The release of the new Samyang 35mm f1.4 autofocus lens for the Sony E mount system has grabbed everyone’s attention. Owning both this lens as well as the Sony Zeiss Distagon T* 35mm f/1.4, I have been constantly asked to do a comparison review. In this comparison, I will go through everything showing the differences between the lenses. 1:00 – Build Quality6:29 – AF for video and stills11:40 – Bokeh14:50 – Vignetting16:03 – Sharpness21:18 – CA & Lens flare...

Advertisements I. Thou Shalt Not Blur Thy Skin I. Thou Shalt Not Blur Thy Skin This is just a poor retouching technique. When you’re just starting out, it’s understandable. But as you progress and start doing more, you should either just hire a retoucher for all of your shoots or learn the proper techniques. If you want to learn the proper techniques yourself, this was the single biggest resource that helped me learn more....

High-speed cameras are certainly useful for slow motion, but they can also find their application in science. Elias Kristensson and Andreas Ehn, researchers at Swedish Lund University, have revealed the world’s fastest high-speed camera. It’s able to capture as many as five trillion frames per second. This sounds astonishing only when you try to read this number, and what’s especially impressive is that camera can visualize the movement of light. It can capture the events as short as 0....

At the beginning of the 20th century, the U.S. had a major child labor problem. The children were working in mills, fields, mines and factories, and the statistic says that one in five children under 16 were working at this time. But one photographer’s work helped to put this to an end. In this video from Vox, you’ll hear the story of Lewis Wickes Hine. His powerful images of child workers from the early 20th century contributed to the end of child labor in the United States....

AI-generated imagery and 3D content have come a long way in a very short space of time. It was only two years ago that Google researchers revealed NeRF, or Neural Radiance Fields, and less than two weeks ago NVIDIA blew us away with almost real-time generation of 3D scenes from just a few dozen still photographs using their “Instant NeRF” techniques. Well, now, a new paper has been released by the folks at Waymo describing “Block-NeRF“, a technique for “scalable large scene neural view synthesis” – basically, generating really really large environments....