While a good camera bag, like the Change Up bag we recently reviewed, can make all the difference in the world when it comes to getting to your gear quickly as well as keeping it safe when traveling, even the best bag can still be a little cumbersome when you really need to get to your gear when the action is in full swing. When you have a few lenses and accessories you need to carry, sometimes a bag just doesn’t cut ... Read More

It seems like every day there is another company popping up making camera bags and accessories. For the most part, these other bags are cheap imports that you wouldn't dare trust to secure your precious equipment nor are they designed with how you work in mind. The folks are Think Tank Photo separate themselves from the pack with extremely high quality bags designed by professional photographers. Not only are the founders well known photographers in their own right, their global design board ... Read More

One of the main problems that many people have when starting off is getting their lighting to look right. Westcott is one of the biggest and oldest lighting companies around and recently they came up with the idea of a lighting kit for beginners. By creating color coded lights, a floor mat to help with placement, and even an instructional DVD, can learning lighting this way actually help you to get good results? We decided to try it our and follow the ... Read More

Carbonite (http://www.carbonite.com) is an off-site storage solution whose mission statement is "Our mission is to provide an inexpensive, reliable and truly easy-to-use solution for the mainstream PC user; one that is simple, safe and always on™." As photographers, backup should be a SERIOUS consideration and anything that is simple, automatic, and affordable sounds like something we should all look at. We took a long look at Carbonite based on a recommendation from Leo Laporte, continue reading to see what we thought of ... Read More

Lighting is a difficult concept to master but to put it simply, the larger the light source, the softer the shadows are going to be. A large softbox will really do wonders for portrait and product photography. The Amvona DP-LH-3497O enSuite™ Light Head kit is a great example of this giving you a large diffuse light source at an incredibly affordable price. With a 34 inch diameter, the Amvona DP-LH-3497O enSuite™ Light Head kit provides a nice large area with features such as ... Read More

When doing long exposure shots or when working closely with your subject, a remote shutter release for you camera can prove invaluable. It used to be that wired remotes ruled the market. These days, wireless remotes are becoming very affordable. But how good is a wireless switch when compared to a wired one? Read More

We have done a number of tutorials lately so we thought it was time for another inexpensive product review. This time we go back to our friends at Gadget Infinity to review an unbelievably affordable wide angle lens. We ordered the one to fit the Olympus E-500 to see how it would fair in some real world tests. Read More

While you can’t really mess up too bad by buying inexpensive tungsten lights like the Dynaphos lights we have reviewed in the past, buying a flash system can cause you all kinds of grief if you buy a weak unit. The lack of decent specs makes buying an inexpensive unit purely a guessing game. If the unit doesn’t sync well or if it isn’t bright enough you have just wasted a chunk of change. Can the dirt cheap SL-150 be worth plunking ... Read More

White balance is an age old problem that is becoming all too modern with so many people moving to digital SLRs. Today's cameras all have a pretty decent auto white balance settings, from the basic point/shot cameras to the pro SLRs. There are also several "fixed" settings on many of the simple cameras and most of the SLRs like Sunlight, Shade, Cloudy, Fluorescent, Incandescent, etc. But as many of you may know, these settings are not always perfect, and sometimes far from ... Read More

Learning all of the technical aspects of digital photography can be quite mind numbing for newcomers. Trying to learn about aperture, f-stops, shutter speed, depth of field, and other technical terms can be a bit overwhelming. So what do you do when you know what you want to accomplish but you just don't know how to go about it? That's were Scott Kelby's new book, The Digital Photography Book comes in. This is a kind of recipe book for tons of common ... Read More