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German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies believes that Time of Flight, or ToF, sensors will become a standard in high-end smartphones. The company says the technology will overcome low-light focusing issues that currently plague the devices. In an interview with SemiconductorForYou, the Senior Vice President of Sensors at Infineon Philipp von Schierstaedt says that the company

Fujifilm has announced a firmware update the brings pixel shift multi-shot functionality to the GFX100. The camera combines with newly-announced software to combine 16 RAW images into a single 400-megapixel image. The feature works by combining the 102-megapixel sensor, the X Processor 4, and the in-body image stabilization system to move the image sensor in

Samsung Electronics is reportedly in a position to challenge Sony’s imaging sensor dominance. Sony had prioritized the supply of image sensors to Huawei, a strategy that has backfired; Samsung is apparently ready to take advantage. Sony commands more than half of the image sensor market, but because it focused its efforts on supplying Huawei, Samsung

Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo-features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy! A Promised Land, back and front cover, showing the BACK-COVER PHOTO THAT ALMOST DID NOT MAKE IT © Phil Mistry How the Photo on Barack

A new product bearing the Kodak name seems to ask, “If you’re shooting film, why not immerse yourself in the experience?” The company is releasing metal film canisters commonly used in the 1970s brand new for 2020. Groovy. Retopro is a brand licensee of Eastman Kodak Company and has emblazoned the iconic photography brand’s logo

On August 4, an explostion rocked the city of Beirut, killing over 200 and injuring more than 6,500. In order to reconstruct exactly what happened, forensics researchers were able to piece together the event using photos and videos uploaded to social media. Forensic Architecture was invited by the Egyptian online journal Mada Masr to review

Metabones has announced the EF-GFX Smart Expander which features electronic integration and full functionality of Canon EF lenses onto the Fuji GFX medium format camera series in exchange for 1.26 times focal length extension and aperture value. According to the manufacturer, the Metabones EF-GFX Smart Expander is able to match the image circle of full-frame

This early experimental “mousetrap” camera constructed out of wood, brass, glass, and bone may be the oldest ever to be sold once it clears auction. Purportedly from around 1840, it is expected to sell for between $65,000 and $91,000. Described on its Flints Auction listing as unsigned and constructed of solid heavy-gauge mahogany, the camera

Designed to be a marketplace specifically for the photo and video community, GearUp is an app for the specific purpose of buying and selling camera equipment around the United States. With the success of platforms like Facebook Marketplace, LetGo, and OfferUp, the founders of GearUp appear to want to give you the same overall experience

After announcing the first Pro version back in 2017, Pixelmator has announced Pixelmator Pro 2.0, a massively revamped version of the popular MacOS-based photo editing software. The new updated software supports the latest Mac computers running Apple’s new in-house M1 chip. “The Pixelmator Pro editing engine is powered by high-performance Metal code, so we can

Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo-features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy! Selma to Montgomery March for Voting Rights, Alabama, 1965 ©  Matt Herron courtesy of Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House Tami Sawyer,

French astrophotographer Jean-Luc Dauvergne has published what he claims is the best global map of Mars ever shot from the surface of Earth. This 2-minute video shows both the map and a rotating view of Mars created with the same images. Dauvergne used photos of Mars captured over 6 nights between October and November using

As part of its announcement of new Mac computers earlier this week, Apple mentioned that Adobe plans to release versions of its software that are compatible with Apple’s new M1 chip. That’s good news it turns out, since the company isn’t able to officially support emulation via Rosetta 2 on those devices. Rosetta 2 is

President Trump was golfing on Saturday when most mainstream media outlets called the 2020 presidential election, projecting former Vice President Joe Biden as the winner. A few photojournalists managed to capture photos of Trump by shooting with ultra-telephoto camera lenses from nearly a mile away across the Potomac River. Photojournalist Al Drago shared an interesting

Hot on the heels of Nikon’s official webcam software release, Canon has announced its free full production version of the EOS Webcam Utility Software for both macOS and Windows, bringing with it compatibility for 43 EOS and PowerShot cameras and 14 video conferencing services. Now officially out of beta, the software converts compatible Canon EOS

We recently shared a review of the iPhone 12 Pro Max from Marques Brownlee who showed that in his testing, the larger sensor and stabilizer did not contribute to noticeably better images. However, the results from other reviews don’t necessarily agree. The Verge has released its 12-minute video review of the iPhone and in it,

The gun-toting couple made who made headlines for waving guns at protesters marching near their home has sued the photojournalist who captured one of the famous photos of them. St. Louis lawyers Mark and Patricia McCloskey gained notoriety back in June after United Press International (UPI) photographer Bill Greenblatt and a group of other photojournalists

Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo-features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy!  Adam Schultz, official photographer for the Biden For President campaign © Drew Heskett/DPRreview © Adam Schultz / Biden for President and licensed under CC BY-SA

The St. Louis couple who are facing felony gun charges for pointing guns at protestors marching close to their home have found themselves in yet another legal dispute. The photographer who shot a viral photo of the couple has sent them a bill after discovering that they had turned his photo into greeting cards without

The Camera and Imaging Products Association in Japan, otherwise known as CIPA, has published global camera and lens production data through September of this year, and the results show that the industry clearly has taken a hit from the global coronavirus pandemic. CIPA publishes both the volume of units sold as well as the shipped

In an interview with Amatuer Photographer, Fujifilm’s new European President and Managing Director Toshi Iida says that “APS-C is the best-balanced system” and explains why he believes the company has been doing “significantly better” than the competition. In a response to a question specifically about how COVID-19 has affected photographers, Iida responded that despite global

This morning Nikon officially released the full version of its free Webcam Utility Software for Windows 10 and macOS, enabling compatible Nikon mirrorless and DSLR cameras to be used as webcams when connected to a computer via USB. The software was originally launched in Beta earlier this summer and only supported Windows devices. It followed

Kodak has launched a new application – powered by artificial intelligence – that promises to quickly cull your images for you based on a set of rules. Called Kodak Professional Select, the company promises fast, easy, and accurate results. Kodak says that the service accepts hundreds to even thousands of images at a time and

Moment’s latest line of products takes advantage of Apple’s MagSafe technology, using the magnetic connection to attach the iPhone and new Moment cases together in what Moment promises is a stronger, better way. Though the collection includes a range of different cases and other accessories that anyone would find a use for (like the vent

A man in South Florida was mauled by a black leopard after he paid $150 for a “full-contact experience” with the big cat in what is being described as a “backyard zoo.” The experience was supposed to include playing with the leopard, rubbing its belly, and taking pictures… instead the man has had to undergo

Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo-features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy! Photo: © Tyler Mitchell/Courtesy of Vanity Fair Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Unveiled as Vanity Fair’s Latest Cover Star – CNN2020 is shaping up to be the year

In an attempt to prevent the “real-time spread of potentially harmful content” through its platform, photo sharing app Instagram has temporarily removed the “Recent” tab from hashtag pages ahead of the US Presidential election. The change was announced through the Instagram Comms Twitter account (the irony…), where the company said that it will be making

In an effort to research how the center of the Milky Way Galaxy formed what is known as a “galactic bulge,” Scientists used a Dark Energy Camera to survey a portion of the sky and capture a photo of billions of stars. NASA’s Hubblesite describes our galaxy as “shaped like two fried eggs glued back-to-back.”

Early on in the pandemic, you may have noticed that commercials did not deviate from norms, which led to a bit of a reality disconnect between viewers and advertisers. Eight months later, that definitely has changed. According to Adobe’s Stock Creativity Insights, COVID-19 led to notable and trackable changes in both the creative and visual

JPEGmini has announced JPEGmini Pro 3, which adds some minor yet important features to the platform. Namely, you can now convert HEIC files to JPEG, the UX/UI has been redesigned, and you can now save your own presets. JPEGmini has had a free online tool that converts HEIC files to JPEG that they developed in