Photography

Canon USA has announced that the company will provide technical assistance to Project Dragonfly, an international research team from Yale University and the University of Toronto, in its plan to expand the Dragonfly Telephoto Array. The Dragonfly Telephoto Array is a telescope concept designed to capture images of extremely faint structures in the night sky. It is believed that the…

Researchers from Northwestern’s Engineering department have invented a new high-resolution camera that can see around corners and through objects — even skin, fog, or a human skull. The process is called synthetic wavelength holography, and it’s a new method that works by indirectly scattering light onto hidden objects, which then scatters again and travels back to the camera. An…

Screenshot from a Canon promotional video, embedded below, showing off the capabilities of its Car AF mode with motorsports photographer Larry Chen. Canon Japan has announced new firmware updates for its EOS R5, EOS R6 and EOS 1DX Mark III camera systems will be released on December 2, 2021, bringing new and improved autofocus performance to each of the three cameras. Firmware version 1.6.0 for…

The Leica Freedom Train was not a physical coal or steam engine, but the monumental effort of the Leitz family. This is how they and the Leica camera company saved hundreds of Jews from persecution at the hands of the Nazis. As the Second World War entered its final year, “The Song of the War Correspondents” was released in the Soviet Union. It was a triumphant, rousing, deeply…