Cameras

Photographer’s 3,200 Undeveloped Film Rolls Hold History of Rock ‘n’ Roll

Photographer’s 3,200 Undeveloped Film Rolls Hold History of Rock ‘n’ Roll

Photographer Charles Daniels has been photographing famous rockers like Rod Stewart, Jimi Hendrix, The Who’s Pete Townshend, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, and others since the late 1960s. However, tens of thousands of his photos have never been seen — they are sitting in roughly 3,200 rolls of undeveloped film in his Boston home. Much of Daniels’s […]

Photographer Captures Squirrels Fighting Over Lettuce

Photographer Captures Squirrels Fighting Over Lettuce

A photographer in Michigan has captured humorous photos of two squirrels fighting each other over who gets to eat a piece of lettuce. On March 17th, before heading to work, hobbyist photographer Paula Badour was enjoying the view of springtime rolling into Michigan and the wildlife that appears at this time of year. “That day, […]

Russian Cosmonauts Arrive at ISS in Colors of Ukrainian Flag

Russian Cosmonauts Arrive at ISS in Colors of Ukrainian Flag

They say a photo is worth a thousand words, and it seems that’s the kind of statement the three Russian cosmonauts who just arrived at the International Space Station were trying to send in picking their flight suits. They boarded the station wearing striking yellow outfits with blue accents — the colors of the Ukrainian […]

Sony Has Joined the Standards Body Dedicated to Content Authenticity

Sony Has Joined the Standards Body Dedicated to Content Authenticity

Sony has joined the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) as its latest steering committee member. The C2PA is an open, technical standards body addressing the prevalence of misleading information online. The C2PA is an open, technical standards body whose purpose is to address the prevalence of misleading information online through the development of […]

Lensbaby Unveils the 50mm f/2.5 Soft Focus II Optic

Lensbaby Unveils the 50mm f/2.5 Soft Focus II Optic

Lensbaby, a company known for making unconventional lenses that create unusual photos, has released a recreation of one of the company’s most popular swappable lens optics: the $280 50mm f/2.5 Soft Focus II. The original Soft Focus optic was launched about twelve years ago and quickly became one of the company’s most popular items until […]

Mark Zuckerberg Confirms NFTs are Coming to Instagram

Mark Zuckerberg Confirms NFTs are Coming to Instagram

Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg says that NFTs are “hopefully” coming to Instagram in the next few months. Additionally, he said that the company plans to allow users to mint them within the application. “We’re working on bringing NFTs to Instagram in the near term,” Zuckerberg said, speaking at a panel at South By Southwest (SXSW), according […]

A Modified Pentax 300mm Lens is at the Heart of Japan’s Kitsune Satellite

A Modified Pentax 300mm Lens is at the Heart of Japan’s Kitsune Satellite

Ricoh Japan has announced that its Pentax DA* 300mm f/4 ED (IF) SDM lens has been installed on Japan’s Kitsune 6U Microsatellite and has been sent into space. Japan’s Kitsune Satellite The Kitsune 6U was launched into space on a February 20, 2022 mission aboard the Antares rocket. It successfully docked with the International Space […]

Ultra-Rare Wolverine Photographed in Yellowstone

Ultra-Rare Wolverine Photographed in Yellowstone

MacNeil Lyons, a former park ranger, had a once-in-a-lifetime encounter with the elusive wolverine in Yellowstone National Park, and he managed to capture rare photos of the animal while his guest recorded video. Lyons is the owner and lead naturalist/guide for a private guiding company, Yellowstone Insight, based in Gardiner, Montana, at the north gate to […]

Photographer Captures Epic Photos of a Skier Under the Northern Lights

Photographer Captures Epic Photos of a Skier Under the Northern Lights

My name is Virgil Reglioni, and I am a 33-year-old photographer from France. I have spent the last six winters working as an outdoor nature guide and aurora photographer in the Arctic. After discovering Lapland, Finland, for the first time in 2016, I witnessed my first northern lights (aurora borealis) and got hooked with night […]

New Model Can Build 3D Photorealistic Images in Real-Time

New Model Can Build 3D Photorealistic Images in Real-Time

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and the University of Hong Kong have developed StyleNeRF, a 3D-aware generative model that creates high-resolution photorealistic images that can be trained on unstructured 2D images. DPReview reports that the model is able to synthesize the images with multi-view consistency that, compared to existing approaches that struggle […]