The British company Bullitt yesterday announced its new Cat S60 rugged smartphone, the world’s first to feature a built-in thermal imaging camera. The product is essentially a fusion between Bullitt’s Cat smartphones and... more
Rumors suggest Sigma is getting ready to launch a 50-100mm F1.8 lens for APS-C cameras. Full specifications and convincing images of the lens have been leaked, suggesting the lens will be part of the company's impressive 'Art' range. Such a lens would offer a fast partner to the company's 18-35mm F1.8 Art lens, giving the same angle-of-view, depth-of-... more
Have you ever wondered why some Canon lenses are white while most other lenses in the industry are black? No, it’s not just for aesthetics and marketing… Canon has a technical reason for it: heat reduction.
It’s a pretty known camera industry factoid, but perhaps some of you have never heard about it before.
A number of Canon’s professional L series lenses — all super-telephoto lenses — are “white” with the distinctive red... more
For a short time every February, when conditions are just right, Horsetail Falls in Yosemite gets transformed by a phenomenon known as “firefall.” When the sunlight hits the water just right, the waterfall looks like molten lava flowing down the side of El Capitan.
'If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff.' - Jim Richardson, National Geographic Photographer
Born into a family with a taste for the 'restless life,' Max Lowe was indoctrinated into a life of far-flung travel basically at birth. 'Traveling,' Lowe says, 'more than anything, has inspired me.'
It was during his years in college in Salt Lake City that Lowe first picked up a camera. In... more
NPR’s All Things Considered aired this interesting 5-minute segment that discusses Japanese internment camp photos of photographers Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Toyo Miyatake.... more
Whoa. Sigma is on the brink of shaking up the camera lens industry yet again with another groundbreaking Art lens. Next week, on February 23rd, 2016, Sigma will reportedly announce a new 50-100mm f/1.8 DC HSM Art lens — a zoom lens with an unusually large f/1.8 fixed aperture.
While news of this new lens has been rumored for days now, the product photo above and some specs were just... more
Pentaxs road to full-frame has been long, winding and not without a few wrong turns. But it could all have been so different.
Way back in 2000, when the 21st Century was just beginning to find its feet and photography journalists were starting to get used to putting a D into SLR, Pentax announced that it was making a full-frame (D)SLR. Had it shipped, that camera -... more
