The best camera for a swim meet is a weather-sealed mirrorless body that can hold 1/1000 second at a workable ISO, keep subject detection locked on a face through spray, … Read more

The best cameras for forest and woodland photography are weather-sealed mirrorless bodies with a wide dynamic range, a low base ISO and usable in-body stabilisation, because a closed canopy cuts … Read more

Chasing a supercell means standing in wind-driven rain at the edge of a highway with a camera that cannot afford to quit. The best cameras for storm and weather photography … Read more

Fog and mist are the only weather conditions where a camera fails twice at the same moment, and both failures are hardware problems rather than taste problems. A quick definition … Read more

A camera earns its place in winter work through three things: a sealed body that keeps driving rain and driven snow out of the electronics, a published low-temperature rating that … Read more

There is no such thing as a bad week for fall color and no such thing as a good week for gear weight. Peak color in the mountains lasts about … Read more

Most photographers buy a camera for how it performs in the middle of the day, then take it to a ridge at 5am and find out what it really does. … Read more

If you want the single camera that handles concert lighting conditions better than anything else in this guide, take the Sony Alpha a7S III. Its 12.1MP full-frame sensor, ISO range … Read more

A club at 1 a.m. gives you almost nothing to work with. A colored LED wash on the walls, a mirror ball throwing moving highlights, a strobe firing twice a … Read more

Indoor arena work is a light problem before it is a camera problem. To freeze a hockey puck or a fast break you need a shutter speed around 1/1250 to … Read more

Shooting a dim church interior is one of the hardest stills assignments there is, and the reason has almost nothing to do with megapixels. Inside a nave at a midweek … Read more

There is a specific moment in every wedding I shoot that decides the whole night. A chapel ceremony where the usher tells you flash is not allowed, and the entire … Read more

Studio product video is a strange corner of the craft. Nothing moves, nothing is in a hurry, and the entire shot lives or dies on whether the colour of the … Read more

Tabletop cooking video is the one kind of food filming where the camera does almost nothing for you. Once it is locked off above a counter, your hands are the … Read more

Filming a sewing or quilting tutorial is one of the few video genres where a bad camera placement destroys the lesson no matter how good the footage looks. Your viewer … Read more