Our Annual Gift Guide K...

Today’s Post by Joe Farace During the days in December leading up to Christmas and Hanukkah (Dec 6 – 14) too, Mark and I will be posting the equivalent of mini-reviews about products that could make great holiday gifts or stocking stuffers. I also plan to do some giveaways of some...

My Camera of the Year f...

Today’s Post by Joe Farace Over the years, digital cameras have become more homogeneous with manufacturers slavishly copying each other’s ideas. My rule for this award is that it’s presented to a camera I actually used and shot under all kinds of conditions and not all camera...

Rode VideoMicro vs Buil...

Today’s Post by Mark Toal I’m a big fan of external microphones for recording video on your Mirrorless camera. I like to keep my equipment needed for shooting video as simple as possible so I never shoot without a microphone and monopod. For the past couple of years I’ve been...

It’s Black (and W...

Today’s Post by Joe Farace Photographers seem to be of two minds about filters: Purists don’t like them because they abhor anything coming between reality and the captured image. Filter fans worry less about resolution charts and just like to have fun with photography, which regular...

A Happy Mirrorless Than...

Special Holiday Post by Mark Toal & Joe Farace From Joe: My biggest thanks goes out to Mark Toal, whose wit, wisdom and talent serve to electrify this blog. He’s not just a great photographer but a thoroughly decent human being and I’m so glad that I met him a few years...

SOOC = Straight Out of ...

Today’s Post by Mark Toal Like LOL, K and My PEEP’s it took me while to figure out what SOOC meant—Straight Out Of The Camera. In other words, it’s shooting a JPEG file that is posted online or used without any editing. And now that news service Reuters has banned submission of RAW...