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    This guy shot a lens and UV filter with an airsoft rifle to see just how much “protection” they offer

    Jan 12, 2017 John Aldred

    It’s one of those debates that’s been going on since the dawn of digital photography. To use UV filters or not? In the film days,…

    Instagram are breaking out of sRGB to introduce wide colour display for iPhones

    Jan 10, 2017 John Aldred

    Last year, Apple announced the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus with displays offering a wider colour range. They also announced that the cameras built into…

    Kodak are “investigating” the possibility of bringing back Kodachrome

    Jan 10, 2017 John Aldred

    The film so famous that Paul Simon wrote a song about it may be coming back. Kodak’s Kodachrome was the choice of both hobbyist and…

    This action camera is the first to feature FLIR thermal imaging

    Jan 4, 2017 John Aldred

    It’s getting pretty hard to innovate with action cameras these days. They pretty much already have all the features most users could ever need now….

    Is Phase One feeling threatened by mirrorless medium format cameras? Capture One “Unlikely” to support Fuji GFX

    Jan 3, 2017 John Aldred

    Adobe Lightroom has always faced some stiff competition against Phase One’s Capture One for medium format shooters. Even many photographers using DSLRs have made the…

    The largest photo of the known universe weighs two million gigabytes

    Jan 1, 2017 Udi Tirosh

    I guess this can be described as the universe’s biggest selfie… Over 4 years the Pan-STARRS1 (The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System) have been…

    YI announces a 4k 60 FPS action camera

    Dec 29, 2016 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    As we’re only days away from CES 2017, YI – who named themselves GoPro killers – has announced their plans for the a New action…

    Every camera manufacturer runs some kind of ambassador scheme, somehow they don’t really represent women

    Dec 24, 2016 Daniela Bowker

    Most camera manufacturers run ambassador schemes. They vary in their numbers and the precise ways in which they’re run, but the principles seem similar enough:…

    Photographer tells off tourists who block his view while photographing an active volcano

    Dec 15, 2016 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    How many times has it happened that you travel and manage to photograph only a bunch of other people’s heads, mobile phones and selfie sticks?…

    People will shoot over 1.2 trillion photos (that’s 12 zeroes) in 2017

    Dec 15, 2016 Mylio

    How many digital photos will be taken in 2017?  It’s predicted there will be 7.5 billion people in the world in 2017, and about 5…