A photographer in Japan was forced to sell his favorite camera earlier this year after being impacted by the COVID-19 recession. Instead of letting that put a stop to his art, he decided to build his own 4×5 large format camera… using LEGO blocks.
The photographer, who goes by @wagoimages on social media, pulled out some boxes of LEGOs and built himself the camera on a tabletop, combining the…
Why I Used One Camera, One Lens and One Film for Five Months
November 14, 2020
Photography is close to impossible to do without a camera, so why do so many of us both love and hate the equipment side of things? For me, the hate comes down to distraction — and a little bit of the love as well.
I currently have a pared back collection of cameras and…
Venus Optics' 100mm F2.8 Ultra Macro lens is now available with Pentax K mount, new stepless EF mount version also available
November 14, 2020
Venus Optics has announced its popular Laowa 100mm F2.8 Ultra Macro APO lens is now available for Pentax K mount cameras and is also available in a stepless aperture version for Canon EF mount.
When the Laowa 100mm F2.8 Ultra Macro APO lens was announced back in 2018, it was…
Venus Optics has announced that the 100mm f/2.8 2x Ultra Macro lens originally announced in 2018 and has seen updates to multiple mirrorless mounts including Canon RF and Nikon Z is now available for Canon EF with a stepless aperture ring and finally on Pentax K.
This announcement makes for two different versions of the optic available for Canon EF.
Venus Optics had previously launched an EF…
Things had been comfortable for me. Growing up in the US and then moving to Beijing during my late twenties, I was used to big changes in life. No matter the circumstances, I found my solace in art.
Photography and the pursuit of industry success brought me to China. I hit…
These Are the Highest Resolution Photos of Snowflakes Ever Captured
November 13, 2020
Photographer Nathan Myhrvold has captured the most detailed images of snowflakes on record thanks to a custom-built high-resolution cooled camera he made to specifically deal with the numerous challenges of photographing the delicate ice crystals.
As you can probably…
Yesterday, the developer beta for iOS 14.3 – which contains the upcoming ProRAW photo feature – became available. Though the exact date of the consumer beta or final release of the software has yet to be announced, we now know some facts about how ProRAW will work.
In an interview last week with Apple, we already gleaned a lot of information about the advantages of the coming file type. The…
How and Why You Should Take Photos in Bad Weather
November 13, 2020
Spanish-American Photographer and YouTuber Aows has published this 9.5-minute video that discusses a topic most photographers avoid: taking photos in bad weather conditions. Aows explains how he does it and why he thinks it’s worth it.
Aows says he has experimented with…
Canon brings its macOS EOS Webcam Utility out of beta and updates Windows version to 1.1
November 13, 2020
Canon has announced a full production version (1.0) of its EOS Webcam Utility software for macOS and a version 1.1 update for Windows computers.
Less than a week after Nikon announced its webcam utility was out of beta, Canon has done the same. Canon says its beta…
Kenneth McKenzie’s Lost Photos from World War II
November 12, 2020
I met a man who owned a ton of his uncle’s photos he took during his time in World War II. The images by Kenneth McKenzie start in Vancouver and Banff where they did their training, then all across Europe.
Kenneth McKenzie with his Brownie in hand and Caesar by his side.
While there are many images like these, what makes these special in my opinion is that each of the images has a handwritten…
