It’s been just over four decades since autofocus 35mm cameras have become a reality. In 1987, Canon had just released their first autofocus 35mm film camera called the EOS 650, with the EF lens mount and lightning-fast autofocus. It was a bold new design that many thought would fail, but the EOS and its successors […]
As photographers, when we hear the word “bokeh”, we probably already have a visual in our mind of its meaning. Since bokeh can be somewhat abstract and subjective, describing it can be difficult. Table of Contents What is Bokeh? Bokeh is a word that attempts to describe the smoothness and quality of background blur in […]
Turning on the lights in your photos can change the whole atmosphere of your scene and let the glow come from the city itself. This is how you can turn on the lights in your photos using just one slider. You might not always catch the perfect dusk photo with the city lights on, so […]
Autel Robotics’ new EVO Lite+ drone combines a 1-inch 20-megapixel sensor with a variable aperture to shoot detailed, rich images. The company might not be a household name like DJI, but the EVO Lite+ deserves your attention. Design The drone comes in in three colors — orange, white, and gray — with white only available […]
The Nikon Z9 is about to get a lot more powerful thanks to a free firmware update that adds in-camera 12-bit RAW video at up to 8K at 60 frames per second, oversampled 4K at 60 frames per second, a pre-release photo capture button, and so much more. The updates to the Z9 are so […]
Chrome Industries has released the Niko Camera Backpack 3.0. Designed for street photographers and videographers, it’s bigger and designed to be more customizable — and therefore more comfortable. Chrome has been making durable and functional camera bags for more than 25 years and has a reputation for producing accessories that are tough, weatherproof, and unassuming. […]
Nikon has created a wholly-owned subsidiary called Nikon Creates Corporation that will offer the ability to plan, shoot, and produce volumetric, virtual reality (VR), and 3D content as a licensed partner of Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Capture Studios. The launch of Nikon Creates is a major sign that Nikon is embracing video content creation at a […]
There is no denying that shooting on film is expensive. It is among the many reasons major studios have all shifted to using digital cameras for their movie-making. But even with the shift in technology and cost, there is just something appealing about the way these old analog cameras work. This is why engineer and […]
If the number of obituaries written about someone is any measure of their impact on society, Janet Malcolm was a heavy hitter. Google lists more than 40,000. Before passing in 2021, Malcolm was a staff writer at the venerable New Yorker magazine for almost 60 years; she became the consummate journalist and E. B. White’s […]
Like many photo and video creatives, the team at Syrp Lab has a lot equipment that takes up an obscene amount of space. In this seven-minute video, the team shows how it turned a dark and cluttered room into something organized, functional, and fashionable. Syrp recently adjusted its business model and shifted away from producing […]