Xiaomi today announced the Mi 11 smartphone which houses an impressive new low light technology. Quality nighttime photo-taking capability has been a thing for some time, but this latest device is the world's first to implement a Night Mode for video.
The South China Morning Post published this 10-minute short film titled "The Camera Guardian." It's about Hong Kong shop owner David Chan, a lover of cameras who has spent over 60 years collecting and selling vintage photographic equipment.
This past weekend, all three occupants of a speedboat in Marin County, Florida somehow fell overboard while "doing a photo shoot," sending the unmanned boat careening towards the shore at full speed, where it hit a dock and went airborne.
Canon Japan recently announced a new "high-sensitivity CMOS Sensor" that can capture high-quality, color footage a 1080p and up to 60fps even in extremely low light. The sensor is meant for industrial use, but it shows what's possible, even when you're using relatively tiny pixels.
Earlier today, in a move that is either unexpected or a long time coming, camera accessory maker Manfrotto quietly launched two handheld 3-axis camera gimbals that will compete directly with products like the DJI Ronin, Zhyiun Crane, and the Gudsen Moza gimbals already well-established on the market.
Canon sent out a media alert to press this morning addressing the overheating concerns that have come up regarding the new EOS R5 full-frame mirrorless camera. The statement explains why Canon didn't include a fan, when the camera will overheat, and what you can do to avoid these issues.
Ever since Canon declared that the newly-announced EOS R5 would be able able to shoot 8K RAW video with NO crop, people have been waiting to hear the "catch." Would record time be super limited, or would the camera simply overheat very quickly? The answer, it seems, is "both."
If you've spent any time on social media over the past 48 hours, you've probably seen this video. Recorded by young zoologist and wildlife photographer Dani Connor, the short clip of a baby red squirrel eating has been spreading across the Web like wildfire.
Hasselblad has just released what it's calling "the largest firmware update to any Hasselblad camera at one time," updating the mirrorless medium format X1D II 50C and the 907X Special Edition with several highly-requested features like video recording, focus bracketing, and better white balance tools.
My long-awaited timelapse film about my current hometown Amsterdam is finally finished! This film consists of footage shot during a 2 year period (mostly before COVID), has all different seasons transitioning into each other and even has a lunar eclipse above the city skyline.
"Concatenation" is a new experimental short film by artist Donato Sansone, who overlapped a large number of video clips into a mind-numbing flow of motion.
YouTuber Max Yuryev recently went out on the streets of New York with the Sony a7 III, Nikon Z6, and the brand new Fuji X-T4 to compare the video quality and—of particular interest to stills shooters—the IBIS performance of all three cameras side-by-side.
Despite plenty of opinions out there saying that stills photography is dying and video is taking over, one metric at least seems to disagree: ad revenue. According to reports, the world's largest photo sharing site (Instagram) out-earned the world's largest video sharing platform (YouTube) by a lot in 2019.
Instagram star Jordi Koalitic made this rapid-fire 12-minute video showing 100 of his creative photos and behind-the-scenes looks at how they were made.
Over the past year, the Sony a7S III has been elevated from "long-awaited" to "unicorn" or "mythical" status. Many are wondering if it'll ever be released at this point. But if the latest leak is to be believed, the camera is in the works and currently being tested in the wild.
A video released by local authorities in Carland, Michigan captured the scary moment when a photographer was nearly hit by a passing train she was photographing. Fortunately, the train "only" tore a piece off of her coat, leaving her unscathed... if shaken and (hopefully) wiser.
Canon isn't the only camera maker who wants to make a splash in February. It seems the flagship Nikon D6, which Nikon announced as "in development" a couple of months ago, will arrive in mid-February, and rumored specs look very promising.
Recently I made my own custom-built camera rig for shooting Through-The-Viewfinder videos on a Nikon Z6 through the viewfinder of an old Lomo Lubitel 166. With my setup, I can have the whole camera in the frame but without distracting hands visible. Here's how I did it.
While on an aerial photo tour over the Icelandic wilderness late last year, photographer and pilot Haukur Snorrason dropped his iPhone 6s Plus out of the plane's window and onto the tundra below. 13 months later, the phone was recovered, revealing a video of its own fall.
After completing my degree in still photography at RIT, I grew up in NYC working in the motion world as a production assistant. My plan was to eventually direct TV spots, but I wanted to garner a solid background in the art of lighting from the still world first.
Sony users have been waiting a long time for the successor to the Sony a7S II. But according to the most recent report from a source who actually used a prototype of the a7S III, the wait might actually be worth it.
Over the past few months, it seems like Sony has released updates for every camera in their line-up except the very-long-awaited and much-anticipated Sony a7S III. According to the latest reports, Sony does have one more major E-Mount announcement in the works for September... but is it the a7S III, or the a9 II?
A few days ago, Panasonic released their new LUMIX S1H. The S1H has gone to town with new features designed to match most filmmakers needs. The features that filmmakers have grown to love in the GH series are now available and improved upon in the full-frame S-Series.
After first announcing the Lumix S1H at the end of May, Panasonic is officially launching the L-Mount camera today, adding a third offering to its full-frame mirrorless lineup that includes the high-resolution S1R and the hybrid S1.
Nikon made two major announcements for video shooters today. First, they released a dedicated (and long overdue) 3D Look Up Table (LUT) for the flat N-Log profile, making it much easier to post-process video footage from the Z6 and Z7. And second, they quietly announced that the long-awaited RAW video update for the Z Series will not be a free firmware update.
DJI has unveiled the latest version of its Osmo Mobile smartphone stabilizer, taking its experience with high-end gimbals like the Ronin series and using that experience to make the 3-axis smartphone gimbal smaller, more portable, more user-friendly, and cheaper.
RED CEO Jarred Land took to the reduser.net forum this past weekend to drop a major teaser about the company's next cinema camera—a small form-factor camera called the Komodo that is "not larger than 4 inches in any dimension" and may feature Canon's RF mount.
Perhaps one of the more difficult aspects of landscape photography is determining how to properly expose your scene under less-than-ideal lighting conditions. These types of situations are a common occurrence with outdoor photography as it’s often a struggle trying to properly expose an image consisting of a bright sky and a dark foreground in a single image.
Photographer Julia Trotti made this 7-minute video that shows how your choice of focal length affects your results in portrait photography.
Canon made this 4.5-minute video explaining the technology of its new RF lens mount for full-frame mirrorless cameras and its strengths over conventional (e.g. EF) lens mounts.