Articles written by Nicholas Gore

Sony announced 2 brand new cameras and 3 new lenses today, all of which are now available for pre-order! There's The Sony Alpha A3000 DSLR and Alpha NEX-5T Mirrorless with a 16-50mm Lens as well as a the Vario-Tessar T*E 16-70mm f/4, Sony E PZ 18-105 f/4 G and Sony E 50mm f/1.8 Prime! Plus they've announced a soft carry case to keep it all together! Check out the links below for more information or to pre-order the latest batch of Sony goodies!

Olympus is now offering up to $150 off its cameras, lenses and accessories until August 17th! They're offering this discount on a ton of it's M.Zuiko lenses, so it's definitely worth checking out! In addition to this, the Panasonic Lumix G5 with a 14-42mm and 45-150mm lens is now on sale for $400 off. Finally, the Lumix G 20mm f/1.7 lens, along and the brand new Macbook Air are now available! Check out all of these great deals below!

We've got a lot of awesome sales for you today! First there's $150 off the Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mirrorless 4/3rds camera and the Olympus E-P5 PEN camera. In addition to that, Nikon has announced a new lens and a new flash plus has plenty of new discounts on refurbished gear! Take a look at the links below for more information!

When I preordered the Nikon D800 early last year, I purposely didn't order the battery grip for a few reasons. The first was that I didn't think I needed it, and the second was that the $450 price tag way way too steep, and seemed ridiculous for the product that I was getting. The first reason turned out to be dead wrong. Carrying my camera around for 8-10 hours a day as a wedding photographer meant that the joints in my right hand were always hurting. Maybe it was just because of how I held the camera, but either way, I realized I needed a battery grip to help balance the weight. But this meant I had to spend almost $500 right?

As a wedding photographer, I don’t often put much of a focus on video. Therefore I had never put any real thought into what accessories I might need to outfit my Nikon D800 as a proper video-producing machine. That being said however, the Chinese company Aputure may have just started me thinking more seriously about video.

As many of you know, I earn my living as a wedding photographer, It’s a job that I wouldn’t trade for the world, but occasionally I get the opportunity to do something a little different. In this case, it's about as far removed from wedding photography as you can get. If you remember at the end of last year I showed you how to photograph a World War Two machine gun, this time though, we’re going after something just a little bit bigger.

Sigma's 17-70mm f/2.8-4 Macro lens is now in stock! Along with the 16mm f/2 offering from Samyang and a nifty lens adaptor from Metabones! You can see all of these deals and more available in the links below!

The Nikon 200mm f/2 VR II is one of those lenses you always read about, but short of running into a professional sporting event, an affluent amateur, or Ryan Brenizer you just don’t see them. They’re rare and they’re expensive, but besides the obvious lust factor of the lens, is it any good?