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Meike’s New 50mm f/0.95 APS-C Lens Costs Just $250

June 30, 2022
Meike is making a name for itself as the king of low-cost lenses. Its new 50mm f/0.95 lens is fast, comes in five camera mount options, and costs only $250. While it is a manual focus only lens, it still is a considerable value for the price. The Meike 50mm f/0.95 is constructed of seven elements in five groups, has a minimum focusing distance of 0.45 meters, a front filter size of 62mm, and an…
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James Webb’s First Color Photos Will Also Be Farthest Ever Captured

June 30, 2022
The images released from the James Webb Space Telescope on July 12 will be the deepest view of the universe ever taken, and some scientists say they’ve been brought to tears by the photographs. NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) will jointly release the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data during a live…
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Pentax Lenses: Gotta Catch ’em All?

June 29, 2022
Pentax, which is no stranger to unusual strategies when it comes to cameras, announced that it was releasing season-themed photo profiles for a set of its DSLRs that would be locked behind specific lenses. Gotta catch ’em all, I guess? For more, read this week’s Clipped…
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The Profoto A2 is a Soda Can-Sized Off-Camera Strobe

June 29, 2022
Profoto has announced the A2 monolight off-camera flash that is about the size of a 12-ounce can of soda. The small and portable strobe is billed as ideal for supporting location shoots like weddings, awards ceremonies, or other events. The A2 joins the A-series of Profoto lights and the flash head’s diameter is in line with the speedlight-like A10 and significantly smaller than the larger…
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Engineer Creates AI That Identifies Photos of Unknown Holocaust Victims

June 29, 2022
An engineer has created software that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to identify anonymous Holocaust victims in World War II photos. Numbers to Names (N2N), is an AI-facial recognition platform that can scan through hundreds of thousands of photos from pre-war Europe and the Holocaust and link them to people living today. In an interview with The Times of Israel, Daniel Patt, a…
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