Lime One gives vintage cameras a modern light meter

Fully-manual analog film cameras can be fun and interesting to use, but it sucks when they don't have a built-in light meter. That's where the Hedeco Lime One comes in, as it's a digital light meter that can be added to such cameras.

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Close-up Photographer of the Year celebrates dramatic detail

The Close-up Photographer of the Year competition highlights seldom-seen close-up textures and details of animals, insects, plants and materials. Galice Hoarau's electrifying image of an eel larva snapped during a blackwater dive is the 2020 winner.

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Boundless beauty in the 2020 Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards

This selection of winning shots from the 2020 Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest span everything from a gorgeously impressionistic shot of colorful stratospheric clouds, to a surreal snap of a laser homing in on a distant globular cluster.

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Ricoh spin-out Vecnos launches wand-like IQUI 360-degree camera

Back in March, we brought news that Ricoh had spun out its Theta 360-degree camera division into its own entity called Vecnos Inc. Now the first product from that new company is being readied for release, the oddly named IQUI.

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Nikon releases software to turn cameras into high quality webcams

As announced last month when the Z5 launched, Nikon has finally joined Canon, Fujifilm, Panasonic and GoPro in releasing beta webcam utility software that allows certain cameras in its range to be used as high quality webcams.

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The rule-bending winners of Red Bull Illume Special Image Quest 2020

Spinning off from the Red Bull Illume Quest competition comes Red Bull Illume Special Image Quest 2020, which showcases adventure and action sports imagery, but with an Instagram focus. The winners of the inaugural contest have now been announced.

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Spectacular stars in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year shortlist

The Astronomy Photographer of the Year is one of the world’s top astrophotography competitions, and this year's shortlist offers a selection of the best entries, from mind-bending close-ups of the sun’s surface to a series of Milky Way skyscapes.

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Blackmagic’s crazy 12K camera shoots sixty 80-megapixel RAW frames per second

Blackmagic Design has sent the filmmaking world into fits of nervous laughter with a new digital film camera capable of shooting 12K RAW at 60 frames per second. Yes, each frame will be an 80-megapixel raw photo with 14 stops of dynamic range.

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GoPro gives Hero8 Black actioncam new lease of life as a webcam

Chances are good that you've not been getting much use out of your Hero8 Black for the last few months. Now macOS users can put their actioncams to work as a webcam thanks to some beta software launched by GoPro.

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