Have you ever wondered why some Canon lenses are white while most other lenses in the industry are black? No, it’s not just for aesthetics and marketing… Canon has a technical reason for it: heat reduction.
It’s a pretty known camera industry factoid, but perhaps some of you have never heard about it before.
A number of Canon’s professional L series lenses — all super-telephoto lenses — are “white” with the distinctive red... more
For a short time every February, when conditions are just right, Horsetail Falls in Yosemite gets transformed by a phenomenon known as “firefall.” When the sunlight hits the water just right, the waterfall looks like molten lava flowing down the side of El Capitan.
'If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff.' - Jim Richardson, National Geographic Photographer
Born into a family with a taste for the 'restless life,' Max Lowe was indoctrinated into a life of far-flung travel basically at birth. 'Traveling,' Lowe says, 'more than anything, has inspired me.'
It was during his years in college in Salt Lake City that Lowe first picked up a camera. In... more
NPR’s All Things Considered aired this interesting 5-minute segment that discusses Japanese internment camp photos of photographers Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Toyo Miyatake.... more
Whoa. Sigma is on the brink of shaking up the camera lens industry yet again with another groundbreaking Art lens. Next week, on February 23rd, 2016, Sigma will reportedly announce a new 50-100mm f/1.8 DC HSM Art lens — a zoom lens with an unusually large f/1.8 fixed aperture.
While news of this new lens has been rumored for days now, the product photo above and some specs were just... more
Pentaxs road to full-frame has been long, winding and not without a few wrong turns. But it could all have been so different.
Way back in 2000, when the 21st Century was just beginning to find its feet and photography journalists were starting to get used to putting a D into SLR, Pentax announced that it was making a full-frame (D)SLR. Had it shipped, that camera -... more
My name is Brian Podnos, and my wife Donna and I run an architectural photography company called Donna Dotan Photography. We were recently commissioned to create a giant 60-foot photo of Citifield with New York City in the background at twilight. Here’s a look at how we made the photo.
Australian photographer Warren Richardson has won the 2015 World Press Photo of the Year. Richardsons winning photo, taken on the night of August 28, 2015 at the Hungarian-Serbian border, shows a baby being passed through a barbed wire fence by a refugee.... more
Clifton Cameras in the UK is asking for help this week after a CCTV surveillance camera caught two thieves stealing 4,000 (~$5,700) worth of Sony cameras and lenses from the company’s camera store in Dursley, Gloucestershire.
The edited 1-minute video above shows one of the... more
