gear

Pixiq Expert

3 weeks ago

Wilderness Travel 1 Rainforests – Essential Gear

For most people, travelling to a tropical rainforest area is rarely as simple as a single flight. Often it will involve several flights and then a road or river trip. Therefore, you want to make sure you pack essential items which will enable you can continue [...]

Daniela Bowker

Pixiq Expert

3 weeks ago

Lending your gear to friends: is it all that scary?

Gosh photographers can be a funny bunch. A little while ago I stumbled onto a forum thread where someone had asked if he weren't the only person to refuse to lend kit to friends if they asked. The vast majority of the answers were in the 'Hell no! I never I [...]

Eric Reichbaum

Pixiq Expert

5 months ago

Oben Tripod Review: A real bang for your buck!

Recently I was lucky enough to get a personal tour by Izzy Flamm over at B&H Photo and Video. If you're a photographer and you've been to NYC or live in NYC I'm sure you've been to the B&H Superstore. It is an insanely large place, and every [...]

Alex Koloskov

Pixiq Expert

5 months ago

Studio equipment buying guide for beginners

"I’m trying to set up my home studio for product photography, what to start from" - such questions I receive almost every day, and in most cases I am not able to answer all of them individually. However, I do not feel OK letting people go with [...]

Eric Reichbaum

Pixiq Expert

5 months ago

Cyber Monday!

This is my first Monday after Thanksgiving in the country (USA) for a while, so this was my first Cyber Monday. I didn't even know it existed until this week, but I'd rather shop from my home office than go stand in those lines last Friday to get the same [...]

Eric Reichbaum

Pixiq Expert

5 months ago

Black Friday rebates and discounts!

Happy Shopping!! [...]

Steve Meltzer

Pixiq Expert

6 months ago

How Does Your Camera Compare? Is It Really that Good?

Wondering if that new Canon EOS is really as good as the previous model? Shopping for a new camera and want one that produces top quality images? Or maybe you are just curious about how your camera stacks up. Well then, the Imaging Resource’s [...]

Eric Reichbaum

Pixiq Expert

6 months ago

Great Holiday deals and rebates!

It might be too early for holiday shopping for some of you, but that doesn't mean there aren't some great holiday deals already happening! If you're in the market for a new Canon DSLR you can bundle the body with a lens and save up to $300. Check out the deals [...]

David Schloss

1 year ago

Why Do People Still Love Film?

Jack Reznicki just posted an article about the end of the line for Kodachrome—Dwayne's Photo in Kansas will be processing the last roll of the venerable slide film on December 30th. In the comments one of the readers was bitterly offended by Jack's [...]

Heather Angel

Pixiq Expert

1 year ago

Baby Snow Monkeys

Having seen snow-monkeys in winter when they are 8-9 months old, I wanted to return to Japan in late May/early June to see the newborns. I was not disappointed. They have much paler pink faces than their mother with comparatively large doleful eyes set and a [...]

Heather Angel

Pixiq Expert

1 year ago

Snow Monkeys

Taking snow monkeys in Japan is one of my favorite winter wildlife shoots; although you have to be lucky to get it cold enough so the snow does not melt as soon as it lands on the monkeys' heads. These Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) occur in many parts of [...]

Diane Berkenfeld

Pixiq Expert

1 year ago

Epson Intros Trio of Pro Inkjet Printers

Earlier this month, Epson announced the addition of three new pigment-based printers to its line: the Stylus Pro 4900, Stylus Pro 7890 (wide-format) and Stylus Pro 9890 (wide-format). The Stylus Pro 4900 is a 17-inch printer that utilizes Epson's UltraChrome [...]

Michael Clark

1 year ago

What's in the Bag

Adventure photography can be demanding on camera equipment and on the photographer. The gear I take with me has to be reliable because if it breaks down that might be the end of a shoot. Often times I take only one camera body and one or two lenses when the [...]

Ellen Horovitz

Pixiq Expert

1 year ago

Sheer Heaven - Paper Transfer with an Angelic Lift

I will be covering all kinds of ways to transfer images onto various substrates. A new paper, Sheer Heaven, is just the bomb for perfect transfers, if that is your aim. But I work with every part of it, including the ghost. And I love enhancing it with other [...]

Diane Berkenfeld

Pixiq Expert

1 year ago

Samsung Introduces NX100

Samsung Electronics today announced the Samsung 14MP NX100 – a mirrorless camera equipped with what the company says is the world’s first i-Function lens. The mirrorless camera category is relatively new with regards to digital cameras (they [...]

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