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Video: Hands-On With The Fotodiox Vizelex Rhinocam
This gadget promises huge resolution, medium format style images from a Sony NEX camera, but can it deliver?
Camera Test: Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH3 Interchangeable-Lens Compact
Could Panasonic's new "small" camera be the best ILC yet?
New Gear: Phantom Flex4K Camera Brings 4k Video at 1000fps
You might be limited to a five-second burst, but at 1000fps that's still an huge amount of high-speed footage

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White Out

Introducing a fresh new take on family portraits from a photo studio across the pond.
- By Peter Kolonia on December 16, 2008
Toss out everything you've always known about family portraits. Instead of stiff, staged, and stuffy, think blown-out, high-key, and edgy.
This is the signature style of Venture Ltd., a growing British portrait franchise poised to enter the U.S., where it will compete with such outfits as Clix, Glamour Shots, and Olan Mills. Venture's slogan: "New Generation Portraits." It takes its inspiration from music videos, not Victorian family albums. You may balk at the unorthodox approach, but there's no denying its freshness.
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Which Projector Should I Buy?

When you're looking for a digital projector for high-quality slide shows, resolution is just one factor to consider.
- By Pop Photo Staff on December 16, 2008
Question: I am a travel and nature photographer who regularly runs digital slide shows for groups of 10 to 50 people at seminars and clubs. What's the best projector for my purposes?
Answer: There are five important factors to consider: maximum resolution, brightness, color accuracy, connectivity, and price.
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High 5: Storage Devices

Back up your precious image files and a whole lot more with these hot new storage drives.
- On December 16, 2008
SEE OUR HIGH 5 ARCHIVE OF OVER 30 MUST-HAVE PRODUCTS!
1. Buffalo TeraStation Live
It's not a Grateful Dead album, but this 1TB (1000GB) drive ($699, street) can store all of them-and thousands of photos, too. It includes a certified DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) multimedia server that lets DLNA devices share songs and multimedia content. It also supports several RAID configurations, includes Memeo AutoBackup software and one Gigabit Ethernet and two USB 2.0 ports. (www.buffalotech.com)
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The Goods

A contortionist tripod, high-flying DSLR, wallet-taming printer, and other acts we want in on.
- On December 16, 2008
QUICK-CHANGE ARTIST
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Best Buys: Lenses

These lenses give you so much bang for the buck, they're practically explosive.
- By Dan Richards on December 16, 2008
One-Eyed Jack of All Trades: Tamron 18-250mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II AF LD Aspherical
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Camera Test: Canon PowerShot S5 IS

In a market driven by superlatives, is a functional compact EVF that's not the "most something" worth a second look?
- By Jack Howard on December 16, 2008
It seems like every other week here at PopPhoto.com, we're hearing of a new digicam that boasts some superlative: the slimmest ultra-compact, the longest zoom, the most megapixels, fastest burst rate and so on. Then there's the recently released Canon PowerShot S5 IS ($470, street), a compact, optically image stabilized Electronic Viewfinder model that sports a respectable 12x zoom with reach from 36-432mm and an 8.3-megapixel Canon 1/2.5 inch CCD sensor, which replaces the S3 IS in the Canon stable.
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Lens Test: Leica Tri-Elmar-M 16-18-21mm f/4 ASPH

This unique ultrawide gives Leica lovers three lenses in one small and stunning package.
- By Julia Silber on December 16, 2008
What looks like a zoom, is used like a zoom, but isn't a zoom? Leica's 16- 18-21mm f/4 Tri-Elmar-M ($3,495, street). With three individual focal lengths in a single housing, and no intermediate settings, this 21-24-28mm equivalent (on the M8 digital) doesn't zoom, but click-stops through its focal lengths.
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Lens Test: Nikon 135mm f/2D AF DC-Nikkor

Nikon's top-drawer, full-frame portrait lens subtly smoothes out backgrounds.
- By Julia Silber on December 16, 2008
Nikon's DC-Nikkor family is only two lenses deep, comprising just this one and a 105mm f/2. A full-frame lens, this 135mm f/2 ($1,080, street) converts to about 200mm on a Nikon D80.
Both of the DCs are topdrawer portrait lenses that offer Nikon shooters the ability to make out-of-focus areas appear softer by strategically introducing spherical aberration to just the defocused areas. (Sharp areas of the scene are not affected.)
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Editor's Choice 2007: Best New Inkjet Papers

The variety of inkjet papers available to photographers these days is a far cry from the limited choices offered when the first desktop photo printers were introduced in the mid-1990s.
- By Theano Nikitas on December 16, 2008
The variety of inkjet papers available to photographers these days is a far cry from the limited choices offered when the first desktop photo printers were introduced in the mid-1990s. In an effort to convince us that we could make "photo-quality" prints at home, manufacturers initially provided mostly glossy and semi-gloss inkjet papers that matched the look and feel of commercial prints.
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Review: Sekonic L-758DR DigitalMaster Lightmeter

The new Sekonic L-758DR DigitalMaster lightmeter gives you precision when it counts most.
- By Peter Kolonia on December 16, 2008
How do fine-art and pro shooters get beautiful, full-tone images with satisfying highlight and shadow detail? They use exposure systems that carefully mate the dynamic ranges of input and output variables. Especially now, with the notoriously narrow exposure latitudes of digital sensors, it's the only way to consistently produce full-tone images.
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