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This otherworldly landscape wins the 2021 Epson International Pano Awards

The 12th EPSON International Pano Awards has just announced its winners, and just as always, it’s a stunning collection of panoramic photos. The 2021 winner is Joshua Hermann with a series of landscapes that look like they were captured on another planet. But the shortlisted photos are nothing less impressive, awaking our longing for traveling and exploring the world.

In this article, we bring you more information about this year’s contest, category winners, and of course – a selection of photos that will leave you in awe.

The Epson International Pano Awards 2020 is a mind-blowing collection of panoramic images

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The Epson International Pano Awards has just shared the winners of its 2020 contest. If you enjoy aerial, landscape, and architecture photography, this will be a real treat. We selected some of the awarded images to share with you, and trust me, it was a tough task to make a selection because they’re all stunning! So keep on reading and check out the magnificent photos from Epson’s gallery.

This photographer lives in a camera-shaped house with his sons Canon, Nikon and Epson

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We’ve heard of photographers turning vehicles, bedrooms, and even skyscrapers into cameras. Well, photographer Ravi Hongal took things to a whole new level. This India-based photographer built an entire camera-shaped house to live in with his family. And while we’re at family, his passion for photography even had him to name his sons Canon, Nikon and Epson.

Remember 1995 digital cameras? Here’s what shooting with them was like

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In 2018, we are talking about a camera able to produce 400 MP photos. It’s a great thing to follow the progress of technology and be a part of it. But sometimes it’s also great to travel back in time, just for fun. Lazy Game Reviews takes you back to the past and shoots with Epson PhotoPC, the first consumer digital camera from Epson. There’s the full experience, from unboxing, through shooting, to transferring and editing the photos. And if you had one of the digital cameras from the ‘90s, this will certainly bring back some memories.

Calibrating your Epson v700 workflow with a $16,000 Hasselblad Flextight

I recently had a few prints made from some medium format negatives. The prints are for a specific purpose so I wanted them to be of the highest quality possible, this meant taking them to a local specialist where the film was scanned with a Hasselblad Flextight X1. The Flextight is about the best quality scan you can get, before moving up to dedicated drum scans that can be messy, time consuming, and expensive.

I realised I could use this as an opportunity to compare how good my Epson v700 scanner is to the Flextight scans, and also to try to improve the scans from my v700 by calibrating the workflow. You could also apply this to the v800 models of this scanner as they are effectively the same. Note that I’m not considering wet scanning, as I’m dealing with medium format film.

5 renowned photographers sit down to talk about the importance of printing your legacy

Admittedly, I don’t print out enough of my own photographs to either hang on my own wall or give away to family and friends. But this latest collection of videos from Epson might convince me otherwise.

Five of the world’s most talented photographers sat down with Epson to discuss their work and what it means to have their photos printed out on paper. Steve McCurry, Amy Toensing, Stephen Wilkes, Tim Tadder and Jeremy Cowart all get a chance to share their inspiration and insight into their respective worlds of photography.

New hi-res EVF covers 98% of sRGB, opens new possibilities for mirrorless cameras

For DSLR photographers looking to make the jump to mirrorless, one of the biggest turnoffs is having to settle for an electronic viewfinder (EVF). As things currently stand, most EVFs are good enough to get the job done, but many still lack in resolution and – arguably most importantly – color rendering.

That’s changing though, with the production of a new EVF from Epson (yes, the company most known for printers). It’s unglamorously called the ‘Ultimicron L3FJ63800C’ and said to be the highest resolution EVF for mass production – packing in almost twice the pixels and 30% more color gamut than anything on the market.

How Much Ink Is Your Printer Wasting? Epson Owner Says He Loses $100’s On Wasted Ink Every Month

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I don’t think it comes as a surprise that printer ink grossly overpriced. This seems to be the case whether you’re purchasing ink for your home office printer or ink for your photo printers. For example, a set of 11 UltraChrome inks for the Epson 9900 wide format printer will set you back at least $800. Paying that kind of premium, consumers want to make sure they aren’t letting any of that precious liquid gold go to waste. Unfortunately, every time your printer notifies you it’s time to replace an ink cartridge, you’re probably throwing out hunderds of dollars worth of ink.

“On average, when we throw away a cartridge of ink from our Epson 9900 printer, we throw away well over 100ml of ink. Many times 150ml or more. But, on average, we throw away 120ml of ink with every 700ml cartridge and about 60-80ml of ink with every 350ml cartridge.”

Epson Wants you To Print Again, Makes Printers That Last 2 Years Per Ink

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If you are one of the few who are still printing pictures, you know that one of the most annoying things about actually printing is dealing with ink. I don’t just mean the outrageous ink prices, it also has to do with how you can’t print when one of the color cartridges ends. If you did not stock up with a spare cartridge of that specific color, it’s a trip to inkland.

Epson wants to change all that and to help you print more, by removing the biggest obstacle home printers have: INK. Their new EcoTank series is promised to go for 2 years on a single dose of ink. And when that runs out, a new set of ink bottles will set you back a mere $59.

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