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This Company is Making Wholly Original, Affordable, Customizable Medium Format Film Cameras

January 13, 2021
In 2016 and again in 2018, PetaPixel featured the work of Dora Goodman, a woman who was adding hand-crafted elements to analog cameras. Fast forward to 2021, and Goodman has gone steps further and finally created cameras of her own design. When Goodman started her project almost five years ago the business was built around reskinning cameras with wood, leather, or any special material. Though a…
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Fujifilm GF 120mm F4 Macro sample gallery updated

January 13, 2021
A hundred megapixels is a lot of resolution, no doubt about that, and such resolution places extraordinary pressure on lenses. Good thing the GF 120mm F4 Macro is up to the challenge. We’ve just had the chance to update our lens gallery with shots from the GFX 100 so…
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ViewSonic unveils new ColorPro monitors, including 32" 8K display aimed at photographers

January 13, 2021
ViewSonic has unveiled a wide array of monitors at this year’s virtual CES 2021 show. Among the new monitors is the company’s first 8K ColorPro monitor. The display has been designed for photographers demanding high resolution and wide color gamut coverage. The new 32″ 8K ColorPro monitor, the VP3286-8K, has a native 8K resolution (7,680 x 4,320) and displays 99% of the Adobe RGB…
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Camera Sales Shrank 40% in 2020

January 12, 2021
While monitoring the camera market over the past year has been like riding a volatile roller coaster, now that 2020 is behind us it can be properly evaluated as a whole. BCN+R, a major Japanese camera retailer, has released its data from the whole of 2020 and it is unsurprisingly pretty bleak. Because of the COVID-19 coronavirus, the photography market was largely upended from its usual…
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Nikon Has Likely Discontinued the D3500 and D5600 DSLRs

January 12, 2021
Nikon Japan has designated the D5600 and D3500 as “old product,” which has historically meant that the cameras were being discontinued. This news comes after the Nikon D5600 was Japan’s top-selling DSLR of 2020. Though it continues to sell well, Nikon’s designation…
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LG Unveils Beautifully Thin, Color-Accurate 4K OLED Monitor

January 11, 2021
Though LG is responsible for creating most (if not all) of the OLED panels you’ll see in TVs and displays on the market, the company had yet to produce its own OLED monitor. Today that changes with the announcement of the LG UltraFine Display OLED Pro. Using OLED technology for monitors has historically been a bit of a risk. While OLED technology can offer incredible color accuracy, top-tier…
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