Photo Equipment

Discover the best photography equipment to achieve better results. Read our guides to the best cameras, lenses, lighting, tripods, filters, and more.

Getting started with Equipment

  • How to Use the BMPCC: Complete Guide to Setup, Filming, and Post-Production

    How to Use the BMPCC: Complete Guide to Setup, Filming, and Post-Production

    Marie Gardiner
  • All Equipment tutorials:

    1. Load Your Canon with Presets and Nail Your Favorite Settings in Seconds

      Load Your Canon with Presets and Nail Your Favorite Settings in Seconds

      Tutorial Beginner

      With the vast amount of options available to DSLR users, it can be confusing and time-consuming to select all the relevant settings to get the shots that you...

    2. How to Use the Gary Fong Lightsphere

      How to Use the Gary Fong Lightsphere

      Tutorial Beginner

      Getting nice, flattering light quickly is a huge challenge to wedding and event photographers. For years a bounce card or a small Stofen diffuser was pretty...

    3. How to Build a Low Budget Darkroom

      How to Build a Low Budget Darkroom

      Tutorial Beginner

      Building your own darkroom to develop film and paper might seem tedious in these digital days. However, if you have the time and space, it can be a rewarding...

    4. Everything You Need to Know About Lens Quality

      Everything You Need to Know About Lens Quality

      Tutorial Beginner

      Understanding the physics of light puts you at a great advantage when trying to produce great photographs. Arguably, how light interacts with your lenses is...

    5. Creating Realistic Composites, Part 1: Shooting on a Green Screen

      Creating Realistic Composites, Part 1: Shooting on a Green Screen

      Tutorial Advanced

      From the incredible imaginations of sci-fi movie directors to the impactful stills of photographers like Joel Grimes, composite imaging is used for making...

    6. How to Shoot Pizza So It Looks Good Instead of Gross

      How to Shoot Pizza So It Looks Good Instead of Gross

      Tutorial Intermediate

      It's often said that the best photographs evoke emotion. If this is the case, what could possibly make me more emotional than an image of a pizza that's been...

    7. Build Your Own DIY Ringflash

      Build Your Own DIY Ringflash

      Tutorial Beginner

      Ringflash has a wonderful, unique look to it, whether they are macro or shoot-through portrait ringlights. You get a crisp, dimensional, almost hyper-real...

    8. How to Use Your Phottix Odin Radio Flash Triggers

      How to Use Your Phottix Odin Radio Flash Triggers

      Tutorial Beginner

      The popularity of radio for flash triggering reached a new level when triggers offering more than the "normal" flash sync opened new doors of experimentation...

    9. Understand How Autofocus Works: Part 2

      Understand How Autofocus Works: Part 2

      Tutorial Beginner

      After our first look into autofocus, we'll now take a more technical approach. I'm firmly of the belief that the more you understand about your camera and...

    10. Understand How Autofocus Works: Part 1

      Understand How Autofocus Works: Part 1

      Tutorial Beginner

      Autofocus is easily one of the most useful advances in modern photography. In the majority of current camera systems, not having autofocus is nearly...

    11. How to Attract and Photograph Birds in Your Own Backyard

      How to Attract and Photograph Birds in Your Own Backyard

      Tutorial Advanced

      If you're interested in photographing birds, this tutorial is the one for you. After watching it, you'll know what kind of equipment to use, how to set up a...

    12. Creating a Photo of a Light Bulb Powered by the Mind

      Creating a Photo of a Light Bulb Powered by the Mind

      Tutorial Intermediate

      Today, we'll use some simple compositing techniques to create a image of a person holding a lightbulb. The light bulb appears to be disconnected from...