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Welcome to the Shirk Report where you will find 20 funny images, 10 interesting articles and 5 entertaining videos from the last 7 days of sifting

The Exposure Triangle; you've heard of it, I'm sure. It's fabled in story and song and celebrated by photo instructors everywhere. We can even buy t-shirts commemorating the concept! There have been countless articles wr...

Are you patiently waiting for your Panasonic Lumix LX100 II order to arrive? Or just curious about what's inside the box of the latest premium compact camera to hit the market? The Panasonic Lumix LX100 II mirrorless cam...

Are you patiently waiting for your Fujifilm X-T3 order to arrive? Or just curious about what's inside the box of the latest APS-C camera to hit the market? The Fujifilm X-T3 mirrorless camera has just arrived with us for...

Tamron has issued a warning to its customers that some of the company's Nikon F-mount lenses do not work with the new Nikon Z7 and FTZ adapter. Saying only that 'issues' have been discovered, Tamron promises that it is i...

Following approval by the House earlier this year, the United States Senate has passed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act, which was delivered to the White House on October 3, 2018. Under this ...

A study newly published by the US National Library of Medicine NIH sheds light on deaths that occurred while taking selfies. The team behind the study found a total of 259 selfie-related fatalities had occurred between O...

Sigma and Tamron are both popular manufactures of third-party lenses that are used by Nikon DSLR shooters. But customers of the two brands may have different experiences migrating their lens collections over to Nikon’s...

A Berlin-based startup called ExperimentalOptics has unveiled a 35mm f/2.7 pancake lens for full frame cameras, which it calls “the smallest lens in the world.” The lens is just 0.276 inches (7mm) in thickness and we...

Got some work you'd like to see printed out? Hahnemühle recently got the word out on the latest addition to their FineArt inkjet papers. The new Photo Rag® Metallic features a specially formulated high-gloss inkjet coa...

Before the days of LCD displays, the only way you could keep track of what speed film you had in your camera was to remember it, select a dial on the camera, or cut out a piece of the film box and place it in a designate...

It's photographer Jay P. Morgan here. Here’s a new 11-minute video in which I compare the pros and cons of strobes vs. continuous light and conduct some indoor and outdoor lighting tests between the two for you to deci...

It has been widely reported that selfies cause more deaths these days than shark attacks. Now a new study has provided new facts and figures on how at least 259 people have lost their lives while trying to capture smartp...

Unlike regular portraits, environmental portraits capture not only who the person is, but also what that person is about. From their job, to their hobbies, a good environmental portrait will tell a short story about the ...

MTF Services have unveiled the very first third-party adapters for Canon's new full-frame mirrorless camera system, the EOS R. Last month the company debuted four new adapters for the new Nikon Z mirrorless system.

Tamron have announced that some of their lenses do not work on the new Nikon Z mirrorless camera. The company has discovered issues that affect some of their Di/Di II series lenses when mounted on the Nikon Z7 with the F...

The Nokia 7.1 is the first smartphone to come with PureDisplay screen technology, which offers a high contrast ratio, greater clarity and enhanced colours across all of your content. It features ZEISS Optics 12MP/5MP dua...

The Ricoh GR III is a camera that street photographers have been waiting for for a really long time; but depending on who you are you perhaps wanted different things. Its predecessor, the Ricoh GR II, still proves to be ...