Start your own movie company with this massive cinema lens collection for $1,000,000

John Aldred

If Canon’s display of gear didn’t impress you the other day, this one might. A listening has shown up on eBay offering “1000’s” of cinema lenses for a cool $1,000,000. The listing, by Calkovsky Cinema Worldwide, contains well known names such as Canon, Zeiss, Schneider and Cooke.  The description lists all of the lenses as tested and in […]

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Lightroom Hangout: Lies Cameras Tell Part II

Levi Sim

You gotta join us live for our next Google+ Hangout, totally free of charge. Not only will you learn terrific techniques, but if you tune in live, you can be entered to win excellent prizes to help you in your work. (Note: MUST BE TUNED IN LIVE TO WIN). We’ll be giving away a copy of Perfectly Clear from Athentech.…

Prepare, shoot and develop wet plate collodion through the eyes of the photographer

John Aldred

Photographers today often complain about the amount of time they have to sit at the computer processing images. When you see what wet plate photographers had to go through for every single shot, it doesn’t seem so bad. In Be The Collodionist from photographer Monsieur Nède, we see what life used to be like for photographers. […]

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Rocky Mountain National Park–A Picture Perfect Autumn Destination

Susan Kanfer

Rocky Mountain National Park in the fall is a nature photographer’s dream come true:  tall, rugged mountains, landscapes saturated with the colors of changing leaves, and wildlife so close at times you barely need a telephoto lens. I last visited the park the first week of October. Colors were still bold across the mountainsides, although…

How to build the world’s brightest, craziest, LED light serving 1800W

Udi Tirosh

Here is an entry that will probably go down  as a totally impractical build, but it is just so insane that I had to share it. I mean I can’t see anyone actually using such a bright light (especially with the low CRI they probably produce), but it can set the ground for some a groundbreaking […]

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Nikon just announced the world’s fastest 105mm portrait lens

John Aldred

This is one of those lenses that you almost don’t even know you want until somebody announces that it exists. I’ve been using my Nikon 105mm f/2.8D AF Micro-Nikkor as a portrait lens for years and always loved it. It’s one of my absolute favourites. I never really thought about a potentially faster version. Until now. […]

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