Colombian pop star Shakira posted a video to her Instagram last week of her shocked reaction to a phone camera 20 years ago that underlines how far lens technology has progressed.
The Hips Don’t Lie singer is visibly blown away by the technology, in what was clearly the first time she had ever seen such a device.
While inspecting the phone in total awe, she says: “This one doesn’t…
Filter company NiSi has announced a trio of Smartphone Filter Kits for iPhone users including Landscape, Filmmaker, and Cinema packages.
The new smartphone-centric filters look similar to the full-size camera filters and include filter holders and mounts, small rectangular…
Win an OM SYSTEM OM-1 Camera Kit and a Trip to the Galapagos with Lindblad Expeditions
August 23, 2022
Have you ever dreamed of traveling to one of the most biodiverse locations on the planet? The Galapagos Islands, located 600 miles off of the coast of Ecuador, is known as a “living museum and showcase of evolution” where Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural…
A computer science student with a passion for electronics and photography has created a 3D printed 12-megapixel camera powered by Linux and a Raspberry Pi computer system named the PiCam.
Mukesh Sankhla built the PiCam around a low-cost Raspberry Pi 4 computer with 8GB of RAM that uses a Linux Desktop operating system.
The Pi HQ Camera module houses a Sony IMX477R stacked…
‘Mind-Reading’ Technology Translates Brainwaves into Photos
August 23, 2022
Researchers are developing “mind-reading” technology that can translate a person’s brainwaves into photographic images.
In an article published in Nature, researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands revealed the results from an experiment where they…
Google flagged photos that a concerned father took of his sick child as child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and sparked a police investigation after it reported him.
A report from the New York Times outlines the case of a man known only as Mark, who was…
How to Find a Photoshoot Location
August 22, 2022
You have a photograph in mind and now you want to try and make it a reality. Or, a client has contacted you to help them realize a photograph they have in mind. What now?
The obvious first step would be to start researching the details needed to realize your vision. What type of photograph is it? Landscape, street, adventure, or astrophotography? If you are working with a client, what…
An Australian celebrity fell foul of a nasty scam by a criminal group pretending to be a Palestinian photographer.
Bryan Dawe, 74, a noted satirist, comedian, and writer, came across a Facebook post by a woman named Sarah Murtaja who claimed that her Canon 5D Mark…
Photographer and lens enthusiast Mathieu Stern has attached a disposable camera lens to a Sony Alpha A7 II to recreate the 1990s look.
Disposable cameras in the 90s were extremely popular for capturing life’s moments and offered a definitive look that their…
Photographer Felix Steele has created a design for a 3D-printed 164mm f/2.5 lens that has no fasteners or screws, uses affordable glass elements, and can be built at home for less than $15.
Steele created the design as the first major project of his online resource for open-source photography projects called Pixels and Prisms. The build features 23 “significant parts” as well as 15…
