Peak Design announced the 5L Everyday Sling, a small light-weight bag that can be carried as either a sling or a fanny-pack. The smallest bag in the company's Everyday line, it's got room for a full frame DSLR with a moderate-size lens, a mirrorless system... more
Albert Watson is one of the best, and best-known portraitists in the world, and in this video by Profoto he tells the story behind one of his most iconic shots: THE portrait of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
It's a photo that you have no doubt seenbe it on the Apple homepage the day Jobs passed, or on the... more
X-Rite has launched the i1Studio, an all-in-one spectrophotometer designed to make it easy to color calibrate a variety of devicesincluding projectors, scanners, monitors, printers, and mobile devices. The spectrophotometer is joined by new i1Studio software, the ColorTRUE Mobile App for calibrating iOS devices, and the ColorChecker Calibration for Cameras... more
Here’s the new official music video for the song “Do I Have to Talk You Into It” by Spoon. If you’re a photographer who has watched post-processing tutorials online, the concept of this... more
If you want to be sure nobody is spying on you through your laptop's webcam, the best thing you can do is cover the lensbut the same might actually be true for the camera on your Apple smartphone.
Want to turn your smartphone snapshots into DSLR-quality photos? A group of scientists in Switzerland is trying to help make that possible. They’ve created a neural network that aims to automatically enhance low-quality phone snapshots into “DSLR-quality photos.”
The research group at ETH Zurich detailed their new artificial intelligence photo enhancer in a paper titled “... more
Earlier today, the Nikon board of directors announced plans to close Nikon Imaging (China) Co., LTD (NIC)a subsidiary based in Wuxi City, Jiangsu, China, where NIC employed some 2,500 workers at a factory that produced compact digital cameras and DSLR lenses. The closure, says Nikon, is due to "the rise of smartphones" and the "rapidly shrinking" compact camera market.
Researchers at ETH Zrich have developed an AI-powered system that can turn your measly smartphone snapshots into images that look like they were recorded with a full-blown DSLR... or so they claim.
Leica just announced a new lens a redesigned version of the classic 90mm Thambar F2.2 from the 1930s. We're working on a full gallery, but in the meantime, Leica has sent us some exclusive first samples.
