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Video: Orbit around the moon for 4 hours in this real-time video

Seán Doran uses still images from organizations like NASA and JAXA to create stunning videos. His latest work is ‘MOON in Real Time I,’ which is the first video seen below. Doran denoised, graded, repaired and retimed footage from the JAXA/NHK Kaguya Orbiter archive. The Kaguya spacecraft, officially known as SELENE, was first launched in September 2007 from the Tanegashima Space…
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Canon Has Now Made Over 150 Million RF and EF Lenses

Canon has announced that the company has eclipsed the mark of 150 million EF and RF lenses manufactured as of January 2021. The 150 millionth lens was an RF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM zoom. The company began producing interchangeable EF lenses for the EOS-series autofocus…
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New Lens Tech Poised to Eliminate the Smartphone ‘Camera Bump’

Metalenz, a startup that has just emerged from “stealth mode” today, has revealed its vision for the future of smartphone lenses, a segment of the market that has not seen much change in the last ten plus years. While sensor technology continues to see notable changes and improvements over time, the technology of lenses has remained rather stagnant, and fundamentally unchanged since the…
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Nikon Closes Two Japanese Camera Lens Factories As Market Shrinks

Nikon is set to cease operations at two of its Japanese factories in March. Those two factories are used to produce interchangeable lenses for its digital cameras, and the remaining domestic operations will be consolidated into its one remaining factory in Otawara City. According to a report from Nikkei, Nikon intends to consolidate its domestic production of lenses as part of its efforts to…
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This is What Samsung’s Pop-Up, Rotating Smartphone Camera Might Look Like

Samsung’s unusual patent for a pop-up, rotating smartphone camera was recently published by the World Intellectual Property Office and the details sound intriguing. LetsGoDigital took a look at the application and mocked up what they think it might look like. The idea behind this design is to make it so that the main camera array, which is normally aimed in the opposite direction of the…
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