Why does someone build their own camera? Maybe for technical reasons, usability enhancements, or perhaps personal style and artistic outlook. The raison d’ètre for the experimental camera I made here falls somewhere between all of the above.
The prototyping process, over the last few years, has been about creating a tool that enables some of my own photographic ideas to be more readily…
How to Add Believable Snow to an Image in Photoshop
November 4, 2020
PiXimperfect is an excellent resource for learning Photoshop techniques and in this 10-minute video, host Unmesh Dinda shows you how to add believable-looking snow to any image using Adobe Photoshop.
The first step is to isolate the background that you want to add snow to.
Canon Adds 70-200mm f/4 L and 50mm f/1.8 STM Lenses to RF Lineup
November 4, 2020
Canon has announced the 70-200mm f/4 L IS USM and the 50mm f/1.8 STM lenses for the RF mount, making for a now rather robust 19 native lens options for Canon’s full-frame mirrorless system.
Canon says that both lenses are completely redesigned from their EF predecessors…
If someone would ask me what digital camera brand is the most different from all the others, I would definitely answer Leica. A couple of weeks ago I bought my first Leica rangefinder, after using virtually every other camera brand on the market.
I went for the cheapest one available, the Leica M8. In this article, I have written down my notes on what the biggest differences are from other digital…
Sony is Giving Away Tiny Cameras and Lenses with Purchases
November 3, 2020
If you buy a new Sony a7 or a9 series camera at certain Sony stores in Japan this month, you’ll get to pick a miniature camera kit or lens as a special gift.
The special promotion was announced by a number of Sony stores, including the ones in Ginza, Sapporo, Osaka, and…
Hasselblad has announced the XH Converter 0.8 which adapts H system lenses to the newer mirrorless X system while also reducing the focal length by 0.8x and improves the maximum aperture of the adapted lens by two-thirds of a stop.
The XH converter works similarly to the…
If you’re always on the hunt for limited edition photobooks and have ultra-deep pockets and bookshelves, here’s one for your collection: the The Sistine Chapel. It’s a giant $22,000 trilogy that contains views of the Sistine Chapel’s art captured in gigapixel glory through 270,000 individual photos.
Published by Callaway Arts and Entertainment on November 1st, the book contains 822-pages…
Wedding photographer Taylor Jackson has published his thoughts on the upcoming Nikon Z6 II camera in this 14.5-minute video. After photographing a wedding, Jackson claims that the Z6 II is the camera wedding photographers have been waiting for from Nikon.
It should be noted…
Kodak Professional Select Uses AI to Auto-Cull Your Images
November 3, 2020
Kodak has launched a new application – powered by artificial intelligence – that promises to quickly cull your images for you based on a set of rules. Called Kodak Professional Select, the company promises fast, easy, and accurate results.
Kodak says that the service…
A customer at Camera West in California recently traded in an interesting piece of photographic history, the Calypso underwater camera. The 35mm film camera was the first of its kind that didn’t need housing to be used underwater.
The Calypso was the brainchild of legendary explorer Jacques Cousteau and Belgian engineer Jean de Wouters. The Calypso was released in 1961 as the first 35mm…
