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At which point did you stop being gear obsessed?
Photos Members Group Since At which point did you stop being gear obsessed? Igor_Paić says: It’s a nice feeling, knowing I have everything I need. After one year of saving money and chasing gear, now I have a peace of mind. My old second hand camera and four consumer class lenses are more capable than my photography skills. Now I can really learn and enjoy my hobby without worrying about technical limitations. 2:38AM, 10 June 2021 PDT (permalink) Roger Blackwell says: Also it can take a while to get to know all the equipment and...
read moreSony announces the Airpeak S1, a $9K professional drone for creatives
After a series of teaser videos were released over the past six months, Sony Electronics has officially revealed pertinent details for the Airpeak S1 – a professional drone aimed at creatives. It is the world’s smallest drone capable of carrying Sony’s line of full-size, interchangeable-lens Alpha series cameras. It is also their official entry into the drone market. ‘Sony is excited to launch our new drone business with the Airpeak S1,’ said Yang Cheng, Vice President, Imaging Solutions, Sony Electronics Inc....
read moreWindows 10 file explorer and CR2 files
Photos Members Group Since Windows 10 file explorer and CR2 files amazingstoker says: Since the last Windows 10 update (around 7 June 2021) file explorer has been very slow generating thumbnails in folders containing CR2 files and the ‘Photos’ app no longer has the ‘right’ and ‘left’ arrows to step through images. Folders only containing .JPGs seem fine. Anyone else seeing this? MTIA 1:01PM, 9 June 2021 PDT (permalink) Would you like to comment? Sign up for a free account, or sign in (if you’re...
read moreSee the first images NASA’s Juno captured as it sailed by Jupiter’s giant moon, Ganymede
NASA’s Juno spacecraft did a flyby of Jupiter’s giant moon Ganymede on June 7. It was the closest any spacecraft has flown to Jupiter’s largest moon in more than two decades. NASA has published the first two images from the flyby. One photo was captured by the craft’s JunoCam imager. The other shot was captured by Juno’s Stellar Reference Unit star camera. Both images show Ganymede’s surface in spectacular detail, revealing craters, distinctly dark and bright terrain, and long structural features that NASA...
read moreSony launches $1M ‘Create Action’ initiative to support local non-profit organizations
Sony Corporation has launched a nationwide ‘Create Action’ initiative to support local grassroots organizations. Sony designed the $1M+ grant program to support underserved and underrepresented communities at a local effort. Sony aims to enhance the efforts of local, non-profit organizations through grants, product support and enhanced marketing and outreach efforts. Youth in underserved communities face many challenges. Among these challenges, a lack of access to opportunities and support looms large. Local non-profit...
read moreWorld’s longest AF SLR lens, the Canon EF 1200mm F5.6, comes up for sale at auction in Germany
A used unit of Canon’s EF 1200mm F5.6 L USM lens is set to come up for sale at an auction in Germany slated for 6th October. At 0.8m (2′ 7″) and weighing a massive 16.5kg (36lbs), the lens offered the world’s longest focal length for an interchangeable SLR lens with autofocus when it was introduced in July 1993, and to the best of my knowledge, that record still holds true. [embedded content] The lens is extremely rare, and not only for its original 9.8M Yen/$90,000 price tag but also because it took so long to build—it is...
read moreThe need for (transfer) speed: Five full-featured Thunderbolt 3 docks compared
Intro There’s no shortage of Thunderbolt dock options on the market. We took a look at five different units and compared them by price, features, and speed. The new Apple M1 Mac Mini has a lot going for it: it’s an amazing machine in a small form factor. Unfortunately, in what seems to be a continuing Apple trend, it has lost a couple of Thunderbolt ports over the previous version. Enter the Thunderbolt dock: a must-have solution for a lot of photographers and videographers looking to connect multiple high-speed drives and/or...
read moreDPReview TV: Olympus M.Zuiko 8-25mm F4 Pro review
Published Jun 9, 2021 | dpreview staff [embedded content] The Olympus 8-25mm F4 Pro is a portable, weather-sealed zoom lens for everyday shooting on Micro Four Thirds bodies. Offering numerous special elements and coatings, the 8-25mm F4 Pro is no kit lens. See if it made the cut in this latest episode of DPReview TV. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. Sample images from this episode Gear in this story There are so many Thunderbolt Docks on the market at the moment that it can be overwhelming to...
read moreOlympus M.Zuiko 8-25mm F4 Pro sample gallery
Published Jun 9, 2021 | dpreview staff The new Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 8-25mm F4 Pro offers Micro Four Thirds shooters a 16-50mm equivalent focal range. Compact and weather-sealed, it’s especially well-suited for landscape and nature photography, but also a good option for street shooting, architectural photography, videography, and more. View our Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 8-25mm F4 Pro lens gallery Gear in this story There are so many Thunderbolt Docks on the market at the moment that it can be overwhelming to find the right one...
read moreHands-on with the Olympus M.Zuiko 8-25mm F4 PRO
The Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 8-25mm F4 Pro is a compact, ultra-wide to normal zoom lens for the Micro Four Thirds system. It covers a full-frame equivalent range of 16-50mm. It’s also the newest member of the Olympus Pro lens family, which has a reputation for solid build quality, reliability and excellent optical performance. We’ll take a look at this new lens and what it has to offer on the next few...
read moreHere’s the Olympus PEN E-P7 and here’s what it means…
OM Digital Solutions has announced the Olympus PEN E-P7 Micro Four Thirds mirrorless camera, its first release since acquiring the Olympus brand at the beginning of the year. The camera will be available in Europe and selected other regions but not, initially, North America. Jump to: Editorial observations | Press Release | Specifications It’s the first full-sized PEN model since the PEN-F, released in January 2016, but it appears to be more affordable and less prestige-focused than the E-Px models. It still includes a PEN-F-style...
read moreOlympus introduces M.Zuiko 8-25mm F4 Pro Micro Four Thirds lens
Published Jun 9, 2021 | dpreview staff Olympus has added a new member to its ‘Pro’ lineup of high-end Micro Four Thirds lenses: the M.Zuiko Digital ED 8-25mm F4 Pro. The 8-25mm, which has a 35mm-equivalent field of view of 16-50mm and an F8 equivalent aperture, has numerous special elements, including a ‘DSA’ (dual super aspherical) element to reduce sagittal flare or comatic aberration (commonly referred to as ‘coma‘). A special ‘ZERO’ coating helps prevent flare and ghosting. The 8-25mm has a...
read moreRare Zeiss Planar 50mm F0.7 lens designed for NASA could fetch $150,000 at auction
If you think Nikon’s Nikkor Z 58mm F0.95 S Noct lens is impressive, set your sights on a rare Zeiss Planar 50mm F0.7 lens from 1966. The lens was designed for NASA to photograph the moon’s far side during Apollo missions. There were only 10 copies of the lens ever made, six of which went to NASA. One of these lenses is currently up for auction by Leitz Photographica Auction. Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm F0.7 lens. Image courtesy of Leitz Photographica Auction. Granted, if you want the super-fast prime, you’ll have to pay a steep...
read moreSigma interview: ‘All employees have to respect each other, educate each other, and encourage each other’
Kazuto Yamaki, CEO of Sigma, pictured in 2018 at the Photokina trade show in Cologne, Germany. After a long, eventful year since we last spoke, we connected with Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki recently, over a video call from his headquarters in northern Japan. In a wide-ranging interview he spoke about his vision for the future of his company as both a lens manufacturer and camera manufacturer, what he learned from Covid, and what the future holds for Sigma. The last time we spoke was March 2020, at the beginning of the COVID crisis worldwide. You...
read moreThousands of seabird eggs destroyed by two careless drone pilots
Roughly 2,000 elegant tern eggs were destroyed after terrified adult sea birds abandoned them in the wake of a drone crash. The Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, located in California’s Orange County, is home to over 800 species of animals that rely on the 1,000+ acre wetland for solace. Along with dogs and bikes, drones are strictly prohibited. That didn’t prevent two reckless remote pilots from flying their drones over the nesting area, crashing, and causing unprecedented carnage. ‘A couple [of] weeks ago, thousands of...
read moreLightroom Classic gets native M1 support, Lightroom gets Super Resolution and more with Adobe’s June 2021 update
Adobe has announced a barrage of updates for select Creative Cloud applications, including Photoshop, Lightroom, Lightroom Classic. In addition to updates, Adobe has also shared a detailed analysis from a third-party that shows how well the company’s new M1-native applications work compared to their intel counterparts. Adobe Photoshop for iPad First up is an update for Adobe Photoshop for iPad that adds the ability to import and download custom brushes. In addition to downloading one of the ‘hundreds of brushes’ Adobe offers through Creative...
read moreUnifying a Photo’s Emotions
What’s the difference between a good photo and a bad photo, even of the same subject? It’s a hard question. If I knew for sure, I’d never need to delete a photo again. But there is one concept that I’ve found helpful to answer the question: unity. Unity is all about getting the whole photo “on the same page,” so to speak. The photo’s emotions are all in sync as much as possible. It’s a bit like the concept of simplicity in photography, where you get rid of everything in the photo that takes away from your message. But in this case, you’re not...
read moreWWDC 2021: Apple unveils latest updates for iOS 15, iPadOS 15 and more
[embedded content] Today, at its 2021 WWDC virtual event, Apple released the details of its new operating systems, including iOS 15. Here are some of the most significant features for photographers and videographers. iOS 15 Apple started its event out showcasing new and improved features for iOS 15, its next-generation mobile operating system. While Apple’s improvements are far more comprehensive than what we’ll cover here, here are the photo-related updates. The first new detail Apple showed off is what it’s referring to as...
read moreVideo: This music video is made entirely from over 5,000 cyanotype prints
Tycho Jones, an 18-year-old musical artist from Hackney, East London, has released a music video for his song, ‘Don’t Be Afraid.’ Typically, a music video wouldn’t be covered here on DPReview, but Jones’ video is unique. Jones’ record company, Globe Town Records, hired artist Edd Carr to make the video. Carr did something we’ve never seen before; he printed every single frame of video as cyanotype prints and then created the final music video by photographing the more than 5,000 cyanotype prints that...
read moreInterview: Kristen Bedford digs into Los Angeles’ lowrider culture with ‘Cruise Night’
The cover of ‘Cruise Night,’ available now. Kristen Bedford isn’t afraid to commit to a project. Her style of long-term storytelling has taken her to live among a deeply religious community in Philadelphia, explore storefront churches in the South, and most recently to Whittier Blvd. in East Los Angeles to document the lowrider car community there. “For 70 years, members of the Mexican American community [in L.A.] have been expressing their identity through car culture. I wanted to photograph and understand how transforming...
read moreInterview: Kristin Bedford digs into Los Angeles’ lowrider culture with ‘Cruise Night’
The cover of ‘Cruise Night,’ available now. Kristin Bedford isn’t afraid to commit to a project. Her style of long-term storytelling has taken her to live among a deeply religious community in Philadelphia, explore storefront churches in the South, and most recently to Whittier Blvd. in East Los Angeles to document the lowrider car community there. “For 70 years, members of the Mexican American community [in L.A.] have been expressing their identity through car culture. I wanted to photograph and understand how transforming...
read moreVideo: Our closest look yet at Canon’s forthcoming EOS R3 mirrorless camera
[embedded content] Gordon Laing, Editor at Cameralabs, has shared a new video on his YouTube channel that gives us our closest look yet at Canon’s forthcoming EOS R3 mirrorless camera. The video, which comes in just shy of six minutes, provides a thorough overview of the camera, with close-up shots of the camera’s features, I/O, buttons and more. While this is the most comprehensive view yet, we don’t see the camera in action, as Laing wasn’t allowed to interact with the EOS R3 on camera. It isn’t clear whether or not this is a functional...
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about shooting film, my equipment d300 and macro lens is not filling up the camera monitor. the film photographs smaller. sharp but smaller. what added tool will allow the photographed picture to fill the screen without magnification. about shooting film, my equipment d300 and macro lens is not filling up the camera monitor. the film photographs smaller. sharp but smaller. what added tool will allow the photographed picture to fill the screen without magnification. Publish...
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Photos Members Group Since digitize film lochiel2010 says: about shooting film, my equipment d300 and macro lens is not filling up the camera monitor. the film photographs smaller. sharp but smaller. what added tool will allow the photographed picture to fill the screen without magnification. 3:17PM, 6 June 2021 PDT (permalink) lochiel2010 says: gonna try a longer lens backwards. have to go manual I guess. try to report back. 14 hours ago (permalink) Lance Rogers says: Possibly a sensor size issue? D300 being a cropped sensor vs full frame...
read morePhysicists now understand the multi-spectral qualities of the world’s first color photographs
Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann, known as Gabriel Lippmann, accomplished a lot during his 75 years. Born in Luxembourg in 1845, Lippmann, a physicist, was a pioneer of color photography. His method for producing color photographs, which relied upon the interference phenomenon, earned Lippman the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908. According to a recent paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Lippmann’s color photography technique distorted the colors in a scene. Physicists at the École Polytechnique...
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Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.