Want to see what goes on inside Sony's main factory for digital cameras and lenses?
Here's a 4-minute video that shows how the Sony a7R II is assembled, tested, and boxed up at the Sony Digital Imaging factory in Chunburi, Thailand. Fans of photography history will love this treasure trove, which contains 437 digitized issues originally published between 19.
Of the three, it is ISO that is probably most misunderstood. In fact, it is a common misconception that higher ISO settings will cause images to be noisier. But when it comes to Sony's best sensor designs, the company apparently keeps those precious sensors exclusively in-house for its own cameras. Is the most egalitarian form of photography, ‘street photography’, being destroyed by its own popularity? I won’t profess to have a clear answer to this question, but I do have some thoughts.

Adobe Research has been working on some pretty interesting photo and video editing features, but their latest research might just revolutionize photo editing as we know it.
Imagine if Photoshop could automatically cut out complex subjects in seconds, no matter the background... ISO is one of the three major exposure settings in the exposure triangle of a digital camera -- shutter time, f/number, and ISO. Sony is one of the heavyweights in the camera sensor business and a company that produces sensors for rival camera companies, including Nikon. That's all you need to open a door to a world of photography previously known only to the most extreme DIYers and commercial photographers for whom purchasing decisions are usually made for them by client requests.
However, she was soon revealed as a cheater by a sharp-eyed sleuth who found proof in her finish line photo.
Just as how cars can fail after a certain number of miles, camera shutters can go belly up after a certain number of actuations (i.e. If you've ever wondered what a heavily used DSLR shutter can look like after it bites the dust, today's your lucky day.
The United States has issued a new ban on cameras, laptops, tablets, and other portable electronic devices as carry-on items for flights from 10 airports in 8 countries. Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer hates when people at the band's shows spend the whole time staring through their screen—shooting the performance on a 4-inch box instead of experiencing it for themselves.
So last year, during a show in Turin, Italy, he turned the tables.
Not happy with Lightroom's sluggish performance on your computer?
Here's a helpful 15-minute video in which photographer and instructor Anthony Morganti shares a number of helpful tips for optimizing your Lightroom's performance.
, photographer Jill Peters visited to the mountain villages of northern Albania to capture portraits of “burneshas,” or females who have lived their lives as men for reasons related to their culture and society.