PanoMoments' '360-degree living photos' are a kind of mashup between 360-degree images and Apple's Live Photos. It's not quite video, and it's not a static image: PanoMoments can be created using any robotic panorama head (though the company is producing a specialized one), uploaded to their website for conversion and viewed on the web, with a VR headset or on a mobile device. Varying the time it takes for the device to complete a full rotation gives the resulting product a 'live photos... more
The Sigma 85mm F1.4 Art is finally here, with units of the $1199 lens shipping now. The big question, almost as big as the lens itself: is it worth the wait? And, is it worth the weight? To find out, we wasted no time taking it out to shoot some portraits. Lots and lots of portraits.
Now that we've pulled the wraps off of our Sony RX100 V review, we couldn't help but reflect a bit. After all, the RX100 lineup is extensive, offering potential buyers five models that range from $450 all the way up to $1000. The lack of any price overlap allows them to sit fairly comfortably alongside each other, but for users not so well-... more
Adventure photographer Tim Kemple has made a project of photographing some of the world's tallest peaks from high-altitude planes and helicopters. 'Ive always been fascinated by the mountains. Call it... more
The #MannequinChallenge is a new viral obsession that has been taking off over the past couple of weeks. It involves shooting a short video in which everyone in the shot stays perfectly motionless like mannequins, frozen in time as they go about their lives. Above is an example by... more
President-elect Trump met with President Obama for the first time this week, and the short press conference afterward can be seen in the 3-minute video above. But politics aside, the video has people talking for a different reason: everyone’s pointing out how loud and obnoxious the press photographers’ DSLRs are.
Here’s a sampling of some of the top voted comments on YouTube:
“Am i the only f***ing one that couldn’t hear s**t because of... more
If you’re both a photography lover and a Netflix subscriber, there’s some good news for you today: Canon Australia’s Tales By Light TV series is now available through the streaming service.
Want to see the state of cameras and photography back in 1948? Check out the 15-minute training film above, created by the US Navy in 1948. It’s titled “Fundamentals of Photography: The Basic Camera.”
The film offers an overview of how film cameras worked in that day, with the discussion starting with the “ancestor of all cameras”, the camera obscura.
After watching the above video, if you’d like to see how... more
