Author: John Aldred

Samyang kicks off its new Premium line of lenses with an 85mm f/1.2 and 14mm f/2.4

John Aldred

Samyang have today announced two new lenses to start their Premium range. An 85mm f/1.2 and 14mm f/2.4. These new lenses, Samyang say, offer “unprecedented resolving power”, built for 50MP stills and up to 8K video productions. Also known as Rokinon, Samyang has become quite a formidable competitor lately. Both of the new lenses are full […]

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Nikon’s delayed KeyMission 360VR camera to become three different cmaeras

John Aldred

It looks like Nikon are planning to not only enter the world of 360VR but take on the action cameras, too. It makes sense. It’s a huge market, and many action camera owners have 2 or 3 of them. The KeyMission delays are believed to be due to the earthquakes experienced in Japan earlier in […]

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8 Tips to help you up your game as a travel filmmaker

John Aldred

Becoming a travel photographer or filmmaker has had a resurgence in the last few years. It’s one of those markets of photography that took a little dip for a while as cameras got into the hands of more people. Suddenly, companies didn’t need to send photographers to far flung corners of the globe any more. It […]

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Laowa’s hydrophobic Frog Eye lens coating makes shooting in the rain a breeze

John Aldred

You may remember Laowa fully funded their new 12mm f/2.8 lens kickstarter within 30 seconds of going live last month. Thanks to the claims of high quality and “Zero Distortion” (or really close to it), people took notice and they pre-sold over 700 lenses. At the time of the campaign launch, one of the videos for the […]

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Zeiss unveils three new full frame Milvus lenses for Nikon and Canon

John Aldred

Long known throughout the world for quality, Zeiss are the first name many think of when it comes to luxury lenses. Today, Zeiss have announced three new lenses; 15mm f/2.8, 18mm f/2.8 and 135mm f/2 for both Nikon and Canon. These lenses are part of Zeiss’s Milvus line, designed to “fulfill the requirements of today’s powerful […]

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Photographer places life size animal prints in what used to be their natural habitats

John Aldred

Growing up in England, home to brown bears, wolves, wolverines and woolly mammoths, photographer Nick Brandt noticed something. Like most of us, he spotted that they weren’t around any more. Mankind had encroached upon their territory and essentially wiped them out. Or at least, led to the cause of their demise long before any of us were ever […]

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Take a visit inside Ansel Adams’ house & studio to see his camera collection

John Aldred

Marc Silber’s series of videos on Ansel Adams just gets better and better each time a new one comes out. In this latest video, we are taken into Ansel’s home and studio. His son, Michael, now lives in the home with wife Jeanne. He talks about some of his father’s lesser known commercial work as well […]

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This is what the digital display on the upcoming EF 70-300 F/4-5.6 IS II may look like

John Aldred

Canon’s EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS II announcement is expected to happen quite soon. Rumour has it that this lens will be the first to feature its own built in LCD display. Up until now, nobody’s really known what for. Digicame-info, however, seem to have stumbled across a couple of patents which show what information may appear […]

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Mötley Crüe sued by photographers over merchandise image rights

John Aldred

Recently retired Mötley Crüe are being sued by legendary rock photographers Barry Levine and Neil Zlozower. Their work was  slapped on all kinds of merchandise from photographers sickers, flags, and even baby onesies. Their claim is that the band did not have the rights to use images that were on merchandise being sold during their farewell […]

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This is how Photoshop and other applications resize your images, mathematically speaking

John Aldred

The mathematical side of photography has always interested me. It can be mostly ignored by photographers, often only required to understand the exposure triangle. For me, though, the maths is part of what initially drew me into photography. In this video from Computerphile, we learn what goes into some of the calculations that allow us to easily resize our images inside […]

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