Amazingly, there's no built-in method to finding out how many shutter actuations your Canon DSLR has amassed. Thankfully though, there are third-party solutions to help get the job done.
One such solution is the recently-updated EOS Inspector 2, a MacOS app that's improved upon the original version of EOS Inspector and created by independent Russian developer Konstantin Pavlikhin.
World Press Photo is at the receiving end of sharp criticism today for a series of photos on its Instagram account showing poverty-stricken Indians standing in front of tables... more
Astrophotography is generally a race against time to capture as much subtle starlight we can before the stars create trails in our images. The movement of the Earth puts a natural limit on how much sharp, subtle detail we can reveal. We have to use super fast, wide angle lenses and high ISO values to see all the awesome detail. Fortunately, a tool exists to circumvent this barrier to reveal more of the hidden magic we have in our night sky.
AR 2665 and Quiescent Prominence. ukasz Sujka (Poland)
The sunspot AR2665 was one of the most active regions in 2017 on the right you can see a phenomenal quiescent prominence extending from our star, the Sun. This type of prominence lasts for a very long time and its structure is quite stable. The photo is a composition of two images: one of the magnificent prominence and one of the Suns surface. The surface is much... more
Light-painting photography is generally done in the dark since you need long exposure times to capture moving light sources as streaks. But use can also shoot long-exposure photos in bright sunlight using a neutral density filter. Photographer... more
Now here’s an unusual camera sale: someone on eBay is selling two Hasselblad 500c cameras along with 80mm planar lenses and film backs. The caveat: both of the camera kits are “really moldy.”
An EF-3 tornado ripped through Marshalltown, Iowa, last Thursday, and one of the victims of the disaster was a 92-year-old photographer named Harold Cline. After seeking shelter from the storm, Cline returned to his work to find that his 65-year-old business had been destroyed.
“It felt like as the better part of my life is gone,” Cline... more
Sony has introduced a new smartphone image sensor today and, looking at the IMX586's impressive spec sheet, the new chip could help boost smartphone camera performance further in the next generation of high-end devices.
The sensor combines two key technologies: very high resolution and a 'Quad Bayer' color filter pattern to offer a series of clever processing modes.
According to Sony, low light performance is comparable to large 1.6m pixels
