Cameras

DPReview to close

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DPReview to close

With some shock, we received the news that one of the most popular and reliable sites about photography and videography – DPReview – is about to close… After almost 25 years being online and giving us reliable information about cameras and other equipment, DPReview is closing down for good… We take this message with sadness, […]

Cameras

Do Pixels Matter? 108MP Samsung S21 vs 20MP Canon 1DX II

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Samsung S21 vs Canon 1 DX

Do pixels matter? Does a number of pixels matter? What about a competition/challenge between a just over £1000 smartphone and £6000 professional top of the range DSLR camera? That’s what photographer and video producer Kevin Raposo set out to do – testing the latest Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra smartphone against a top-of-the-range Canon DSLR, which […]

Photography

World’s Biggest Underwater Panorama

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world's largest underwater image

Brazilian photographer, Marcio Cabral, has officially received the Guiness World Record for the “World’s Largest Underwater Panoramic Image“. The image in question is a 826.9MP image consisting of 28 photos shot from the same spot underwater. Quite an achievement to do this while diving underwater. Here’s image (image source: www.guinnessworldrecords.com): The photo above was actually […]

Photography

World’s 1st F1.0 Mirrorless Lens

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Fujifilm XF 50mm F1.0 WR

Fujifilm while back announced that they were going to release an F1.0 50mm lens for their XF system. And now, they have formally announced this beautiful lens – Fujifilm XF 50mm F1.0 WR – world’s first F1.0 lens for a mirrorless camera. This world’s first F1.0 lens for a mirrorless camera is also Fuji’s 35th […]

Images

2M High-Quality Photos from Unsplash

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2M images Unsplash

Unsplash, an online library, Free, is widely known for a variety of images and its huge library of images available. And, as anyone who has heard about Unsplash, they also know Unsplash as a huge library of images which are available absolutely free – under Creative Commons Zero license – Creative Commons Zero license. And […]

Photography

Free Nikon Online Photography Classes

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A list of free online classes is growing. Recently, I mentioned about PPA offering over 1100 classes for free. Now, Nikon are joining as well. For those of you looking to increase your knowledge of technology and photography, Nikon are now making an addition. Nikon School is a series of classes, ten of them and […]

Photography

PPA Offers Over 1100 Free Photo Classes

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Professional Photographers of America (PPA) announced that they will offer access to over 1100 classes for free. They will offer free access to so many of their classes as a way of helping photographers who are stuck in their homes due to lockdowns because of COVID-19 pandemic. You can now sign up for a free […]

Photography

Thousands of Free Images from Paris Musees

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Paris Musees free images

Paris Musees, organisation which manages all of museums in Paris, has given everyone access to thousands of free images on their new online portal – Collections Portal. Here’s the link – Collections Portal. At the moment of writing this, there are 150,213 free images on their website – just scroll down the main page a […]

Photography

Memory Cards Speed Test

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Memory Cards Speed test

More and more memory cards appear on the market every day. They get faster and come with ever higher capacities. Memory cards now available on the market can be bought at capacities up to 512GB, where only a few years ago a maximum would be 64GB. Something that hasn’t really changed, in most cases, is […]

Photography

Colourise B&W images online

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Colourise

Researchers at GovTech Singapore division for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence lanched a website called Colourise at Colourise.sg, which uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to colourise black and white images. The website is free to use and very easy to use, too. In most cases, the results are very good, very realistic, and the website is […]