Shortly after startup lens maker Noktor went out of business, a company called SLR Magic decided to acquire the brand and continue the Noktor project. Now, the company is planning on launching a 50mm f/0.95 "HyperPrime" lens for the Leica M mount. It'll be a 6-bit coded lens that's significantly cheaper than the Noctilux lenses offered by Leica.
The video recording quality of DSLRs has gotten to the point where you can slap them onto big fancy rigs and use them to film portions of big budget Hollywood movies without anyone noticing any difference. Iron Man was the first superhero in the Marvel universe to make use of the Canon 5D Mark II, and today it was announced that the camera was also used extensively throughout "Captain America: The First Avenger".
For every iconic photograph that's out there, there was likely a number of other photographs taken at the same time that many people probably have never seen. One such photo is Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange -- an image that became one of the defining photos of the Great Depression. The woman in the photo, Florence Owens Thompson, had been travelling with her family when their car's timing chain snapped. After setting up a temporary camp to wait while her husband and two sons went to town for …
This is what happens to your photography when you grow in both Photoshop skills and laziness.
Gadget painting company ColorWare is now offering its services for the Leica D-Lux 5, allowing you to choose custom colors for everything from the body to the hot shoe insert. If you've always wanted to make your D-Lux as painful on the eyes as some of Pentax's limited edition cameras, now's your chance. You can buy a custom painted $800 D-Lux directly from ColorWare for $1200, or send in your camera for a $400 paint job. It's super pricey, but if you're shooting with a Leica and even thinking …
Transform is a short film by photographer Zack Arias that offers encouragement to photographers who are going through a slump and hard times. It's an incredibly powerful piece that everyone interested in photography -- pros and enthusiasts alike -- should see at least once, though you might find yourself coming back to it again and again in the future.
Finish modder metalfusion has a sweet DIY way of showing off photographs. After converting .jpg, .gif, or .png photographs into halftone images using a free program, they use a CNC machine to carve the image into black-painted plywood by drilling into the wood at various depths. Up close the "print" looks like a piece of wood with a bunch of holes, but step back -- or squint your eyes -- and the photo can be seen!
Ordinarily if there's movement in a timelapse video, it's constrained to a small area because a dolly or crane system was used to change the position of the camera small distances between shots. The folks at T-RECS came up with a special way to introduce large distance movements into timelapse shots, but are keeping mum on how they did it. Check out the showreel above and see if you can figure out their secret technique.
