Instagram has added a new “Dual” camera feature — seemingly in a bid to copy photo-sharing app BeReal which soared to the number one spot in the U.S. on Apple’s App Store charts this week.
The new “Dual” camera feature allows users to record content with their back-facing camera and record their reaction to the event with their front-facing camera at the same time. The rear…
Annie Lebowitz’s latest Vogue photo shoot of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena has sparked condemnation with many feeling the article was inappropriate amid the Russian invasion.
The presidential couple featured in a digital edition of…
New research has revealed the most famous photographs of all time — with NASA’s iconic “Man on the Moon” photo from 1969’s Apollo 11 mission topping the list.
For the study, photo book and printing company Inkifi used a reverse image search to show the…
Video: Learn how Kodak develops and applies light-sensitive coating to its film (in the dark!)
July 29, 2022
Last year, Destin Sandlin of the YouTube channel Smarter Every Day showed the science behind film development. Sandlin explained how photographic film is constructed, exposed, and developed. Sandlin discussed the film’s chemical structure and then shot some film.
Sandlin loves film. It has a special, unique quality that is tough, if not impossible, for digital cameras to match. He gets his film…
Samyang, which also goes under the Rokinon brand name, has announced the release of a second-generation Rokinon 85mm F1.4 AF lens for Sony E-mount camera systems.
The lens is constructed of 11 elements in eight groups, including four high-refractive elements and one…
A newly-released artificial intelligence (AI) model called the “Generative Facial Prior” (GFP-GAN) can repair most old photographs in mere seconds, and it can do it for free.
Anyone who has old photographs of their families and friends that have not held up…
Tamron has announced a new 50-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD for Sony E-mount full-frame mirrorless cameras which is expected to be available from this fall.
The versatile ultra-telephoto zoom lens will “create an entirely new category for a high-performance ultra-telephoto mirrorless zoom lens,” the company says. The 50-400mm boasts an 8x zoom ratio and will be the same size as a…
Muntaka Chasant
Photographer Muntaka Chasant has documented thousands of washed-up clothes on a beach in Africa, laying bare the environmental impact of fast fashion.
Chasant tells Petapixel that he took a “beating” from the waves in Ghana to capture the…
A photographer has used his 3D printer to create an impressive 900mm reflector telescope that is so simple to put together that “it’s like assembling furniture from IKEA.”
The design, which Jonathan Kissner refers to as “Hadley,” has a 114/900mm…
Tamron has announced the development of an upcoming zoom for Sony full-frame E-mount camera systems. The 50–400mm F4.5–6.3 Di III VC VXD lens is expected to be available in ‘Fall 2022,’ although Tamron notes ‘the current global health crisis’ could affect the release date and product supply schedule.
Tamron hasn’t specified the optical construction of the lens, but does say the the…
