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New Pentax Photo Color Modes Only Work with Certain Lenses

Ricoah has announced a new firmware update for the Pentax K-1, K-1 Mark II, and K-3 Mark III DSLRs that enables season-specific Custom Image modes when the cameras are used with specific Limited-series lenses. The company says that throughout the year, a series of season-specific modes will be released. Ricoh explains that after updating a camera with the new firmware and when a…
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Samsung’s New 200MP HM3 Camera Sensor Has World’s Smallest Pixels

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 pixel size in a 1/1.4-inch optical format, which is the diameter of the area that is captured through the camera lens.
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Gear in this story

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…
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Macro Photography with a $20 3D Printed Microscope Lens

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 track down tiny insects to practice the lens on. The adapter, which Sherlock has put up on Thingiverse and was spotted by…
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Why Canon is the Microsoft of the Camera World

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…
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3D Print Your Own Camera with an Interchangeable Sensor and Lens

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. The first board holds the USB interface, with a USB 3.0 Type-C connector mounted at a 90-degree angle for data and…
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