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These custom-built hard cases protect camera rigs for Canon, Fujifilm, Nikon, Sony and others

Keeping your gear safe can be a tricky – and expensive – proposition. A longtime favorite for traveling and professional photographers and videographers are hard cases. With custom-fitted padded inserts, a hard case is a great way to store and protect your gear. Over at CineD, they’ve written about ready-made hard cases for a wide variety of camera brands and models. The cases are made…
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Majority Share of the Olympics Press Cameras Were Canon

Canon claims that a majority share of press cameras at the Olympics were its mirrorless and DSLRs, claiming its 1DX Mark III, R5, and R6 were “widely used.” While Canon, Nikon, and Sony as companies were all present at the Tokyo Olympics in support of photographers, the…
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A Look Back at the Olympus IS-1, an Early Bridge Camera

Do you know what ZLR stands for? How about ED, or ESP? And what in the world is Fuzzy Logic? In this article, we’ll learn all about the Olympus IS-1, a pivotal model in a whole new category of camera released in the 1990s, and all the strange acronyms that come with it. …
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Huawei Develops Smartphone Camera with a Traditional Variable Aperture

While smartphone cameras continue to improve, most don’t offer any kind of variable aperture. While Samsung has developed a way to introduce this in a future device, Huawei has also designed a method, and it’s more akin to a traditional lens. While implementing variable aperture into a smartphone is uncommon, it is not a new idea. Back in 2018, Samsung’s Galaxy S9 smartphone featured a…
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Infrared Photos of France, From Iconic Places to Hidden Gems

For the last years, I have spent every summer traveling across France to discover the diversity of its landscapes and its natural heritage. Usually, summer is synonymous with crowds of vacationers and tourists. For this project, summer is also synonymous with lush nature, in which infrared photography works the best to reveal alternative colors. This technique was not only used to offer pop and…
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How to Use the Luminosity Mask in Lightroom Classic

The Luminosity Mask is a really great tool to use when it comes to retouching landscape, cityscape as well as portrait. It gives you more freedom when you use different tools in Lightroom and you will see it is awesome! Now let me show you how it works. I did a basic…
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FilmNeverDie Unveils the CP800: A $2,750 Auto Rotary Drum Film Processor

Melbourne, Australia-based professional photo lab & retail store FilmNeverDie has announced the new Compact Processor 800 (CP800) through a Kickstarter campaign. The new automated rotary drum film processor is capable of handling black & white, color, slide, and motion picture film. The company says CP800 was designed to address the shortcomings of outdated and overused film processors by…
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