Gear

When Joe McNally wanted to do this firehouse shot using three flash heads, he didn't have to worry about extension cords or bulky location battery packs.
He took his lighting kit out of his gadget bag, thanks to wireless TTL flash: three Nikon SB-800 flashes, a couple of lightweight stands, and two folding diffusers.
One of today's outstanding photography tools still scares many photographers-for no good reason. It's great for everything from portraits to party pictures, for lighting up a dark room or filling shadows in bright daylight.

Panasonic and Olympus have joined hands to co-develop new digital SLRs using technology from both companies, according to a press release issued on January 13, 2005. The cameras will be based on the Four Thirds system spearheaded by Olympus and currently found only on the Olympus 5MP E-1 Pro and 8MP Evolt E-300 DSLRs. Both of these cameras feature a Four Thirds system CCD sensor made by Kodak, an innovative ultrasonic dust removal system, and a Four Thirds system lens mount that accepts several Olympus and Sigma lenses.

Portable storage dEvices are growing in popularity, fueled by memory-intensive 6MP-8MP digital cameras and larger RAW file formats. But why settle for a plain vanilla backup device when you get so much more with the Archos AV400-series Pocket Video Recorder?

The Nikon D70 was precisely the camera that the photography world needed this year.
A revolution began in 2003 with the Canon EOS Digital Rebel -- its $899 sticker, its 6.3-megapixel sensor, and its attitude of "Everybody into the digital SLR pool; the water's fine!"
The question for '04 was how quickly a camera maker would seize on this revolutionary fervor, and add some sophistication, features, fine-tuning, and, well, "maturity" to what the D Rebel had wrought…without pushing the price to a pro-caliber level.