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Leica Partners with Hisense to Make Laser TVs

August 3, 2022
After its most financially successful year ever, Leica is not slowing down. The company has announced that it is expanding into the Laser TV market through a partnership with Chinese television manufacturer Hisense. Leica typically loans its expertise and name to brands that are looking to add some credibility to their products, like smartphone cameras. But this time, Leica is planning to…
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Zelenska’s Vogue Photoshoot Sparks ‘Sit Like A Girl’ Photo Trend

August 3, 2022
Thousands of Ukrainian women are posing for photographs seated with their legs apart in support of the wartorn country’s First Lady, Olena Zelenska, after she was targeted with criticism following her divisive Vogue photoshoot with Annie Leibowitz. Zelenska’s photoshoot with her husband and Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky came under fire with many feeling the glossy Vogue cover was…
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A Complete List of Tokina’s Lens Price Hikes in the U.S.

August 2, 2022
In June, Tokina announced that it would be increasing the prices of some lenses in the U.S., and today the company has provided a detailed list of those price changes. The company explained that due to recent “cost hikes” of raw materials and components, the cost of production has greatly increased. While it has done what it could to absorb those increases, Tokina says that it was…
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Instagram Could Lose to TikTok in Both Photos and Videos

August 2, 2022
TikTok’s domination in short-form video is not the only thing Instagram should be worried about. In the time that Instagram has shifted ever further away from its roots as a photo-sharing app, Generation Z has found a new space to post their selfies and photo-dumps — and…
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Nikon adds linear focus mode to three of its Z-mount lenses via firmware update

August 2, 2022
Nikon’s Nikkor Z 24-70mm F2.8 S lens. Nikon has released firmware updates for three of its Z-mount lenses that, amongst other updates, adds the ability to turn on linear focus ring rotation, making it easier and more accurate to pull focus by directly linking the rotation of the ring with the focus distance, regardless of the speed at which the ring is rotated. Firmware version 1.10 for…
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