Creating 3-dimensional worlds and objects from flat 2-dimensional photographs isn’t a new concept. It’s been happening for years. In the early days (and still often, today), we used photographs inside 3D modelling software as reference images for our 3D creations. A few years pass and along comes photogrammetry, allowing the automatic creation of 3D models and scenes from a couple of hundred photos. Photogrammetry often takes hours, but this new tech from NVIDIA can do it in seconds....

Just like they announced earlier this year, Huawei has launched P20 Pro: the world’s first smartphone with three rear cameras co-developed with Leica. The triple-cam technology brings you 40 MP images and 5x hybrid (optical and digital) zoom. It has caused quite a hype among phone photographers and it has earned whopping 109 points at DxO. So let’s dive in and see what this new phone camera technology has to offer....

It’s impossible not to notice that some types of Instagram photos all look alike. Especially photos from iconic locations, where thousands of people stand in the same spot to snap an Instagram photo in the same pose. Just think of all the tourists “pushing” the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Photographer and videographer Oliver KMIA decided to mock this trend, so he has created a video which shows the lack of creativity in Instagram travel images....

This is one of the weirdest, but at the same time coolest, lens filters I’ve ever seen. There have been a lot of filters purely for one-off effects over the years, and some of them are still commonly available today. Most of them are kind of gimmicky and, well, this one is, too, really. It’s the Soratama from Zenjix, a 72mm filter that actually has a glass sphere right in the centre of it....

While not strictly a photography topic, all of our cameras use USB, as do our card readers, many of our flashes, flash triggers, and other devices we use during the course of our daily photographic lives. And the numbering system used with our equipment is about to get a bit more complex. Yes, the current USB 3 protocol is being renamed. Again. USB used to be so simple. We just had whatever the current version was....