Behold the Monstrous Beauty of This Year’s Coolest Microscopic Images

Behold the Monstrous Beauty of This Year's Coolest Microscopic Images

Mouse brains! Bat embryos! Hungry algae! Today, Olympus unveiled the winners of the tenth annual BioScapes photography competition, which showcases the best photography captured through light microscopes. The top ten were chosen from a mind-boggling 2,100 entries.

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The Crazy Huge Aperture on This New Lens Chews Up Darkness

The Crazy Huge Aperture on This New Lens Chews Up Darkness

It’s been a good year for really huge aperture sizes on camera lenses, with products like the Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8, and the Metabones Speed Boosters. But next year you’ll be able to get your hands on a 40mm lens with an aperture size of f/0.85. That is one gaping piehole.

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Inside the Incredible, Complex Factories Where Satellites Are Born

Inside the Incredible, Complex Factories Where Satellites Are Born

Greg White has shot some of the most remote and unusual places in the world. The UK photographer has published photo essays on Chernobyl, Svalbard, and even CERN. But for his latest project, he discovered an alien world within the ordinary confines of his home country: The labs where satellites are built.

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Samsung Galaxy S 5 to headline ISOCELL camera quality boosts

This month a couple of big changes in the way Samsung operates are set to have direct influences on how the Samsung Galaxy S 5 will be delivered. Just this November an analyst day event showed off the next big thing for Samsung’s line of smartphones in a sensor that’ll be placed in at least […]

Moto G camera updated to bring additional quality control

One of the finer points in Motorola breaking their camera software free from the basic Android build is their ability to update it swiftly, as they’ve done this week with the Moto G. What we’re seeing is an update to the app through the Google Play app store which brings on manual control of focus […]

Those Crazy Timelapse Videos We All Love Take a Whole Lot of Work

It seems like every other day there is a new dreamy, stupifyingly beautiful timelapse video of some location around the globe. It’s a tried and true form for wowing us internet denizens, but rarely do we get to meet the people behind those thousands of shutter clicks.

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The Other-Worldly Architecture Of Avoriaz, A Ski Resort In France

The Other-Worldly Architecture Of Avoriaz, A Ski Resort In France

All I want for Christmas is a trip to Avoriaz. I had never heard of this place before finding it on Alastair Philip Wiper‘s site; the ace photographer has been documenting the French ski resort for years, and I’ve never seen anything quite like it. The more I read about it, the more I want to go.

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Whoa, Watch This Hotel in Munich Get Transformed in 88 Different Ways

Whoa, Watch This Hotel in Munich Get Transformed in 88 Different Ways

This is a real building; you’re looking at an actual hotel in Munich, made much, much more interesting by Víctor Enrich. The site is the latest addition to the photographer’s portfolio of mind-bending architectural distortions; here, he’s transformed the same building 88 times, each more WTF than the last.

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Nexus 5 Camera With Android 4.4.1 Test Shots: A Speed Focus Machine

Nexus 5 Camera With Android 4.4.1 Test Shots: A Speed Focus Machine

The Nexus line’s reputation of bad camera phones seems to have stopped at the Nexus 5, but Google isn’t limiting the improvement to hardware. The Nexus 5’s 4.4.1 update took what was already a much better camera and improved its launch time and focus speeds by half a second. That may not seem like much, but in photography it makes all the difference.

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Taking photos impairs the ability to remember events say researchers

New research has been published that claims taking photographs of events rather than paying attention to them hinders our ability to remember the actual event. The researchers call this the “photo-taking impairment effect.” It’s hard to go to any event where people aren’t focused on their camera or smartphone, shooting video or photos. According to […]