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The Bronine Volkit Charger Made Me Rethink Camera Batteries

November 24, 2021
Charging is boring and is easily the part of technology, and certainly photography, that I think the least about. But after using the Bronine Volkit, I honestly can say that has changed. The Bronine Volkit originally landed on our radar nearly exactly a year ago when it hit Kickstarter. It is what is described as a free voltage charging device that uses a main center hub that plays host…
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Hands-on with the Nikon Z 40mm F2

November 24, 2021
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Hands-on with the Nikon Z 40mm F2 The Nikon Nikkor Z 40mm F2 is one of a pair of compact, lightweight and affordable prime lenses for the mirrorless Z-mount system (the other being the Z 28mm F2.8 which was announced recently). At only 170 g (~6…
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NASA Has Revived Hubble’s Most Heavily Used Camera

November 23, 2021
NASA is making significant progress on reviving the Hubble Space Telescope, which has been in safe mode since early November after the synchronization of messages that control its instruments were becoming lost. Hubble was brought offline on October 25 after NASA scientists and engineers detected a loff of specific data synchronization messages. The team was focusing its efforts on…
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Macro Photos Reveal the Hidden Beauty of Seeds

November 23, 2021
Macro photography provides a window into details of the world that often escape (or are invisible to) the naked eye. Photographer Levon Biss used close-up photos to capture the incredible diversity of embryonic plant in his project The Hidden Beauty of Seeds and Fruits. …
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How to Create and Capture Stunning Ink Flow Photos

November 23, 2021
Have you wanted to capture your own ink flow photographs at home? Below, I’ll explain a few easy tips that make use of an inexpensive fish tank and a pot of ink or paint. As the paint is poured into the water a multitude of incredible shapes form which, when photographed…
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NVIDIA GauGAN2 AI Turns Sentences into Realistic ‘Photos’

November 22, 2021
NVIDIA’s GauGAN2 artificial intelligence (AI) can now use simple written phrases to generate a fitting photorealistic image. The deep-learning model is able to craft different scenes in just three or four words. GauGAN is NVIDIA’s AI program that was used to turn simple doodles into photorealistic masterpieces in 2019, a technology that was eventually turned into the NVIDIA Canvas app…
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Fully Loaded: The Complex Connection Between Guns and Cameras

November 22, 2021
“Why are guns and cameras so closely connected?” This is what I set out to explore and investigate recently through my own experience in film. Between starting the production and finishing it, one major event made this connection a lot darker. On October 21st, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed by a firearm on the set of “Rust” while standing behind the camera for a shot.
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