A drone managed to stay aloft while it recorded the colossal damage caused by a tornado that devastated a Kansas neighborhood last Friday.
The twister struck Andover, Kansas, a suburb of Wichita, in the evening on April 29th. Sirens alerted citizens of the danger that afternoon, but drone operator and tornado chaser Reed Timmer — in footage spotted by DroneDJ — interpreted the call as an…
Dell's reveals its new XPS 13 Plus notebook with 12th-gen Intel chips, 4K+ resolution and more
May 2, 2022
Dell first announced the XPS 13 Plus notebook back at CES in January. Dell’s new notebook is now available to order, starting at a palatable price of $1,299. The XPS 13 Plus is a sleek, powerful notebook that promises to combine style and performance. The redesigned…
Ukrainian photographer Maxim Dondyuk has been collecting and archiving photos and negatives that he has found in the Chernobyl exclusion area for the last six years. He has rescued around 15,000 artifacts, which include films, photos, postcards, and letters, but with the…
Prime vs Zoom Lenses: A Beginner’s Guide
May 1, 2022
In your photography adventure, you will most likely buy both a prime lens and a zoom lens at some point. If you are a beginning photographer looking to upgrade to a new lens, you are probably facing the decision of whether to choose a prime or a zoom. Which type should you get and what’s the difference?
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The Pros and Cons of Zoom Lenses
Pro: Versatility
Pro: A Lighter…
The most common method to teach photographic composition to novices is the “rule of thirds” — in short, divide the screen into equal thirds vertically and horizontally, and then place your point of interest on any of the cross points for a maximally pleasing image.
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I know that the idea of proxy recordings and how to create them in editing software such as Adobe Premiere and Divinci Resolve has been talked about a hundred times, but did you know you can generate them in-camera for even more time savings?
There’s a feature…
DXOMark ranked the new Leica M11 rangefinder and scored it a 100, which makes it one of the top five full-frame sensors currently available. It joins the Nikon Z7 II and D850, Panasonic S1R, and Sony A7R III as the other 100-point cameras.
DXOMark Image Labs is a private French engineering company located near Paris. The company says it specializes in measuring cameras, audio, display…
The James Webb Space Telescope’s alignment is now complete and is confirmed to be able to capture sharp, perfectly crisp images with all four of its instruments.
Webb completed its seventh and final stage of telescope alignment, after which the team behind the…
A Swedish photography magazine was recently contacted by lawyers who claimed that a photo it downloaded from the free photo service Pixabay violated a client’s copyright. But it turned out the law firm and the client were both fake, and the real photographer had never…
The Viiu Rota-Strap is a new take on the camera strap that is not only highly resistant to “slash and grab” style theft, but the creator has also designed multiple additional functions that make it one of the more versatile options on the market.
Viiu is a new camera accessory brand based out of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Its Rota-Strap and associated Rota-Lock accessories are what it calls a…
