Photography

Moment has announced its new CineBloom Diffusion Filters. The lens filters are designed for both cameras and phones and help you capture “dreamy, film-like vibes” straight out of a camera. “The CineBloom Diffusion Filter takes the edge off your digital sensor,” Moment says. “It not only catches and blooms light, but softens hard edges and has a smoothing effect on skin tones, making…

Japanese tinkerer Sanasol has just released a detailed, step-by-step “blueprint” video that shows you exactly how he was able to transform his classic Nikon FM film SLR into a digital camera without harming the film camera at all. If you have a few bucks to spend and a 3D printer handy, you can even follow along. When we first shared Sanasol’s creation a few weeks ago, he promised to follow…

A team of engineers at MIT and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell have created something that, on the surface, seems impossible: they’ve designed a 180° fisheye lens from a single, 1mm-thin piece of calcium fluoride glass that is completely flat. The creation—which they claim is “the first flat fisheye lens to produce crisp, 180-degree panoramic images—takes advantage of a bit of…

Tamron Japan has published a statement [machine-translated] on its website noting that two of its three main factories will remain closed through the end of 2020 due to the ‘decrease in global demand due to the worldwide spread of the [novel] coronavirus.’\ This closure extension affects Tamron’s Hirosaki and Namioka factories, which were originally set to open back up on October 1.