Godox has announced the Lux Junior on-camera flash, a $69 retro-inspired strobe for Fujifilm, Canon, Nikon, OM-Digital (Olympus), and Sony cameras.
Described as a “retro” flash, the Lux Junior features a control system that operates through a simple dial that correlates ISO with aperture, power level, and shooting distance. For example, for a photo shot five feet away from a subject with…
Darktable, an open-source answer to Adobe Lightroom, has announced a major update to version 4.0 which adds a massive list of changes, new features, and bug fixes including new color science tools and a totally new user interface.
Developer Pascal Obry has published a…
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Introduction
The ability to shoot good-looking photos and top-quality video are essential for anybody looking to create content for social media, and camera makers understandably feel they have something to offer.
Nikon’s new Z30…
Terry Gruber is probably one of the last portrait photographers in the United States to still use a 100-year-old, 12×20-inch banquet camera for its original purpose: capturing large groups in formal occasions.
What is a Banquet Camera?
A banquet camera is similar to a view camera that holds an extra-long 12×20 inch film back. They were also made in 7×17 inches. The most significant advantage of…
Wildlife photographer, Sascha Fonseca, recently posted an incredible picture of a snow leopard, the world’s most elusive big cat, using a DSLR camera trap in Ladakh, India.
Fonseca spoke to PetaPixel to explain how he captured the stunning image and how his…
Computer scientists at the University of Groningen have created a system to analyze the noise produced by individual cameras to help law enforcement fight child exploitation.
Groningen is a city in the Netherlands, which is the biggest distributor of child sex…
NASA has announced that the Mid-Infrared Instrument, or MIRI, the second of the James Webb Space Telescope’s four primary scientific instruments, has concluded its preparations and is ready to start capturing the universe.
Since Webb’s telescope optics and instruments completed alignment earlier this year, the team moved on to the 17 different instrument modes that needed to be…
A few months ago, the US Copyright Office rejected Steven Thaler’s request to copyright a picture on behalf of an algorithm he dubbed the Creativity Machine.
Thaler’s objective was to test the office to see whether they would grant copyright to an artificially…
The Olympus OM-1 changed the way photographers viewed SLRs – small could also be serious (Photo by Jim Grey)
In honor of the 50-year anniversary of the Olympus OM-1, Kosmo Foto founder Stephen Dowling has written up a comprehensive tribute to the camera that redefined…
DZOFilm has announced the Marlin 1.6x Expander that adapts Super35 lenses to larger sensors. It promises to not only extend the effective focal length of those lenses but also the image circle itself.
The DZOFilm Marlin 1.6x can convert Super35 to cover both full-frame and Vista Vision cameras like the ARRI ALEXA LF/ Mini LF, Sony VENICE 1 and 2, and RED V-RAPTOR.
Constructed with what DZOFilm…
