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Oppo Develops Double-Sided Pop-Up Smartphone Camera

Multiple companies are apparently trying to solve the selfie camera notch problem in various ways. Oppo has a design they could implement as early as this year that allows a single pop-up camera module to capture photos both forward and backward out of a single unit using mirrors. The images here are renders that LetsGoDigital commissioned from Jermaine Smit, also known as Concept Creator, using…
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Yongnuo Launches 25mm f/1.7 Lens for Micro Four Thirds

Yongnuo has announced the 25mm f/1.7 lens for Micro Four Thirds on its official website today. While the construction appears to be designed to be affordable and lightweight, the company also claims solid performance. The YN25mm f/1.7M will weigh 150 grams and will be…
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7 Reasons to Add a Noctilux Lens to Your Camera Bag

As a professional corporate photographer who completes around 300 professional assignments a year and has done so for many years, I have used a number of modern, ultra-fast lenses made by excellent optical equipment manufacturers, but I keep on coming back to the Noctilux 50mm f/0.95 lens by Leica. As a Leica shooter, I was first drawn to the Noctilux out of curiosity but I already had a sense it…
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Photographer blends science and art by slicing up a Leica M6 rangefinder

Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner specializes in dissecting objects and photographing them in stunning detail. His work is meticulously and thoughtfully crafted. One of Oefner’s more famous series, ‘Disintegrating,’ features images of performance cars seemingly being blown apart. Fabian’s latest project, ‘Heisenberg Objekt No. III,’ features a sliced up Leica M6…
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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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Apple is Making a $3,000 Dual 8K Mixed-Reality Headset: Report

There have been rumors that Apple was going to enter the virtual reality/augmented reality hardware space, but a recent report cites the most detail that has been revealed thus far: more than a dozen cameras, dual 8K displays, and a $3,000 price. The Information, the source of this latest rumor, has cited its latest report based on images of the headset that its reporters viewed as well as…
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