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Photographer Finds Spider Living in His Camera’s Viewfinder

Imagine looking through your camera’s viewfinder, finding it strangely blurry, and then realizing that a fairly large spider had made its home inside… and that your eye had been just a fraction of an inch away from the eight-legged creature. That’s what happened recently to Canadian photographer Joel Robison. Robison first purchased his Sony a7R III mirrorless camera brand new a…
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Canon Has Designed a Gimbal System for Consumer-Level Drones

Canon may be interested in the consumer drone market as it has designed a gimbal system for a small camera for use on a small quadcopter. In a patent filing spotted by CanonRumors, the design seems to be for a camera similar to many of the existing small-sensor camera systems already in use on most current consumer market drones, such as those from DJI. The design seems to pick up from a…
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Lensbaby Unveils the 50mm f/2.5 Soft Focus II Optic

Lensbaby, a company known for making unconventional lenses that create unusual photos, has released a recreation of one of the company’s most popular swappable lens optics: the $280 50mm f/2.5 Soft Focus II. The original Soft Focus optic was launched about twelve years…
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Venus Optics Unveils the Laowa Argus 25mm f/0.95 for Micro Four Thirds

Venus Optics has announced the new Laowa Argus 25mm f/0.95 MFT APO lens for Micro Four Thirds cameras. The company says that the shallow depth of field creates “dreamy” background defocus and the APO design limits color fringing. Venus Optics says the lens features not only an ultra-fast wide-open aperture, but top-notch optical performance, video-friendly features, excellent bokeh…
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8 Useful Ways to Describe and Measure Your Photos

A leading textbook on creative photography, released in 1980, devotes more than 90% of its 460 pages to technical considerations — how cameras and lenses work, darkroom procedures, lighting — and just a few pages to aesthetics and composition. Reading that…
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DxO Launches PureRAW 2: Enhanced Workflow Options and Fuji Support

DxO has announced the 2.0 update to PureRAW. It features several significant additions like support for Fujifilm X-Trans files. It also includes two new workflow options including Finder integration for Apple users (and Windows Explorer Integration for Windows) as well as Adobe Lightroom Plugin integration and several speed improvements. The initial release of DxO PureRAW was a standalone version…
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