Dan Carr 
An L-plate, sometimes called an L-bracket, is a camera accessory that allows you to quickly clamp a camera body to a tripod ball head in both a landscape and portrait orientation, but why are they so useful?
The Slide and Slide Lite camera straps has been around for a few years, but these updated versions were launched as part of a highly successful Kickstarter campaign at the end of 2017, along with the launch of the Capture Clip V3. Peak Design Strap Lineup Overview Peak Design’s camera strap lineup consists of three different straps – in ascending order of size: Leash, Slide Lite, and Slide. Whilst the Leash is the smallest strap, this doesn’t mean it’s only for small cameras. In fact I often use a Leash with big pro DSLRs simply because I value the incredibly …
Another quick Luminar tutorial for you guys today, and this time we’re looking at how to open RAW files. Just like Lightroom, Luminar is a fully fledged RAW photo editor but unless you open the RAW files directly into Luminar from your file browser, it can be a little confusing. If you don’t do things quite right you might end up editing a converted TIFF of your image, instead of the original RAW file. This would definitely degrade the final image quality and you wouldn’t be pulling all of the available dynamic range out of the RAW file. Luminar RAW …
UPDATE: At Photokina 2018, Phase One announced that it would now support the RAW files from the Fuji medium format system. I’m super excited about this because this is a much more forward thinking attitude, and it also shows that Phase One are listening to consumers. I know many people were pretty pissed at me for writing this original article, but I’m glad that I did. I wasn’t the only one that spoke up about this, and collectively I do think we made a difference in this instance. Thank you Phase One!! I now look forward to getting my hands …
A list and definitions of all the abbreviations, acronyms and terminology that are associated with Sony lenses and Zeiss approved lenses.
In this video I’ll show you how to watermark your photos using one of my favourite photo editing applications, Luminar. The logo that I’m using for my watermark was created by Photologo, a great service that makes hand-drawn logos for photographers. I’ve written a lot more about this service, and my experience as a customer, in a previous Photologo review. Watermark Luminar Tutorial IMPORTANT: Due to deficiencies in the way that Luminar handles images with a transparency layer, you will need to download this Luminar preset in order to follow along with this tutorial and use a white watermark. The …
I recently tested out the Photologo service to get a new watermark and logo designed for my photography business. In this post I’ll share my experience, as well as the final results, and some tutorials on how to use the final product.
I’m not posting all the Black Friday deals that I’ve been sent, because frankly some of them aren’t that great. Every company thinks they have to do something, and some of the deals are minimal. That’s not the case with this one though… This morning I had an email from my friends at Formatt-Hitech filters telling me that they are offering a 25% discount for their entire online store, for regular customers. However… for you guys, my readers and followers, they wanted to give me the chance to give you 35% off! Just use the coupon code Dan35 at the …
A detailed review and video hands-on with the newly updated Peak Design Leash camera strap. Find out what has been updated on this popular camera strap.
A detailed review of the updated 2017 Peak Design Cuff camera strap, including a comparison to the original version. Is it worth buying or upgrading?