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Camera Shipments Plunge to New Low as Sales Hit New High

If there was one word to describe 2022’s camera sales trends so far, it would be “pivotal.” When I say pivotal, I mean it to say that it seems as if a switch has been flipped and the market has turned on its head. Earlier this year, I reported on what a transformative year 2021 was for manufacturers as production kicked back in, demand ramped up, and component shortages played…
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NanoAvionics captured the first-ever 4K resolution full satellite selfie in space.

NanoAvionics, a small satellite mission integrator company with more than 110 successful satellite missions and commercial products to its name, has captured the first-ever 4K resolution full satellite selfie in space. NanoAvionics didn’t use a fancy, high-tech camera to achieve the feat, either. The company used an off-the-shelf consumer camera, the GoPro Hero 7, mounted on a selfie stick…
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These Ultra-Detailed Photos of Ants Will Give You Nightmares

Joshua Coogler uses a Laowa 25mm Ultra Macro lens to capture sinister close-up pictures of ants. The macro portraits, which look like Halloween masks, were taken on Coogler’s Nikon D7500 using a macro rail that moves the camera in tiny increments, taking a photo as it goes. “I have to take anywhere from 30 to over 300 photographs to get one final image,” Coogler tells PetaPixel. “This is…
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‘The Bézier Game’ Will Improve Your Photoshop Pen Tool Skills

The Bézier Game aims to improve Photoshop users’ skills with the pen tool, a notoriously difficult implement to master for photo editors. The game is on the website Method of Action, and it’s a free tool designed to help Photoshop and Illustrator users to understand how the bézier curve works. Many Adobe program users will have been baffled by the pen tool and how it is able to…
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