Shooting pro-level kind of images is not by accident. You will need to know how to work a camera and sometimes, you need a little help from filters. It shouldn’t come as a surprise. The fact that smartphone makers are fervently pursuing the filter route by the way of software should offer a hint of how filters can vastly alter the quality of images. But you can’t really do the same with DSLR, mirrorless and cinematic cameras. Granted, you can add the magic during post production, but if you are seeking for ultimate in light transmission and clarity right there and then, there is the PolarPro QuartzLine line of lens filters that will do the job. Continue reading PolarPro Sets New Bar For Light Transmission With New Lens Filters
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This AI-enabled Photography Gadget Will Help You Take Pro Images
I am not going to lie. I am one of those who are intimidated by the many settings a DSLR has to offer. The exposure, white balance, ISO, shutter speed and such all works to overwhelm this timid gadget man and you can imagine the delight when Aurga pops up in our inbox, I was immediately intrigued. By its name, Aurga does sound like much, but it is actually a miracle solution for those seeking to shoot like a pro without putting yourself through daunting courses. So what is Aurga? Aurga is the world’s first smart DSLR assistant and personal cloud storage. Continue reading This AI-enabled Photography Gadget Will Help You Take Pro Images
This Attachment Will Turn Vintage Film Cameras Into Instant Cameras
If you are still holding on to vintage cameras that has a film holder on the back, we have an exciting news for you. A Taiwan company called Rezivot Lab has designed a special accessory that will turn vintage medium- and large-format cameras into instant cameras. Yup. Instant gratification has arrived to these almost forgotten forefather of cameras. The Rezivot Instant Film Processor, as it is called, is an add-on accessory for film camera that will turn your shots into instant print, output on Fujifilm Instax wide or square films. Basically, it will turn any compatible film camera into a Polaroid camera, or Fujifilm Instax camera, if you will. Continue reading This Attachment Will Turn Vintage Film Cameras Into Instant Cameras
I’m Back Wants To Turn Your Old Film Cameras Into Digital Cameras
While Yashica is back in business with a camera with faux film, an Italy company wants to turn actual analog film cameras into digital cameras. The product called I’m Back, is an add-on device that goes into where the film would normally go into, thereby taking over the job of capturing images. Instead of film, the attachment supposedly enables the camera original optic to shoot and capture images onto a 16-megapixel sensor which are then save onto a SD card and images are then viewable on an LCD display or on your smartphone attached to the camera as part of the setup. Continue reading I’m Back Wants To Turn Your Old Film Cameras Into Digital Cameras
Incase Leather Neck Strap: Heavy On Style, Merciful On Your Neck
We are not a shopping blog. We don’t force anything into your throat, but if something as stylish as the Incase Leather Neck Strap for DSLR Camera comes up, we felt compelled to share with everyone because, sharing is caring, or something like that. Apart from tech culture, style is equally important to us and we believe it is to you too. This particularly handsome camera strap gets the style and class from a full-grain natural dye leather outer, while soft laser perforated genuine suede lining ensures carry comfort. A DSLR, however light, can still coerce a camera strap to create an impression on your neck, and thus, suede with breathability to boot is kind of a comforting thought. Continue reading Incase Leather Neck Strap: Heavy On Style, Merciful On Your Neck
With A Clever Tweak, This Camera Strap Will Take The Pressure Off Your Neck
Traveling and capturing breathtaking images are awesome experiences, but the pressure on your neck from a heavy rig isn’t quite. Up till now, traveling photographers have to put with the burden of heavy camera and possibly hope that the joy of photography and beautiful sights will provide a kind of anaesthesia to the pain in the neck. In reality, it hurts. But you don’t really have to put yourself through it because, there’s a thing called Camera Lift-Strap. It turns out that the trick isn’t padding the strap with more foam or bumping up the strap width. Continue reading With A Clever Tweak, This Camera Strap Will Take The Pressure Off Your Neck
Cruick Is A UK-made Premium Leather Camera Strap And It Is Gorgeous
Calling photographers, both professional and amateur, who demand more style than a run-of-the-mill webbing kind of camera strap. Cruick is a new brand based in U.K. and it has possibly the most desirable camera straps we have seen to date. For starter, it is not nylon, nor it is your typical webbing-style strap; it is handcrafted in the U.K. out of best possible vegetable tanned leather you can find and it also boast detail touches like beefy 304 grade tails steel split and steel (also 304 grade) or brass Chicago screws, that should be more than durable enough to haul even the heaviest rig. A dual Chicago screws are employ to ensure that in an improbable event that one of them fail, it will spare your precious shooter the dive onto the solid ground or water. Continue reading Cruick Is A UK-made Premium Leather Camera Strap And It Is Gorgeous
This Lens Will Turn Any DSLR Into One That Captures 360-Degree Video
When it comes to 360-degree videoing, you will have to ditch your beloved DSLR for something a lot more dedicated, but a startup called Sphere Optics Company is here to change that. With the company’s (sphere) 360-degree Lens, you can turn your trusty DSLR into one that captures breathtaking 360-degree video with 180-degree field of view vertically. Billed as the first and only single camera full-spherical video capture solution for VR, (sphere) (it’s ‘sphere’ stylized with brackets) negates the need for multi-camera setups and more delightfully, dispense with the need for stitching software when recording 360-degree footages. Continue reading This Lens Will Turn Any DSLR Into One That Captures 360-Degree Video
Venus Optics Has The Weirdest Macro Lens That’s Smaller Than Your Pinky
It doesn’t take a photography enthusiast to know what a camera lens looks like, but this one lens from Venus Optics will surely leave even an enthusiast bewildered. Venus Optics has no doubt broke the lens design convention with Laowa 24mm f/14 Replay 2x Macro Lens. As you can see, this macro is no doubt a little on the weird on of the scale as far as optics are concerned. On one end, it has a regular Nikon and Canon-friendly mount, but that’s as normal as it gets. Beyond the mount, the lens seems to go on a telescopic path, thinning off (in diameter) towards the lens end like Continue reading Venus Optics Has The Weirdest Macro Lens That’s Smaller Than Your Pinky
Yay! GoPro Has A 360 Camera But It Requires Six GoPro Cameras
At this age where 360-degree videoing has become something of a hype, you will be surprised that an action cam specialist like GoPro has yet to jump on the bandwagon. Well, as a matter of fact it has, just, but GoPro did not come up with a single unit like many makers had done, which kind of surprises us. Instead of a single unit camera developed from the ground up, the GoPro Omni Synchronized Six-Camera Spherical Rig is, as the name implies, a rig which uses six GoPro HERO4 cameras, along with a proprietary hardware located at the center of the rig, to achieve the 360 videoing. There is, of course, a software optimized for Omni for fine tuning the videos and Continue reading Yay! GoPro Has A 360 Camera But It Requires Six GoPro Cameras