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…
Scientists from UCLA are attempting to address issues of privacy by developing a new artificial intelligence (AI) camera that only records specific targets and actively erases everything else.
As digital cameras have become nearly ubiquitous, issues of privacy…
Gorgeous Timelapse of London Took 2TB of Photos to Create
August 15, 2022
Photographer Mattia Bicchi recently spent seven days in London to capture gorgeous timelapse and hyperlapse footage of the United Kingdom’s capital city in 4K.
Bicchi, an Italian living in Madrid, traveled to the City of London where he shot as much footage as…
Most portrait photographers are familiar with the Brenizer Method for creating massive “bokehramas,” but photographer Steven Schultz takes things a step further by using an entire roll of 120 film to create a single portrait.
For those who may not be familiar, the Brenizer Method is a photo stacking and panorama process which involves capturing multiple images and stitching them…
Samsung’s Odyssey Ark gaming monitor was unveiled at this year’s CES and has now found its way into the hands of some reviewers. We don’t often report on gaming monitors, but the Odyssey Ark is an altogether different beast. The 55″ Quantum Mini-LED…
Gear in this story
August 15, 2022
The Sigma 24mm DG DN Art lens feels sturdy and has some heft, and the focus and aperture ring had enough resistance to build confidence running around Seattle for a weekend of shooting. It didn’t take long before we were more focused on making images than fumbling with…
Hypnotic Photos Show the Flight Paths of Birds and Bats
August 12, 2022
Lockdown Vultures (Moab Slope)
Stifled by lockdown, photographer Doris Mitsch began to look up for inspiration and started photo-stacking bird flight paths with the editing sometimes taking her days to finish.
“The photos take hours and hours and hours to edit. Some combine more than a thousand separate images,” Mitsch tells PetaPixel.
Mitsch used a Canon 5D Mark III sometimes, and…
The European Space Agency (ESA) has published a video that puts into perspective just how far away the latest target of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Cartwheel Galaxy, is.
On August 2, the Webb Team published a gorgeous high-resolution photo of the…
Left: Photo taken with a Samsung Galaxy S22. Right: Photo taken with a 5D Mark III.
For the last several years, manufacturers have repeatedly blamed smartphones as the reason the camera market has collapsed so spectacularly, and a recent experience has me now fully…
Film Friday: Combining a Polaroid Model 455 and Fujifilm Instax 100 to make a retro Instax Wide camera
August 12, 2022
Fujifilm discontinued its FP instant pack film in 2016, opting instead to focus on its Instax film series. You can still find FP online, but it’s old and expensive. Fujifilm Instax Wide Instant film is 10.6 x 8.4cm and costs a bit over a dollar per photo, keeping instant photography relatively accessible.
For Jim Skelton of Emulsive, the Instax Wide film is good, but the Instax 100 camera…
