In many respects, the Nikon AF-S Nikkor 180-400mm F4E TC1.4 FL ED VR is a dream lens. Earlier this year, with the support of Nikon Europe, I tested it out in some of the harshest conditions on our planeton a special Polar Bear production in Svalbard, near the north pole.
When shooting a photo in low light, a low-ISO long-exposure photo requires a stable camera and blurs movement in the frame while a high-ISO short-exposure photo can be plagued with noise and poor quality. Now AI is bridging the cap, opening the door to low-ISO image quality while shooting at faster shutter speeds.
A group of researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Intel have published a new paper titled... more
If you enjoy watching timelapse videos but aren’t familiar with the ingredients that go into making one, check out this 3-minute video by Guardian Australia. In it, professional timelapse photographer Matthew... more
Hong Kong company Yongnuoknown for releasing ultra-affordable photography accessories and, more recently, lenses as wellhas introduced its newest lens: the YN 60mm F2 MF macro lens.
The model has a minimum focus distance from 0.234m / 9.2-... more
Say hello to the world’s first terapixel macro photo. The photo is of a food mosaic, and it was made by stitching together 629,370 separate photos. The final image has dimensions of 6,571,152×160,256 pixels, weighing in at a staggering 1053.07 gigapixels (or 1.053 terapixels).
You can explore the photo for yourself through... more
Lomography is back with another variant of its Daguerreotype Achromat 64mm F2.9 Art Lens. The lens was first launched on crowdfunding website Kickstarter in early 2016,... more
Photographer Will Burrard-Lucas was recently challenged to recreate his photos of African wildlife in the UK. This 3.5-minute video shows how he went about shooting beautiful nighttime infrared photos of barn... more
The ongoing 2018 lower Puna eruption on the big island of Hawaii has caused lava flows, toxic gases, and earthquakes that have destroyed tens of homes and forced thousands to evacuate.... more
Following numerous leaks, DJI has officially launched its new Phantom 4 Pro V2.0 drone today: basically a Phantom 4 Pro with a new 'OcuSync' transmission system for high-res low-latency video transmission, and a 4 decibel reduction in flying noise (that makes it 60% quieter).
Beyond these two features, the drone features the same... more
