Leica has released new firmware for its S and S-E medium format cameras that improves the quality of information displayed on the top plate and in the viewfinder. Firmware versions 4.0.0.0 for the S (Typ 007) and 2.5.0 for the S-E (Typ 006) also allows users to mark images with a rating that can be displayed in Adobes Lightroom and Bridge applications. With the firmware loaded the cameras will also remember the degree of magnification last used in review mode and automatically default to... more
Remember in the movie Top Gun, when Goose and Maverick go canopy to canopy with a Russian jet, and Goose snaps that Polaroid? Advertising photographer Blair Bunting wanted to find out if it was possible…... more
Venus Optics has announced a pair of manual focus lenses a 7.5mm F2 for Micro Four Thirds and a 15mm F2 FE Zero-D designed with full-frame Sony mirrorless cameras in mind. Both of these 15mm equivalent lenses are rectilinear.
Venus calls the Laowa 15mm F2 the 'world's fastest 15mm rectilinear lens for full-frame' and includes it in its 'Close-to-Zero Distortion' series along with the 12mm F2.8... more
Venus Optics, creators of the Laowa 12mm f/2.8 with ‘close to zero distortion,’ are unveiling two new extreme lenses at Photokina. The Laowa 15mm f/2 FE Zero-D, the world’s fastest 15mm rectilinear lens for full-frame cameras, and the Laowa 7.5mm f/2 MFT, the worlds widest f/2 Lens for Micro Four Thirds cameras.
Analog lovers rejoice, those tears you cried for your old friend Fujifilm FP-100c peel-apart packfilm were not in vain! Impossible Project founder Florian ‘Doc’ Kaps has teamed up with Bob Crowley at New55 Film to save the format.
Ultra-high sensitivity cameras like the 4 Million ISO Canon ME20F-SH are making it possible to record things never before possible, like these bioluminescent bamboo corals pulsating with light 1,245 feet below the surface of the ocean.
In order to capture shadow detail, this image was metered from the shadows, resulting in blown out highlights. The DNG version on the right enabled the highlights to be recaptured without issue. Photo and caption courtesy of Adobe.
Guess what Leica has up its sleeve? It’s a new instant camera called the “Sofort.” Photos and details about the not-yet-announced camera have been leaked onto the Web.
The company behind the popular MIOPS Smart Trigger is back, and this time they’re turning your smartphone into what they’ve dubbed “the world’s most versatile camera remote.”
Full disclosure: MIOPS is a PetaPixel advertiser; however, our editorial and advertising are kept completely separate... more
Getty Images has responded to the $1 billion lawsuit filed against it by photographer Carol Highsmith, arguing that she can no longer make copyright claims about the photos because they have been entered into the public domain. According to reports from the AP, the... more
