Canon has partnered with an Australian university to bundle 10 Canon EF 400mm f/2.8 L IS II lenses together into what they call the Huntsman Telescope to scout the skies from the Southern Hemisphere.
The novel telescope design, made by Macquarie Unversity with support from Canon, will be used to search for and study ultra-faint galaxies and astronomical objects from Australia.
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Kolari Vision has finished its teardown of Nikon’s new flagship mirrorless camera, the Nikon Z9. Kolari provides specialized lens filters and infrared and full-spectrum conversions of cameras, so they’re well-versed with taking cameras apart and seeing…
John Lennon and Yoko Ono, September 1980. Photo by Kishin Shinoyama
Photographer Steve Birnbaum has been recreating music history by photographing images of musicians and bands in the exact location where they were originally photographed. The project started in 2010, and…
Ep. 370: It Sure Sounds Like Nikon Wants Out
July 24, 2022
Episode 370 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 – Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, email or RSS!
Featured: Photographer, Scott Bline
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The Nikon Z9 is here and ready to take on the Sony A1 and Canon R3 for the title of ‘Mirrorless Flagship.’ We can argue all day about which camera is the best, but there’s no question that this one is the biggest. Mirrorless cameras have all been lighter and more…
A longstanding legal battle that surrounds photographs of Pablo Picasso’s paintings has just had a fresh twist after the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned a lower court’s ruling that reproduction of the images was fair use.
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Canon has published a series of firmware updates for the R5, R6, and R3. The most notable improvement is to the R3, which can now shoot photos at a blistering 195 frames per second.
Canon R3 firmware version 1.2 adds a new custom high-speed continuous shooting setting that allows for the capture of between 30 and 195 frames per second at full resolution in JPEG, HEIF, or RAW. Canon says…
Traditionally, camera-based technology has been used to track facial movements in real-time. But now, researchers at Cornell University have developed a wearable earphone device — or “earable” — that bounces sound off of a human’s cheeks and transforms the echoes…
Gear in this story
July 22, 2022
Canon has announced firmware updates for its EOS R3, EOS R5 and EOS R6 full-frame mirrorless camera systems, bringing an array of new and improved features and functions.
Firmware version 1.2.0 for the EOS R3
Canon’s EOS R3 is already a capable mirrorless camera…
Photographers will go to great lengths to get the perfect shot for their client, but one customer was left stunned by how dedicated his photographer was to doing a great job on a photo shoot.
Frank from Long Island, New York, hired photographer Jethro Armand to take pictures of his beloved Honda Accord 2.0T earlier this month. An astonished Frank then posted a video on TikTok of all the various…
