In a world where we are constantly multitasking on our phones, jumping from app to app, task to task, being interrupted by messages or calls, it seems odd that one of the world’s most popular networks would not have the ability to save a draft – yet that is just what Instagram users have been dealing with forever, but with the latest update, that all changes.
ONA is known throughout the photography industry for their craftsmanship and quality, easily making them one of the more well-known camera bag brands around. Usually, their bags have come in either high-quality canvas or luxury materials such as leather, but today the company has unveiled a bit of a curveball – a camouflage version of their popular Bowery
Fujifilm is making a stylish statement in their latest collaboration with world-renowned and award-winning designer Michael Kors in creating the fashionably redesigned limited-edition Fujifilm Instax Mini 70 camera, blending the world of fashion and photography.
For a few minutes at Photokina 2016, I was able to personally fondle the hottest camera announced at the show: the Fujifilm GFX 50s. This is a medium format camera targeted at the full frame 35mm camera user and is the second medium format mirrorless camera in the digital market. Oddly enough though, it isn’t designed to resemble a Mamiya 7 II or anything else from the film days despite the retro aesthetics. A number of jounalists and I were taken through a presentation where we were introduced to the team who worked on the camera’s design and specifications. Fujifilm’s intention here is to find a way to appeal to professional photographers and high end enthusiasts without competing in the pool filled with sharks that produce full frame 35mm sensor cameras.
“…the crossroad looks like a chess board. The people and elements, chess pieces on top.”
The first new lens in Tokina’s new FiRIN lineup of lenses is a manual focus offering with electronic contacts communicating with the Sony a7 camera bodies that it’s designed for: and it’s called the Tokina FiRIN 20mm f2. Odd naming aside from a Japanese company using a Gaelic term, the lens is an all manual focus, manual aperture optic that is well designed from metal and that is targeted to both photographers and videographers. As a fast, compact well built prime lens it’s designed from the ground up–and Tokina has done a very good job.
Last year, Lumu launched a Kickstarter for a brand new Light meter for the iPhone that would be able to meter color, ambient light, and flash output. For anyone that uses a light meter of any sort, this sounds wonderful (sans being able to trigger a monolight via the meter.) At Photokina 2016, I finally got the chance to see their unicorn product: the Lumu Power. The company claims that it will be delivered this November, and that they’ve had a number of holdups along the way. Sure, they’re late on delivering their Kickstarter promises, but they’re now ready to get it out to the public.
The first generation Phottix Triton Wireless Trigger was released in 2008, and the newly launched Triton II Flash Trigger is an evolution that works with a total of 16 channels of studio lights.
Popular culture has always presented the image of cats as generally being slim and svelte. Peter Thorne breaks this stereotype by doing a photo project titled Fat Cats featuring portraits of plus size cats.
At Photokina 2016, the medium format Fujifilm GFX 50S camera was announced. It features a medium format sensor that is larger than full frame 35mm sensors, but isn’t larger than full frame 645 format sensors. To see just how large they all are in comparison, we put them all in a chart together. In truth, it’s really not much larger; but it is indeed larger than full frame and effectively targets the photographers that want something more.