Cameras

If I’m not mistaken, the car is a Columbia Electric Victoria Phaeton — where “Victoria Phaeton” refers to the entire body design. Originally it was used for horse-drawn carriages, before early electric car makers like Fritchle, Columbia, and Baker adopted it too.

The volcano in Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula erupted on Monday following weeks of intense earthquakes, forming an almost 2.5-mile lava-spewing fissure.

Nikkei Asia reported that Sony’s fast new camera is coming to the US on February 21st, which is consistent with estimated deliveries for pre-orders.

Bokeh is that blurred background you get in photos and it really shines with out-of-focus Christmas lights. I love messing with quirky camera techniques, so here are some cool ways to jazz up your bokeh:

Here’s my video TL;DR on the new Lego Ideas Polaroid OneStep set and how it compares to the real thing! And here’s my exclusive story about how Lego designs such a set.

The Ronin 4D-8K combo rig comes kitted with a Zenmuse X9-8K gimble camera on a vertically-stabilized main body (4-axis stabilization), a LIDAR range finder, DJI’s 17-28mm lens, 1TB SSD, monitor, battery, and all the mounts and grips for $12,838. that’s more than the originally announced $11,499 price, but DJI says the 8K comes with a RAW license key, unlike the 6K version.

Version 3.5 of the Mac image editing app adds support for HDR photos. Reminder: this is the good kind of HDR, not the over-processed stuff. iPhones — and soon lots of Android phones — capture more highlight information than a typical SDR image, resulting in more lifelike rendering on an HDR display. Pixelmator is the latest editing app to let you play with that extra data.

Marques Brownlee is once again crowdsourcing opinions on photos. You can head to the voting site where, in three categories (standard, low-light, and portrait mode), you’ll see the same photo taken by 20 different smartphones and judge which one you prefer in side-by-side comparisons.

And wow, I do not have them. So I flew to Berlin to learn from a “Promptographer,” and I came home with more generated pancakes than I know what to do with.

PetaPixel’s Chris Niccolls and Jordan Drake are once again recapping the year’s best and worst cameras over made-up drinking games. This is my favorite annual camera nerd tradition, and it’s now running 10 years (and three YouTube channels).

Sony has an upcoming gridline tool for its Alpha cameras that seems helpful for commercial photographers. But unlike free firmware updates, this one will cost $149 when it launches in March — just to add four custom grid overlays to their cameras.

This noise is the price you’ll pay for the uncropped 4K 120fps shots of the Sony A9 III’s global shutter that’s supposed to fix the distortion caused by the usual rolling shutter. (Well, really the price is $5,999)

Time has published its top 100 picks from professional photojournalists that document real-world events from 2023, alongside a message warning that ethical photojournalism has become “more important than ever” to combat the rapid rise in AI-generated imagery.

The company tested baking a cryptographic “digital signature” into photos taken by its cameras to set them apart from AI-generated or otherwise faked images. Sony says the feature will come to cameras like the Alpha 9 III via a firmware update in Spring 2024.

GoPro announced a new Premium Plus subscription during its quarterly earnings call Tuesday, while CFO Brian McGee teased three new cameras coming in 2024. The $99-a-year tier includes “increased cloud storage for any camera” plus a new Quik desktop app (on macOS this month, Windows next summer) with Hypersmooth Pro stabilization built-in.

Google’s Magic Editor is already capable of mind-bending photo retouching, but occasionally it’ll refuse to do certain edits. When this happens, it displays a vague message about violating Google’s AI terms.

Over on MKBHD’s The Studio, David Imel talked about the Leica M11-P. Or, more accurately, he used it to talk about Content Credentials, which the $9,000-plus camera attaches to photos as they’re taken so they can be verified through Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI).

Sure, it looks cool, but what can you do with a mini Game Boy Camera? Vjeran and I hit the streets of San Francisco to capture a few landmarks. Want one? The DIY design is ready if you’ve got fine soldering skills!

A retail listing spotted by WinFuture’s Roland Quandt has given us an early look at an upcoming model in DJI’s lineup of Osmo Pocket handheld cameras. If accurate, the listing suggests it’s slightly bigger and heavier, with a higher capacity battery. But most interesting is its larger 2-inch screen, which can apparently rotate between portrait and landscape.

Google Photos on the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro is changing the way it handles RAW files: they’re now stored in the main photos view rather than a separate folder. They’ll be backed up along with your JPEGs, and those big files will eat up your account storage fast. You’ll want to shoot RAW with discretion or turn off automatic backup altogether.