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Photographer’s 3 Year Mission to Recover His Grandpa’s Film Camera

Benjamin Dome did not have much hope he would ever see his grandfather’s film camera again after it was stolen in Ethiopia three years ago. The Nikon F-E disappeared after a bus driver sped off with it while Dome was visiting the country to photograph the Mursi tribe. “I went out there just before the pandemic, about three years ago,” the London-based photographer tells…
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The SHOW Keiko Reusable Camera is Named After the Orca from ‘Free Willy’

Dubblefilm has announced the SHOW Keiko, a special edition reusable film camera that is named after the orca that starred in Free Willy. The original Dubblefilm SHOW launched in September of 2020 and was designed to mimic the fun of disposable cameras but in a body that was reusable. The company says that this special edition of its SHOW camera is an homage to the popular whale that was once the…
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These Are Not Photos: Beautiful Landscapes Created by New AI

First photographers were creating portraits of people that don’t exist, now Aurel Manea has created a series of “landscape photos” using a new artificially intelligent (AI) software program called Stable Diffusion. Manea tells PetaPixel that he has been blown away by what the London and Los Altos-based startup Stability AI has created. “I can’t, as a landscape photographer…
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Flat and Fun 16MP Digital Camera is Made out of Paper

A Lomo-inspired digital camera made out of paper that can shoot 16-megapixel still images and film 1080p video is the 21st-century answer to a disposable camera. Spotted by Mirrorless Rumors, the Paper Shoot Camera was designed as a digital version of a throw-away film…
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App Provides A Cheap Way to Remotely Focus Blackmagic Cameras

A new app for the iPhone could save users hundreds of dollars by letting them remotely pull focus, with LIDAR, using an iPhone 12 or above. The app is called Focus Puller, and it is aimed at Blackmagic users on a budget. Focus Puller mimics many of the features found in the DJI LIDAR Rangefinder, but without the $600 plus price tag, and doesn’t require the DJI Ronin RS3 Gimbal for…
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