Photography

TTArtisan has released the TTAritsan 40mm Macro f/2.8 APS-C lens which is compatible with Fujifilm X, Sony E, and Micro Four Thirds cameras. It costs just $100. TTArtisan’s latest lens is billed as a fast prime with a maximum aperture of f/2.8 and a 1:1 magnification which gives life-size reproduction, and a filter size of 52mm. The lens has a durable metal body and weighs between 371 to 403…

A woman who was taking photos in San Francisco’s Mission District was shot in the leg when she refused to turn over her camera to two would-be thieves. The 43-year-old woman says she was taking photos along the street on the afternoon of September 15 when two men approached her and demanded she give them her camera, according to a report from KPIX 5 News in San Francisco. When she refused, one…

Photographers and filmmakers constantly argue over what camera takes better images and video, but when asked to pick whether footage was shot by a Canon or Sony camera, these YouTubers struggle to tell them apart. Youtuber Parker Walbeck and members of the film school Full Time Filmmaker captured 10 clips on both a Canon R5 and a Sony Alpha 7S III using identical settings and color graded them…

The Olympus OM-1 was a revolutionary camera that changed the single-lens reflex (SLR) camera market by offering impressive image quality in a compact, reliable form factor with (relatively) small, high-quality lenses to boot. While its design shaped the industry for decades to come, it almost didn’t take on the form factor we now look back on. In a recent article on Kosmo Foto, Stephen Dowling…