Photography

New York City-based photojournalist Gary Hershorn captured this lighthearted portrait of a seagull looking directly at his lens with Lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center as the backdrop. Hershorn enjoys walking along the Hudson River in Hoboken and Jersey City, New Jersey, photographing the seagulls while using the New York City skyline as a backdrop. “It is always fun to find…

When Chris and I produce DPReview TV episodes about new cameras, I insist on spending at least a few minutes talking about the video capabilities. This inevitably leads to a few comments on our episode that are variations of this: ‘Why do you care so much about the video features of this camera? Anyone serious about video would buy a dedicated video camera.’ I’ve been creating…

Monster Adapter has announced the LA-NE1 adapter that supports autofocus, aperture control, and data transmission between Contax N-Mount lenses and Sony E-Mount cameras. Contax N-Mount The Contax N and N-Mount cameras were remarkably short-lived, though the system did have nine lenses produced for it by Carl Zeiss. Two of the Contax N cameras were film SLRs with the only digital camera…

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) collaborated with DeepSea Power & Light to create the MxD SeaCam underwater 4K camera. The early results from the custom-built camera are amazing. MBARI just published exquisitely detailed 4K videos captured thousands of meters below the ocean’s surface. ‘Seeing the rapid adoption of 4K imaging and recognizing the scientific…