The #MannequinChallenge is a new viral obsession that has been taking off over the past couple of weeks. It involves shooting a short video in which everyone in the shot stays perfectly motionless like mannequins, frozen in time as they go about their lives. Above is an example by... more
President-elect Trump met with President Obama for the first time this week, and the short press conference afterward can be seen in the 3-minute video above. But politics aside, the video has people talking for a different reason: everyone’s pointing out how loud and obnoxious the press photographers’ DSLRs are.
Here’s a sampling of some of the top voted comments on YouTube:
“Am i the only f***ing one that couldn’t hear s**t because of... more
If you’re both a photography lover and a Netflix subscriber, there’s some good news for you today: Canon Australia’s Tales By Light TV series is now available through the streaming service.
Want to see the state of cameras and photography back in 1948? Check out the 15-minute training film above, created by the US Navy in 1948. It’s titled “Fundamentals of Photography: The Basic Camera.”
The film offers an overview of how film cameras worked in that day, with the discussion starting with the “ancestor of all cameras”, the camera obscura.
After watching the above video, if you’d like to see how... more
The Panasonic FZ2500 made its Photokina 2016 debut sporting a 20MP 1"-type BSI-CMOS sensor and a 24-480mm equiv. F2.8-4.5 lens. And while it offers some pretty cool stills features, the FZ2500 is really a video-centered camera.
It is capable of 4K capture at both 24 and 30p as well as Full HD capture at up to 60p. The camera sports a fully-articulating touchscreen, mic and headphone ports... more
During Adobe MAX 2016, the company gave a behind the scenes look at a new technology that theyre developing called SkyReplace. The new software makes it very easy to replace the sky and even adjust the overall look of a photo with little to no Photoshop... more
You may remember (and were traumatized by) a video that we posted earlier this year where a hydraulic press was used to crush a Nikon and a Canon camera to determine just which camera company reigned supreme. This time around a 60,000 PSI waterjet gets the honor of slicing an EOS ELAN 7E 35mm SLR in half.
Camera companies often slice camera bodies in half to show off the inner workings... more
We recently reviewed the Panasonic Lumix G85, and while it scored a Gold Award, eagle-eyed readers noticed a 'stickiness' in panning video clips when mechanical image stabilization was turned on. You can see an example in our video above.
Last week we reached out to Panasonic representatives regarding the issue, and today we received the following official statement:
For his project “The Spirit of Iron Man,” photographer Dan Votjech visited the world’s hardest triathlon, the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, and shot portraits of the... more
