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'We want to make lenses that can be used forever,' says a senior engineer behind Sony's new G master lenses. At the launch of the G Master range of high end lenses, we spoke to Motoyuki Ohtake, Distinguished Engineer in Sonys Lens Design Department about the process and the philosophy behind the latest lenses.

The development process series involved re-thinking several parts of the design and manufacturing process, he says.

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'We want to make lenses that can be used forever,' says a senior engineer behind Sony's new G master lenses. At the launch of the G Master range of high end lenses, we spoke to Motoyuki Ohtake, Distinguished Engineer in Sonys Lens Design Department about the process and the philosophy behind the latest lenses.

The development process series involved re-thinking several parts of the design and manufacturing process, he says.

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Here’s a simple trick for landscape photos: when shooting a landscape photo that needs a hard edge graduated ND filter, you can use your hand. Yes your hand! It’s a technique I’ve been using in my own work recently.

I haven’t purchased a graduated ND filter because I’ve relied on Lightroom and Photoshop to even out the exposure of skies when I need too. But I am liking the result I’m getting by using my hand. Here is an example of a situation... more

Cross-sectional image of conventional Back Side Illumination (BSI) CMOS sensor compared to Panasonic's Organic Photoconductive Film (OPF) sensor. (Image courtesy of Panasonic.)

Panasonic has announced that it has developed a new sensor using Organic Photoconductive Film (OPF), developed by Fujifilm, that is capable of recording a much wider range of tones (up to 3 EV greater dynamic... more

Want to shoot underwater photos with your Leica M camera but don’t want to use those bulky underwater housings out there? Subal has a perfect, albeit pricey, solution for you.

The company recently announced the Subal Leica M, an underwater housing for Leica M rangefinders that looks just like a giant Leica M rangefinder.

While the company hasn’t revealed much in the way of technical details, it did say that the housing “allows you to use Leica... more

Brides magazine recently published an article titled “Which Vendors Do You Have to Feed at Your Wedding?” In the piece, wedding planner Sandy Malone gives brides advice on which vendors they’re... more

GoPro just announced the financial results of its latest quarter, and things aren’t looking very good for the flagging camera company. Investors were already bracing for the worst after GoPro slashed 7% of its workforce in January and announced a huge drop in camera sales.

Quarterly revenue has dropped ~31% from a year ago to $436.6 million, and the... more

Nikon shooters have waited a long time for a D300S replacement, and it appears that they're going to have to keep waiting a little longer. Nikon Japan has released a statement (in Japanese) pushing the D500's initial March release back to late April 2016. Nikon cites high demand for the camera as the cause of the delay. It seems that the D500's battery grip and WT-7A wireless transmitter are also delayed.... more

If you have a mirrorless camera that lacks a viewfinder but has a tilting LCD screen, here’s a neat “hack”: you can give your camera a pseudo-viewfinder by mounting an old waist-level viewfinder to the screen.

That’s what photographer Dmitri Popov did recently with... more

Heres episode 44 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. You can also download the MP3 directly and... more

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