The demands on today’s photographers have rapidly increased. It’s no longer a case of us just shooting stills; usually, a short video is bundled into the days shoot. For information on all offers for the Datacolor SpyderX check out the website at https://www.datacolo

If you’re considering making films as a career then you’ll have to make a number of tough, but informed, decisions. Steve Fairclough spoke to two filmmakers – both of whom made the switch from shooting stills to shooting video – to get their top tips for setting up in business and m

Shooting tethered means shooting with your camera connected to your computer. Many photographers like to do this because it pings the images to their computer. As well as saving the images directly to the computer hard drive, it means that you can see your shots on a large screen im

We’re used to cameras being 4K video-enabled these days and the Panasonic Lumix G90, known as the Panasonic Lumix G95 in the US, can shoot 4K video at up to 30p. However, it also has a less common trick up its sleeve, the ability to shoot in V-Log L. That’s a feature tha

Slow motion video is created by shooting at a high frame rate and then playing the images back at a normal rate. For example, the standard playback speed in PAL regions is 25fps (frames per second). If you shoot a video at a frame rate of 100fps and play it back at 25fps, the video

Panasonic introduced a clever new mode with the Lumix G90 (Lumix G95 in the USA). It’s called Live View Composite mode. If that rings a bell, it’s because it’s very similar to Olympus’s Live Composite mode. Live View Composite mode is designed to make it easi

LookUp Tables (aka LUTs) are additional tools that expand your capabilities when creating and saving colour grading of your footage. To delve deeper, let’s take a closer look at LUTs to examine exactly what they are, why you should consider using them and how to apply LookUp T

One of the great things about modern smartphones is that they allow everybody to experiment with different aspects of photography. Although great as point and shoots, there might come a time when you want to understand a bit more about how to take greater control of how your images

These days it’s almost unheard of for a phone to be toting just a single lens, while triple and even quadruple cameras are becoming increasingly more common as time goes on, especially for flagship models. Both the Samsung S10, and its larger sibling, the S10+, feature a triple-lens

For the first time in OnePlus’s history, its latest model – the 7 Pro – has a triple camera lens setup on its rear. So you get a standard lens, a telephoto lens, plus a super wide-angle lens. This lens has an equivalent focal length of 17mm, with an f/2.2 aperture,

HDR (High Dynamic Range) has been a photographic buzz word for a number of years. It essentially enables you to pull back shadow and highlight detail that would otherwise be lost. HDR video is a feature that we’re starting to see on an action camera, and here it’s especi

A still may capture the moment and video the action but a time-lapse captures the passing of time like no other form of image capture. The DJI Osmo Action is packed with features that will help you to capture the environment around you in a way that few other devices can in stunning

Before image stabilisation came along there was a simple rule to calculate the safe shutter speed you should use. By safe, I mean the shutter speed that avoids camera shake from spoiling your images.  That rule is to use the reciprocal of the lens focal length as shutter speed.

Slow motion video footage is a great way to add drama to a sequence, showing 1 second of footage over 2, 4 or even 8 seconds. The DJI Osmo Action is one of the first action cameras to enable you to shoot high-quality slow-motion footage at 1080p. As standard it comes with a two reso

The days of complex firmware update procedures have long gone and now updating the camera’s firmware is as easy as installing an update to any piece of software. If there’s an update for the Osmo action you’ll see a small notification across the top of the Mimo App

One of the prominent features of the Osmo Action is the dual screens. You may think that dual screens on action cameras have been around for a while and you’d be right, but not like this. On the Osmo Action, you have a full-colour touch screen on the back and another smaller f

When it comes to wildlife photography, birds in flight have to be one of the most challenging subjects. Their fast-paced movement, as well as the unpredictable changes in position, exposure and focus,  means you have to practice a lot. It’s also really important to have y

The Olympus OM-D E-M1X is Olympus’s joint flagship Micro Four Thirds camera, which sits alongside to OM-D E-M1 Mark II. It has a double grip, two Truepic VIII processing engines and a host of clever features like Live ND Shooting, High Res Shot (Tripod and Handheld) and Intell

The Olympus OM-D E-M1X has a clever new autofocus option that helps you get certain subjects sharp. It uses artificial intelligence (AI) to detect specific objects, then focuses on them and tracks them around the frame. Olympus calls this ‘Intelligent Subject Tracking’,

The Moza Air 2 from Gudsen is one of the best gimbal stabilisers you can buy for your camera, offering a robust build and wealth of features at a competitive price. But balancing your camera on a gimbal can be tricky if it’s your first time using a three-axis stabiliser like t