Photography Week in Review

Friday is here and a lot has happened in the photography world this week. Whether you’re a news junkie, technophile, love everything photographic, or just want to know what you might have missed, I compiled a list of the biggest photography news for the first week of September 2015.

Here are the most influential photography news stories of the week:

DxO ONE Makes Itself Known

The release of the DxO ONE was big news this week, and for good reason. It’s a camera that attaches to the Lightning port of the iPhone 6. The DxO ONE offers a larger image sensor almost identical to Sony’s Sony RX100 III, donning a 20.2-megapixel 1-inch CMOS image sensor.

The reviews of the DxO ONE are coming back unanimously positive, touting amazing resolution and image quality in low light. To read more on the significance of the DxO ONE read more here.

Digital Holga

If you were once into the distortion that the original film-based Holga created than you might be interested in the upcoming Digital Holga. There is currently a Kickstarter campaign to raise capital to produce this new camera by January 2016, and they have well reached their goal.

A pretty unique camera in the past, but with all the filters and apps from our smartphone cameras, do we really need a Digital Holga?

Photographer Creates Star Wars Wedding Photo

This is pretty awesome, especially if you’re a Star Wars fan. Wedding photographer Tanya Musgrave was asked by one of her couples to create a Star Wars image from one of their wedding pictures. So, being the awesome photographer she is, she put in the elbow grease in Photoshop and created this awesome video showing the intricate and laborious process.

Tamron Goes Prime Full Frame With Two News Lenses

Tamron, a third-party lens manufacturer has released two full-frame prime lenses this week for Canon and Nikon mount Full Frame cameras, but also say a Sony A-mount is coming down the road. The two lenses are the SP 35mm f1.8 VC USD, and SP 45mm f/1.8 VC USD, both with a nice wide open constant aperture, and image stabilization built into the lens.

To read more about the two lenses, visit the product page here.

PayPal.Me

Feeling the heat from the likes of other payment services like Square and Venmo encroaching on their market share, PayPal just launched PayPal.Me, a service that allows you to create your own personal payment link to send to your customers or friends to make payment options easier. If you’re a PayPal user, you can go to the PayPal.Me page and sign up for the service and set yourself up with a user name. Act fast if you want to use your name as your profile name before someone else grabs it first.

Department of Energy Building World’s Most Powerful Digital Camera

Well the world’s most powerful digital camera has just been approved by the United States Department of Energy. The telescope will be completed by 2022 and sit atop Cerro Pachón in Chile with a resolution of 3.2-gigapixels.

The camera will be part of a telescope, and be the size of a small car that weights three tons. The camera will capture full-sky image at a resolution that would take approximately 1,500 HDTVs to display one image captured by the camera.

B&H Video: Classical Art Designed for Photographers

Watch this amazing lecture by B&H Photo on classical art designed for photographers. Every time they post a video I am amazed at the content they publish. I feel like I should be paying for something that is free…

Start watching it now to see if you can stop once you get started. I couldn’t!

Precise-Moment.com Week in Review

We explore the possibility of the DxO ONE becoming the future of consumer digital photography. Read more about what the future may hold for photographers here.

University of Pittsburgh computer science researchers have developed a new way to identify a photograph with its author. Somewhat similar to the way painting can be identified, their new method goes further with utilizing more semantic features to analyze through an advanced algorithm.

Read how these researchers came up with a novel way of ‘fingerprinting’ photographs here.

We take a stab at understanding the changing paradigm of photography by analyzing Stephen Mayes’ Time article about the coming photographic revolution. Want to know what’s going to happen? Read the full story here.

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