Cosina has announced the release of the Voigtlander 28mm F2 Ultron Vintage Line lenses for Leica M mount camera systems. As with the other lenses in the growing Voigtlander Vintage Line series, the 28mm F2 Ultron lens seeks to combine modern optical performance in a vintage-looking package.
The lens comes in two models: Type I and Type II. The only notable difference between the two is the…
The First-Ever Camera Collar Footage Shot by a Wild Wolf
April 17, 2021
You can now see the world from a wolf’s point of view. This 3-minute video is the first-ever camera collar footage shot from the perspective of a wild wolf.
The video was released by the Voyageurs Wolf Project, which studies wolves in the Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem of…
Why Are So Many Cameras Limited by Design?
April 17, 2021
Expensive cameras often lack basic features. The most common limitations-by-design are fixed screens and no flash. I suspect that some camera designers aren’t photographers and don’t realize how much these two features will be missed.
Let’s consider these two…
Aloha, and welcome back to my astrophotography tutorial write-ups. I wrote an article last month on the basics of photographing the Milky Way core season. Today I am going to continue this series and tell you about a game-changing technique that you have probably may have already heard about: image stacking.
The idea is to take several images over time out in the field and then use processing…
Apple looks set to beef up the iPhone camera in various ways over the next couple of years. New leaks are revealing plans for an even larger camera module on the back and a massive 48MP image sensor within.
CAD Leaks Show Bigger Bump on the iPhone 13
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Voigtlander has announced the 28mm f/2 Ultron Vintage Line lens for Leica M-mount, combining a classic lens exterior with modern optics. The new lens will be available in three different colors.
Cosina, the Japan-based optical equipment manufacturer, has released the three…
When Adobe first unveiled Super Resolution, it gave photos a chance to increase in size without losing any quality, but it wasn’t clear whether that kind of magic extended to the trove of images on people’s smartphones.
The short answer is that Adobe admits it optimized and designed Super Resolution with RAW files in mind, but also “trained” it to deal with already rendered files…
Episode 342 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Oliver Wright, a professional macro photographer, shows how the Spherical Aberration Control Ring — also known as the Bokeh Control Ring — on the new RF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM works in a 5.5-minute video published in conjunction with Canon Europe.
Originally noticed…
A common post-production question involves Opacity and Fill, and what the differences are between them when it comes to photography. In this 14-minute video, Marc Newton from The School of Photography explains what sets them apart and how properly using them can dramatically improve your images.
On any image, if you look over at the Layers panel in Photoshop, you’ll see both the Opacity and…
