The rumor mill is churning regarding Canon’s tilt-shift lens lineup. The company will reportedly be announcing replacements to its two oldest TS-E lenses by the end of this year, and the lenses are likely already floating around in the wild for real world field tests.
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Want to plan out and test your studio lighting setups before setting up equipment and bringing subjects into the picture? German software development company Elixxier has been developing a software program designed to help you do just that. It’s called set.a.light 3D STUDIO, and is, according to Elixxier, the world’s first software dedicated to photo studio simulation.
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Pelican Imaging’s Lytro-style Smartphone Sensor to Arrive in 2014 —Engadget
Earlier this week, we reported that Nokia has invested in Pelican Imaging, a company that’s building a 16-camera module that offers Lytro-style shoot-first-focus-later features.
Pelican’s CEO has now revealed that the first smartphone to feature Pelican technology will be appearing sometime in 2014. In addition to refocusing, the new camera would have less noise in low light and intelligent digital image stabilization.
If you ever try your hand at shooting photos or videos from the sky using a remote-controlled helicopter, do your best to avoid trees, tall buildings, and… statues. Ohio-based cameraman Terry Cline found out the dangers of statues the hard way this past weekend. While capturing aerial imagery, Cline got his flying camera stuck in the arms of a statue 100 feet above the ground.
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Pricing of Zeiss’ New Touit Mirrorless Lenses Revealed —Fuji Rumors
Earlier this week, we reported that Zeiss had given its new mirrorless camera lens family the name “Touit,” which is the name of a type of Latin American parrot.
Today, pricing information for the two initial lenses were revealed thanks to pre-order pages put up by the camera store Unique Photo. The 12mm f/2.8 wide angle lens will have a price tag of $1,250 and the 32mm f/1.8 “normal lens” will have a price tag of $900.
The lenses will be offered in both Fujifilm X and Sony E mounts.
Are you so crazy in love with photography that you would wear a lens-inspired wedding ring on your finger? If so, alternative ring company Titanium Buzz has a wedding band just for you.
The company has just launched a new product called the Camera Lens Ring. It’s a simple ring that looks like something torn from the middle of a camera lens.
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One of the key features afforded by the fusion of photo sharing and social networking is people tagging. On services such as Facebook and Flickr, adding information to identify the people in photos is as easy as clicking/tapping a face and telling the service who that subject is.
Instagram this morning announced that it’s joining in on the people-tagging fun. The company has released a new “Photos of You” feature that makes tagging a person as easy as adding a hashtag.
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Pentax May Be Rolling Out a Major Price Hike on Its Lenses —PentaxForums
It appears that Pentax is raising the suggested retail prices of lenses sold in the United States by a significant amount. The differences between old prices and new ones range from $30 (the DA 55-300mm F4-5.8) to $310 (the FA 31mm F1.8 Limited, pictured at left).
At the time of this post, B&H is one of the lone retailers that hasn’t rolled out the new pricing yet, so you might want to act fast if you want to avoid the hike.
While we’re on the subject of Google Glass, check out this interesting use case by hockey player Joseph Lallouz. He decided to wear his Glass during a hockey match in order to capture what the sport looks and feels like from a participant’s point of view.
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A couple of weeks ago, it was discovered that Google Glass has wink detection features baked into the device that could allow users to stealthily snap photographs of anything just by winking at it. Today, the first wink-to-shoot app was launched.
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