K today) is a silly argument to be having.
It's more than future proofing. Shooting 4K and down converting to 1080P delivers better IQ than natively shot 1080P, all things being equal. 4K allows panning/zooming on a frame during editing without loss of noticeable detail when viewed at 1080P.
I am shooting 4K with my A7RII and it makes my old videos with my 5DIII and 7DII unwatchable. Most of the time I do not look at them on my 4K TV yet the difference is striking and everyone watching my youtube videos is amazed by the IQ. Shooting with 5DIII_Magic Lantern gets you close, but, boy is that ever a tedious job! I can whip in a crisp and pleasant video with this 4K camera and iMovies.
4K is NOT future proof - The movie and TV industry is talking 8K to be the new 'standard'.
Japan is aiming to broadcast the 2020 Olympics in 8K. If you really want to be future proof then just skip 4K altogether 1080P will do just fine until 8K is being introduced.
They do have a head strap, but it rotates the head 90 degrees to the right so the camera can rest on the shoulder. They call it Right Angle Head Support. RAHS. It's in the specs, look it up.
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At last, people who don’t want to pay a premium for Apple’s Pro models can capture high-resolution 24MP and 48MP photos using the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus. Is the lack of a dedicated telephoto lens or the ability to capture Raw images worth the savings for photographers?
Kodak's Super 8 Camera is a hybrid of old and new: it shoots movies using Super 8 motion picture film but incorporates digital elements like a flip-out LCD screen and audio capture. Eight years after we first saw the camera at CES 2016, Kodak is finally bringing it to market.
In this supplement to his recently completed 10-part series on landscape photography, photographer Erez Marom explores how the compositional skills developed for capturing landscapes can be extended to other areas of photography.
If you want a compact camera that produces great quality photos without the hassle of changing lenses, there are plenty of choices available for every budget. Read on to find out which portable enthusiast compacts are our favorites.
Sony, the Associated Press and 'Photo Mechanic' maker Camera Bits have run a month-long field-test to evaluate capture authentication and a subsequent workflow.
A color-accurate monitor is an essential piece of the digital creator's toolkit. In this guide, we'll go over everything you need to know about how color calibration actually works so you can understand the process and improve your workflow.
What's the best camera for travel? Good travel cameras should be small, versatile, and offer good image quality. In this buying guide we've rounded-up several great cameras for travel and recommended the best.
It's that time of year again: When people get up way too early to rush out to big box stores and climb over each other to buy $99 TVs. We've saved you the trip, highlighting the best photo-related deals that can be ordered from the comfort of your own home.
The LowePro PhotoSport Outdoor is a camera pack for photographers who also need a well-designed daypack for hiking and other outdoor use. If that sounds like you, the PhotoSport Outdoor may be a great choice, but as with any hybrid product, there are a few tradeoffs.
Sigma's latest 70-200mm F2.8 offering promises to blend solid build, reasonably light weight and impressive image quality into a relatively affordable package. See how it stacks up in our initial impressions.
The Sony a9 III is heralded as a revolutionary camera, but is all the hype warranted? DPReview's Richard Butler and Dale Baskin break down what's actually new and worth paying attention to.
What’s the best camera for around $2000? This price point gives you access to some of the most all-round capable cameras available. Excellent image quality, powerful autofocus and great looking video are the least you can expect. We've picked the models that really stand out.
DJI's Air 3 and Mini 4 Pro are two of the most popular drones on the market, but there are important differences between the two. In this article, we'll help figure out which of these two popular drones is right for you.
The Sony a7C II refreshes the compact full-frame with a 33MP sensor, the addition of a front control dial, a dedicated 'AI' processor, 10-bit 4K/60p video and more. It's a definite improvement, but it helps if you value its compact form.
Above $2500 cameras tend to become increasingly specialized, making it difficult to select a 'best' option. We case our eye over the options costing more than $2500 but less than $4000, to find the best all-rounder.
The iPhone 15 Pro allows users to capture 48MP photos in HEIF or JPEG format in addition to Raw files, while new lens coatings claim to cut down lens flare. How do the cameras in Apple's latest flagship look in everyday circumstances? Check out our gallery to find out.
Global shutters, that can read all their pixels at exactly the same moment have been the valued by videographers for some time, but this approach has benefits for photographers, too.
We had an opportunity to shoot a pre-production a9 III camera with global shutter following Sony's announcement this week. This gallery includes images captured with the new 300mm F2.8 GM OSS telephoto lens and some high-speed flash photos.
The Sony a9 III is a ground-breaking full-frame mirrorless camera that brings global shutter to deliver unforeseen high-speed capture, flash sync and capabilities not seen before. We delve a little further into the a9III to find out what makes it tick.
The "Big Four" Fashion Weeks – New York, London, Milan and Paris - have wrapped for 2023 but it's never too early to start planning for next season. If shooting Fashion Week is on your bucket list, read on. We'll tell you what opportunities are available for photographers and provide some tips to get you started.
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