360Photography

Tag: Lens

  • Leica announces Elmarit-S 45 mm f/2.8 ASPH wide-angle lens

    leica-45mm_90.png

    Leica has announced the Elmarit-S 45 mm f/2.8 ASPH lens for its medium format S system. With an angle of view equivalent to a 35mm lens on full frame, it offers a classic moderate wide-angle field of view. Like several of the other S lenses it’ll be available in two versions, either with or without an in-lens ‘Central Shutter’ (that allows flash sync at all shutter speeds). At the same time, Leica is offering firmware updates for its S, S2 and S2-P cameras to give ‘optimum functionality’ with the lens. The Elmarit-S 45 mm f/2.8 ASPH will be in dealers this month at a price of £4650, or £5500 for the CS model.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Roger Cicala investigates accuracy of lens adapters

    adapter.jpg

    Mount adapters are incredibly useful for their ability to make lenses from one manufacturer usable with camera bodies from another. But do they have any impact on image quality? LensRentals’ Roger Cicala, not one to take manufacturer’s claims at face value, investigated. Knowing that slight mis-alignments between a lens and even its native mount can cause softness in images, the added complexity with a lens adapter in the mix seemed likely to cause more problems. His findings are indeed interesting. 

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Miniature wide angle lens under development at UCSD

    UCSD.jpg

    Researchers at UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering are working on a miniature wide angle lens, taking advantage of the benefits of spherical lenses. At just a tenth of the size of a traditional wide angle lens, a spherical lens can create wide angle images without chromatic aberration or loss of resolution at corners. The challenge is capturing the lens’ spherical projection on a flat sensor. The team have overcome this by using optical fibers fused to the rear of the lens to relay light to electronic sensors. Click through to read more about the this unique concept.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • DxO Labs releases ViewPoint 2, with added lens corrections

    shared:DxOLogo.png

    DxO Labs has released version 2 of its distortion-correction software Viewpoint. Designed to correct for perspective distortions such as converging verticals, Viewpoint can now also use DxO Optics Modules to correct for the lens’s barrel or pincushion distortion. It can work both as standalone software and as a plug-in, which is now compatible with Adobe Photoshop Elements and Apple Aperture (as well as Adobe Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5). A one month free trial version is available to download now, and Viewpoint 2 is on sale at reduced prices until 20th October. Click through for more info and download links.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Kenko Tokina enters cine lens market with 16-28mm T3.0 wide zoom

    1628cine.png

    The ever-increasing video capability of digital SLRs has seen manufacturers such as Canon, Samyang and Zeiss make video-optimised versions of their conventional lenses, and now Kenko Tokina is getting in on the act. The Tokina 16-28mm T3.0 is a manual focus version of the AT-X 16-28mm f/2.8 Pro FX wideangle zoom, with a redesigned barrel that features the usual refinements for video work, including geared focus, zoom and aperture rings, and scales designed to be read from the side of the camera. It’ll be made in Canon EF and Arri PL mounts, with a suggested retail price of ¥580,000 – almost 5 times that of lens it’s based on.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • A Closer Look: Super-Simple Macro Lens for Smartphones

    [ By Delana in Gadgets & Geekery & Technology. ]

    easy-macro lens

    Taking photos on our mobile phones has become a daily activity for a lot of us, but getting really high-quality pictures usually requires some kind of clunky add-on lens and a special app. Taking macro pics on your mobile device is made super-simple by the Easy-Macro Smartphone Lens.

    extreme close up of snowflake

    Created by Adam Hicks, the Easy-Macro is a macro lens that fits right over the built-in lens of your device. It fits any phone or tablet thanks to its super-stretchy band. The small lens provides 4X magnification and requires nothing more than just stretching onto your device.

    slip-on macro lens for iphones ipads ipods

    The device is composed of a simple lens and a band that holds it onto your device. It fits everything from a thin 4th generation iPod Touch to a big iPad. No software is needed to make the lens magnify your target subject, so it can be used with any device an any operating system.

    The results are surprisingly high-quality, especially for such a simple device. The lens can capture the tiniest details and create some very impressive ultra-close-ups. The company had been producing the lenses for several years before turning to Kickstarter for help bringing the production back to the US from China.

    Share on Facebook

    [ By Delana in Gadgets & Geekery & Technology. ]

    [ WebUrbanist | Archives | Galleries | Privacy | TOS ]


        




    WebUrbanist

  • Meet The Super Secret Smartphone Spy Lens


    Extra photos for bloggers: 1, 2, 3

    The kittens of the world are onto us. They seem to have learned to cut the cute stuff as soon as we get our camera phones out.

    Well, we can finally outsmart those smartycats thanks to the 90° periscoping Smartphone Spy Lens! Hold your phone in texting position, all the while snapping pix of the cuteness.

    Its high quality glass lens allows you to shoot at a less conspicuous angle without losing photo quality. You can position it in any direction while still looking at your screen for framing and focus.

    Shoot more natural candids of your cute but camera-shy pets, pals and kiddos.

    Check Out The Smartphone Spy Lens
    $ 20 at the Photojojo Store

     Tweet it!      Share

    Related posts:

    1. Super-Secret Photo Projects Just for Kids! Back Off, Grownups. ~Have a cool photo product or site? Reach 250,000 photo…
    2. The iPad Telephoto Lens Has Super
      Zoom Powers Elephants, body pillows, King sized candy. We’re huge fans of…
    3. The Phlash: Camera Phone Super Flash Every photographer knows that the key to the art is…


    Photojojo

  • Canon reveals EF-S 55-250 F4-5.6 IS STM kit-friendly zoom lens

    HR_EFS55-250_4-56_IS_STM_3Q-side-tr.png

    Canon has released a version of its EF-S 55-250mm F4-5.6 lens that uses its STM stepping motor. STM lenses are designed for movie recording, with the goal of providing smooth and silent focusing. Unlike its predecessor, the STM version of the 55-250 has internal focusing. You’ll be able to pick up the 55-250 STM lens in late September for $ 350. It’s also a safe bet that the 55-250 STM will come bundled with Canon DSLRs in the near future.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Rokinon launches Cine 16mm T2.2 lens for APS-C and Micro Four Thirds

    rokinon.png

    Rokinon has made available a video version of the Samyang 16mm f/2.0 prime. The 16mm T2.2 Cine lens is available for pre-order in Nikon F, Canon EF, Micro Four Thirds, Sony A, and Sony E mounts. Like other video primes, it offers focus and aperture racks for use with cinema rigs, stepless aperture control, and calibration in T-stops rather than F-stops. Rokinon’s website lists compatible mounts for Pentax, Samsung NX and Fujifilm X though they aren’t yet available for pre-order, and lists the lens at an MSRP of $ 499.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • 8 August, Zeiss 135mm f/2 APO Sonnar – The World’s Best Lens?

    There are a number of truly great lenses on the market, but with the new Zeiss 135mm f/2 APO Sonnar may have outdone even themselves. 

    "Having been to Antarctica with Michael and Kevin, I would say after having traveled the world and shot nearly my entire life as an exhibiting photographer,  it was one of my highlights in my life and I talk about it, all the time.  The images and experience of seeing something visionary and nearly extinct from the world, to see and experience the wildlife and scenery that does not fear humans is amazing.  The images I shot there won me two Smithsonian awards and nearly 18 other international awards". – Tim Wolcott

     Find Out More Now
    These Expeditions Will Sell Out Quickly. They Always Do

     Find Out More Now
    These Expeditions Will Sell Out Quickly. They Always Do

    …
    The Luminous Landscape – What’s New