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Turning Off Your Camera on a Zoom Call Helps Save the Planet

If you often find yourself in Zoom meetings in which others on the call don’t need to see your face, you now have a great excuse for leaving your camera off: it can help save the environment. A new study conducted by researchers at Purdue, Yale, and MIT has found that one hour of videoconferencing emits up to 1 kilogram of carbon dioxide, uses up to 12 liters (3.2 gallons) of water, and requires…
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ZY Optics Reveals the 50mm f/0.95 Lens for Leica M-Mount

ZY Optics has announced the Mitakon Speedmaster 50mm f/0.95 lens for Leica M-mount cameras, a manual focus lens that not only supports Leica Rangefinder Coupling for focus assistance but also promises to work with third-party autofocus adapters made for Nikon Z or Sony FE…
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Tamron 17-70mm F2.8 Di III-A VC RXD sample gallery

Tamron’s 17-70mm F2.8 III-A VC RXD is a lightweight zoom for Sony APS-C E-mount shooters. Equivalent to a 25-105mm F4 in full-frame terms, this lens handles nicely on a6000-series cameras and offers great versatility for daylight shooting. Fast to focus, it also produces nice, sharp images across the frame and focal length. Please note that Tamron only appears to ‘bake in&#8217…
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Samyang adds full frame 14mm T3.1 to VDSLR MK2 line-up

Lens manufacturer Samyang has introduced a new wideangle lens to its VDSLR MK2 full frame cine series in the shape of the 14mm T3.1 VDSLR MK2. This brings to series to five lenses in total and takes the focal ranges covered to 14mm, 24mm, 35mm, 50mm and 85mm. Like the…
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In Praise of Inexpensive Lenses

When I was a semi-professional 4×5 landscape photographer I often spent a half-hour shooting a single sheet of film and several hours enlarging it to the best of my ability. I sought the sharpest possible result. And now in the digital age, I still pursue sharp images. Phillip Reeve writes on his website that he has two hobbies, photography and photographic equipment and they rarely intersect. I…
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Canon’s AI Camera Will Be Called PowerShot PICK: Report

Just two days after the initial rumor that Canon’s experimental AI camera was close to coming to market, a Japanese publication has reported that it will be officially revealed at the end of January through a crowdfunding campaign. Reported by DC Watch and accompanied by…
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The Vivo X60 Pro Plus Smartphone Has a Camera Co-Developed with Zeiss

Vivo has announced the X60 Pro Plus, its 2021 flagship smartphone that boasts a quad-camera array that was co-developed by Zeiss. Called the “Vivo Zeiss Joint Imaging System,” the companies promise excellent quality despite the small size of the hardware. Vivo announced a partnership with Zeiss in December of 2020 and the X60 Pro Plus is the first phone to take advantage of that partnership.
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