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GoPro Wants to Expand its Product Line, Build a Camera for Pros

GoPro wants to expand its camera line to more than just its current Hero and Max cameras. According to CEO Nick Woodman, the company will add two more models in the next year. New Cameras for Specialized Uses In a company earning’s call, Woodman says that GoPro wants to offer more specialized cameras that are still based on the core technologies found in its current devices, The Verge…
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10 Vintage Lenses That Work Great on Mirrorless Cameras

Vintage lenses are more popular than ever, thanks in large part to the mirrorless revolution as well as affordable, high-quality cinema and hybrid video cameras. These lenses are regularly “cine modded” for video use due to their unique character and less clinical rendering, (sometimes) affordable prices compared to cine lenses, helicoid-driven focus with hard stops, and physical aperture…
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Nikon Discontinues the D500, a Triumph of the DSLR Era

Nikon Japan has officially marked the D500 DSLR as “old product,” signaling that the company will cease manufacturing the camera. The last new D500 cameras around the world will be those already on store shelves. The “Old Product” Designation Nikon Japan lists any product that is no longer in production as categorized with the “old product” tag, the designation assigned to the…
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23 Years Later: Revisiting the Olympus CAMEDIA C-2000 Z

Photographer Gordon Laing has been digging through his archives and revisiting classic digital cameras. His latest entry takes a look at the Olympus CAMEDIA C-2000 Z, a camera that was originally released 23 years ago. The CAMEDIA C-2000 Z The CAMEDIA C-2000 Z was…
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Canon’s new dual-fisheye EOS R lens is for creating 3D VR content

Canon has announced what’s easily the oddest glass yet for its EOS R mirrorless camera system: a dual 5.2mm f/2.8 fisheye. The fisheye lenses are 60mm apart and are designed for creating 3D VR images and video content; Canon calls out the Oculus Quest 2 as a potential hardware destination and says this is “the world’s first digital interchangeable lens that can capture stereoscopic 3D 180°…
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