I was out shopping yesterday and stumbled across a very cool and interesting product while walking the isle's of the local wholesale club. The product is the new Coleman Quad LED Lantern. Based on the description on the box itself it seemed like it would be an ideal and inexpensive portable lighting solution for cinematographers or photographers who wanted an impromptu solution for portrait l...

Most photographers would balk at spending $2K for a fixed-lens digital camera, but Leica has a large following, and the Leica X1 ($1,995 list) will find a happy home with many of the company’s devotees. Like the Leica M8 ($5,995 list), the X1 features an APS-C image sensor—the same size sensor found in much larger

Olympus PEN E-PL1 photo gallery : The Olympus PEN E-PL1 is a camera that is aimed at the amateur photographer that is looking for more quality, but keeping the user-friendliness of a compact camera. That user-friendliness became obvious right away when I made the first test photos with the new Olympus PEN E-PL1. The Olympus PEN camera menu is clear and well-organized, and worth noting is that it i...

Author: Larry Volk and Danielle Currier Publisher: Focal Press Review by Conrad J. Obregon Visual professionals usually introduce themselves to prospective clients and employers by presenting a portfolio. No Plastic Sleeves: The Complete Portfolio Guide for Photographers and Designers calls itself a complete guide to portfolio preparation. The authors claim it is aimed at both photographers and de...

The Hot Shoe Diaries is a book on getting the most out of those small hot shoe flashes from Joe McNally.  I hate that it has taken so long to get around to writing a review about it, because it is an excellent book. The Hot Shoe Diaries is not a book about how to

Review (Summary): "The product is the new Coleman Quad LED Lantern, and just based on the description on the box itself it seemed like it would be an ideal and inexpensive portable lighting solution for cinematographers or photographers who wanted a impromptu solution for portrait lighting - especially for personal interviews or for creative lighting effects.

I’ve had several people ask me how to post a review over on planet5D Review in order to enter and maybe win that iPad that I ordered yesterday. It really is quite easy – really. It just doesn’t jump out at you at the top of the page like maybe it should. You enter reviews on

The Sony Cyber-shot S2100's "S" should stand for "simplicity." The 12.1-megapixel S2100 has been designed to meet the needs of a beginning photographer with basic exposure controls in program mode and few controls in "Easy" mode. Does the Sony S2100 strike the right balance between ease of use and quality picture-taking? Read on to find out.

One of the more popular digital camera categories to emerge over the past few years was pioneered by the Panasonic ZS7's predecessors: a pocket digital camera with a surprisingly long zoom. The Panasonic ZS7 continues to impress, with a 12.1-megapixel sensor and a 12x optical zoom, a high-res 3-inch LCD, full PASM exposure modes, and a new GPS feature to help jog your memory of where you were...

Samsung NX10 Photography Blog has reviewed the new Samsung NX10 mirror-less compact digital camera. This Samsung camera is a strong competitor to the Mirco Four Thirds cameras from Panasonic and Olympus as it uses a larger sensor and have crammed more megapixels into the sensor (14.6 megapixels). Some key features for the Samsung NX10: -14.6 megapixel APS-C sized CMOS sensor -Mirror-less compact d...