BLIPS is an ultra portable super slim pair of lenses for your smartphone. One offers macro, letting you focus much closer than your phone’s standard lens will allow. The other is a micro lens, allowing you to get even closer, for some big magnification. Mobile macro lenses are certainly nothing new, but this is the first we’ve seen with such a small and unobtrusive form factor, making it ideal to slip in your wallet and keep with you when you’re out and about....

Cactus has today announced that the Cactus RQ250 portable strobe has been suspended. The reason, it seems, is down to the fact that the Kickstarter campaign was not fully funded. There just weren’t enough people interested. So, Cactus posted an update to the campaign, as well as to their Facebook page. The RQ250 was first announced in February this year. We even got to get our hands on a prototype and have a brief play at The Photography Show in March....

Canon is launching a satellite. It’s the CE-SAT 1B (Canon Electric Satellite 1B). It’s an experimental Earth observing microsatellite developed and built by Canon Electronics. The satellite is quite small, measuring only 50x50x70cm and it’s based on the Hodoyoshi-1 satellite, launched in 2014. Canon sent the original CE-SAT 1 into space in 2017, so the idea is nothing new, but this time we’re hearing about the cameras that are going to be included on the satellite....

It looks like the previous rumours about the impending Canon 24-105mm IS STM RF lens were a little optimistic. Initially, it was believed that this would be a pretty standard f/3.5-5.6 lens, like its EF mount counterpart, but it seems that it’s actually a horrendously slow f/4-7.1, according to a new specs leak by Nokishita. I know this is supposed to be a “kit lens”, but stopping down to f/7.1 at 105mm is pretty abysmal, and I can already envision a lot of “why are my photos so blurry?...

Tyler Fairbank’s Safari Botswana offers a unique way to see the majestic animals of Africa. This immersive video takes you on an epic journey across the desert and savannas of the country in hyperlapse speed. It may not be evident in this flowmotion video, but shooting wild animals had its own set of challenges. In an interview with Fstoppers, Fairbank said he even missed opportunities because his camera was disturbing the animals....