In 2019, Yongnuo announced their first (sort-of) Micro Four Thirds camera, the YN450, a year before they joined the Micro Four Thirds System Standard Group. It was an odd duck, with a Micro Four Thirds sensor but a Canon EF lens mount. It wasn’t easily available outside of China, but the few who managed to […]
Ricoh has announced two new 50mm f/1.4 lenses for Pentax K mount DSLRs. The two lenses are the HD PENTAX-FA 50mm F1.4 and smc PENTAX-FA 50mm F1.4 Classic. Although the two lenses share identical specs and appear very similar to each other, Pentax swears they are two different lenses, each with a “uniquely distinct design […]
Last month, I spent two weeks on the frozen sea ice along the coast of Baffin Island, Canada, searching for female polar bears who had just emerged from their dens with their newborn cubs. Knowing that encounters would likely not be closer than 100 meters, I decided the new Nikkor Z 600/4.0 TC VR S […]
Thieves broke into the studio of the popular YouTube channel Cinecom.net this week and stole over $100,000 of camera and cinema equipment. According to the video posted to their channel, the thieves forced entry and ransacked the locked studio. They took almost everything. Security camera footage shows the three men sorting through the gear. It […]
RED has officially unveiled the new RED Komodo X 6K (buy here) digital cinema camera. RED says that the update to the RED Komodo 6K (buy here) line features the same size 6K Super 35 global shutter CMOS sensor as its predecessor but with a “ground-up redesign and key architecture improvements”. This brings improved detail […]
So the rumours are true. No, not the alien abduction ones, the ones about ‘gators living in the sewers. Well, the Florida sewers, at any rate. One maintenance crew got a bit of a shock when they discovered a fully grown alligator inside a storm pipe this month. The stormwater crew were working for the […]
Adobe has released the May 2023 update for Premiere Pro CC. With it comes the new text-based editing features announced at NAB 2023 in April. It also sees a new background autosave feature that doesn’t interrupt your workflow, with intervals as short as one minute. Danish speakers can now use the AI transcribe features in […]
Entrepreneur and celebrity domestic goddess Martha Stewart has become the latest swimsuit cover for Sports Illustrated. Aged 81 years old, she is officially the oldest cover star featured by the magazine. She hopes to break ageist attitudes and inspire women. Stewart was chosen alongside three other women to appear on the cover of the magazine. […]
DxO has announced Nik Collection 6, the latest upgrade to the suite of plugins that enhance the photo editing power of Lightroom Classic and Photoshop. Other than improvements to the existing tools, the plugin has been revamped to get a new interface and more functionalities that give you more control over your edits. So, let’s […]
reFocus Awards has announced the 2023 winners of its annual Color Photography contest. Among 20 categories and six overall winners, you’ll see plenty of magnificent images of different genres and with different stories and sentiments. We bring you this year’s winners, as well as some information about the contest. This year, photographers from 69 countries […]
