Allan Weitz

A graduate of the High School of Art and Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Allan Weitz started taking pictures when digital meant doing something with your fingers. Currently the host of the B&H Photography Podcast and a member of the B&H Explora writing team, his work has appeared in (and on the covers of) dozens of publications, including New York magazine, Philadelphia magazine, Esquire, GQ, Yachting, and Nautical Quarterly.

Latest Articles

1-Inch Sensor Superzoom Cameras vs. Entry-Level Wildlife Lenses

4 months ago

For the longest time, comparing image quality between point-and-shoot cameras and full-frame cameras, or even APS-C format cameras, was a conversation you could have start to finish during the course of an elevator ride. Point-and-shoot cameras were convenient, but the detail and dynamic range of their smaller sensors never measured up to the detail and dynamic range you get from larger sensors.…

Mirror Lenses: Lightweight Super-Telephotos that Are Affordable

4 months ago

When it comes to travel, landscape, and seascape photography, I always try to keep at least one long focal length lens in my bag for photographing subjects to which I either cannot get closer or—in the case of a Siberian tiger guarding her cubs—to which I have no business getting closer. Photographs Ó Allan Weitz 2020 The definition of a long telephoto lens depends on whom you ask, not to mention…

Tips & Tidbits: Shooting Landscapes with Fisheye Lenses

4 months ago

Though there aren’t any hard rules on the subject—and all rules are made to be broken—wide-angle and ultra-wide-angle lenses are often considered to be the go-to lenses for landscape photography. It’s not like you can’t capture wonderful landscapes with normal or telephoto lenses (you absolutely can), but due to their broad capture angles, wide- and ultra-wide-angle lenses usually win out over…

ultra wide angle

Landscape Photography

fisheye lens

Holiday 2024

Lenses & Accessories

Exploring the World of Ultra-Wide Macro Photography

4 months ago

Macro photography never ceases to amaze me. Show me the face of a jumping spider reproduced at life-size or greater and I’ll undoubtedly stop what I’m doing and stare at it for a while. What’s interesting is how ultra-wide-angle lenses, which are available for …

Introduction to Wildlife Photography

1 year ago

Despite what you might have heard, you don't need a bag full of expensive gear or a passport to faraway lands to photograph wildlife. Regardless of where you live, how hot it gets in the summertime or how cold it gets in the wintertime, you’re surrounded by wildlife the moment you step out your door. The fact of the matter is, if you live near a park or, for that matter, have trees…

Monolights: For the Times Speedlights Simply Aren’t Enough

1 year ago

For the longest time, the differences in weight, size, power, and recycling times between speedlights and monolights were glaring, but this is no longer the case. Technologically, speedlights and monolights have…

Intro to Macro Photography

1 year ago

Photo fact: Anything photographed up close looks amazing. It doesn’t matter what your subject is, be it a flower, a bumblebee or butterfly, a gemstone, or a slice of apple. Get in close enough and people start exclaiming, “Oooooohhhh…!” Going face-to-face…

Macro Photography

Close-Up

Macro Lenses

11 Ways to Upgrade Your Gear for Outdoor Photography

1 year ago

If wanderlust is starting to get the best of you, consider upgrading your camera gear before heading out on your next outdoor adventure. 1. Clean Your Gear Your first order of business should be to make sure your camera bodies and lenses are clean and in proper working order. To learn more about cleaning and optimizing the performance of your cameras, camera sensors, lenses, and other photo…

Outdoor Photography

Travel Photography

Photography Accessories

Holiday 2023

Teleconverters vs. Cropping (Everything Has a Price)

3 years ago

If the longest telephoto lens you own never seems to get you in tight enough to your subject, you have three choices. The first is to get up and get physically closer to your subject. If you can’t, for whatever reason, do this, you can either take the picture as is and crop it to your liking post-capture, or you can use a…

Teleconverters

Bird Photography

Lenses & Lens Accessories

Best of the B&H Photography Podcast: Food Photography

3 years ago

It’s Food Photography Week here at B&H Photo, so our guests on this week’s B&H Photography Podcast are California-based food photographer Meika Ejaisi, and from her new studio in Boulder Colorado,…

The Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut

3 years ago

Ideas born from a place of passion have an undeniable life about them, and you can feel it when you are in their presence. The Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut, located in a ubiquitous brick building, in Windsor, Connecticut, is one of those places. As part of Music Appreciation Week, we thought it would be a good idea to visit the…

vintage

radios

music

Sony’s Cyber-shot DSC-RX100: The Evolution of an Iconic Point-and-Shoot

3 years ago

In 2012 the obituaries for pocket-size point-and-shoot cameras outnumbered the number of announcements for their replacements. Five years earlier, Apple had unveiled the original iPhone, and though the image quality of the then-current iPhone 4 still wasn’t enough to plant a knockout punch to the point-and-shoot market, every generation of smartphones that followed further pounded away at what…

Point & Shoot Cameras

Street Photography

Travel Photography

JOBY Introduces the Wavo, Beamo, and GorillaPod Mobile Vlogging Kit

3 years ago

Joby has introduced new products for vloggers, influencers, and mobile creators who need truly portable run-and-gun social media gear. The Joby Wavo is a compact video mic that works with your smartphone via ¼"-20 screw or any camera with a cold shoe. Unidirectional and shock-…

Tripods Supports & Rigs

Tokina SZX 400mm f/8 MF Mirror Lens: Sports Photography on a Budget

3 years ago

Common sense says if you’re going to take sharp, dramatic photographs at a fast-action sporting event, make sure you have an autofocus lens that is at least 300mm or longer, and fast (f/2.8 or f/4) and, IMHO, preferably a zoom. As part of our coverage of Sports Week, I thought it might be fun to photograph the opening night of the 2021 racing season at the New London-Waterford Speedbowl…

Mirrorless Lenses

Sports Photography

Telephoto Lenses

Announcing the Godox UL60 Silent LED Video Light

3 years ago

LED light sources have been a godsend to videographers for several reasons, but not all LEDs run as silently as one might wish, during interviews, online streaming, broadcasting, or in other noise-sensitive recording environments. This is where the new Godox UL60 Silent LED…

Video Lighting

Continuous Lighting

LED Lights