Fujifilm Just Announced Its New Mid Range X S10 With Six Stops Of In Body Stabilisation

We already knew it was coming, thanks to Nokishita, but now Fuji’s made it official and announced their new Fujifilm X-S10 mid-range APS-C mirrorless camera. And it’s pretty much exactly as the leaked specs and photos said it would be. Essentially, it’s a low budget X-T4 with much of the same (or close) capability. It packs many of the still-shooting features of Fuji’s X-T4 into a smaller and more affordable body ($1,699 vs $999)....

April 11, 2023 · 2 min · 317 words · Steven Jackson

Getty Faces Second Mass Copyright Lawsuit Alleging Infringement Of Over 47 000 Photos

Getty Images seem to be having a tough time lately. After recently being hit with a $1 billion lawsuit by photographer Carol Highsmith, they are being sued again. The nine page civil complaint was filed by Zuma Press, an independent press agency, on Monady. In the suit, Zuma alleges copyright violations and unauthorised licensing of more than 47,000 images. The suit also alleges that Getty has essentially grown too big for its boots....

April 11, 2023 · 3 min · 447 words · Frederick Barker

Grandmother Becomes Queen Of The Ocean As Her Ice Throne Gets Swept Out To Sea While Shooting A Photo

We have all done reckless, stupid or plain silly things for the sake of a photo. A 77-year-old Judith Streng from Texas is no exception. She sat on an “ice throne” in Iceland to pose for a fun vacation snapshot. But when a wave dislodged the chunk of ice, it started drifting away from the shore and the lady almost got washed out to sea. Judith was on a vacation in Iceland with her son, who took the photos of his mother on the “ice throne....

April 11, 2023 · 2 min · 364 words · James Smith

Great Film Photography With A Cheap Panoramic Camera

Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan. Today on The Slanted Lens we’re out here in Death Valley. I brought with me a little film camera I found a box in my office that I haven’t shot with in years. So I thought this would be fun to take it out to Death Valley and shoot some panoramic shots. It’s a panoramic film camera. I couldn’t afford the Hasselblad XPAN or the Fuji GX617, which made great panoramic shots....

April 11, 2023 · 6 min · 1131 words · James Webb

Hobbyist Astronomer Finds A New Jupiter Moon After Scanning Photos From 2003

It doesn’t happen every day that a new Jupiter moon gets discovered. And it’s even less common for an amateur astronomer to find one. In fact, this is the first time! Going through the dataset from 2003, Kai Ly discovered a moon around Jupiter that hasn’t been known so far. David Jewitt and Scott Sheppard from the University of Hawaii led a group that used these 2003 images to discover 23 new moons, including Valetudo, Ersa, and Pandia....

April 11, 2023 · 2 min · 341 words · Brooke Johnson
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