If you’re like me and you’ve tried to attach gels to your lights in the past, you’ve likely resorted to using one of the many types of sticky tapes available. When I used to manage a studio, I would see all manner of tapes being used to attach gels to hot modifiers. From masking tape, duct tape, parcel tape and when they ran out, even regular old sticky tape was used....
It’s insane to think that hard drive space has gone from around $500,000 to as low as $0.03 per gigabyte in the last 36 years. It has, though. But that drop in price is slowing down. It has to. Even as recently as 8 years ago, drives were hitting under $0.10 per GB. Backblaze recently had a look into just how hard drive prices have changed over the years, and they turned up something quite fascinating....
Swiss Bank UBS’ Chief Risk Officer has stepped down this week to pursue a career as a professional photographer. Executive board member Christian Bluhm is currently in charge of risk at UBS Global Wealth Management. As of May 2023, he will be solely focusing on his photography business, a statement from the bank says. According to Bluhm’s website, he is currently renovating a photography studio and gallery which is expected to open in 2023....
Have you had enough of the Perseverance stuff? Yeah, me neither. NASA has just published an interactive image that lets you see what the rover is seeing. This detailed 360-degree photo lets you look around Mars’ Jezero crater and it’s based on images taken by different rover’s cameras. On 18 February, the Perseverance rover made the successful landing in the Jezero crater. So, the area you see in the short video above is the rover’s landing site....
Developments in camera tech over the last decade have meant that we can put them in places that many of us previously thought impossible. One such person is Adam Honse, who built up a model railway with his dad back in the early 2000s and has wanted to stick a camera on it ever since. And now, thanks to the Raspberry Pi Zero and its tiny camera module, he can....
The golden ratio isn’t really something I think about much, or at all, when composing a photograph. But if it’s something you’ve wanted to start applying more to your compositions, then now you can do so with this handy dandy new pocket sized golden ratio view finder from Areaware. Dating back to Euclid’s Elements over 2,300 years ago, it’s been a go-to aesthetic guide for many designers and artists. It’s also been suggested that it was followed during the construction of the Parthenon in Greece, but that’s a whole different debate....
Alice Camera, the AI-powered computational photography camera that hooks up to your smartphone has just launched for pre-order through Indiegogo. Alice’s goal is to make it easy for creators to create, by essentially bolting a Micro Four Thirds lens mount and sensor to your smartphone. You can shoot photos or 4K video footage, taking advantage of the display and computational photography power of your smartphone. From there you can quickly and easily share to your social media following....
We’ve all heard why 29.97fps and 25fps became the standards for TV & video broadcast. It basically boiled down to technical issues based around the electrical supply and the limitations of available airwaves. But those reasons don’t explain one thing. How did 24fps become the standard for film? In this Home Theater Geeks podcast, host Scott Wilkinson talks with television historian Mark Schubin to find out why. The first “standard” framerate for filming movies was about 16 frames per second, although they didn’t measure it in frames per second back then....
A teaser image reported to have been posted by DJI, teases an event in New York on July 18th, 2018. There’s no solid information on exactly what DJI will announce, but all signs point to an announcement for a possible DJI Mavic Pro replacement with the… Yup, you guessed it, the DJI Mavic Pro II. Some seem to think DJI may announce a Phantom 5, but with the recent Phantom 4 V2....
Fuji Rumours are reporting that they’ve received what appear to be the first images of the fabled Fujifilm X-H1. A camera that seems to be a little more video oriented than Fuji’s previous cameras, offering even more than the X-Pro2’s new firmware update. There have been rumours of such a camera floating around for a long time now, but this seems to be the first proof that it’s actually going to be a real thing....
I enjoy learning about people who made history and paved the way for the generations after them. This photo shows three of these women captured together way back in the late 19th century. These are the first three licensed women doctors from their respective countries who obtained a degree in Western medicine. The photo is dated 10 October 1885. The three women, from left to right, are Anandibai Joshee from India, Kei Okami from Japan, and Sabat Islambooly from Syria....
Gudsen has just launched their new MOZA Mini-P. It’s a $199 gimbal that works with everything from action cameras and smartphones to compacts and small mirrorless cameras. And it folds up small to pack away when you’re not using it, too. A prototype of the the new MOZA Mini-P was first shown off in September last year at the Beijing International Radio, TV and Film Exhibition (BIRTV). It seemed pretty promising, even as a prototype....
The world was introduced to the Moza Slypod in grand fashion at NAB 2019 earlier this year. We went to the Gudsen stand to check it out while we were there, too. It’s an interesting device, with a whole new take on the camera slider form factor. It essentially looks like a motorised monopod, but how good is it really? In this video, Caleb Pike walks us around the features of the Slypod, and what he thinks about it....
I’m going to preface this by saying that this isn’t a lens review article, there are many photographers better suited for this topic, so if you’re after refraction index comparisons and chromatic aberration charts this article probably isn’t for you. This article is however my personal thoughts on three Nikon zoom lenses and their resulting images but also a broader look at how we as photographers covet lenses and other photographic gear....
The rumours have been coming thick and fast on the Nikon Z50 lately, but now it’s official. Nikon has today announced the new Nikon Z50 DX format mirrorless camera. They’ve also announced two new DX Z Mount lenses along with it, The Nikkor Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR and the Nikkor Z DX 50-250mm f/4.5-6.3 VR. The Z50 appears to be more of a D5x00 series continuation than a D7x00 series follow up, although it features a similar (perhaps the same) 20....
Eye-rolls, shrugs, and barbs greeted the $120,000 Grand Prize winner of Dubai’s HIPA Photography Prize. Malaysian photographer Edwin Ong’s photo of a partially blind Vietnamese woman carrying her baby was derided for representing yet another “poverty porn” contest winner before it was suggested that the image was staged by photographer Ab Rashid. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2287400064858084&id=100007643380048 Ong defended his claim that the image was not staged to the Malaysian daily The Star, saying, “In this trip to Vietnam, we (the photographers) went to the rice field and there was a mother (who had her children with her) that passed by....
In the summer of 2016, photographer Jeffrey L Bennett experimented with creating animated GIFs using multiple cameras. He wanted to animate a moment, frozen in time, from several angles. It wasn’t my first experience with animated sequences of images, for years I’ve been incorporating animated GIFs in my wedding, engagement and portrait work. They have been a big hit with my clients. I created the animations below using bursts of still shots from a single camera (other photographers are making cinemagraphs from video, but I preferred the stop-motion look of a group of still)....
It’s been only a day since Nikon published a teaser video for the new full frame mirrorless camera, and now there’s something more to build up the excitement. Four photos of the upcoming camera have leaked, as well as the announcement date. According to Nikon Rumors, Nikon has accidentally leaked four images of the upcoming full frame mirrorless camera on its website. Three of them are not too revealing: they show details of a lens, the mount, and the hot shoe....
Cooking videos tend to follow a fairly strict recipe (pun intended). First, we’re introduced to the ingredients. Then they dice, chop and mix a few things up. Finally, they pull one out of the oven that they “prepared earlier” that’s been cooking away for a couple of hours. For some celebrity chefs, there’s even the occasional bit of profanity thrown in for good measure. What if we ditched the reality show style of Kitchen Nightmares, or the studioesque kitchens of Jamie Oliver?...
I find stop motion animation absolutely fascinating to watch, particularly when it looks as good as this. I absolutely don’t have the patience to create one myself that looks anywhere near as good as this one from Omozoc, but having at least given it a go a few times I can understand the incredible level of skill and patience required to pull off something like this. And it’s beyond my abilities for sure....
