Photography

Fujifilm discontinued its FP instant pack film in 2016, opting instead to focus on its Instax film series. You can still find FP online, but it’s old and expensive. Fujifilm Instax Wide Instant film is 10.6 x 8.4cm and costs a bit over a dollar per photo, keeping instant photography relatively accessible. For Jim Skelton of Emulsive, the Instax Wide film is good, but the Instax 100 camera…

Image search technology is evolving to a point where researchers can gather information on old photos that was previously impossible to attain. Investigative journalist Foeke Postama published an article on Bellingcat this week demonstrating the astonishing power of online tools — such as reverse image searches, Google Lens, and artificially intelligent (AI) colorization. Using these…

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…

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…