The ubiquitous 50mm lens has been a staple of photography for many years. And a lot of those older 50mm lenses really aren’t all that terrible – if you’re shooting video or can deal with manual focusing. In this video, Andrew from Danae & Andrew looks at 10 of the most popular vintage 50mm lenses to see how they compare. While quite a few vintage lenses are starting to fetch some decent money, there are a lot of bargains still to be had, particularly at the 50mm focal length....

So why am I writing about it, you might ask? The company hasn’t delivered anything and three Kickstarter campaigns and an unsuccessful Shark Tank pitch later it drifts on in a zombie-like state of unfulfilled promises, disgruntled backers, and belligerent entrepreneurs. Think of it as a cautionary tale. The business model The theory behind Flag, as it was initially pitched in its first Kickstarter campaign, was that users would download an app and from there select 20 images from their camera roll to be printed and mailed to them for free every month....

How do you book more clients? It’s an ongoing problem for many photographers of all genres of photography. Do you spend money on traditional marketing and advertising? Should you spend hours cold calling or emailing prospective clients? In this video, Katelyn James explains the ways that she operates her wedding photography business without spending a single dollar on traditional advertising. Yes, you heard that correctly, she spends nothing on advertising her business....

The Universal Serial Bus has come a long way as a technology; it is now a standard in today’s electronics and gadgets for work and play. Computers and peripherals interact through USB ports. As you can see here, legacy serial and parallel ports once dominated the scene. Under this setup, a keyboard, mouse, external monitor, printer, and all other PC accessories have a corresponding custom port to communicate with the computer....

At Adobe MAX 2019, Chief Product Officer Scott Belsky announced the Content Authenticity Initiative – a nascent and ambiguously defined way for attribution to travel with an image and allow consumers to know, in the words of Adobe VP Dana Rao, that “the content they’re seeing is authentic.” In announcing the initiative alongside partners The New York Times and Twitter, Belsky said, “Together, we’re developing an industry-wide standard to allow creators to put their mark on their work and have that attribution accompany that piece of content across different platforms, posts and stories....