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Brandon Stanton, the photographer behind the wildly successful website-turned Facebook page-turned Best Selling Book "Humans of New York" surprised everyone today with a bombshell announcement. For the past 4 years, he's been quietly filming over 1,200 personal interviews with his portrait subjects, and he's turning those interviews into a HONY TV series starting next week.

The series was created in conjunction with cinematographer Michael Crommett, and the official announcement... more

Nearly every professional studio Ive ever used has these “polyboards” and youve probably even seen them yourself but may not have known what theyre used for. Polyboards are polystyrene boards that usually measure 4 feet wide by 8 feet high and are normally 2 inches thick. One of the other defining characteristics is that they are often white on one side and black on the other.

This dual color is very important as this gives them two key uses. The white side is used... more

Think Tank Photo has just debuted a new set of Spectral shoulder bags: the Spectral 8, Spectral 10, and Spectral 15. All three camera bags are designed to give photographers an inconspicuous way to carry around their camera gear, helping protect their equipment from both unsavory environmental conditions and thieves.

The bags feature a Fidlock magnetic clasp that allows users to access their camera gear with one hand and automatically locks when the flap is closed. The Spectral bags... more

Facebook has updated its mobile app for both iOS and Android with support for capturing and sharing 360 photos without any extra hardware required.

It has been possible to upload and view 360photos since May last year using images created on other devices, but now the Facebook app can handle the 360 capture itself.

The update brings a new 360 Photo... more

There's a neat trick baked into the new Nikon D850 that you may not have noticed yet. Hidden away among the many features broken down in the D850 announcement is this line:

Negative/Positive Scanning: With the optional ES-2 Film Digitizing Adapter and compatible Micro-NIKKOR lens, the camera enables super high-resolution digitizing of... more

Swedish medium format camera maker Hasselblad has added electronic shutter and resizable AF points to its X1D mirrorless camera via a new firmware update: Version 1.17.2.

The newly added electronic shutter can operate between 68 minutes and 1/10,000secextending the short exposure range of the camera from 1/2000sec. It also takes away the vibrations of a mechanical shutter, which should reduce the risk of shutter shock in moderate exposures, and the silent nature of the electronic... more

Swedish medium format camera maker Hasselblad has added electronic shutter and resizable AF points to its X1D mirrorless camera via a new firmware update: Version 1.17.2.

The newly added electronic shutter can operate between 68 minutes and 1/10,000secextending the short exposure range of the camera from 1/2000sec. It also takes away the vibrations of a mechanical shutter, which should reduce the risk of shutter shock in moderate exposures, and the silent nature of the electronic... more

Nikon’s new D850 is more than a fast and powerful full-frame DSLR — it can double as a 45.7-megapixel film scanner as well. It’s the first Nikon camera to feature a new built-in Negative Digitizing feature. To use it, you’ll also need the new Nikon ES-2 Film Digitizing Adapter.

Announced alongside the D850, the ES-2 helps... more

Everyone knows the classic images of Iceland. The famous Skogafoss, The Black Beach, The Blue Lagoon, you name it. On a recent trip to Iceland, we decided we wanted to shoot something a little bit different.

While the Iceland Highlands is a popular area as well, it is much easier to get unique vantage points on a plane. For this series, we ew over the highlands for a couple of hours with varied conditions that Iceland is known for. We ended up with a set of images of both wide... more

Google and UC Berkeley researchers have teamed up on a project called the Eclipse Megamovie 2017. They’re taking crowdsourced photos of totality during the Great American Eclipse and turning them into one long... more

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