Meike has announced a super-affordable autofocus-equipped lens for Sony full-frame E-mount cameras: the 85mm f/1.8 STM. The company says the autofocus is fully supported by multiple Alpha cameras and even several APS-C E-mount cameras.
The Meike 85mm f/1.8 STM is described as a full-frame portrait lens that is also suitable for architecture and landscape photography. While the elements…
Photographer Jonti Wild demonstrates an unusual technique for capturing underwater photos without a protective camera housing: using a fish tank.
Wild was at first worried about the unusual technique, but fortunately, his camera stayed dry and he came away with…
Samsung has announced the ISOCELL HP3, a 200-megapixel image sensor that has 12% smaller pixels that can result in a 20% reduction in camera module area. It features what Samsung claims is the industry’s smallest 0.56μm pixel.
The ISOCELL HP3 packs the small 0.56μm…
Photographer Rachel Canale’s popular video series details the outrageous Photoshop requests clients have asked of her.
Requests such as, “Can you make it look like I’m hugging a leopard?” and “Can you put me in a selfie with Beyoncé?” appears to be commonplace in Canale’s line of work.
Speaking to PetaPixel, Canale explains how her series “Things People Have Asked Me…
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June 23, 2022
Most modern cameras will shoot video to one degree or another, but these are the ones we’d look at if you plan to shoot some video alongside your photos. We’ve chosen cameras that can take great photos and make it easy to get great looking video, rather than being the…
A photographer 3D printed a 4x telescopic macro adapter lens and sent it to a photographer for a field test who produced stunning results with the custom-made glass.
Nicholas Sherlock, sent his creation to YouTuber Michael Widell who took the 3D printed lens outdoors to…
The Voyager Space Probes — the most distant cameras in the universe — are being powered down after 44 years of interstellar travel.
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have made it deeper into space than any manmade object in history. Both were launched in 1977 to photograph a fortuitous alignment of the planets in our solar system.
A Voyager probe took this false-color image of Saturn’s rings on…
Why Canon is the Microsoft of the Camera World
June 22, 2022
With Canon’s strong foothold — or should that be increasing stranglehold — on the mirrorless market, you can easily argue it is becoming the Microsoft of the camera world. Microsoft is ubiquitous in the world of personal computing with its software products…
Electronics engineer Guarav Singh has 3D-printed a camera chassis that’s designed to work with interchangeable lenses and sensors.
The open-source industrial-grade camera is split across three boards, and it is here the interesting design allows for modularity.
A dual-shutter vibration-sensing system developed by Carnegie Mellion University (CMU) researchers uses standard, ordinary cameras to see sound vibrations with such precision that it can reconstruct the music made by a single instrument out of a band.
The researchers say that even the best and most high-powered microphones can’t eliminate nearby sounds or ambient noises that might…
