This past weekend, Canon was planning to launch its 5D Mark III-based CE-SAT 1B satellite camera into orbit, but it was not meant to be. The satellite was supposed to go as part of Rocket Lab's aptly named mission "Pics or It Didn’t Happen," but the Electron vehicle experienced "an anomaly" and all 7 micro-satellites onboard—including Canon's—were destroyed.
If you backed a Meyer Optik Görlitz lens on Kickstarter and are still waiting for your reward to arrive, there's some bad news for you: it never will, and your money is now gone. net SE, the company behind those lenses and other vintage brand reboots, is dead.
Late last year, photographer Irene Rudnyk reached out to a model and makeup artist for a photo concept she had in mind that featured a woman illuminated by a lantern at blue hour. Rudnyk shares in the 7-minute video above how, after putting in considerable time and effort into putting the shoot together, she failed at the actual shoot.
All of the drives we are using to store our precious photos and videos are not 100% reliable. Everybody should know that by now (and back everything up) but even if you are doing it properly, there are times when a drive fails and you have nowhere else to get its contents except from the drive itself.
Just as how cars can fail after a certain number of miles, camera shutters can go belly up after a certain number of actuations (i.e. flapping open and closed for an exposure). If you've ever wondered what a heavily used DSLR shutter can look like after it bites the dust, today's your lucky day.
Backers of the KitSentry Kickstarter by F-Stop Gear are out of luck. Just days after an in-depth report that claimed the company is "falling apart at the seams," F-Stop Gear has officially announced that KitSentry will never be, and seems to have no way of reimbursing backers back.
Planetary Resources, the company behind the ARKYD Kickstarter that promised you the chance to take a 'space selfie' for just $25, announced today that it is cancelling the project and will refund all $1.5 million raised in 2013.