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Have you thought about getting a RED Cinema Camera? Sure, they're pretty amazing tools, but do you really need one? Cooper over at Cooper films gives you some questions to ask and some good advice to consider before taking the plunge.

President Donald Trump’s meeting with Russian diplomats is being heavily criticized by US photographers today. The administration’s decision to lock out US media has left them open to accusations of contributing to Russian propaganda, and potentially opening itself up to espionage.

The two related storylines have quickly gained prominence over the past 24 hours. Initially, the story revolved around the absence of any US media in the meeting between President Trump,... more

Yeah, Im in a crevasse, Jamie Mullner radios to his friends after tumbling 60 feet to the depths of a glacier in the Swiss Alps. I had the GoPro recording; how epic is that!?

This GoPro Video of the Day starts with Jamie and his friends surveying the slope in front of them. In a little moment of foreshadowing, Jamie points out an obvious crevasse and says that hes a little bit sketched out. Moments later hes at the bottom of it, having skied in to a section that was... more

Native Nebraskan Bill Frakes has had a long career in which he has photographed in 138 countries and all US states. He has captured everything from Pulitzer Prize-winning images of Hurricane Andrew for the Miami... more

Sony Mobile has released the first super-slow-motion short movie that has been completely recorded on a smartphone. All of the movie's scenes were recorded by 120 amateur videographers from 21 countries on the Tria peninsula near Lisbon, Portugal. The footage was shot under the direction of award-winning director Chris Cairns and using the new Motion Eye mode of the Sony Xperia XZ... more

Sigma has released an updated firmware version for its 30mm F1.4 APS-C lens for the Sony E-mount. Firmware version 0.2 brings the following improvements:

  • Improved peripheral brightness correction when an aperture value of F1.7 is selected on the Sony a6300 camera.
  • Fixed the AF operation when using... more

Episode 175 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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The Canon EOS 5 (known as the EOS A2/A2E in the Americas) was the world's first SLR camera with eye-controlled focus.

Over the past few years, we've become spoiled by a lot of great autofocus technologies like face detection, tap-to-focus, and subject tracking. But before we had those things, we had Canons eye-controlled focus, a technology that made its appearance in... more

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Publishing has come a long way since the mid twentieth century. What was once a herculean task putting together each individual page of a newspaper has largely been replaced by click-and-save web publishing.

So when we came across a curated set of... more

Hahnel industries has launched its first flash unit in the shape of the radio-controlled Modus 600RT. The new hotshoe flash is powered by a block lithium ion battery, in the style of the Godox V860ll, instead of the usual AA cells and has a guide number of 60m @ ISO 100. Each flash unit can operate as both slave or master in a wireless set-up, using optical or 2.4GHz radio signals to communicate with other guns or with a Viper flash trigger in the hotshoe.

Hahnel says the Modus units... more

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