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Chinese lens manufacturer Kipon has announced that next year it will make available a reducing adapter thats designed to allow medium format lenses to fit on full frame cameras. The adapter will have a magnification factor of 0.7x which it says will both widen the effective focal length of the lens in use and widen its effective aperture. 

The first adapter will be designed to mount Hasselblad lenses on Sony E-mount cameras, but the company says it is working on other mounts for a... more (link is external)

When the first Nikon D5 photos (link is external) leaked out earlier this week, sharp-eyed commenters noticed that the viewfinder appears to have little release buttons on the side, suggesting that the camera will have a larger interchangeable viewfinder piece.

Those observations were spot on: newly leaked photos show that the upcoming Nikon D5 does have a large eyepiece that can be easily removed by... more (link is external)

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Preview based on pre-production Canon EOS 5D S & SR

Canon has added to its EOS 5D range with the launch of two 50MP cameras, the 5DS and the 5DS R. Both cameras are high resolution full frame models, primarily aimed at stills photographers. The only difference between the models is that the 'S' has an optical low-pass filter, while... more (link is external)

Photographer Karl Taylor (link is external) just released (link is external) this humorous video titled: “... more (link is external)

Sony just launched (link is external) a new PlayMemories app called... more (link is external)

Some photographs have the power to burn themselves into our memories for a long time, while others are easily forgettable after they’re seen. Scientists are MIT have been researching the science behind memorable images, and now they’ve created a web app called LaMem (link is external) that... more (link is external)

The next time you are frustrated, having a bad day or negativity is simply surrounding you, break the cycle and turn everything around with your photography. It always amazes me how incredibly powerful photography is in bringing light into the darkness of life. While most of the things dont have this almost magical power, your photography has. Its one of the most positive things you could do, especially in moments when you need it the most.

The Positive Power of Your Photography... more (link is external)
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Sony is bringing its Alpha SLT-A68 DSLR camera - announced in Europe back on November 5th - to the US and Canada this spring.

The a68... more (link is external)

Photographer Steve Mandel (link is external) just returned from Antarctica, where he made photos of icebergs using an underwater camera, a surface camera, and a drone.

For his underwater shots, Mandel shot each photo so that it’s a split view in a single frame: half of it shows the iceberg above water,... more (link is external)

German drone manufacturer Ascending Technologies (link is external) is celebrating Christmas season this year by doing some light painting photography. Each of the photos they’ve made was painted by an automated drone that was programmed to follow waypoints in the sky.

The company believes this is the... more (link is external)

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