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OmniVision’s new 50MP OV50A smartphone sensor promises ‘DSLR level’ phase detection autofocus performance

February 17, 2021
Sensor manufacturer OmniVision has announced the specifications for the OV50A, a new 50MP 1/1.5″ smartphone camera sensor that offers 100% phase detection autofocus (PDAF) coverage. The OV50A is built using OmniVision’s PureCel Plus-S stacked die technology and offers 50MP resolution with one micron pixel size, selective conversion gain, on-chip remosaic and quad phase detection (QPD)…
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Cosina Announces Three Voigtlander 35mm f/2 Lenses

February 16, 2021
Cosina has announced three new 35mm /2 lenses under the Voigtlander brand, two for the Leica M-mount and one for Sony E-mount cameras: the Voigtlander Ultron Vintage Line 35mm F2 Aspherical Type II VM and two versions of the Voigtlander Apo-Lanthar 35mm F2 Aspherical…
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Shooting Portraits Through a Giant Theater Lens with a Fujifilm GFX100

February 16, 2021
In January, photographer Jay P. Morgan shared a video where he took portraits with what at the time he called an IMAX lens on a Canon EOS R. In part two of that series, he takes it one step further and mounts the medium format GFX 100 to it. As many PetaPixel readers and others pointed out, the lens isn’t an IMAX lens but actually a theater projection lens. Its original purpose was to project…
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Understanding Fujifilm High Dynamic Range

February 16, 2021
HDR stands for High Dynamic Range and is a setting available on several Fujifilm cameras, including the X-T4. HDR involves merging separate images together to create a single JPEG file in order to provide the maximum amount of dynamic range possible out of your image. When…
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Video: Leica short film 'Do It Justice' shows the importance of capturing moments

February 16, 2021
Commercial film director Nate Townsend has a very personal connection to the Leica brand. Last year, Townsend’s father, Tom, died of cancer only two weeks after receiving an unexpected diagnosis. In addition to countless lessons and influence, Tom Townsend also left his son a Leica M4 35mm rangefinder camera. Shortly after his father’s passing, Nate took an impromptu road trip to his…
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Gallery update: Fujifilm XF 27mm F2.8 R WR

February 16, 2021
Fujifilm’s new XF 27mm F2.8 R WR is so nice, we decided to keep shooting with it and fill out our gallery with more samples. Optically identical to Fujfilm’s other 27mm F2.8, this version adds an aperture ring and weather sealing. It’s also sharp, small and…
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Sony a1 added to studio test scene for stills and video

February 16, 2021
Test scene Our test scene is designed to simulate a variety of textures, colors and detail types you’ll encounter in the real world. It also has two illumination modes to see the effect of different lighting conditions. The 50MP, ‘stacked’ BSI-CMOS sensor…
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Why Raw video might not be the game-changer you expect

February 15, 2021
External recorders such as the Atomos Ninja V shown here can encode a Raw video stream into a formats such as Apple’s ProRes RAW. Raw video has become something of a talking point as more and more cameras have provided a way of capturing or outputting Raw video data streams. But, for a couple of reasons, Raw video doesn’t offer the same benefits that photographers are used to…
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