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…
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…
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.
The first board holds the USB interface, with a USB 3.0 Type-C connector mounted at a 90-degree angle for data and…
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…
Adobe updates Premiere Pro with new vertical video features, updated Workspace UI and more
June 22, 2022
Screenshot of the updated Essentials workspace. Click to enlarge.
Adobe has announced an update to Premiere Pro that adds a slew of new features and performance improvements, inlcuding new GPU-accelerated effects and social content features.
A breakdown of some of…
Image credit: Micael Widell
One of macro photographer Micael Widell’s subscribers, Nicholas Sherlock, sent Widell an awesome microscope lens and 3D-printed adapter. Sherlock, a macro photography enthusiast, created a microscope adapter for up to 4x macro photography on Sony E/FE, Canon EF/EF-S, Nikon F and M42 cameras.
With the adapter, you can attach an AmScope 4x Plan Achromatic…
United States Marshals have released age-progressed images of three men who infamously escaped the maximum-security prison on Alcatraz Island in 1962.
Fugitives Frank Morris, Charles Anglin, and John Anglin, who would now be in their 90s, are still on the Most…
Godox has released a new wireless flash trigger that acts as a cordless go-between for Leica cameras and off-mounted Godox flashes.
The Godox XProIIL can connect via Bluetooth to the Leica S, SL, SL2, M10, Q2, CL, and cameras that have a PC sync socket. There is also…
NVIDIA researchers have created a new tool that can easily turn photos into 3D objects. Called NVIDIA 3D MoMa, the company says it can allow architects, designers, concept artists, and game developers to quickly import objects into a graphics engine for digital manipulation.
The technology works through what is known as inverse rendering, which is a technique that can reconstruct a…
