Lensbaby Burnside 35 Is A 35Mm F 2 8 Lens With Variable Bokeh And Vignette

Lensbaby has announced a new creative lens today: Burnside 35. It’s a 35mm f/2.8 wide angle adaptation of the Petzval lens design. Burnside 35 adds swirling bokeh and vignette around your subject, with an effect slider that operates as a second internal iris. This slider lets you can change the shape and amount of swirl in the bokeh; all while adding or removing vignette and center brightness. Something like Instagram filters in real life....

April 19, 2023 · 2 min · 284 words · Leslie Barnes

Nanlite S New Pavotube Ii 6C Is A Small Rgbww Battery Powered Tube Light

Nanlite has announced its newest addition to the PavoTube family; The PavoTube II 6C. It’s a rather modest 25cm long T12 (3.8cm) diameter RGBWW tube light weighing in at only 260g. Behind that modesty, though, is a pretty impressive set of features. The PavoTube II 6C boasts a CRI of 95 and TLCI of 97, with a variable colour temperature from 2700-7500K and green and magenta adjustments in CCT mode. In HSL mode, you get access to 36,000 possible colours from across the RGB spectrum....

April 19, 2023 · 2 min · 398 words · Robert Reyes

Nasa Needs Your Help To Track Light Pollution And All You Need Is Your Smartphone

Astronomers have been worried about the effect of satellites, as heir increasing number in the orbit is posing a problem for night skies observation. We can’t do anything to remove them – but we can now help monitor the problem. With its new project Satellite Streak Watcher, NASA asks everyone to help to track the population growth of satellites over time. And all you need is a smartphone camera. “In the coming years, thousands of satellites will be deployed into low Earth orbit as part of the new internet mega-constellations,” NASA writes on the website of the project....

April 19, 2023 · 3 min · 542 words · Jacob Collins MD

New Tech Is Coming To Help Fight The Spread Of Misinformation In Photographs Online

The Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI), launched in 2019 as a collaboration between Adobe, Twitter and the New York Times, looks like it might finally be making some visible progress. The initial goals to help provide authenticity in images shared online, particularly when it comes to social media, appear to be coming to some kind of early fruition. Adobe has already shown some technology for preventing the manipulation of images. But a new article on the NYT R&D website shows how they’re fighting misinformation on social media where photographs are misused....

April 19, 2023 · 3 min · 594 words · Anthony Chandler

Om Digital Confirms No Plans To Go Full Frame Or Join L Mount Alliance

Well, there’s been talk around the rumoursphere lately about OM Digital possibly joining up in the L Mount alliance with some full-frame “Olympus” goodness, but that’s definitely not happening according to the joint Panasonic & OM Digital YouTube event this week. OMD’s official stance is “I will not do full size” and they won’t be joining the L Mount alliance. The company also confirmed that they are developing new products that we can expect to hear more about soon, and Panasonic also says they’re thinking about both Micro Four Thirds cameras and lenses....

April 19, 2023 · 2 min · 402 words · Janice Williams
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