Cameras

I Held a Dog Headshot Photo Booth, and the Results Were Hilarious

I Held a Dog Headshot Photo Booth, and the Results Were Hilarious

After the fantastic experience I had hosting my first Dog Photo Booth at Glens Falls Pet Fest in City Park, Glens Falls last year, I knew I had to return for the 2nd annual event. As simple as the concept may sound, hosting a photo booth (let alone one for dogs) involves a number of […]

This Photographer Couldn’t Afford His Dream Camera, So He 3D Printed One

This Photographer Couldn’t Afford His Dream Camera, So He 3D Printed One

London-based photographer Paul Kohlhaussen has a wish list of cameras he’d love to shoot with, but he can’t afford them. So, he did something rather unusual: he decided to combine some of their notable features into a custom camera that he 3D printed himself. Kohlhaussen created a fully functional 6×14 medium format camera without having […]

U.S. Probing Nikon Cameras for Patent Infringement after Zeiss Complaint

U.S. Probing Nikon Cameras for Patent Infringement after Zeiss Complaint

There have been some legal rumblings in the camera industry over the past couple of months. It’s an ongoing patent dispute between Nikon and two other companies involved in camera technologies: Carl Zeiss and ASML. The latest news is that the United States has opened an official patent infringement investigation into Nikon’s products. Reuters reports […]

10 Stop ND Filter Shootout: Lee Big Stopper vs NiSi Nano IR

10 Stop ND Filter Shootout: Lee Big Stopper vs NiSi Nano IR

If you’re looking to pick up a great ND filter, one of the new(er) brands on the block is NiSi; but how does this relatively young company compare to one of the biggest names in filters? In this video, NiSi Ambassador Imran Mirza pits the NiSi Nano IR 10 stop filter against the famed LEE […]

Rolleidoscop: The First Camera Rollei Made and the Stereoscopic Process

Rolleidoscop: The First Camera Rollei Made and the Stereoscopic Process

The Rolleidoscop was made from 1926 to 1939 in Germany alongside the Heidoscop, the same camera but with a sheet film or glass plate back. It was actually the very first camera that renowned manufacturer Rollei made. Rumor has it that many photographers used these as a regular camera because the quality of lenses were […]

A Beautiful Ode to Space Exploration Made Using Only NASA Apollo Photos

A Beautiful Ode to Space Exploration Made Using Only NASA Apollo Photos

Motion Designer Christian Stangl and his brother, composer Wolfgang Stangl, just created one of the most beautiful odes to space exploration we’ve seen… and they did it without ever taking a single photograph. Every photo in their tribute was pulled from NASA’s Project Apollo Archive. Stangl came up with the idea after stumbling across the […]

How to Build a Dirt Cheap DIY Ring Light

How to Build a Dirt Cheap DIY Ring Light

Ring lights are a great piece of kit for illuminating your subject evenly and creating a distinctive catch light in the eyes. Unfortunately, these lights are typically expensive, but this short tutorial by Instructables user gravityisweak will show you how to building your own for next to nothing. This project makes use of a 12v halo […]

Capturing the Incredibly Rare Moonlit Firefall at Yosemite

Capturing the Incredibly Rare Moonlit Firefall at Yosemite

This is the famous and elusive Horsetail “Firefall” in Yosemite National Park, but unlike every other image you may have seen—taken near sunset around February—the fire effect in this image is caused by moonlight. That’s the only possible way one could see the firefall and stars at the same time. How does the firefall effect […]