This is one of the most underused features of mirrorless cameras today – and many later DSLRs that came before them. We’re talking about the custom saved settings feature. These settings presets, usually accessible via the mode dial on top of your camera, allow you to instantly recall a set of saved settings whenever you need them. They’re massively helpful when regularly using your camera in different situations. In this video, photographer Rick Bebbington walks us through how and why he sets them up on his Sony A7R IV mirrorless cameras....

In the images above the Hubble image is on the left while the brand-new James Webb image is on the right. At first glance, you can see how much more detailed the Webb capture is. What looks like swathes of artistic colour in the Hubble telescope transform into millions of distant stars in Webb’s. The Pillars of Creation are an area where new stars are forming within dense clouds of gas and dust....

Advertisements When you use this feature on your smartphone, it automatically scans the scene to determine the ideal exposure before you take the photo. Then, it takes three photos in Adobe’s DNG RAW format. But instead of leaving them to edit and merge them in the editing software on your PC, everything’s done on the smart device. Lightroom Mobile applies the algorithm that does all the aligning, tone mapping, deghosting, and merging, and then creates a 16-bit image in RAW format....

If you’re a photographer in search of a job (or you’re just bored and what to try something new), here’s a tempting job offer. Australian millionaire Matthew Lepre is looking for someone to follow him around the world and take photos for his Instagram. You don’t even have to drag your gear around, your smartphone will do. And you can even bring a friend. Lepre posted the offer to his Instagram account in a form of a marketing ploy that’s been pretty popular lately....

There’s been quite a lot of discussion regarding Nikon’s new Z mount ever since the patent was first spotted. Nikon, too, has made quite the fuss over it in the recent Nikon Z6 & Z7 mirrorless camera announcements. Now, it seems that we have Atsushi Suzuki, an actual Nikon optical engineer, to explain it to us. So, why did Nikon introduce a new mount for their mirrorless cameras? Well, in the video, Atsushi goes into quite some technical detail....