Matthew Saville

Matthew Saville is SLR Lounge's lead camera and lens reviewer and a wedding photographer at Lin & Jirsa Photography. His dual background in professional wedding photography and wilderness astro-landscape photography gives his gear reviews a practical depth that lab testing alone cannot replicate. He has contributed to the Lensrentals blog and was featured on the Lensrentals Podcast. Follow his wilderness nightscape adventures on Instagram

Nikon D600 RAW sample images processed in Lightroom 4.2

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Last weekend I was able to capture a few frames using the brand new Nikon D600 at a wedding. While waiting patiently for Adobe to update Lightroom / ACR to accommodate the D600, I used Nikon’s ViewNX 2 to browse the D600 images, and play with Nikon’s powerful “Active D-Lighting” feature. The results were very impressive right out of the camera, but last night I was still truly floored when I downloaded Adobe Lightroom 4.2, and finally imported my Nikon D600 NEF’s. I will let the images speak for themselves.

Nikon Announces A 24 Megapixel DX Crop Sensor!

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Nikon just announced their newest beginner DSLR, the D3200, with a 24 megapixel DX sensor. This “new” Nikon sensor is borrowed (and probably improved) from the Sony A77 sensor, a 24 megapixel behemoth that performs surprisingly well actually …For 24 megapixels on a crop-sensor, that is.

Dramatic Black & White Portraits [Getting The Shot – Episode 1]

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Alright, it’s time for a new series! Welcome to “Getting The Shot” with your camera-geek host, Matthew Saville. The goal of this series will actually be to explain (in a NON-geeky way) what goes into making a photograph. Instead of going crazy with techno-babble and assumptions of reader skill level, these articles will focus on three simple things:

New Pocket Wizard Plus 3’s – More Affordable, Yet WAY Better!

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For years now, Ebay etc. has been erupting with affordable, half-decent triggers. While Pocket Wizard, the ORIGINAL brand of reliable, industry standard radio triggers, kept coming out with more and more expensive gizmos, many that didn’t even work very well at first, or at all. Radio wireless TTL was all the range, for some silly reason,