How many of you have ever built a camera? And if you have, how many of you have built a really big camera? We’re not talking about your typical 8×10 format, we’re going big. One year ago prior to the publishing of this story, I interviewed Andrea Pizzini–one of the creators of the Cube. The Cube isn’t something from the Star Trek universe, but it is still a very big feat of engineering. This Cube is a camera that must be dismantled, reassembled, and that shoots positives of more than 3 feet by 3 feet.
We decided to catch up with Andrea to see how the project has been coming along.
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Recently, Sigma announced a refresh of their two mirrorless lenses: the 19mm f2.9 and 30mm f2.8. But they also added in a new player, the 60mm f2.8. Today, they’re announcing the price point of the new Art Series lens and some more specs. It will set you back $239 when it hits the shelves in mid-May and will be available for Sony NEX E mount and Micro Four Thirds mounts. It will focus as closely at 19.7 inches, has 8 elements in 6 groups, 7 aperture blades, and will also come in silver.
If you’re looking for a longer focal length for portraits, this may be the one to snag.
Sigma’s 18-35mm f1.8 DC HSM has been blowing the minds of photographers everywhere. Since its announcement, many are still truly amazed that the company was able to manufacture it. Before this, the fastest aperture zoom lenses made were done by Olympus for their Four Thirds lineup. But Sigma’s is a jaw droppingly bokehlicious f1.8 constant aperture instead. We recently met with the company in NYC to have some personal one on one fondling time with the optic. And here’s what we think so far.
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Today, Sigma has broken a record–they’ve combined autofocusing capabilities, a constant f1.8 aperture and a constant zoom range in a single lens. Previously, Olympus was the speed champion with the F2 zoom lenses, but Sigma is now producing f1.8 zooms. Designed for APS-C sensor DSLRs, it will sport a 27-52.5mm field of view. This is also the company’s first zoom art lens–which were previously thought to be comprising of only primes.
The lens has Sigma’s Super Multi-Layer Coating, comes supplied with a petal-type hood, features Sigma’s Hyper Sonic Motor (HSM) and has nine aperture blades. More tech specs are after the jump along with another photo. No word on pricing yet, but we don’t expect this to be cheap.
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Sometimes an Art Director lets talent take photos of themselves to envision how they would want to be seen. Sports Illustrated did that a while back and this time around, Marie Claire is letting Angelina Jolie do some selfies. Jolie has adopted children from Africa, done lots of charity work, and has starred in a number of movies that we’ve all seen. That, and she’s drop dead gorgeous.
But this time around, Jolie was given a Hasselblad camera and basically told to go nuts. Angelina has been named one of Hollywood’s highest paid actresses; and in this case may even be named one of the world’s highest paid photographers.
Now if only she dressed like Lara Croft again…
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Matt Bigwood hails from the UK and has been a photographer since 1986, and recently showed us a photo from a long term project that he worked on. The photo above is a six month long exposure using a beer can converted into a pinhole camera. Pinhole photography is amongst the earliest forms of the craft, and it is practiced by many still even today. We’ve reviewed pinhole adapters for mirrorless cameras before and we’ve even taken part of World Pinhole Day: a once a year festival that celebrates all things pinhole.
To learn more about his project and pinhole photography, we briefly talked with Matt about his vision, calculations, etc.
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