Meet Mamiya Leaf’s New Medium Format Credo Digital Back with up to 80 Megapixel

Mamiya Leaf Credo

  Looks like the partnership that Mamiya and Leaf has made along with Phase One has been paying off in technological dividends. Adapting the well-received Dalsa CCD high-resolution sensor found in the Phase One IQ180, Leaf created their new digital back, the Credo, and also uses a lot of touchscreen interface for its operation. Just … Read more

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

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!

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,

Business – Wedding Photographer Expectations

Everyday we come across people, whether they be hobbyists, assistants, professionals, clients, etc, who seem to have severe misconceptions about wedding photography as an industry and job. So, I wrote this article not to discourage anyone, but to make sure anyone getting into the wedding photography industry has the right expectations of their studio and … Read more

Canon 5D Mark II Review

Search the phrase “Canon 5D Mark II Review,  and you’ll find more information than one can process. Some of the reviews are technical, done thoroughly by reputable magazines and professionals in the industry. Others are purely subjective, written by frustrated or happy consumers expressing their opinions with their limited knowledge and experience. This review is somewhere in the middle, leaving out the inapplicable detail, but thorough enough to make a good case for purchasing the camera as a professional wedding and engagement photographer.