French Woman Attacked By Crocodile In Thailand While Posing With It For A Photo

It seems that “Selfie Stupidity” isn’t going to stop any time soon. In this latest act of idiocy, French woman Muriel Benetulier was attacked by a crocodile in the Khao Yai National Park while posing for a photo with it. Bangkok Post reports that according to Khao Yai park rangers, the attack occurred on Sunday afternoon. Mrs Benetulier and her husband spotted a crocodile around 2m (6’6″) in length basking in the sun near a canal....

March 31, 2023 · 2 min · 343 words · Tamara Hughes

Giant Crab Steals A 4 000 Thermal Camera And Hides It From Researcher

It’s interesting how many times we’ve seen animals steal cameras: lions, penguins, chimps, eagles… A PhD student of Western Sydney University also lost her camera to an animal, and this time, the thief was a giant crab. And it’s a pretty pricey piece of gear: a $4,000 thermal camera. The student Annabel Dorrestein does her research on Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean. Funnily enough, this isn’t the first time she lost her camera to a crab....

March 31, 2023 · 2 min · 397 words · Jennifer Moore

Got Gas Check Out All The Gear That We Re Using At Ibc 2022

We love gear! And more importantly, we love what can be created using that gear. DIYP is currently covering the IBC Show 2022 in Amsterdam. We will be interviewing a lot of brands, showcasing our sponsors and introducing a lot of new gear. But in order to do that, we need our own equipment! In this video, Udi walks you through the video and audio set-up and equipment and shows you exactly what and how the team are using it....

March 31, 2023 · 4 min · 690 words · Jennifer Brown

Hasselblad Just Announced The H6D 400C A 400 Megapixel Medium Format Monster

Hasselblad have just announced the new H6D-400c. A 400MP monster of a camera, but there’s a catch. All is not quite as it initially appears. Yes, it can produce 400MP images, but it’s not a 400MP sensor. It’s still a 100MP sensor, but it uses pixel shifting, taking multiple shots to form a single higher resolution image. Six shots this case. As well as this, the H6D-400c offers a four-shot multishot mode which allows the camera to record full red, green and blue values from every pixel....

March 31, 2023 · 3 min · 593 words · Jason Anderson

How To Create Autofocus With A 120 Year Old Lens

Mathieu Stern’s at it again with his crazy experiments. This time, he’s taken the lens off a 120 year old folding camera, and attached it to his Sony mirrorless camera. This is nothing new, but what is new is that he’s given it autofocus abilities. The first autofocus lenses were released around 40 years ago, so this is quite the feat. He used an ingenious adapter designed to give autofocus abilities to manual focus Leica lenses on the Sony A7 range of bodies....

March 31, 2023 · 2 min · 358 words · Kaitlyn Porter
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