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In other words Boston Dynamics is going to start working on flying robots.

Get closer and the air won’t matter as much.

“ There is no such thing as a still landscape in the U.K.” is an intriguing thought but what does it mean?
Has England suffered an outbreak of earthquakes?

Hank: I was just reading an old piece on the Stanford website summarizing research on smog and UV radiation done in 1973 and 1987. “Both found reductions of UV radiation ranging from 22 to 46...

I have an inkling that the reason both the sony and sigma show focus breathing is that it’s an expensive problem to solve.
Non-breathing 35mm cinema lenses like the Canon CN-E 35mm T1.5 start at...

The difference between Mike Johnson and you, me, and everyone else who visits this site is that Mike is a unique, powerful, wide-ranging intellect whose ideas have advanced the field of photography. ...

Complicating the “what is art” question is that at the high end a lot of what gets bought and sold is done as a cover for money laundering and various other illegal transactions. There have been ...

For a monopod has anyone mentioned the oldish Manfrotto monopod head? I’ve had one for 8 or 10 years and it has never gotten in my way. $50-60 and they look like this w

It is fun to create tabletop worlds from either objects you collect around the house or using miniatures like Hot Wheels, and scale model trees and people. If you add a desk lamp or two for ...

I grew up in Los Angeles at the very end of the large-format film era and there were retouchers from the studio era still working. They were artists who used their pencils, inks knives, chalks, ...

The bokeh has a nice swirl to it that adds an appealing dynamism to the photographs.

I love resurrecting dead threads, I’ve been thinking of changing my user name to TheReanimator. But yes, I missed the date. Thanks

How does it perform on noise reduction vs. Photoshop? You

Like all Americans I only know one fact about  about India. The one fact that I know is that they have a huge film industry and so I would assume that there would be lots of lenses being bought ...

When I saw the photo of the person holding the camera to their face my first thought was “how smart, he’s made a face harness to keep his camera ready at eye level!”
But then I figured out it was...

On the topic of rendering doctor, with your unique set of measuring instruments and formidable brain have you solved the mystery of what makes a lens able to capture depth cues that produce a...

Outstanding meeting of lens and subject.

Just like in stills cameras the term “raw” is a convenient lie. Once the light rays hit the front element on your lens they’re being bent, and cramming the data from a three-dimensional world into ...

A friend of mine has one of those and let me use it; I 100% agree, it’s a lens that makes beautiful images.