Photographer and Youtuber Mathieu Stern recently purchased two glass plate negatives from 1910 and decided to scan, restore, colorize, and animate the photos with the help of artificial intelligence (AI).
Stern said that after he purchased the two negatives, he spent some time online studying Victorian glass plate archives so that he could try and learn more about the woman in the…
New ‘Solid Light’ 3D Holographic Display Can Give Photos Depth
December 16, 2021
Science fiction has repeatedly promised a future filled with holographic 3D displays, but that fantasy has always eluded reality — until now. A startup says it has created a new “solid light” display that renders photos and videos in three dimensions.
Photography and…
US Navy Shares Photos of New Laser Weapon in Action
December 16, 2021
The US Navy has shared photos and videos of a powerful new laser weapon system that it has been testing to take down both drones and small crafts.
The latest reddish photos were captured with a special camera equipped with a short wave infrared lens and an optical…
NASA’s James Webb Telescope to be the ‘Coolest Camera in Space’
December 16, 2021
NASA’s soon-to-be-launched James Webb Telescope is set to fly into space this month and begin its tasks of collecting infrared light from the distant corners of the cosmos. But to do so, it needs to get very, very cold.
The James Webb Telescope is the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope and is the largest space observatory ever made. NASA says it will be the “coolest camera in…
Using a Zeiss 300mm Lens for a Wet Plate Self Portrait Project
December 16, 2021
Wet plate photographer Markus Hofstätter recently acquired a Zeiss 300mm f/4.5 lens, and although it produced beautiful results, the process of getting to a finished image was filled with numerous obstacles along the way.
The Austria-based Hofstätter is not a stranger…
Sony Unveils Groundbreaking CMOS Sensor That Gathers Twice the Light
December 16, 2021
Sony’s Semiconductor division has announced that it successfully developed the world’s first stacked CMOS image sensor technology with two-layer transistor pixels that grants double the light gathering capability.
Sony explains that typical image sensors place…
Revisiting the Canon 1D, 20 Years Later
December 16, 2021
It was my first year in college. I was going out every day to teach myself photography, Harry Potter had just come out in theaters, and Canon entered the digital photography world with its very first fully backed flagship, the Canon EOS 1D. At the time, I was shooting on the Canon EOS D30, and didn’t see any way in sight of affording the 1D, but also didn’t think I really needed it either.
Sony a7 IV vs Canon EOS R6, which is the best enthusiast mirrorless?
December 16, 2021
Introduction
Sony’s a7 IV is the company’s latest enthusiast-targeted full-frame mirrorless camera. Its price and spec put it directly into competition with Canon’s hugely likeable EOS R6.
The improvements to the Sony mean that both promise powerful…
The Analogue Pocket has finally arrived after numerous delays. And a new announcement confirms the device will be fully compatible with Nintendo’s Game Boy Camera, released back in 1998.
For those unfamiliar with the Analogue Pocket, it’s a handheld device that…
Camera maker Ethan Moses from Cameradactyl has built a very-large format camera that shoots 20×24″photos that can be developed into positive images right inside the camera’s custom-made film holder for near-instant prints. The result is a kind of ‘instant’ print reminiscent of the type created by the giant Polaroid cameras that were built in the late 1970s.
Ethan designs…