Sennheiser has today announced its new MKE 200 on-camera microphone. Designed primarily for vloggers or anybody who sits there talking to a camera (like most people these days who’ve replaced real-world meetings with Zoom or Skype), it’s an unpowered microphone, meaning there are no batteries to deal with. And it also works with your smartphone. We’ve seen a lot of new on-camera microphones come out over the last couple of years and there are generally two different types of on-camera microphone....

The Gameboy Camera seems to have picked up in popularity as of late. We’ve seen a plethora of projects using one over the last few years, partly just to show off how beautifully terrible the images are, sometimes just to push the limits of the tech to see what it can actually do, even shooting Formula 1 and eclipses with it. We’ve seen 3D printed adapters to mount EF lenses on it, colour trichromatic photography and even AI-enhanced colour photography....

Sony is taking no prisoners. In their latest mid-term strategy paper, they pledge almost a 1 Trillion Yen (~$9 billion) investment into camera technology over the next three years. The investment is primarily in image sensors, with the goal of becoming the “top brand in the overall camera market” by 2021. With Canon’s recent announcement to take more than 50% of the interchangeable lens camera market in the next few years, things should get exciting....

The use of copyrighted material without permission (aka piracy) gets a lot of attention in the music industry, but those of us who earn income from visual arts are just as often (if not more so) screwed over by rampant online piracy. Interestingly, Taylor Swift and other huge creative content producers suffer from many of the exact same issues as independent photographers, filmmakers and visual artists (on an entirely different scale of course)....

If you wish to go paperless in your drawings, or if your an architect or designer who for some reason doesn’t have access to a computer, you might benefit immensely from using one of the best apps in this list to draw your house plans. You can even use some of them to open already existing and finished files! Here, you’ll find out which ones are the best and most amazing apps through which you can use for home design to create the best possible houses!...