The 2021 US Open golf championship kicks off today, and if you pay attention to the broadcast, you may notice a neat new camera technology that has been deployed. This year, the sixth hole at Torrey Pines features an array of 88 cameras to capture the players’ swings in Matrix-style “bullet time.”
Golf Digest reports that the 121st US Open will be the first to feature the high-tech 4DREPLAY…
Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a new deep learning method that essentially creates high-quality cinemagraphs automatically. The team says the method can animate any flowing material, including water, smoke, fire, and clouds.
The researchers say…
Honor, a smartphone brand that was spun off Huawei, has announced its new 50 series devices. As part of the announcement, Honor confirms that Google’s apps will run on the devices, effectively skirting around the ban that crushed the floundering Huawei.
Previously…
According to a report from LetsGoDigital, the Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi has patented three new smartphone designs with huge camera arrays developed in a collaboration with Samsung.
The three new patents were filed by Xiaomi Mobile Software in March of this year (2021) with the documentation on the patents published on June 11th. The first phone on the list seems to be the most advanced…
Within a few months of each other at the beginning of 2021, both Sony and Sigma announced 35mm f/1.4 lenses for full-frame Sony E-mount cameras. They were just begging for a comparison to be made.
This is not the first foray into the 35mm f/1.4 landscape for either company.
Profoto has been slowly adapting its products to work more seamlessly with mobile devices and it has built on top of that with the launch of the Profoto Camera app. Separate from the Profoto Control app, the Profoto Camera app is both for lighting control and photo capture…
Photographer Sails Chong has published an acoustically satisfying video that shares the sounds of 18 different camera shutters and certainly qualifies as photography ASMR.
If you are not familiar with “autonomous sensory meridian response” (ASMR), it refers to the “tingling sensation people get on their scalp, neck, and upper spine when triggered by specific kinds of sounds or visuals.
Interview: Olympus Educators Lisa and Tom Cuchara on how Olympus has transformed their outdoor photography
June 15, 2021
Lisa and Tom Cuchara are photographers and Olympus Educators, based in Connecticut. Their work covers everything from weddings and infant portraiture, to bird and macro photography.
Over the course of long careers, they’ve used various types and brands of camera…
Historic tripod manufacturer Gitzo is taking a beating in the comments section of its Indiegogo campaign page for the Légende tripod over a lack of communication with its customers regarding delays to deliveries. Gitzo cites an issue with packaging being the problem, and…
According to new reports, Nikon is close to announcing a Z-mount retro-inspired camera, similar in design to the Df DSLR. The Zfc, as it is reportedly named, will be an APS-C camera that is expected to be similar in performance to the Z50 but comes wrapped in Nikon’s film roots.
While only one small image of the camera has leaked, Nikon Rumors has taken that and extrapolated several mock-ups…
