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Bisambar: An Environmentally Conscious Leather Camera Strap Company

Bisambar is a new Austrian-based leather camera strap company that has a focus on sustainability as well as traditional craftsmanship. The company says its products are made to last for a lifetime. A Focus on Sustainability Lukas, the founder of Bisambar, is a former professional photographer who now handles the development and manufacturing of the company’s straps. He says that because…
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Ep. 363: Canon Sticks the Dismount – and more

Episode 363 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 –  Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, email or RSS! Featured: Portrait photographer, Walter van Dusen In This Episode If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast in iTunes, please take…
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Wearable Smart Camera Can Detect Silent Voice Commands

Two researchers from Cornell University have created a wearable infrared smart camera that can detect voice commands even if the speaker isn’t making a sound by measuring the neck and face from under the chin. The Usefulness of Silent Speech Detection Cheng Zhang, assistant professor of information science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, and…
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What’s In Your Camera Bag, Anete Lusina?

Anete Lusina has been a news, features, and reviews writer with PetaPixel for about a year and brings her talent for street and wedding photography to frame many of the stories you see here. As she focuses more on personal work and journalism, we thought it would be…
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Obscura 3 Camera App is a Major Update with New Modes and Design

Obscura 3 has launched with a wide range of new camera features and an updated design that makes accessing its pro tools more intuitive and visually appealing. It also adds more features, a better library interface, and improved performance. Obscura originally launched in 2015 and Obscura 2 came out in 2018 which was downloaded more than a million times. The app’s third iteration is…
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OM Digital Has Its First Camera, But Does it Have a Future?

It’s the dawn of a new era for OM Digital Solutions (OMDS) — Olympus as was — as it forges a new beginning, with a new camera, bearing the new name, and the last to be emblazoned with the Olympus logo. Is this the start of a golden age for Micro Four Thirds (MFT) or simply the beginning of the end for both OMDS and MFT? From Film to DSLRs to Mirrorless It’s no secret that the camera…
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