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BenQ Reveals New 4K Photo Editing Monitor for Color-Critical Work

BenQ has announced the SW271C, an upgrade to the photographer-favorite SW271, its latest color-accurate professional monitor designed for photographers. The company says that it brings top-tier professional monitor technology to a broad audience at an affordable price. This particular monitor is an IPS panel that is LED edge-lit and offers a 1000:1 native contrast ratio, and 300 nits of peak…
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The History of the Camera… According to North Korea

If you’ve always wanted to learn about the history of the photographic camera as taught by the North Korean government, today’s your lucky day! Here’s a 15-minute educational video on camera history that was broadcast for children in the “hermit kingdom” (you can turn on English auto-translation in the video’s settings). The segment was spotted and shared by Tomohiko Kawaguchi, a…
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Watch Photography Professors Do a Shootout with Kids’ Toy Cameras

Northern Arizona University recently decided to conduct a photography shootout that pitted two of its photography professors against each other. The challenge: to shoot the best graduation portraits they could with toy digital cameras designed for children. You can see how it went down in the 8.5-minute video above. Professional photographers Amy Horn and Eric O’Connell were each given a WOWGO…
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Nikon Z7 II sample gallery update

Nikon’s Z7 II has a 45MP sensor in a fantastically solid and well-sealed body, so when the snow started coming down across western Washington State, it seemed like the perfect camera to document our first major snow event in two years. Thankfully, the controls are…
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Sigma GM reveals a new DG DN Sports zoom lens is being developed

Earlier today, Sigma broadcasted a livestream wherein it gave updates on its mirrorless lens development efforts. The 30-minute detailed covered a number of topics regarding its ongoing efforts to develop more lenses for mirrorless camera systems, but one of the most interesting bits was a little tease of a forthcoming ‘DG DN Sports’ zoom lens at the 25:25 time mark. Yasuhiro Osone…
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