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15 December, 2014 – Camera Equipment Of The Year 2014

15 Dec

 

It’s been an interesting year photography wise with some groundbreaking new products.  The trend is towards mirrorless and the stand out products this year fell into the mirrorless category.  As always Luminous-Landscape has its eye on the hot gear.  Today Michael Reichmann and Kevin Raber share their Camera Equipment Of The Year report.  Read what they thought was hot and not as well as disappointments and predictions for the coming year.

We have an opening on the second Antarctica Trip in January.  If you are interested in this trip and a special offer please contact Kevin Raber for details.

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12 December, 2014 – Special Antarctica Offer and An Article About Color and Human Vision Anomalies

12 Dec

A few years ago I was traveling with LuLa’s good friend Bill Atkinson.  Over dinner one night we got into a conversation on color and how the human eye and mind see color.  It was quite fascinating not to mention mind boggling.  Bill is one of the industries experts on color. Over the years, we have published stories about Color and Human Vision.  The way the eye sees color is quite fascinating. Today Charles Johnson Sr. shares his article on Observing and Managing Color: Dealing With Human Vision Anomalies.   An interesting read on understanding how we see color especially when working photographically.

A Special Message from Michael Reichmann

The Luminous Landscape, together with John and Roxie Walker of Switzerland, have created an opportunity for one or two people to join our January 26th, 2015 photographic expedition to Antarctica (there are two berths available).  The Walkers were early registrants for this extraordinary odyssey, unfortunately for personal reasons they will now not be able to fulfill this dream opportunity.  However, in the spirit of the season and with a deep desire to advance the art and craft of photography, we are pleased to offer the following unique opportunity:

Rather than simply resell their two berths,  Kevin, the Walkers and I have found a "silver lining" in this unfortunate turn of events and, as a result, we are pleased to make these two berths available as a thank-you gift for a meaningful donation to The Luminous Endowment for Photographers.

READ THE DETAILS AND MORE INFORMATION. . . 

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9 December, 2014 – Sony A7 MKII Hands-On Report

09 Dec

Some companies (you know who I mean) are slow, stodgy, conservative and cautious. None of these adjectives can be applied to Sony. They are impetious, aggressive, innovative and overall risk takers. If they screw up, as they sometimes do, they simply brush themselves off and forge ahead. With the recently introduced Sony A7 MKII we see a continuing evolution of what was once the NEX brand and is now just Sony’s Alpha brand using the new full frame FE mount. 

I have had a week to work with the new MKII. With its redesigned body, in-body stabilization and superior autofocus this is the best 7 series camera yet, and one of the most interesting new cameras of 2014. I already have one on order.

Read my report here.

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7 December, 2014 – The Olympus 40-150mm Lens

08 Dec

 

It’s a photographers market right now.  Tough decisions must be made as to what gear to purchase.  There is no question the mirrorless revolution is well under way.  We recently reviewed the new Samsung NX1 with some very impressive specs.  The Olympus OMD and Fuji systems have been growing very fast and let’s not forget Sony with the amazing a7 system.  Sony took another step forward this last week and announced the Sony a7 II with some amazing features.  We are now testing a version and we should have a report very soon. So, if you join the mirrorless movement which system do you go with?  They are all good and offer amazing performance. We’ll be visiting a number more of the mirrorless options over the next few weeks. Hopefully we can help you make the choice bestt for you.

So, continuing with our focus on the mirrorless systems we post Kevin Raber’s look at the new Olympus 40-150mm Pro zoom lens. This new lens is the second of four announced Pro Lenses by Olympus, that are on the road map to be shipped.  This lens is a good example of what smart engineering is all about and is quite a performer.  Read more HERE.

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26 November, 2014 – Luminous-Endowment Grant Winners Announced and More

03 Dec

 

For our US readers, Happy Thanksgiving.  We wish you a great Holiday and we hope you enjoy a lot of turkey and time with your family as well as some good ole US football.  

So much is happening at LuLa these days.  We’re busy working on a lot of projects and on  new interesting articles and reviews as well as videos.  Today though we want to share some special news.

As you hopefully are aware Michael Reichmann the founder of Luminous-Landscape started earlier this year the Luminous-Endowment.  This is a program to help fund photographers that are working on special photographic endeavors.  Today we announce the winners of the first round of grants. We are proud to announce that we have awarded $ 20,000 USD in grants this past week.

Luminous-Endowment Grant Winners

The amount of grant requests were incredible and we hope to see many more in our next round of grant requests.  This program would not be possible without donations from our readers as well as some very generous private and corporate donors.  Please take a look at our site and consider how you can be part of helping aspiring photographers make their dream projects come true.

A Special Opportunity For Giving And Receiving

We are also announcing a Special Opportunity For Giving and Receiving starting today and running to Christmas Day. To help raise money for the Endowment, to be used to finance future grants, The Luminous Endowment has created a special new and lower donation level of $ 200. The reward that you will receive for this tax-deductible donation is a copy of Michael Reichmann’s new book – A Twenty Year Retrospective. Normally this book requires a $ 350 donation to be received as a reward for your donation. This will be the price again after December, 25th.  Please consider donating and helping the Luminous-Endowment.

 

Michael’s beautiful book would make a great Holiday gift for the photographer in your life or maybe you want to hint to someone special that you would like this as a gift.  To learn more on how to Give and Receive – click here.

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27 November, 2014 – 25% Off entire Video Catalog

03 Dec

 Lu-La’s Black Friday Sale is now on!

Get 25% Off our entire Video Catalog until midnight Sunday, November 30.

Use this coupon code at checkout:

25pcOFF_LL-BF

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30 November, 2014 – Uniqball, A Unique Approach To Leveling

03 Dec

 

We have been trying some pretty cool new gear out over the last few weeks.  Michael has already shared his First Impressions of the Samsung NX1.  A lot of the products we are now working with and will report on soon were announced at Photokina.  One of these products was a new style ball head.  Just when you didn’t think you could improve on a ball head concept any further we see a new player from Hungary introduce a new style ball head.  Today, Nick Devlin gives us a look at the Uniqball, A Unique Approach To Leveling.  This ball head is available at B&H Photo.  I ordered one.

We also have a new advertiser on board as of today, DXO.  DXO has three very cool applications for working on images.  Check them out!

We have a single cabin on our first Antarctica Trip in January available as well as 2 berths on our second trip.  It’s not too late to be part of an amazing adventure to one of the most beautiful places on earth.  Check It Out!

Also until the end of tomorrow (Monday) you can get 25% off of our entire Video Catalog.  Ends at 11:59 December 1st.

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2 December, 2014 – Another Two Barytas in the Neighbourhood

03 Dec

 

There hasn’t been a lot of activity in new printers lately, but there has been a number of new ink jet paper introductions.  We are looking at and testing a number of different and interesting papers.  Today, Mark Segal looks at two new papers from Hahnemuhle and Moab.  Another Two Barytas in the Neighbourhood takes a look at these two papers and how they can fit into your printing workflow.

If you haven’t seen it you should check out the amazing special B&H is offering on A Hasselblad Stellar Special Edition Digital Camera.  An instant savings of $ 2,300 USD now reduced to $ 999.00.  Guess they didn’t sell quite as well as expected.  

 The OnLandscape Conference was held this past weekend.  I had the chance to tune in and watch the lectures from a few of my favorite speakers, Joe Cornish being one of them.  Joe just did a workshop with me in Scotland and will be joining us for our Antarctica Trips in January.  All presentations at the conference are now available with a special LuLa Discount of 25% just use the code LL25 at check out.  If you have some time to watch these they are pretty interesting. Check out the Videos Available.

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2 December, 2014 – Another Two Barytas in the Neighbourhood

03 Dec

 

There hasn’t been a lot of activity in new printers lately, but there has been a number of new ink jet paper introductions.  We are looking at and testing a number of different and interesting papers.  Today, Mark Segal looks at two new papers from Hahnemuhle and Moab.  Another Two Barytas in the Neighbourhood takes a look at these two papers and how they can fit into your printing workflow.

If you haven’t seen it you should check out the amazing special B&H is offering on A Hasselblad Stellar Special Edition Digital Camera.  An instant savings of $ 2,300 USD now reduced to $ 999.00.  Guess they didn’t sell quite as well as expected.  

 The OnLandscape Conference was held this past weekend.  I had the chance to tune in and watch the lectures from a few of my favorite speakers, Joe Cornish being one of them.  Joe just did a workshop with me in Scotland and will be joining us for our Antarctica Trips in January.  All presentations at the conference are now available with a special LuLa Discount of 25% just use the code LL25 at check out.  If you have some time to watch these they are pretty interesting. Check out the Videos Available.

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30 November, 2014 – Uniqball, A Unique Approach To Leveling

01 Dec

 

We have been trying some pretty cool new gear out over the last few weeks.  Michael has already shared his First Impressions of the Samsung NX1.  A lot of the products we are now working with and will report on soon were announced at Photokina.  One of these products was a new style ball head.  Just when you didn’t think you could improve on a ball head concept any further we see a new player from Hungary introduce a new style ball head.  Today, Nick Devlin gives us a look at the Uniqball, A Unique Approach To Leveling.  This ball head is available at B&H Photo.  I ordered one.

We also have a new advertiser on board as of today, DXO.  DXO has three very cool applications for working on images.  Check them out!

We have a single cabin on our first Antarctica Trip in January available as well as 2 berths on our second trip.  It’s not too late to be part of an amazing adventure to one of the most beautiful places on earth.  Check It Out!

Also until the end of today you can get 25% off of our entire Video Catalog.  Ends at 11:59 November 30th.

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