The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled in favor of photographer Elliot McGucken who brought a case against Pub Ocean Ltd after they published photos of a lake that had formed in Death Valley without permission.
The decision reversed a lower court’s decision that granted summary judgment to Pub Ocean after the Central District of California concluded that the…
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August 11, 2022
Studio Scene
Our test scene is designed to simulate a variety of textures, colors and detail types you’ll encounter in the real world. It also has two illumination modes to see the effect of different lighting conditions.
We suspect the small difference in apparent…
In May, we wrote about Sigma’s new headquarters in Japan’s Kanagawa prefecture. While the new four-story building isn’t open to the public, Gizmomo Freak took a private tour of the new facility. Now CineD has toured the facility, giving us our first…
Magnum Photos Marks its 75th Anniversary With Unseen Photos
August 10, 2022
Villagers collecting scrap from a crashed spacecraft, surrounded by thousands of white butterflies, Altai Territory, Russia, 2000. | Jonas Bendiksen / Magnum Photo
Magnum Photo is marking its 75th anniversary by publishing 150 photos, some of them previously unseen, from its 25 photographers that joined the agency in the past 15 years.
An updated and expanded edition of its 2007…
Canon has officially partnered with Japanese toy company Takara Tomy to produce two “robots in disguise” Transformer toys that take the shape of the EOS R5.
Spotted by TFormers and The Verge, Takara Tomy is set to release a pair of Transformer toys that take…
Fujifilm will host what it describes as a free and “interactive festival” for anyone interested in photography this September in New York. Called Fujifina, the event is making a location shift from its traditional home in Tokyo, Japan.
The company says that…
After nearly five years of development, Polaroid lovers in France have developed a new instant print back adapter to fit vintage Type 100-400 Polaroid Land cameras. Dubbed the Newland Camera, the back adapter enables the folding, bellows style land cameras made in the 1960s to take more modern instant print film cartridges.
Thanks to its sharp lens and rangefinder, the vintage Type 100-400 land…
These Canon EOS R5 replicas are actually Transformers that shapeshift into Optimus Prime and a Decepticon
August 10, 2022
While the above camera looks just like a regular Canon EOS R5 mirrorless camera, you’d be in for quite the surprise if you tried to use it. That’s because hidden within the nearly perfect replica is a transformer toy the turns from a mirrorless camera into a robot with a…
Fujifilm has confirmed its next X Summit event will take place in New York City on September 8, 2022. Fujifilm hasn’t shared any details about what all we can expect from the event, but we do know we’ll be getting our first glimpse of Fujifilm’s X-H2 camera.
After…
TechArt has brought back an improved version of its Leica M to Sony E-mount Autofocus Adapter after seven years of development with better performance, more powerful servo motors, and a compact design that still supports heavier lenses.
The TechArt Pro Autofocus Adapter is able to leverage Sony’s phase detection autofocus and the company says that it is able to give any M-mount manual…
