Improving the performance of smartphone cameras often feels like approaching the end of an exponential curve: it can be done, but improvements are becoming less noticeable. Glass Imaging wants to change that through the novel use of anamorphic lenses.
Smartphone camera development has felt as though it is peaking because the ways to improve imaging generally require making a sensor…
Optics manufacturer Samyang has announced the release of the AF 35mm F1.4 FE II, a second-generation autofocus prime for Sony E-mount camera systems.
The updated lens features a new optical construction that consists of 11 elements in nine groups, including two aspherical…
Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, has purchased brain-computer interface startup NextMind whose technology could be used to directly control augmented reality (AR) tools just with thought, like the Spectacles or forthcoming camera drone.
NextMind is a…
The Hubble Space Telescope recently celebrated its 20th year using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), which was installed on Hubble in March of 2002 and became its most used camera.
The ACS wavelength range extends from the ultraviolet, through the visible spectrum, and out to the near-infrared. The ACS is able to map large areas of the sky in great detail, and following its…
One of the world’s most popular aerial photography communities, SkyPixel, has announced the winners of the seventh-annual Aerial Photo and Video competition.
The competition, supported by DJI, attracted nearly 30,000 submissions from 124 countries and regions.
Photographer Ronaldo Carvalho took an old and broken fixed-lens Olympus film camera lens and adapted it to work on a new Canon EOS R6, breathing new life into retired gear.
Carvalho originally got the idea to repurpose his old equipment when he noticed that the 40mm…
In the face of adversity as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a local ethno-photographer Anna Senik has taken up arms and enlisted as a soldier but hasn’t given up on her love for photography.
Senik — who publishes under the artistic pseudonym “Ładna Kobieta” — is based in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, which on Sunday received the largest attack from Russia since the…
Insta360 has announced the ONE RS, a modular action camera that features the same three-part design of the ONE R of a battery, processing unit, and swappable lens module, but all upgraded to provide a ton of versatility in a small package.
The company touts the ONE RS as…
Sony Unveils the 16-35mm f/4 PZ G Series Power Zoom Lens
March 22, 2022
Sony has announced the 16-35mm f/4 Power Zoom (PZ) lens, a G Series (not G Master) zoom that promises highly responsive and comfortable operability with the zoom ring and can be controlled by the lens, by the camera, or by a remote.
It wouldn’t be a Sony lens…
Instagram has announced that its product tagging feature is coming to everyone in the United States over the next few months as part of its overarching goal to move away from photography and towards video and shopping.
The ability to tag products has been a feature for certain content creators on Instagram for some time, but Instagram is bringing the feature to all users in the coming…
