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Rare Zeiss 50mm f/0.7 Lens Made for NASA To Fetch Up To $146,000

Leitz Photographica Auction On June 12, the 38th Leitz Photographica Auction is set to offer a large assortment of rare and highly collectible camera products, the most notable of which is a rare Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7 lens designed in 1966 for NASA Apollo missions. Described as the “most famous lens produced by Zeiss,” the Planar 50mm f/0.7 was designed to photograph the moon’s far side…
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The Best Lenses for APS-C Cameras in 2021

While full-frame has received the most attention from camera manufacturers in recent years, there are plenty of great reasons to purchase smaller format sensors like APS-C. These systems can be cheaper, smaller, lighter, and offer greater reach over their full-frame…
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Steps You Can Take to Help Prevent Camera Theft

As you may have read, my gear was stolen in broad daylight as the camera was rolling two weeks ago in a public San Francisco park. It may be getting worse out there: another photographer got hit this week looking at Golden Gate Bridge. He was parked near Battery Spencer…
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This is Your Chance to Buy the Super-Rare Canon EF 1200mm f/5.6L Lens

Wetzlar Camera Auctions is set to offer an exceedingly rare Canon EF 1200mm f/5.6L lens for sale on October 9, 2021. Because the lens is so difficult to make and production was so limited, each one that was produced was sold. Wetzlar Camera Auctions says that each lens took more than a year to build due to the time required to grow “its massive fluorite crystals.” Apparently, very few of…
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Apple pays out millions in compensation to student after iPhone repair facility shared her explicit personal images online

Apple has settled a case with a 21-year-old student after she sent her iPhone to a repair facility in 2016 only to find that employees had uploaded personal explicit images and videos to her Facebook account from the phone during the repair process. The student had sent in her iPhone to Apple to get repaired. The invasion of privacy ultimately took place at a repair center in California, run by…
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OxygenOS 11.2.7.7 adds overdue HDR video recording to OnePlus 9 Pro

OxygenOS 11.2.7.7 is now rolling out for the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro with the most notable change finally adding HDR video recording to the 9 Pro — a glaring omission since launch. The update also includes some other tweaks, but since launch, for reasons we’re not entirely sure of, the OnePlus 9 has been able to record HDR video but the OnePlus 9 Pro has lacked the capability. OxygenOS 11.2.7.7…
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