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Stark Black and White Photos Capture Life in a Melting Arctic

January 23, 2022
Ragnar Axelsson is an Icelandic photographer who has been working in the frigid Arctic for over 40 years and documenting breathtaking imagery of the desolate landscape and its people. Axelsson’s stark black and white photos document the challenging life of humans and their sled dogs in various countries of the Arctic and its extreme environment. In recent times, unprecedented climate…
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The Best Medium Format Film Cameras to Buy in 2022

January 22, 2022
The past decade has seen an explosion of film users. Whether this is driven by a sense of nostalgia, or a desire to experience the past (for those too young to have shot film earlier in their life), for the simplicity, or perhaps because some celebrities have taken to…
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New Hubble Photos Show How in Astronomy, Perspective Matters

January 22, 2022
The Hubble Space Telescope, while soon to be succeeded by the James Webb Space Telescope, continues to capture important images of the universe. In two recent images, perspective plays an important role in how these galaxies appear. The Truth Behind This Cosmic Duo Earlier this month, Hubble captured an unusual photo of two galaxies that appear to be colliding with one another. Hubble’s…
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Ricoh to Stop Mass Producing Cameras, Sell Direct to Consumer Only

January 21, 2022
Ricoh’s President and CEO Noboru Akahane has announced that the Pentax and GR camera brands will undergo a dramatic restructuring that will see mass production end. It will also end distributor relationships and go direct-to-consumer. Akahane says that Ricoh Imaging will be “reborn” starting on April 1, 2022 and that it will build a new business structure for its camera brands that…
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A closer look at the Leica M11 (photo gallery)

January 20, 2022
The new Leica M11 looks about as you’d expect – pretty similar to the M10 variants that preceded it, and not dissimilar to M-series rangefinders going back decades. In this photo gallery we’re taking a visual tour of the M11, and comparing it against two…
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Phantom S991 high-speed camera shoots 4K video at 937 frames per second

January 20, 2022
Vision Research has announced the Phantom S991 high-speed camera. The new specialized camera combines impressive Phantom sensor technology and CoaXPress-over-Fiber (CXFPoF) with CXP-12 to deliver 9Gpx/sec (70 Gbps) throughput to record 4096 x 2304 video at a blazing-fast 937 frames per second. Like other Phantom cameras, the S991 can record much faster than 937 frames per second with reduced…
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