Photography

Leica has added to its M-mount lens lineup with the announcement of the APO Summicron-M 35mm f/2 ASPH lens, a “sibling” optic to the APO Summicron-M 50mm f/2 ASPH, and promises to be able to resolve the high megapixel sensors of the present and future. The 35mmf/2 ASPH is the only M-lens with a close-focus distance of just 30 centimeters (~11.8 inches) and has what Leica describes as a…

Nikon has launched NX Studio, a free photo and video editing application that appears to have many features found in Lightroom and Capture One but is tailored specifically to Nikon cameras. The company says that NX Studio enables viewing, processing, and editing of still images and video. NX Studio merges the ViewNX-I and Capture ND-D applications into a single solution to offer view, process…

Vision Research, the company behind the Phantom series of high-speed cameras, has announced the Phantom TMX 7510 and 6410 which are its first to utilize backside-illuminated sensors. The TMX 7510’s 75-gigapixel throughput can provide an incredible 1,750,000 frames per second. The TMX 7510 achieves 76,000 frames per second at full 1-Megapixel resolution of 1280 x 800, over 300,000 frames per…

A programmer who goes by the name Turtius has managed to install and run a Minecraft server on a Canon SL2 (also known as the EOS200D) DSLR camera. Turtius was working on reverse-engineering Canon’s network processor when he decided to try and see if it could be done. It is important to note that the camera is just the server, not the client. The game itself is running on the computer, the…