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Yesterday, Sony unveiled their latest Xperia smartphones. And while you don’t typically see Sony’s phones at the top of the smartphone photography heap with Google, Apple and Samsung, the new Xperia 1 Mark II might c...

Slideshow: Here are the 2020 World Press Photo nominees Today, the World Press Photo Foundation announced the nominees for its 63rd annual contest. 4,282 photographers from 125 countries entered 73,996 images for conside...

Formerly disgraced, purchased, and reborn optics company Meyer Optik Görlitz is planning to officially re-enter the world of photography at Photokina 2020 in May, and it’ll be bringing six redesigned lenses along for ...

In 1911, Swedish company Svenska Biografteatern captured footage of a trip to New York, resulting in more than eight minutes of video that, in its original form, is quite low resolution with a low frame rate. Various eff...

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YouTuber Mathieu Stern recently discovered a ‘time capsule’ in the basement of his old family home. The box--dating from about the year 1900, by Stern’s estimation--contained two glass plate negatives, which he dec...

Elinchrom has just released two new mid-range monolights that are both full-featured and surprisingly affordable for what they offer. The new ELC 125 and ELC 500 boast to 131Ws and 522Ws of power, respectively, and offer...

Photographer, YouTuber and self-proclaimed weird lens aficionado Mathieu Stern is back at it again, this time with an interesting new video showing how he developed a number of 120-year-old photographs he found hidden wi...

An ill-advised family photo shoot on a set of active train tracks in Greencastle, Pennsylvania nearly ended in tragedy when a freight train came barreling through, narrowly missing the photographer, parents, and five chi...

On February 17, the JPEG Committee published the results from its 86th Meeting, detailing some of the topics of discussions and potential future plans. Among other things, the committee issued a Call for Evidence on what...

Sony has just released the brand new FE 20mm f/1.8 G: a lightweight, high-performance, ultra-wide prime lens for full-frame Sony mirrorless cameras that the company has dubbed “the widest full-frame prime lens in E-mou...

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I just did an 'Ask Me Anything' session on Instagram Stories, and someone asked the question: 'Do You Photoshop Your Pictures?' My reaction was the same one most photographers have: Yes, just like 99% of photographers ou...

The Sony FE 20mm F1.8 G is a compact, lightweight, ultra-wide prime - the widest full-frame prime lens in the E-mount line-up - with excellent G Lens resolution and bokeh. The FE 20mm F1.8 G will be available in Europe f...

Sony's newest full-frame E-mount lens is the 20mm F1.8 G, a fast wide-angle (verging on ultra-wide) prime that weighs just 373 g (13.2oz) and measures slightly smaller than the FE 24mm F1.4 GM. Sony claims that two 'adva...

Sony has just launched its newest fast aperture wide-angle prime for its full-frame Alpha lineup: the FE 20mm F1.8G lens. With two advanced aspheric and three ED elements, Sony promises outstanding corner-to-corner image...

When you look at the current Sony E mount lens lineup, and then you take a look at the Sony 20mm f1.8 G, you might be wondering why Sony released this lens when they already have the 24mm f1.4 GM. The specs of the Sony 2...

If the World Press Photo Contest is among your yearly sources of photography inspiration, you'll be impressed as always with the poignant nominated images for this year's run. Today, the World Press Photo Foundation intr...

When it comes to studio flashes and lighting gear in general, one name that is synonymous with these things is Elinchrom. For years, Elinchrom has been producing high-quality lighting, and their new offerings, the ELC 12...

When it comes to wide-angle lenses, the 24mm is considered by many photographers as a classic focal length. It's a favorite of many for its versatility, so we're not surprised if you somehow ended up here while researchi...

Veteran commercial photographer/director Zen Sekizawa just finished a multimedia project that explores the role of Japanese women through the avant-garde Butoh dance. In "The Dance," Sekizawa captured film, photography a...

It really wasn't long ago when we were dreaming of mainstream cameras having sensors that packed over 30 megapixels. Now, today, we have an abundance of high-resolution cameras that can capture an immense amount of detai...