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How to Make Custom Waterhouse Stops for Antique Lenses

For those who shoot with antique lenses but are missing Waterhouse stops, photographer Markus Hofstätter has put together a tutorial that shows a couple of ways that shooters can create their own. Older vintage lenses, such as Petzval ones, that don’t have an iris diaphragm instead use a set of what are called Waterhouse stops instead. Named after 19th-century astronomer and photographer John…
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Iceland Hotel Offers Month’s Stay In Exchange for Northern Lights Photos

A hotel in Iceland is offering a unique opportunity for one photographer: in exchange for photos of the Northern Lights, it will provide airfare to the country as well as a month of room and board. As spotted by Travel and Leisure, Hotel Rangá, located in the countryside of South Iceland and a 90-minute drive away from the capital Reykjavik, is on the lookout for one traveling photographer who…
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Pelican Launches Line of Protective Camera Lens Covers

Pelican, a company known for making high performance hard-shell protective cases for a range of tasks, has partnered with CM Brands to launch a new “Pelican Outdoor” collection, which features new silicone-based rugged lens protectors. The lens cover launch comes…
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Hubble Captures Stunning Photos After It Was Offline for Over a Month

NASA has released two new stunning images taken by Hubble after the legendary telescope was forced offline for a month. Originally launched in April of 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured more than one million images, including detailed photos of the birth and death of stars, galaxies billions of light-years away, and even comets colliding into Jupiter. Effectively making the…
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Pergear Launches 60mm f/2.8 Ultra-Macro for Fuji, Sony, Nikon, and M43

Pergear has announced a new 2x magnification lens, the 60mm f/2.8 Ultra-Macro for a range of APS-C mounts — Fujifilm X-mount, Sony E-mount, and Nikon Z-mount — and Micro Four Thirds. The company touts the lens as able to recreate “life-size” 2x maximum magnification photos and can focus as close as 19.1 centimeters (about 7.5 inches) and is therefore suitable for close-up subjects. It is…
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