The Voyager Space Probes — the most distant cameras in the universe — are being powered down after 44 years of interstellar travel.
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have made it deeper into space than any manmade object in history. Both were launched in 1977 to photograph a fortuitous alignment of the planets in our solar system.
A Voyager probe took this false-color image of Saturn’s rings on…
Why Canon is the Microsoft of the Camera World
June 22, 2022
With Canon’s strong foothold — or should that be increasing stranglehold — on the mirrorless market, you can easily argue it is becoming the Microsoft of the camera world. Microsoft is ubiquitous in the world of personal computing with its software products…
Electronics engineer Guarav Singh has 3D-printed a camera chassis that’s designed to work with interchangeable lenses and sensors.
The open-source industrial-grade camera is split across three boards, and it is here the interesting design allows for modularity.
A dual-shutter vibration-sensing system developed by Carnegie Mellion University (CMU) researchers uses standard, ordinary cameras to see sound vibrations with such precision that it can reconstruct the music made by a single instrument out of a band.
The researchers say that even the best and most high-powered microphones can’t eliminate nearby sounds or ambient noises that might…
Adobe updates Premiere Pro with new vertical video features, updated Workspace UI and more
June 22, 2022
Screenshot of the updated Essentials workspace. Click to enlarge.
Adobe has announced an update to Premiere Pro that adds a slew of new features and performance improvements, inlcuding new GPU-accelerated effects and social content features.
A breakdown of some of…
Image credit: Micael Widell
One of macro photographer Micael Widell’s subscribers, Nicholas Sherlock, sent Widell an awesome microscope lens and 3D-printed adapter. Sherlock, a macro photography enthusiast, created a microscope adapter for up to 4x macro photography…
United States Marshals have released age-progressed images of three men who infamously escaped the maximum-security prison on Alcatraz Island in 1962.
Fugitives Frank Morris, Charles Anglin, and John Anglin, who would now be in their 90s, are still on the Most Wanted list sixty years after their breakout.
Clarence Anglin
The age-progressed photos of the trio have been released…
Godox has released a new wireless flash trigger that acts as a cordless go-between for Leica cameras and off-mounted Godox flashes.
The Godox XProIIL can connect via Bluetooth to the Leica S, SL, SL2, M10, Q2, CL, and cameras that have a PC sync socket. There is also…
NVIDIA researchers have created a new tool that can easily turn photos into 3D objects. Called NVIDIA 3D MoMa, the company says it can allow architects, designers, concept artists, and game developers to quickly import objects into a graphics engine for digital manipulation.
SmugMug has launched a new inspiring campaign titled “This Lens” that celebrates the power of photography to challenge perspectives and change the world. It tells the stories of real-life photographers and their passionate pursuits.
Full disclosure: This article was brought to you by SmugMug.
The “do-it-all” photo platform was inspired to tell the stories of photographers after…
