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Mitochondria in Human Eyes Found to Act Like Tiny Lenses

Compound eyes are a common feature in many insects and for years their vision has been treated as very different from that of mammals. A new study, however, may have found that human eyes might be more like an insect’s than previously believed. In a study published to Science Advances, researchers John Ball, Shan Chen, and Wei Li discovered that mitochondria — often described as the…
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Canon Rebel: A Guide to the Popular Beginner Camera Line

It’s been just over four decades since autofocus 35mm cameras have become a reality. In 1987, Canon had just released their first autofocus 35mm film camera called the EOS 650, with the EF lens mount and lightning-fast autofocus. It was a bold new design that many thought…
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How to Turn On a City’s Lights in Your Photos Using Lightroom

Turning on the lights in your photos can change the whole atmosphere of your scene and let the glow come from the city itself. This is how you can turn on the lights in your photos using just one slider. You might not always catch the perfect dusk photo with the city lights on, so this is a great tool to have as a photographer! First of all, your photo needs to match a time of day where the…
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Film Friday: This rare Leica 16mm prototype camera is expected to fetch over $3M at auction

Later this year, the 40th Leitz Photographica Auction is set to take in Leitz Park in Wetzlar, Germany. While we’ve already seen the incredibly rare 0-series Leica once owned by Oskar Barnack, there’s another one-of-a-kind prototype camera that’s expected to sell—a 16mm miniature camera known as the Leica 16. As detailed by Kosmo Foto, this camera was just one of a number of research and…
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Photographer Turns Graffiti Cleanups Into Abstract Photos

Parking lots exhibiting Rothko and Diebenkorn paintings in Portland Oregon? That’s what I encountered during the Covid Pandemic of 2020. Like everyone, I had to change my usual routines in 2020. After the closure of gyms and other forms of exercise, my wife and I started taking long walks through various neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon. It was on these walks that I first noticed this…
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