Engineer and educator Destin Sandlin, from the YouTube channel ‘Smarter Every Day,‘ loves analog film photography. ‘There’s something to me about being able to capture a memory in a physical object with light and physics and chemistry. It’s just beautiful.’ In a video last summer, Sandlin investigated how film photography works and visited Indie Film Lab in…
The Fundamental Building Blocks of Interesting Photos
March 19, 2022
My particular interest in photography aims for hitting certain notes in the image, regardless of content. So whether I’m shooting landscapes or my garden, friends at a party, or my kids on vacation, I’d say the approach is consistent.
Whatever content interests…
IMAX is developing a new film camera and is tapping the likes of visionary directors Jordan Peele and Christopher Nolan to help design it.
IMAX Film Cameras
IMAX is a proprietary system of high-resolution, large format cameras, film projectors, and theaters. Instead…
Nikon has filed a patent for a new type of sensor that would allow it to perform both a rolling and global shutter operation. It’s not the first time the company has proposed such a design, but it expands on the use case of a previous filing.
For those who might not know the difference between a rolling shutter and global shutter, there are practical reasons to prefer one over the other. In…
This week, DxO released DxO PureRAW 2, the latest version of its RAW processing app and plugin. If you’re not familiar with PureRAW, it takes the same great DxO DeepPRIME RAW demosaicing and noise reduction technology as DxO’s all-in-one editor, PhotoLab, and…
Imagine looking through your camera’s viewfinder, finding it strangely blurry, and then realizing that a fairly large spider had made its home inside… and that your eye had been just a fraction of an inch away from the eight-legged creature. That’s what happened…
Lensrentals celebrates the Canon 5D Mark III's 10th birthday by putting it head-to-head against the Fujifilm GFX 100S
March 17, 2022
The Canon 5D Mark III turns 10 this month and Lensrentals is celebrating the anniversary by comparing the classic Canon DSLR against a modern, top-of-the-line camera to see just how far cameras have come in the last decade. The competition? The Fujifilm GFX 100S.
There’s no question which camera is better. New cameras come out with better image sensors, faster shooting speeds and more…
Venus Optics has announced its new Laowa Argus 25mm F0.95 MFT APO lens for Micro Four Thirds camera systems.
The apochromatic lens, which offers a 50mm full-frame equivalent field of view on Micro Four Thirds camera systems, is constructed of 14 elements in eight groups…
Canon may be interested in the consumer drone market as it has designed a gimbal system for a small camera for use on a small quadcopter.
In a patent filing spotted by CanonRumors, the design seems to be for a camera similar to many of the existing small-sensor…
Lensbaby Unveils the 50mm f/2.5 Soft Focus II Optic
March 17, 2022
Lensbaby, a company known for making unconventional lenses that create unusual photos, has released a recreation of one of the company’s most popular swappable lens optics: the $280 50mm f/2.5 Soft Focus II.
The original Soft Focus optic was launched about twelve years ago and quickly became one of the company’s most popular items until it was eventually discontinued a few years ago. The new…
