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Shooting film is fun and developing film is fun, but tediously scanning film is not fun… so I built myself a film-digitizing light box to be used with a flash and a 1:1 macro lens.

I’m a home-developer because I’m cheap and impatient, and I don’t have a loupe, so I’ve always scanned in every frame from a roll of film, which is extremely tedious when that takes several minutes per frame. If you develop at home, or if your lab can leave your... more

Panasonic's Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-60mm F2.8-4 lens first debuted at CES earlier this year. It contributed to samples taken for our Panasonic GH5 review, and recently we've been putting its 24-120mm equivalent range to work on another 20MP Panasonic body: the GX8. Check out our full sample gallery below, and for even more, head to our... more

The Light L16 boasts a crazy 16 total camera modules, creating images by blending photos taken with all 16 simultaneously. Photo: Light.co

It took four years, but Light.co's L16 computational photography camera is officially shipping to pre-order customers. The 16-module camera is about the size of a regular smartphone, but by using 16 cameras at once, it claims to shoot the kinds of photos we're used to seeing from DSLRs.

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China-based camera trigger company CamFi has announced the launch of CamFi Matrix Time, a software application that is free for all of the company's users. As the name suggests, the software is designed to produce the 'bullet time effect' made famous by The Matrix, doing so without the high cost typically associated with this effect.

CamFi makes wireless digital camera controllers, and its new... more

LPA Design has just announced the new PocketWizard MultiMAX II. It’s being touted as “the most versatile, reliable and predictably compatible radio on the market.”

The MultiMAX II is a followup to... more

A woman shooting a selfie lost her balance at an art exhibition in Los Angeles recently, causing a reported $200,000 worth of damage to the artworks. The whole thing was caught on camera and can be seen in the 35-second surveillance video above.

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Leica has released firmware 1.9.4.0 for the M10, correcting a bug from firmware 1.7.4.0 that produces black images in some cases during short exposures. The company has also advised M10 owners on how to handle SD cards issues that may arise in some circumstances, stating that cards with speeds of at least 80MB/s should be used.

The latest firmware can be downloaded... more

Can machines be trained to create photos that most people would think were shot by a professional human photographer? That’s what Google is trying to figure out... more

A close-up of Jupiter's 'Great Red Spot,' a storm that has been raging on the planet for 350 years. Photo: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstdt / Marty McGuire PUBLIC DOMAIN

It's one of Jupiter's most distinct and immediately recognizable features: the so-called Great Red Spot. This massive storm, wider than... more

Remember David Slater, the photographer whose camera was hijacked by a monkey and used for a series of selfies that went viral on the Internet? The photographer has spent years fighting a copyright battle in court over the photos, and now he’s broke.

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