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Photography by Stewart Marsden Editor's note: This tutorial was written by photographer Stewart Marsden, the official photographer for the London New Year fireworks display and a National Geographic contributor. You can find more of Marsden's images on his portfolio, read more of his writing on his blog and purchase his images [...]

In January, Xiaomi announced its 12 series flagship smartphones. Since then, Xiaomi has entered a partnership with Leica and announced the Xiaomi 12S Ultra smartphone. Per Xiaomi on the social media platform Weibo, the 12S Ultra will use Sony's IMX989 image sensor. It's a 1"-type sensor, measuring 13.2 x 8.8 [...]

We're only 12 days away from seeing the first full-color scientific images from NASA's incredible $10B James Webb Space Telescope. As the excitement builds, NASA has suggested that the first images will be just the beginning of what we can expect to see from Webb. 'This is farther than humanity has [...]

The Olympus OM-1 changed the way photographers viewed SLRs – small could also be serious (Photo by Jim Grey) In honor of the 50-year anniversary of the Olympus OM-1, Kosmo Foto founder Stephen Dowling has written up a comprehensive tribute to the camera that redefined what an SLR camera could be [...]

Card tricks would be a lot easier if the magician knew the location of every card. Paul Nettle created a Github project, 'The Nettle Magic Project,' that uses special markings and a camera to identify and locate every card in a deck. Each card in the deck is marked with a [...]

Meike has announced the release of a new 50mm F0.95 lens for APS-C mirrorless camera systems. The lens, which offers a roughly 80mm full-frame equivalent field-of-view, is fully manual and available for Canon EF-M, Fujifilm X, Micro Four Thirds, Nikon Z and Sony E-mount camera systems. The lens is constructed of [...]

Introduction Nikon recently announced its new Nikkor Z 400mm F4.5 VR S, a super-telephoto lens for the company’s expanding lineup of Z-mount cameras. While DPReview TV has already shared its thoughts on the new lens, we wanted to share a few hands-on details of the compact super-telephoto prime. Who’s this lens for? Considering [...]

Profoto is well known for its wide range of studio-quality lighting solutions. The new Profoto A2 flash head is Profoto's latest compact light. It can be used handheld, mounted or rigged in ways that larger, heavier lights cannot because the Profoto A2 is roughly the size of a can of [...]

DigiKam is a free, open-source digital photo management app available on Windows, macOS and Linux. The app has just been updated to version 7.7.0, adding numerous new features, bug fixes and camera support. DigiKam 7.7.0 supports the AOM AV1 Image File Format (AVIF), an open-source video coding format. It's similar to [...]

With Nikon's 400mm F4.5 S VR officially announced, we can now share more details in this 'Director's Cut' of our preview video! Find out the exact size and weight, as well as the price of this exciting new Z-Mount lens. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview [...]