Category: Equipment
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Sony’s Clip-On Cameras Give Smartphones the Photos They Deserve
Sony’s Clip-On Cameras Give Smartphones the Photos They Deserve The line between dedicated camera and smartphone camera just got a bit more blurred. Sony’s new QX camera series look less like traditional shooters and more like the lenses you would attach to them. In fact, they attach to smartphones. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2013/09/sony-qx-series-camera/ While the cameras…
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iPhone 5S Review for Photographers
Link: You could be forgiven for not getting too excited about the camera in Apple’s new flagship iPhone 5S. They’ve put dozens of tweaks into it, but not a single one sounds… sexy. It’s still 8 megapixels, it still doesn’t zoom, and the phone’s still the same size as last year. Do all the little…
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Panono: Panoramic Ball Camera
Panono: Panoramic Ball Camera Panono is a throwable panoramic ball camera which captures everything in every direction for amazing 108 megapixel, 360° X 360° full-spherical panoramic images. | Check out ‘Panono: Panoramic Ball Camera’ on Indiegogo. via Indiegogo: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/571772/fblk The Panono Camera contains an accelerometer, which — when the camera is tossed up — measures…
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Photography Products We Wish Someone Would Invent
Link: For our January issue, which was dedicated to innovation, we asked some photographers: What innovation do you wish someone would invent? See their responses below and add your wishes in the comments.
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Lomography Petzval 85mm lens review
Lomography Petzval 85mm lens review – Nikon Rumors Craig C. Houdeshell reviews the Lomography Petzval 85mm lens on Nikon cameras (the lens is no longer available on Kickstarter, but Lomography is already taking pre-orders on their website – the different versions can be found here): Discussion of the Petzval Lens The Petzval lens is a very old…
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Times photo staffer’s invention: the streaming backpack
Link: It is quite literally a backpack that allows photographers to send their photos to editors without having to be physically on site, or having to individually upload, color-correct and input caption information for each image.
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Confirmed: Zeiss Otus 85mm f/1.4 is the best performing lens ever tested by DxOMark | Nikon Rumors
Confirmed: Zeiss Otus 85mm f/1.4 is the best performing portrait lens ever tested by DxOMark – Nikon Rumors DxOmark concluded that the $4,490 Zeiss Otus 85mm f/1.4 lens (announced few days ago) is currently the best performing 85mm portrait lens for Nikon F mount. Here is their conclusion: The new Otus 85mm is without question the…
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Camera of The Year 2014
Link: The Internet has given us many glorious things: streaming movies, multiplayer games, real-time information and videos of cats playing the piano. It has also offered up some less edifying creations: web-borne viruses, cybercrime and Charles C. Johnson.
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Nikon D810a DSLR camera for astrophotography officially announced | Nikon Rumors
Nikon D810a DSLR camera for astrophotography officially announced – Nikon Rumors Nikon officially announced their new D810a DSLR camera designed for astrophotography (see pre-order options): Nikon D810a sample images Price: $3,799.95 Shipping will start in late May, 2015 Nikon D810a videos: Nikon D810a (left) vs. Nikon D810 samples comparison: Press release: Stellar Resolution: The Nikon D810A Captures the Cosmos…
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Olympus Air: A 16MP Camera That Uses Your Phone as Its Live View Screen
Olympus Air: A 16MP Camera That Uses Your Phone as Its Live View Screen Olympus has officially announced the Air, a 16-megapixel camera that looks more like a teleconverter that has a sensor stuffed into it. The device acts as via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/02/05/olympus-air-16mp-camera-uses-phone-live-view-screen/ You may recall that Sony announced a similar product back in 2013…
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One Photographer’s Case for Large Format Film | PhotoShelter Blog
One Photographer’s Case for Large Format Film – PhotoShelter Blog Greg Miller’s large format photography has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, TIME, Esquire, Fortune, LIFE, and more. In 2008, his enthralling portraiture earned him a Fellowship in photography from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. We recently interviewed…
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GNARBOX: Offload, Edit, and Share Your Photos and Videos Without a Laptop
GNARBOX: Offload, Edit, and Share Your Photos and Videos Without a Laptop If you’ve been looking for a way to download, organize, edit, and share your photos and videos on the go without having to use a laptop, GNARBOX is a new via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/07/16/gnarbox-offload-edit-and-share-your-photos-and-videos-without-a-laptop/ If you’ve been looking for a way to download, organize,…
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The Real World: Leica Q vs Sony RX1R II | PhotoShelter Blog
The Real World: Leica Q vs Sony RX1R II – PhotoShelter Blog When the biggest complaint you have about a camera concerns the image quality at ISO 25,000, you know you have a first world problem. Such is the case when comparing two full-frame compacts: the Leica Q and the Sony RX1R II. Yes, there…
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We’re Just Sayin: Adieu Faere Holga…. Adieu…
Adieu Faere Holga…. Adieu… Well this must be a little bit like what the hard-core felt in the early 60s when the Speed Graphic line was halted, or maybe the 1940s (?)… Link: http://werejustsayin.blogspot.com/2015/12/adieu-faere-holga-adieu.html it brought photographers back to the simplicity of understanding that a real picture is made in your eye, in your head,…
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The Death Of The Holga — Vantage — Medium
Link: In conversation with photographer Liz Potter about the iconic toy camera … and its exit from the market
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Good while it lasted: does the Canon 5D mkIV mark the end of DSLR video?
Good while it lasted: does the Canon 5D mkIV mark the end of DSLR video? – Newsshooter When the Canon 5D mkII burst onto the scene in 2008, it was nothing short of a revelation for video shooters. I never use the term game changer, but the 5D mkII truly was. Canon added video recording…
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Rumor: Fuji Will Reveal Their Medium Format Camera on September 19th
Rumor: Fuji Will Reveal Their Medium Format Camera on September 19th If this rumor turns out to be true, Fujifilm might be the company that makes the biggest splash at Photokina this year. According to a new source, the via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2016/09/03/rumor-fuji-will-reveal-medium-format-camera-september-19th/ When Alex Webb first walked across the bridge from El Paso to Ciudad…
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5 Myths of Digital Photography | PhotoShelter Blog
5 Myths of Digital Photography – PhotoShelter Blog Myths and misconceptions persist because they’re either compelling or no one bothers to correct them. For photographers, many myths of digital photography arose when trying to draw imperfect analogies to film photography. Given the complex physics behind digital imaging, it’s not totally surprising that some myths persist, but…
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Adobe’s Lightroom camera now lets you shoot in raw from your iPhone like a pro | 9to5Mac
Adobe’s Lightroom camera now lets you shoot in raw from your iPhone like a pro – 9to5Mac Adobe’s Lightroom app continues to live on the edge of what’s possible with Apple’s various platforms, and the latest version of… via 9to5Mac: https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/13/adobe-lightroom-raw-iphone-camera/ Apple’s built-in Camera app doesn’t allow you to shoot in raw even as an option,…