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Award winning macro photographer opens can of worms in bug drug drama
Dec 2, 2021
Alex Baker
The photographer who won the 2021 Buglife Bug Photographer of the Year Award has been vilified on social media for his apparently unethical methods to…
Photographer captures extremely rare moon halos during partial eclipse
Dec 1, 2021
Alex Baker
Astrophotographer Eliot Herman from Tuscon, Arizona was outside to photograph the partial lunar eclipse that was visible for part of the world in late November….
This Canon teddy bear comes complete with a miniature 5D Mark IV
Nov 30, 2021
Alex Baker
All I want for Christmas is a camera branded teddy bear with miniature-yet-useless DSLR, said no photographer ever. If however, you have a penchant for…
Deal Tracker: The best Black Friday deals for photographers and filmmakers of 2021 – Bookmark as we constantly update
Nov 26, 2021
John Aldred
Here we are again, it’s Black Friday. I hope those of you for whom it applies are preparing to work off yesterday’s turkey feast! If…
Rare 1957 Leica MP sells at an auction for whopping $1.34 million
Nov 25, 2021
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
A rare 1957 Leica MP Black Paint edition camera was recently listed at the 39th Leitz Photographica Auction. The camera has been sold, earning a…
Sony halts production of 3 popular mirrorless cameras due to the silicon shortage supply chain issues
Nov 23, 2021
John Aldred
Sony has announced that they’re halting production of three of their Alpha series mirrorless cameras due to the global silicon shortage. Fortunately, for one of…
The largest digital camera ever built is being installed and its resolution is 3.2 BILLION pixels
Nov 23, 2021
Alex Baker
The world’s largest-ever digital camera is currently being assembled and readied to be installed at the Vera Rubin Observatory, Chile. With a resolution of 3,200…
NVIDIA’s GauGAN AI landscape generator can now create scenes from scratch from written descriptions
Nov 22, 2021
John Aldred
NVIDIA has been doing a lot of cool stuff with AI. One of those things is GauGAN AI, something of a predecessor to NVIDIA’s Canvas…
Photographer Jock Sturges admits historical case of sexual misconduct
Nov 22, 2021
Alex Baker
Controversial American photographer John ‘Jock’ Sturgis has pleaded guilty to allegations of sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old student when he taught photography at a private…
The Dragonfly Telephoto Array is expanding to have 168 Canon 400mm f/2.8L IS USM II lenses pointed at the sky
Nov 21, 2021
John Aldred
Project Dragonfly, designed by a team from Yale University and the University of Toronto in 2013 is an attempt to capture the darkest parts of…