Cameras

Fake Instagram Profile Tricked 50,000 People to ‘Like’ Photos of Alcoholism

Fake Instagram Profile Tricked 50,000 People to ‘Like’ Photos of Alcoholism

Apple’s powerful, photographer-friendly line of Retina display MacBook Pros are overdue for an update. But if you’re thinking of getting one anyway, don’t! Reliable reports claim Apple will announce an update to these laptops at the end of the month. COOPH is back with another great video, this one featuring world-class travel photographer and TED […]

Shooting a 300-Megapixel Photo: Film vs Digital

Shooting a 300-Megapixel Photo: Film vs Digital

For a recent project, I was tasked with shooting a hot rod. It was exciting from the beginning, because this particular kind of car is pretty rare here where I live. The owner also requested that their dog sit on the car’s fender, and for the photos to be huge — 100 megapixels were too […]

Ep. 112: Should You Even Have to Ask? + more!

Ep. 112: Should You Even Have to Ask? + more!

Photographer Mark Laita has a mention in Wikipedia for a wild and unusual reason: he was bitten by a black mamba (one of the world’s deadliest snakes), survived, and found that he had accidentally captured the bite on camera. For a recent project, I was tasked with shooting a hot rod. It was exciting from […]

Samyang Confirms: Autofocus Lenses Coming for Canon and Nikon

Samyang Confirms: Autofocus Lenses Coming for Canon and Nikon

The Ask First Campaign is not primarily about photography, it’s about consent. But when the campaign’s popular stickers and their message was recently applied to photographers taking pictures of people at a public BDSM fair without asking, the proverbial claws came out. While embedded with troops in Afghanistan in the late 2000s, war photographer and […]

Ep. 111: Does Portrait Orientation Have a Future? + more!

Ep. 111: Does Portrait Orientation Have a Future? + more!

In the span of just over one week, DJI and GoPro each unveiled a foldable and ultra-portable personal camera drone. With so much hype surrounding these two products, we’ve decided to do a comparison of features and specs to see how the Mavic Pro and Karma stack up — at least on paper. This beautiful […]

This ‘Neural Photo Editor’ is Like a Fully Automatic Photoshop

This ‘Neural Photo Editor’ is Like a Fully Automatic Photoshop

DJI today announced a new camera drone that aims to revolutionize the industry. The new DJI Mavic Pro is a foldable drone that sets a new bar when it comes to combining power and portability. By day, Christiaan van Heijst is an airline pilot who flies 747 jumbo jets around the world. By night (and […]

Ep. 110: The Photokina 2016 Mega Episode – Part 2

Ep. 110: The Photokina 2016 Mega Episode – Part 2

My 19-month-old son, Stanley, has learned how to use a camera and to shout out cheese as he presses the shutter. He has a few of my old crappy point-and-shoot film cameras in his toy box to play with, but today I gave him my old Canon G12. Venus Optics are quickly becoming a leader […]