Fujifilm's Bold Medium Format Camera Experiment: The GFX100RF
The Fujifilm GFX100RF marks a significant shift in medium format photography, combining the portability philosophy of the X100 series with the image quality of a 102-megapixel sensor. This camera represents Fujifilm's first attempt at creating a fixed-lens rangefinder in their medium format lineup, targeting photographers who want large sensor quality without the bulk of traditional medium format systems.
What Does a 50-Year Legacy of Making Reliable Tripods Look Like? A Look at the Manfrotto 055 and 190 Legacy Edition Tripods
10 Hilarious and Smile-Worthy Photo Books You Should Own
While the photography world obsesses over the latest mirrorless sensors and pixel-peeping debates, we've forgotten one of photography's most powerful features: its ability to make us laugh until our sides hurt. In an era where every Instagram feed demands perfection and every portfolio must demonstrate technical mastery, these irreverent collections remind us that some of the most memorable images are born from pure, unfiltered joy.
Can We Train Our Instinct in Photography?
As photographers progress in their journey, admittedly, there’s a natural tendency to gravitate more toward the technical side of things, including myself. The reason is simple: technical improvements are measurable metrics and rather reassuring. You can objectively tell if your images are sharper, your exposures more accurate, and have a higher dynamic range. Whereas growth in reactionary and observational skill sets like instinct is not easily measurable, let alone translated through a camera into our work.
Nikon 35mm f/1.2 Review: Is Optical Excellence This Good Worth the Price?
The Nikon NIKKOR Z 35mm f/1.2 S represents the pinnacle of wide angle prime lens engineering, but its $3,000 price tag raises serious questions about value and necessity. Understanding whether this ultra-premium optic justifies its cost requires examining both its exceptional capabilities and compromises.
A Look at the Only Full Frame 40mm f/1.2 Lens You Can Buy
The Voigtlander NOKTON 40mm f/1.2 Aspherical lens represents something truly unique in the lens world, as it's currently the only full frame 40mm f/1.2 optic available anywhere. For anyone seeking that perfect middle ground between the versatility of a 35mm and the slightly tighter framing of a 50mm, this manual focus lens promises an intriguing combination of ultra-wide aperture and compact size.
I Went to War With a Rifle and a Camera—Only One Came Home With Me
War teaches you how to see. Not in an artistic sense, but in a survival sense. Every detail is information, and every flicker of movement becomes a decision. I didn’t realize it at the time, but that constant scanning and forced situational awareness rewired the way I perceive everything. I went to war with a rifle and a camera; only one still shapes how I see the world today.
The Department Store Holiday Photo: A Family Tradition That Shaped Photography
Every December, millions of American families would pile into their station wagons and head to Sears, JCPenney, or their local department store for an annual ritual as predictable as Black Friday sales: the family holiday portrait. What most people don't realize is that this seemingly mundane tradition fundamentally shaped modern portrait photography in ways that persist today, creating standards for lighting, posing, and customer experience that professional photographers still follow—often without realizing where these conventions originated.
Do These Unpopular Photographic Opinions Boil Your Blood or Leave you Cold?
GFX vs X System: Which Fuji Camera System Should You Actually Buy?
Fuji's GFX medium format cameras promise superior image quality over the company's APS-C X system, but that advantage comes with significant trade-offs in weight, lens selection, and cost. Most photographers considering the upgrade focus entirely on pixel counts and dynamic range while overlooking how these practical limitations affect real-world shooting scenarios.
This Insanely Sharp Portrait Lens Costs Under $600
It’s Not Just the Specs: Why Gear Reviews Hook Us
5 Photography 'Rules' That Social Media Destroyed
Remember when photography had rules? Not guidelines or suggestions, but actual rules that separated the pros from the amateurs, the trained from the untrained, the serious from the snapshot-happy masses. These weren't arbitrary dictates from some photography ivory tower—they were hard-won principles developed over more than a century of image-making, refined through decades of darkroom experimentation, and codified in countless photography textbooks that gathering dust on our shelves. Then social media happened.
UGREEN’s New Massive 500W Desktop Gan Charger Was Made to (Em)Power Your Collaborations
Critique the Community Abstract or Conceptual
Submit Your Best "Abstract" Images!
For the entire month of July, we want to see your best abstract or conceptual photographs! Enter the Fstoppers Critique the Community and show off your best images showcasing a slightly different view of the world.
This month we want to open up the Critique the Community to those who capture the world in a truly unique way. For this contest, all submissions should showcase something photographed in an abstract, conceptual, or metaphysical way. We will leave that definition up to you, and feel free to enter images that feature people, places, objects, or even mixed media art...
Why Great Black and White Photos Need More than Contrast
How to Get Natural Portrait Poses Every Time
What It Was Like Getting Your First Roll of Film Developed
Dabbsson 2000L Power Station Review: Pushing Down Price and Weight at 2 kWh
With power stations, everyone wants more capacity and longer life, but nobody wants to lug around a 60-pound brick. The Dabbsson 2000L aims to strike a balance by packing 2 kWh of energy storage into a surprisingly portable form factor at a very competitive price point. Is the Dabbsson 2000L an ideal entry point for creators looking for a large power station?
Is This the Best Camera for Street Photography?
The Best Beginner Landscape Camera Nobody's Talking About
Affordable Sharpness: Testing the Meike 85mm f/1.8 Pro II Lens
Should Your Next Point-and-Shoot Be an Old Smartphone?
The Best Camera Bag I’ve Ever Owned? Fstoppers Reviews the Bellroy Venture Camera Sling 10l
5 Lenses That Were Legendary But Are Now Forgotten
The photography industry has a short memory. Every few years, we collectively forget the tools that once defined professional image-making, replacing them with newer technologies that promise greater convenience, better performance, or simply different aesthetics. But buried beneath decades of technological progress lie lenses that didn't just capture images—they created entire visual languages, established technical standards, and enabled photographic possibilities that seemed impossible at their time.