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First announced last October, Ricoh is ready to ship the HD Pentax-D FA* 50mm F1.4 SDM AW, a weather-sealed fast prime for the company's full-frame DSLRs. The lens has 15 elements... more

When low-quality photos or videos are posted online, people often say that they were shot with a “potato camera.” But if you actually want to shoot photos with a literal potato camera, how would you go about doing so?

The production studio... more

Photographers Tony and Chelsea Northrup made this lighthearted 7.5-minute video about the 5 worst types of photographers you’ll meet.

Here’s a rundown of the 5 types... more

I found an image that I don’t want to see. Too familiar, and so, too hurtful. But as the Internet meme jokes, “What has been seen can’t be unseen.” In that context, such images are considered shocking, graphic, violent. The image I refer to, however, is far removed from any of these labels. But for me, there it is, that Punctum that Barthes spoke of. As I write, Google Chrome suggests the correct spelling is ‘puncture’ — how appropriate.

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A man in Wisconsin turned himself into police after a stealthy shoe camera he was planning to shoot “upskirt” images with exploded on his foot during testing at home.

According to the Madison police department, the 32-year-old man had purchased a shoe camera to secretly shoot while pointing up women’s skirts —... more

A mechatronics engineering student has invented a “mobile airbag” that automatically deploys when you drop a device, protecting it from harm.

Phillip Frenzel, a 25-year-old master’s student at Aalen University in Germany, came up with his idea after breaking his phone by throwing the jacket containing it over a banister. The impact caused the electronics inside the phone to break.

So, Frenzel began looking into developing a system to prevent dropped... more

Here’s a handy trick that may be useful for beginning photographers: did you know that you can bend your reflector to change the quality of the light on your subject?

Held in the concave position, the light becomes more concentrated this option results in a very sculptured look, giving the image an editorial feel.

Held in the convex position — this option delivers a soft window light effect, giving a gentle and friendly ambiance... more

Lighting brand Phottix has announced a new LED panel for videographers and stills photographers called the Kali600. Larger than the companys hotshoe Nuada series, the Kali600 is designed for location and studio work and to be mounted on a stand.

The panel has 600 LEDs and can produce light across a range of 3200-5600K while offering a maximum brightness of 3000Lux. With a pair of battery plates the panel can be run from two optional Sony NP-type batteries or directly via the mains... more

If you are a landscape photographer trying to get your work out there, you have surely heard about that one big imaging platform called Instagram. So you made yourself a profile and started sharing all the gorgeous work that you worked hard for and suddenly you wonder: why is nobody liking my images and why do I have 50 followers while others have thousands and just keep growing?

There isn’t just one single reason for this — it’s actually many, and I’ll... more

Apple can claim to consumers that the iPhone X captures “studio-quality portraits.” That’s what the UK’s advertising regulator has concluded after it received complaints that Apple’s marketing was misleading.

Earlier this year, Apple launched a new ad campaign for the iPhone X that offered a behind-the-scenes look at how the company created a phone that “takes studio-quality portraits without the studio”:

The video... more

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