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Shutterbug Staff  |  Feb 18, 2019  | 

The Nikon Df has long been one of our favorite yet perennially underrated classic DSLRs. And if you act fact, you can save $800 on a Nikon refurbished Df today.

Ron Leach  |  Feb 06, 2019  | 

The first thing most of us do when we get a new camera is dive into the menus and select the various settings that work best for our style of shooting. This is an important task, because when chosen carefully these settings can make photography easier, but improper settings can really hold you back.

The Editors  |  Jan 31, 2019  | 

Yes, we’re posting our annual favorite cameras and lenses awards of 2018 with only a day left in January 2019, but that just means determining the best photo gear for last year was harder than usual. And it was, especially with the raft of exciting new full frame mirrorless cameras that hit the market in the second half of last year.

Shutterbug Staff  |  Jan 30, 2019  | 

If you don’t own one already, you can get $200 off this 45.7MP full frame monster today through several retailers including Adorama and Amazon.

Deborah Sandidge  |  Jan 24, 2019  | 

This will probably surprise you, but for someone writing about the advantages of heading out with one camera and one lens, I mostly don't do that. As a professional photographer who emphasizes travel images and loves to apply special techniques, I most often carry a rather full kit of lenses and a back-up DSLR, plus filters and a tripod.

Jason Schneider  |  Dec 20, 2018  | 

Street photography—walking around with a camera, poised to capture life on the fly—has never been more popular than it is now. Back in the day, masters like Alfred Eisenstaedt and Henri Cartier-Bresson prowled the streets with classic film-based Leica rangefinders, but today most street shooters opt for modern digital cameras.

Shutterbug Staff  |  Dec 05, 2018  | 

The Nikon D500 is nearly three years old now and this APS-C sensor (aka crop sensor) based DSLR has been eclipsed by many other cameras, including several mirrorless models, in both features and price.

Dan Havlik  |  Dec 03, 2018  | 

Canon is still the king but don’t look now, Sony is closing fast. That’s the message from the annual hot gear list from LensRentals, a top source for photographers looking to rent cameras, lenses, lighting gear and video equipment.

Shutterbug Staff  |  Nov 19, 2018  | 

Photographer Pierre T. Lambert has some bad news about your camera: it’s been lying to you.

Dan Havlik  |  Nov 16, 2018  | 

We have sung the praises of the Nikon Df on Shutterbug several times before so it’s nice to know we’re not the only ones still infatuated with this retro-styled DSLR from 2013. Photographer Mattias Burling who takes second looks at recent classic cameras on his excellent YouTube channel has put out a video titled “5 Reasons to Buy a Nikon DF in 2018 - As underrated as it gets.

Dan Havlik  |  Nov 06, 2018  | 

If your eyes have glazed over by the countless videos out there comparing the latest smartphone cameras to real cameras, you’re not alone. The tipping point for photographer Evan Ranft was a video he saw comparing a Google Pixel smarthphone’s camera to a Hasselblad medium format camera.

Shutterbug Staff  |  Oct 22, 2018  | 

Here’s a fun game from photographer and popular YouTube personality Peter McKinnon. Can you tell the difference between images shot with a $400 camera vs. those shot with a $4000 camera?

Jason Schneider  |  Sep 19, 2018  | 

As I confidently predicted last time, you can’t possibly please everybody when it comes to picking the best, the greatest, or the most influential cameras ever made. After we posted our list of The Top 20 Greatest Cameras of All Time, it came as no surprise that we received a ton of emails, varying in tone from pugnacious condemnation, to anguish, to polite suggestion, all begging to differ with our first top ten choices.

Shutterbug Staff  |  Sep 05, 2018  | 

Canon introduced two new super-telephoto lenses that the company says are some of the smallest and lightest on the market: the EF 400mm f/2.8L IS III USM and EF 600mm f/4L IS III USM.

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