Dan Havlik

Dan Havlik  |  Mar 29, 2016  |  0 comments

Sony extended the reach of its super zoom camera line this morning by unveiling the 20.1-megapixel RX10 III, which boasts a 25x built-in lens that’s equivalent to a 24-600mm zoom in the 35mm format. The Zeiss Vario-Sonnar super zoom lens in the Sony RX10 III also features a surprisingly fast aperture range of f/2.4 to f/4.

Dan Havlik  |  Mar 25, 2016  |  0 comments

Photographers know perhaps better than anyone that it's tough to please a client, particularly if you shoot portraits for a living. Indeed, there’s no end to which a portrait photographer must go to make his or her clients looking and feeling good.

Dan Havlik  |  Mar 23, 2016  |  0 comments

We recently got some hands-on time with a pre-production version of the forthcoming 36.4-megapixel Pentax K-1 DSLR at the WPPI show in Las Vegas and put the camera to an early test while shooting a few dozen images. We whittled down the test shots to ten of our favorites and included them below.

Dan Havlik  |  Mar 10, 2016  |  0 comments

Here’s a photo shoot FAIL that pretty much seems inevitable in retrospect. In the 20-second clip, a woman on a beach in Rio de Janerio, Brazil strikes a mermaid-like pose for a photographer on some wet rocks along the ocean.

Dan Havlik  |  Mar 04, 2016  |  0 comments

Photographer Anuar Patjane won National Geographic’s 2015 Traveler Photo Contest for this stunning, black-and-white image titled “Whale Whisperers.” But what’s it like to swim underwater alongside the ocean’s largest mammals with camera in hand?

Dan Havlik  |  Mar 03, 2016  |  0 comments

It’s been a long time coming and now it’s finally here. Or, at least, very close to it. Pentax unveiled its long awaited K-1 full-frame DSLR last month and now Ricoh, Pentax’s parent company, has posted five sample images shot with the 36.4-megapixel K-1.

Dan Havlik  |  Mar 02, 2016  |  0 comments

Photographer and videographer Roger Ballen’s work is dark, surreal, and downright creepy. And there are many people out there who would consider it art. But what about your work? Are you a photographer or an artist?

Dan Havlik  |  Mar 02, 2016  |  0 comments

It’s 2016 and some Nikon D750 DSLRs are still experiencing problems. Nikon has issued yet another service advisory for the semi-pro, full frame DSLR this week, noting that a shutter shading problem that cropped up in July 2015 is now affecting more models. 

Dan Havlik  |  Feb 29, 2016  |  0 comments

War photographer Christopher Morris has seen a lot of conflict in his day but he probably hasn’t seen anything quite like the campaign rally for Donald J. Trump he was covering for Time magazine this afternoon

Dan Havlik  |  Feb 29, 2016  |  0 comments

Drones and wild animals don’t always mix and with good reason. Animals often see the noisy, swirling drones as aggressive predators and respond in kind, occasionally knocking the flying whirligigs out of the air.

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