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Life in the Blink of an Eye, or: Shooting 50MP Olympics Photos at 30fps

September 13, 2021
“The Sony Alpha 1 is like driving a Formula 1 racecar,” says photographer Nick Didlick. “Give the race car too much gas going into a corner and you’re going to spin out of control. With the Alpha 1, shoot too early and you will have endless amounts of data at 30fps on a 50-megapixel camera.” The secret for both is timing. How do you shoot and edit sports images shot at 30fps for 1 to 5…
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Fujifilm Designs a Foldable Smartphone with a Stylus Pen

September 13, 2021
Fujifilm appears interested in jumping into the mobile smartphone space and designed a folding smartphone that works with a stylus pen. The description appears to be very similar to Samsung’s recently announced Fold 3. In a patent discovered and illustrated by…
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Astrophotographer Turns His Space Photos Into Kaleidoscopic Artworks

September 13, 2021
Finnish astrophotographer J-P Metsavainio is known for spending 12 years exposing a gigantic photo of the Milky Way. In addition to his impressive photos, he has also been using them for abstract, kaleidoscopic “Vision” artworks. “Pickering’s Triangle,” the original photo the above artwork was created from. “I’m an astrophotographer but first of all I’m a visual artist,”…
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Fujifilm GF 35-70mm F4.5-5.6 WR sample gallery

September 13, 2021
We’ve been shooting with the new Fujifilm GF 35-70mm F4.5-5.6 WR for some time, on both the newly announced GFX 50S II and the 100MP GFX 100S. Check out our gallery of sample images to see what it can do in a range of different shooting situations. Our impressions so far?
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Ep. 350: Mirrorless Medium Format Gets More Affordable – and more

September 12, 2021
Episode 350 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 –  Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, email or RSS! Featured: Elinchrom Ambassador Anthony Passant In This Episode If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast in iTunes, please take a moment to rate and review us and help us move up in the rankings so others interested in photography may find us. Show Opener…
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Wrong Photos Are a Myth, Bad Technique Isn’t

September 11, 2021
One of the most common myths in photography and art, in general, is that some things are wrong and others are right. This creates a notion that some art is worse than other art. If this were true, the world would never go beyond a predefined concept of art. Painters like…
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Why Not Wear a Camera on Your Face?

September 11, 2021
Think about it for a minute: if you’re willing to hold a camera to your eye, why not have a camera attached to it that can snap away, by voice instruction, instead of finger on the shutter? That’s the premise of Facebook’s new $299 camera glasses that also play music and podcasts. And if you just got an icky feeling hearing that the Social Network wants access to your eyes and ears while…
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