Shutterbug Staff

If you want a quality compact camera for street photography but don't want to spend an arm and a leg, the Pentax MX-1 from six years ago is still a great buy, according to Mattias Burling, who reviews older cameras on his popular YouTube channel. Selling for only a few hundred dollars online (and even less if you hunt around the used market), the Pentax MX-1 is a legend of a camera, Burling contends.

The Sony A9 was one of our favorite cameras of the past few years and now it just got better thanks to a free new firmware update from Sony.

You don't, necessarily, need a fancy and pricey lens with a fast aperture to shoot an image with attractive background blur, aka bokeh, for portraits. In the below tutorial from Unmesh Dinda of PIXimperfect, he shows you the "key" to simulating shallow depth of field in Photoshop.

Looking for ideas on how to shoot some cool photos? Photographer Hayden Pedersen has 10 of them, which he shows you how to do in 100 seconds in the below video.