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Studio Scene Our test scene is designed to simulate a variety of textures, colors and detail types you’ll encounter in the real world. It also has two illumination modes to see the effect of different lighting conditions. We suspect the small difference in apparent sharpness between the X-H2S and the X-T3 and 4 is primarily down to the fractionally darker exposure giving a hint more…
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Magnum Photos Marks its 75th Anniversary With Unseen Photos

Villagers collecting scrap from a crashed spacecraft, surrounded by thousands of white butterflies, Altai Territory, Russia, 2000. | Jonas Bendiksen / Magnum Photo Magnum Photo is marking its 75th anniversary by publishing 150 photos, some of them previously unseen, from its…
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These Canon Cameras Are Actually Transformer Robots in Disguise

Canon has officially partnered with Japanese toy company Takara Tomy to produce two “robots in disguise” Transformer toys that take the shape of the EOS R5. Spotted by TFormers and The Verge, Takara Tomy is set to release a pair of Transformer toys that take the shape of Optimus Prime of the Autobots and Refraktor of the Decepticons. Refraktor might at first seem like an obscure…
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These Canon EOS R5 replicas are actually Transformers that shapeshift into Optimus Prime and a Decepticon

While the above camera looks just like a regular Canon EOS R5 mirrorless camera, you’d be in for quite the surprise if you tried to use it. That’s because hidden within the nearly perfect replica is a transformer toy the turns from a mirrorless camera into a robot with a little articulation. Canon has teamed up with Takara Tomy, the Japanese company behind the Transformers toys, to…
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The Jollylook Pinhole is a DIY Bellows Camera That Takes Instax Film

The latest vintage pinhole camera from Jollylook is an Instant Print Pinhole Camera crafted out of recyclable wooden materials. The DIY camera kit enables users to put together their own vintage bellows-style pinhole camera and take polaroid-style instant print images. It has a mechanical shutter lever to open and close the pinhole aperture. The Jollylook Pinhole Camera is laser cut from…
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