A British man has built his own lens with a super fast 35mm f/0.4 equivalent bokeh that is constructed around an old episcope projector lens and a mechanical system for controlling focus.
Matt Perks, aka DIYPerks, is a tinkerer who doesn’t buy anything he can’t build. On his YouTube channel, Perks has built everything from a DIY 4K home cinema projector to a DIY microphone for…
Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has unveiled smart glasses equipped with a 50-megapixel camera as well as an 8-megapixel periscope camera that is capable of up to 15x zoom and 100 minutes of continuous recording.
Xiaomi announced the launch of Mijia Glasses earlier…
Herman Heukels’ photographs of Jewish people being rounded up in Amsterdam in 1943 are some of the strongest visual evidence used by historians to illustrate the Holocaust in the Netherlands.
102,000 Jewish Dutch people died in the Holocaust, of an estimated…
Sigma has posted a YouTube Premiere video to its channel teasing a new product presentation for August 8th at
As is typical for these kinds of teasers from Sigma, no additional details have been provided at this time. The only notable detail from the video’s description is that the word ‘products’ is used, suggesting more than one product will be announced.
You can set a reminder by clicking…
Instagram has added a new “Dual” camera feature — seemingly in a bid to copy photo-sharing app BeReal which soared to the number one spot in the U.S. on Apple’s App Store charts this week.
The new “Dual” camera feature allows users to record content…
Annie Lebowitz’s latest Vogue photo shoot of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena has sparked condemnation with many feeling the article was inappropriate amid the Russian invasion.
The presidential couple featured in a digital edition of…
New research has revealed the most famous photographs of all time — with NASA’s iconic “Man on the Moon” photo from 1969’s Apollo 11 mission topping the list.
For the study, photo book and printing company Inkifi used a reverse image search to show the significance and reach of images, based on how often each photograph appeared on the internet.
The survey used Bored Panda’s…
Video: Learn how Kodak develops and applies light-sensitive coating to its film (in the dark!)
July 29, 2022
Last year, Destin Sandlin of the YouTube channel Smarter Every Day showed the science behind film development. Sandlin explained how photographic film is constructed, exposed, and developed. Sandlin discussed the film’s chemical structure and then shot some…
Samyang, which also goes under the Rokinon brand name, has announced the release of a second-generation Rokinon 85mm F1.4 AF lens for Sony E-mount camera systems.
The lens is constructed of 11 elements in eight groups, including four high-refractive elements and one…
A newly-released artificial intelligence (AI) model called the “Generative Facial Prior” (GFP-GAN) can repair most old photographs in mere seconds, and it can do it for free.
Anyone who has old photographs of their families and friends that have not held up well against time, regardless of the small and/or poor condition of the image, now has the chance to restore their faded and…
