Photo Editing Guides

Step-by-step guides to RAW formats, camera files, batch processing, and getting specific jobs done in imagic.

Guides August 5, 2026 10 min read

Nikon Z8 Star Stacking: A Practical Night-Sky Workflow

A field-tested Nikon Z8 workflow for star stacking: real exposure limits, interval timer settings, and culling hundreds of subs before you stack.

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Guides August 5, 2026 10 min read

Fujifilm X-T5 Fashion Lens and Location Guide

Troubleshoot Fujifilm X-T5 fashion lookbook focus, motion blur, textile detail, LED bands, flash variation, color drift, clipping, and consistency.

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Guides August 5, 2026 11 min read

Shooting Concerts with the Nikon Z6 III: What Actually Works

A pit photographer's real-world notes on running the Nikon Z6 III at gigs: readout speed, buffer limits, AF in strobe-heavy light, and lens choices that hold

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Guides August 5, 2026 12 min read

Shooting and Stacking the Milky Way With a Nikon Z8

A field-tested settings, focus, and stacking workflow for the Nikon Z8 under real dark skies, plus how to cull hundreds of subframes without losing the next

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Guides August 1, 2026 12 min read

Star Stacking with the Panasonic Lumix S5IIx: What Works

A hands-on look at using the Panasonic Lumix S5IIx for Milky Way star stacking and star trails, covering ISO limits, manual focus tricks, exposure settings by

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Guides July 31, 2026 12 min read

Sony A7 IV for Milky Way Photography and Star Stacking

Field-tested settings, exposure limits, and a real culling-to-stacking workflow for shooting and stacking star fields with the Sony A7 IV's 33MP sensor.

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Guides July 31, 2026 14 min read

Shooting the Milky Way on a Z9: My Star Stacking Setup

A working photographer's field-tested Nikon Z9 settings, lens math, and stacking workflow for Milky Way astrophotography, from exposure ceilings to calibration

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Guides July 30, 2026 11 min read

A Working Astrophotographer's OM-1 Mark II Stacking Notes

A field-tested walkthrough of stacking star and Milky Way frames on the OM System OM-1 Mark II, with real exposure settings, sensor tradeoffs, and a culling

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Guides July 30, 2026 10 min read

Star Stacking with a Fixed 40mm Lens: The GR IIIx at Night

A field-tested workflow for star stacking and star-trail composites with the Ricoh GR IIIx, covering exposure math, focus in the dark, and sorting the frames

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Guides July 29, 2026 11 min read

Shooting Live Music with the Panasonic Lumix S5IIX

A working photographer's field notes on using the Panasonic Lumix S5IIX for club and festival photo pits, covering high-ISO limits, rolling shutter, AF.

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Guides July 29, 2026 11 min read

How the Nikon Z9 Changes Your Star Stacking Workflow

A field-tested look at shooting star stacks with the Nikon Z9: exposure math for a 45.7MP sensor, interval timer settings, focus techniques, and turning

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Guides July 27, 2026 11 min read

The Sony A7R V in the Photo Pit: A Working Shooter's Notes

A concert photographer's honest field notes on shooting live music with the Sony A7R V: autofocus in the dark, rolling shutter under LED rigs, lens pairings

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Guides July 25, 2026 10 min read

OM-1 Mark II Star Stacking: A Real Astro Workflow

A hands-on look at using the OM System OM-1 Mark II for Milky Way and deep-sky work, from Starry Sky AF settings through stacking RAW files for a clean final

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Guides July 25, 2026 11 min read

Star Stacking the Milky Way With the Panasonic Lumix S5IIx

A field-tested guide to shooting star stacks with the Panasonic Lumix S5IIx: lens choices, exposure settings, the one menu setting that ruins a stack, and how

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