Photo Review

Able to support equipment weights up to 30 kg, the Ray carbon fibre from 3-Legged Thing currently offers the highest weight-to-payload ratio for a compact travel tripod.

We look at the improvements made to improve a popular compact and lightweight travel tripod from British tripod designer, 3-Legged Thing.

Sony’s upgraded α7C II boasts the same 33-megapixel BSI CMOS sensor and BIONZ XR processor as the α7 IV and gains improved autofocusing and oversampled 4K/50p video.

You can’t always rely on fully automatic exposures, so it pays to learn how to adjust two important controls that determine how much light reaches the image sensor in a camera.

Camera equipment buying tips for nature photographers, from smartphones through to high-end cameras and lenses.

Many different moving subjects can make great photos and movies: people, animals, birds, vehicles, sports action or simply the motion of flowing water or blowing leaves. Photo Review tech editor Margaret Brown gives shooting and settings tips for each type of motion scene.

By Gavin Kellett.

By Glen Whisson.

By Steve Genesin.