While 2020 wasn’t a particularly good year for camera manufacturers overall, by the late fall and into the winter the sales number had rebounded, returning to more typical numbers. Through the year, the big three — Sony, Canon, and Nikon — unsurprisingly led total production numbers.
According to a report from Sankeibiz, the research firm Techno System Research noted that a total of 3.26…
Canon has been busy: it has recently applied for a number of patents for its mirrorless system, including a new version of the popular 100mm f/2.8 macro, two fast wide-angle lenses, and an RF cinema camera mount.
These strings of patent applications were first noticed by…
On March 25, Sigma announced the 61-megapixel fp L camera that features a new autofocus system and much more resolution than the original fp. The company has provided a few images captured on the camera, and the quality looks impressive.
Sigma’s latest takes what made…
Hands-on with the Sigma fp L and its new viewfinder
March 26, 2021
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Hands-on with the Sigma fp L
Sigma has just announced the fp L, a high-resolution sister model to the original fp, released in 2019. With a 61MP full-frame sensor, it’s intended to be more stills-oriented than the original camera, with which it shares its design and control philosophy. That makes both of these…
Xiaomi, one of the leading global smartphone manufacturers, has teased an upcoming tech that will be found in the forthcoming Mi Mix device: a liquid lens. It’s the first of its kind in a smartphone and can apparently change focus and focal length just by altering the…
Sigma has announced the fp L, a 61-megapixel, L-mount, full-frame camera that the company claims is the “world’s smallest and lightest single lens mirrorless camera.” It shares the same dimensions as the original Sigma fp, but makes notable upgrades to resolution and…
Adobe’s new Super Resolution is making a big splash in the industry as photographers can output cleaner upscaled images at four times the original pixel count. Is it really impressive enough to take the crown from Topaz Labs’ Gigapixel AI?
Super Resolution is a brand new feature that lives inside Adobe Camera RAW and uses machine learning to increase the size of images while attempting to…
A few years ago I built an ultra-large-format (ULF) camera that is 24 inches by 24 inches. While it was a pretty huge camera, it was a simple build it was just two square standards, one for the front and one from the back that were connected by a big bellow.
There was no…
Instant cameras have made a huge comeback in recent years, but giving that sense of instant, tangible gratification to kids has generally been avoided since it can get pretty expensive. VTech’s KidiZoom PrintCam wants to change that with a per-print cost of just one…
How to Build Your Own Thermal Camera With a Raspberry Pi
March 25, 2021
Thermal cameras are expensive. They can cost anywhere between a few hundred to a few thousand dollars to buy and can cost $50 a day to rent. So why not just build one for around $100?
As published on the Raspberry Pi blog, DIY-er Tom Shaffner wanted to check his house with an infrared camera to see where he could improve his insulation (seeing as he is spending a lot more time there working from…
