The Associated Press will launch a non-fungible token NFT photography marketplace, built by white-label blockchain marketplace makers Xooa, on January 31st. The new 21mm T1. Last year, the company unveiled some fascinating AI-powered research projects, including technology for converting text into images and 2D images into 3D models.
The announcement is set to take place at 7am EST on January 19, PWRBOARD is the first product from a company of the same name that hopes to simplify charging through a modular peg-style board that can be mounted to your wall or tossed in a bag for on-the-go.
Check out their sample gallery, shot in sub-zero Canadian temperatures, to judge image quality from this retro-inspired camera yourself. Canon is now telling customers that it's okay to ignore the warning messages that encourage the use of genuine ink.
This means third-party developers such as Litchi, Dronelink, and DroneDeploy can now update their apps to be compatible with these models. According to the teaser video, the lens will feature a T1.
Fujifilm has used the 10th anniversary of its X Series release to announce the date of its X Summit event, where Fujifilm says it will release its 5th generation X-mount camera in May. In this video, we join lifestyle and commercial photographer Christian Sorensen Hansen as he uses Fujifilm's latest lenses to shoot documentary and fashion coverage at Freeman Seattle - a family-run clothing company based in Seattle Washington.
In a new series about composition, landscape and nature photographer Erez Marom develops an idea about viewing compositional elements as masses and lines, and challenges the viewer to determine what the elements of an image are, as an exercise in photographic vision. Chris and Jordan ventured into the frigid Canadian winter for their full review of the Nikon Z fc, earning Chris a beard full of ice. The good news? All those old-fashioned dials worked great with mittens.
Watch this week's episode to see their verdict on this retro-looking camera. While he usually photographs wild cats, wildlife photographer Steve Winter was tasked by WIRED to photograph a domestic cat in a city studio. After shooting images, how does Winter select his single best image? OnePlus has spent the week teasing its new flagship OnePlus 10 Pro smartphone. It has finally been fully unveiled ahead of its launch in China next week.
While not a lot is new, the phone includes improved color, better software and a new degree ultra-wide camera. It's not just camera manufacturers being impacted by the semiconductor shortage. Sigma CEO, Kazuto Yamaki, confirmed on Twitter that could see its production impacted by a shortage of semiconductors. While the camera made it through various stages of prototyping, production of the then-groundbreaking camera never started due to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
If you want to get classic Hollywood-like lens flare in your photos and videos, you can either purchase an expensive, specialized anamorphic lens. Or, you can check out Moment's new CineFlare Streak filters that promise anamorphic-like lens flare. The Rijksmuseum, located in the Netherlands, recently published the largest and most detailed image to date. The Dutch museum's website now hosts a gigapixel rendition of Rembrandt's 'The Night Watch' Firmware version 1.
The update also addresses other bugs found in firmware version 1. The arrival of a full production sample of the Nikon Z9 at our Seattle offices just before Christmas last year coincided with a heavy snowfall and extended period of cold weather in the Pacific Northwest. Check out our initial samples. Whether you only need a charge or two while walking around town or need to power a fleet of drones and professional cameras, we've rounded up the best chargers on the market to ensure you're never left with a depleted camera or accessory.
A YouTube creator who goes by NASS revived video footage obtained from the Internet Archive, and colorized it with added sound, to reveal what California looked like almost a century ago. Submit a News Tip! Reading mode: Light Dark. Login Register. Best cameras and lenses. Olympus Studio 2. Tags: review , olympus. Prev page Next page. We are retrieving offers for your location, please refresh the page to see the prices. View Comments 3. Comments All 3. FlammableAnimal 1. You may also like. Olympus E The image sensor is mounted on a platter allowing movement in two directions, so as to mechanically correct for camera shake in longer exposures.
As you'd expect, the E retains Olympus' unique Supersonic Wave Filter, which couples a high-frequency vibration of the imager to remove dust from its surface, plus a range of seals to stop movement of dust through the camera body.
The E also includes the latest iteration of Olympus' TruePic image processor. Other benefits of TruePic III include faster connectivity, faster flash card write speeds, faster startup, and improved image quality detail, color accuracy, and color transitions. A kit including an ED mm f3. While their basic specs are quite similar, the E really is a different camera from its smaller, lighter brother, the E They both share the Overall, it's a better camera for the enthusiast photographer, a decision I came to reluctantly after using both in several different situations with some of Olympus's other lenses and accessories.
I love the E's small size, but its lack of a sizeable grip make adding any accessories awkward. If you plan to expand your system beyond the mm and mm kit lenses, the E is the better choice. Note : if you've read the Olympus E review, you can skip down to Look and Feel below.
Unlike most camera manufacturers, Olympus has only ever produced two lines of SLR cameras with interchangeable lenses. The OM-series spanned three decades, culminating in the OM-4T, an innovative, albeit manual-focus camera that was finally discontinued in It was essentially a film SLR without interchangeable lenses. Olympus never produced an autofocus SLR system with interchangeable lenses, which is why it was easy for them to let go of the manual-focus OM-series and build an entirely new system designed around a smaller sensor, which they dubbed Four-Thirds you can find out more about the Four-Thirds system at www.
Unlike other manufacturers, all with an existing base of AF lenses to support with their new digital SLR designs, Olympus could afford to start fresh. Smaller, lighter. The main design goal of the Olympus E-system was to keep everything small. As such, they chose a small sensor and designed their lenses to make that goal easier to achieve.
Compared to Canon 20D. Until these two latest lenses, it didn't seem like they were realizing their goal. The bundled lenses were as big as most equivalent competing designs, and sometimes bigger. But these two lenses finally deliver on the promise of smaller optics. The 3x lens is only smaller by a nose, but the takes you to mm equivalence in a remarkably small space. The other major goal of the Four-Thirds system was to be "designed for digital.
This was a smart way for these companies to keep their loyal lens owners by giving them a safe upgrade path. But Olympus argued that digital sensors themselves required a different approach to avoid light falloff in the corners, among other problems. According to our tests, the approach seems to work. Though other manufacturers have come out with their own digital-specific lenses, it seems these two new lenses outperform the two most popular manufacturers' kit lenses.
More on that later. Look and Feel. The Olympus E is less attractive than the E, but it's more about getting good photos comfortably than looking good doing it. It's a lot better balanced than its predecessor, the E, to be sure. Unlike it's little brother, the Olympus E has a nice big grip. Your middle finger has a smooth contour to help position it, and there's sufficient room for all fingers on most hands. A good size ridge on the back gives your thumb a place to hold, and both surfaces have a soft, textured, rubbery pad to improve traction.
I wouldn't mind a little more of a lip under the shutter button, though, because it feels a little insecure when picking up the camera at first. First, I'm happy that there was room to keep the power switch in the same location as on the E It's easy to activate with a flip of the index finger without taking your hand off the grip, one of the best power switch locations on SLRs. Almost everything else is the same as the E, so I'll reiterate that it's an excellent control layout. They've added an IS button to control image stabilization, and a Fn and AF select button have been added beneath the Control dial.
That dial is very well designed, with a great feel, reminiscent of manual cameras gone by. Unfortunately, while most higher-end SLRs, like the Canon 20D or Nikon D80, have a second control dial to control aperture while the first controls the shutter speed when shooting in Manual mode, the E has only the one Control dial.
So on the E you have to press the EV adjust button behind the shutter release and use the Control dial to adjust aperture in Manual mode. It's only a small point if you'll use Manual mode often, because it's not that hard, but it's worth noting.
Simple controls. Most of what you need is easily controlled with your thumb or index finger on the right side. The Mode dial sits atop the power switch, and has just the right stiffness to maintain its position while riding around in a bag. It also resists sticking between settings, springing to the next detent with stubborn determination. The IS button brings up the IS menu, where you can select from having IS off, IS 1, which gives you compensation in two directions up and down , and IS 2, which compensates for vertical movement when you're panning horizontally.
This latter mode only compensates for vertical motion while you're holding the camera in "landscape" orientation; turn it vertical, and the IS 2 mode won't work. Press the AF point selector, and a similar selection menu comes up, and you can select among the three AF points, or set it to Auto, and the camera will choose for you.
I found the best focus with the center point, but often moved it around when there was time. I also shot a lot with it in Auto mode, especially in low light situations, because the camera was more likely to find focus with three active points instead of just one.
Is three enough? I think so, for most situations. When it's important, go with the center point and recompose if you can, regardless of the camera and learn how your AE-Lock button works. The Function button can be assigned a few useful functions or disabled altogether. You can set which in the Menu. It will serve as the One-touch white balance button; it can be made to take a test picture that isn't saved to check things like white balance and depth of field; it can activate "My Mode," quickly switching to your previously saved settings; and finally it can drop you into Live View mode momentarily to give you the Live Preview without committing you to the mode altogether.
That's how I preferred to use the button once I learned about the ability to switch, and then I disabled the Fn button's function as the others didn't interest me much. I think the One-touch white balance is the most compelling, however. The rest of the controls are labeled clearly for most of us familiar with SLRs. The navigator buttons on the E are not labeled, which is a better decision for a consumer SLR, something I like on the Nikon D40 as well.
But more experienced shooters need more buttons to quickly tweak settings to get the best shot, and the E delivers. An optical viewfinder is where you get the best speed with any SLR, and that's true with the Olympus E The viewfinder is cramped, unfortunately, and Olympus puts the status display off to the right of the viewfinder window, rather than across the bottom, which means I can't see it without pressing my glasses into the rubber eyecup and peering to the right of the viewfinder.
There is good news, though. If I take off my glasses and press my nose in against the left of the camera, I can get right in there, and the diopter can compensate for my vision. I think most users would appreciate greater magnification from the viewfinder, as well as a higher eyepoint.
Live View. Though it increases shutter lag, Live View offers some intriguing possibilities. As these roll by above, you'll see the different modes available by pressing the INFO button. The green box can be moved around the Live View screen; then you press the OK button to zoom in 10x and verify focus. Handy for fine tripod work. If you press the OK button when out of the zoom mode, a modified translucent Status display comes up allowing you to change major settings on the fly.
From a technology perspective, the company that gave us smaller SLRs, Focal Plane flash sync, and automatic dust removal is once again taking the lead, deploying the second generation of full-time live preview SLRs for consumers. Unfortunately, their implementation doesn't jibe with consumer expectations. It's not just expectations, but the problem of the marketing department promising something that the engineering department hasn't quite built.
So I'm concerned about Live View, and how it will be seen by the public. I can tell you that it's useful, but I think a lot of folks will be disappointed, mostly because it's being presented as "just like your digicam. Digicam users seldom look through their optical viewfinders.
They've grown accustomed to holding their cameras out in front of them and composing on the LCD. Never mind that this method introduces more shake than holding the camera to your eye; it's more comfortable, usually more accurate, and easier to envision your print on a larger, backlit screen. But there's a problem with the implementation of Live View on the E and E It introduces terrible shutter lag. If there's one thing digicam owners quickly grow to dislike more than small, cramped optical viewfinders is extreme shutter lag.
That's the time between when you press the shutter button and when the camera actually captures an image. Well, Live View introduces significant and widely varying shutter lag, ranging from a half second to three or more seconds depending on whether the camera can focus on the subject. It's not that Olympus is entirely marketing these two cameras exclusively as Live View SLRs, but because they're the first with Live View, people will expect the E to work just like their digicam; and further, because it's an SLR they will also expect it to have lower shutter lag than their digicam.
But both notions are incorrect. The problem is that SLRs are designed to set autofocus and exposure with the shutter closed and the mirror down. But to draw a live image from the sensor, the mirror must be up and the shutter open, blocking the autofocus and metering sensors. I haven't found out why they can't make their system focus and set exposure from the imaging sensor, like any point-and-shoot digicam can do, but I imagine it would be more of a challenge to get both systems to produce matching results that didn't reveal flaws in one or the other.
When you do, the image freezes and the mirror and shutter flip closed until focus is achieved. Then your live image returns and the selected AF point illuminates onscreen. Depending on how contrasty your subject is, you can focus in around a half second, or it might take a few. It also might never focus. You can move the camera to a more contrasty subject, but you won't be able to see just where you've moved it until the camera focuses and your live view returns. Sound frustrating?
It is. You can also just trust that the Olympus E will focus properly, press the shutter all the way, and it will usually focus right before it fires. Shutter lag in this mode is 0. For comparison, if you shoot with the optical viewfinder, the shutter lag does full autofocus and fires in 0.
The preflash is a lot faster, but somehow the E manages to be slower overall. The Leica M11 may look like the other M-series cameras that came before it, but it has some notable upgrades and changes.
Find out why Chris thinks it's the most enjoyable 'M' camera he's used. How do those beautiful Leica lenses hold up to high resolution? Leica has announced the M11, the newest member of its M-series rangefinder line of cameras. The Associated Press will launch a non-fungible token NFT photography marketplace, built by white-label blockchain marketplace makers Xooa, on January 31st. The new 21mm T1. Last year, the company unveiled some fascinating AI-powered research projects, including technology for converting text into images and 2D images into 3D models.
The announcement is set to take place at 7am EST on January 19, PWRBOARD is the first product from a company of the same name that hopes to simplify charging through a modular peg-style board that can be mounted to your wall or tossed in a bag for on-the-go. Check out their sample gallery, shot in sub-zero Canadian temperatures, to judge image quality from this retro-inspired camera yourself.
Canon is now telling customers that it's okay to ignore the warning messages that encourage the use of genuine ink. This means third-party developers such as Litchi, Dronelink, and DroneDeploy can now update their apps to be compatible with these models.
According to the teaser video, the lens will feature a T1. Fujifilm has used the 10th anniversary of its X Series release to announce the date of its X Summit event, where Fujifilm says it will release its 5th generation X-mount camera in May.
In this video, we join lifestyle and commercial photographer Christian Sorensen Hansen as he uses Fujifilm's latest lenses to shoot documentary and fashion coverage at Freeman Seattle - a family-run clothing company based in Seattle Washington.
In a new series about composition, landscape and nature photographer Erez Marom develops an idea about viewing compositional elements as masses and lines, and challenges the viewer to determine what the elements of an image are, as an exercise in photographic vision.
Chris and Jordan ventured into the frigid Canadian winter for their full review of the Nikon Z fc, earning Chris a beard full of ice. The good news? All those old-fashioned dials worked great with mittens. Watch this week's episode to see their verdict on this retro-looking camera. While he usually photographs wild cats, wildlife photographer Steve Winter was tasked by WIRED to photograph a domestic cat in a city studio. After shooting images, how does Winter select his single best image? OnePlus has spent the week teasing its new flagship OnePlus 10 Pro smartphone.
It has finally been fully unveiled ahead of its launch in China next week. While not a lot is new, the phone includes improved color, better software and a new degree ultra-wide camera. It's not just camera manufacturers being impacted by the semiconductor shortage. Sigma CEO, Kazuto Yamaki, confirmed on Twitter that could see its production impacted by a shortage of semiconductors.
While the camera made it through various stages of prototyping, production of the then-groundbreaking camera never started due to the collapse of the Soviet Union. If you want to get classic Hollywood-like lens flare in your photos and videos, you can either purchase an expensive, specialized anamorphic lens.
Or, you can check out Moment's new CineFlare Streak filters that promise anamorphic-like lens flare. The Rijksmuseum, located in the Netherlands, recently published the largest and most detailed image to date.
The Dutch museum's website now hosts a gigapixel rendition of Rembrandt's 'The Night Watch' Firmware version 1. The update also addresses other bugs found in firmware version 1. The arrival of a full production sample of the Nikon Z9 at our Seattle offices just before Christmas last year coincided with a heavy snowfall and extended period of cold weather in the Pacific Northwest.
Check out our initial samples. Whether you only need a charge or two while walking around town or need to power a fleet of drones and professional cameras, we've rounded up the best chargers on the market to ensure you're never left with a depleted camera or accessory. A YouTube creator who goes by NASS revived video footage obtained from the Internet Archive, and colorized it with added sound, to reveal what California looked like almost a century ago.
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