I was out making pictures with three other photographers, yesterday–just a random assortment of friends–and all of us were using mirrorless cameras and that’s the first time I’ve been out with a group and no one had a DSLR. We took a short hike to a waterfall and as we
When it comes to Mirrorless cameras, you’ve got two basic styles to choose from. The traditional SLR-shaped camera with a viewfinder in the center of the body, and the rangefinder style, with the viewfinder mounted at the top left corner of the body. Interestingly, you can’t divide the styles up
Why are there colored lines of bright and dark in your indoor and nighttime pictures? How do you get rid of them? Don’t worry, it’s not a problem with your camera. It’s a problem with electricity and LED lights and fluorescent lights. Fortunately, there are a couple of things you
One complaint about mirrorless cameras is that their battery life is poor compared to DSLR’s. Considering all that the battery does in mirrorless cameras, I’m actually amazed at how great the battery life is. The viewfinder, LCD, shutter, autofocus, and image stabilization are all driven by the one battery, plus the wifi
In the last 35 days, I’ve traveled to Florida, Nevada, Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Shandong in China, the Oregon Coast, Seattle, and I’ve been hiking four times near my home in Portland, Oregon. I’m sitting in a hotel in Spokane, Washington, right now, and I’ll be heading to Bozeman, Montana,
Most mirrorless cameras include wifi and the ability to work with a smartphone app, and most mirrorless photographers I talk to aren’t maximizing that connectivity and the included functions. The cameras themselves create the wifi, so you don’t need to connect to wifi wherever you are. I highly recommend you
The idea of cleaning your camera’s sensor scares most photographers half to death. The thing is, if you don’t clean the sensor, you’ll end up with spots in your pictures anytime you stop down the aperture a little bit, and it just gets worse over time. I know many photographers
