Skylum, the company that produces the Luminar series of software products, has its main development center in Kyiv, Ukraine. But, despite Russia’s invasion upsetting its normal workflow, the company has managed to push an update for Luminar Neo.
In a blog post, Skylum explains the situation that is currently affecting its team of developers and how they are managing to keep operations going…
Venus Optics has announced the new Laowa Argus 25mm f/0.95 MFT APO lens for Micro Four Thirds cameras. The company says that the shallow depth of field creates “dreamy” background defocus and the APO design limits color fringing.
Venus Optics says the lens features…
8 Useful Ways to Describe and Measure Your Photos
March 16, 2022
A leading textbook on creative photography, released in 1980, devotes more than 90% of its 460 pages to technical considerations — how cameras and lenses work, darkroom procedures, lighting — and just a few pages to aesthetics and composition.
Reading that…
NASA has announced that the James Webb telescope has completed the fourth and fifth stages of its alignment and scientists say that the performance of its imaging system is at or beyond their most optimistic expectations.
The Webb team completed the stage known as “fine phasing” on March 11, a key stage in aligning the telescope. NASA says that the team has found no critical issues and no…
DxO has announced the 2.0 update to PureRAW. It features several significant additions like support for Fujifilm X-Trans files. It also includes two new workflow options including Finder integration for Apple users (and Windows Explorer Integration for Windows) as well as…
Lensbaby has announced the Soft Focus II optic, a new 50mm lens in Lensbaby’s Optic Swap System. The Soft Focus II is a new-and-improved version of one of the earliest members of the Optic Swap System. The new version improves upon its predecessor by adding a 12-blade…
Last week, Apple announced the Mac Studio, a new desktop computer lineup that more or less splits the difference between the company’s existing Mac Mini and Mac Pro desktops. While the future of the Mac Pro lineup remains uncertain as Apple continues its transition to its proprietary silicon, the Mac Studio, at least on paper, seems ready to deliver on the needs of creators of all kinds. But…
ON1 has announced its next-generation technology that is powered by what it calls state-of-the-art neural networks for image upscaling: Resize AI. The company says it can enlarge photos and create realistic details with spectacular results.
The company says that the new…
Photographer Thomas Blanchard has captured the unstable mixture of water and sodium acetate. When subjected to even light agitation, the solution moves from a liquid to a solid, a process he captured in brilliant 8K resolution.
The project was shot by Blanchard as the…
Cosina has been on a roll the past few weeks, having launched a collection of lenses back in February and a pair of 40mm F2.8 primes for Leica cameras yesterday. Today, the company continues its release with the announcement of a new Voigtländer Nokton 23mm F1.2 manual focus lens for Fujifilm X-mount camera systems.
The manual lens, which offers a ~35mm full-frame equivalent field of view…
