DJI releases new lightweight Ronin SC gimbal with ActiveTrack

Filmmakers with compact mirrorless cameras may be interested in DJI’s new lightweight gimbal, the Ronin SC. Weighing just 2.4 lb (1 kg) it does all the regular gimbal business, plus a couple of interesting features in ActiveTrack and Force Mo… Continue reading DJI releases new lightweight Ronin SC gimbal with ActiveTrack

Sony crams 61 megapixels and wild autofocus into its new full-frame A7R IV

Sony has upped the ante considerably on its latest A7 full-frame camera. The A7R IV offers 61-megapixel resolution, 15-stop dynamic range, monster real-time autofocus in photo and video modes, twin ultra-high speed SD card slots and pixel-shi… Continue reading Sony crams 61 megapixels and wild autofocus into its new full-frame A7R IV

Stacam actioncam has its own mini gimbal

When it comes to gimbal-stabilized HD cameras, we’re used to models that are attached to control handles, or that are mounted on drones. What if you want one that’s just a stand-alone unit, though? Well, that’s where the Stacam comes in…
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I'm Back MF breathes digital life into medium format film cameras

The I'm Back MF attaches to the back of old medium format cameras via an adapter, ...

Last year, Italy’s Samuel Mello Medeiros hit Kickstarter with a chunky add-on that gave old 35 mm cameras a new lease of digital life. Now he’s returned with a camera back that performs similar magic on classic medium format cameras like those from Hasselblad, Mamiya and Zenza Bronica.

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Palm-sized Sigma fp becomes the world's smallest and lightest full-frame mirrorless camera

The Sigma fp has a body-only weight of just 370 g, and dimensions of 11.3 x ...

Mirrorless cameras have opened up a whole new world for high-end photographers that like to travel light, and with its tiny and shiny new shooter Sigma is taking this idea to the absolute extreme. The Sigma fp is billed as the world’s smallest and lightest full-frame mirrorless camera, and with a body length of 11 cm (4.3 in) could be slipped into a pocket without too much trouble at all.

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Canon tempts mobile snappers with two new PowerShot compacts

With smartphone cameras improving all the time, spending money on compact cameras seems less and less attractive. Nevertheless, major players like Nikon and Canon are still releasing them, and the latter has just updated a couple of its G-ser… Continue reading Canon tempts mobile snappers with two new PowerShot compacts

Visions of a future city in the 2019 Urban Photography Awards

This year’s CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year competition asked photographers to envision life in a city of the future. Spanish photographer Alfonso Béjar took out the grand prize with a glorious shot of Valencia’s futurist City of Arts and… Continue reading Visions of a future city in the 2019 Urban Photography Awards

GDome Mobile lets smartphones take "split shots"

You know those cool photos that are half-above the surface of the water, and half-below it? They’re called split shots, and a new underwater housing is designed to let you take them using a wide variety of smartphones…
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Hasselblad launches faster, cheaper X System medium format camera

Hasselblad marked its 75th birthday with the release of the X1D in 2016, which was billed as the world’s first compact mirrorless medium format camera. The system has continued to evolve, and the company has now announced the new X1D II 50C –… Continue reading Hasselblad launches faster, cheaper X System medium format camera

Google team's clever tech eliminates face distortion in wide-angle photos

Correcting wide-angle face distortion without ruining the rest of the picture is a tricky problem, but ...

No, it’s not just a simple distortion correction filter. A Google research team has been working on eliminating the face-stretching distortion you get from wide angle lenses, without the ugly bending of perspective lines you get by applying regular distortion filters, The team has presented an algorithm at SIGGRAPH 2019 that does just that.

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