Photographer and filmmaker Jesse Watson made this beautiful 3-minute short film that shows the silhouettes of a hiking family framed within the rising full moon. Watson shot the film on August 14th, in Yuma, Arizona using a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K with a 600mm lens.
His camera and tripod were positioned between his truck […]. petapixel.com
Back in July, Canon unveiled its new RF 600mm f/11 and RF 800mm f/11 lenses. If you’re familiar with Canon’s vintage lenses, you may have noticed that the new lenses share interesting similarities with Canon’s R 600mm f/5.
Canon has announced redesigns to two popular super-telephoto lenses in the new EF 400mm f/2. 8L IS III and EF 600mm f/4L IS III. Both lenses are designed to be significantly more portable than their predecessors.
Nikon just released the new Nikkor 500mm f/5.6 PF ED VR, a new super-telephoto prime lens that’s ultra small and lightweight for its class. The development of this lens was announced back in June with minimal details, and now Nikon is providing a full picture of what this lens is. The Phase Fresnel (PF) lens […]
Portrait photographers generally pick focal lengths somewhere between 80mm and 135mm, which produces a flattened perspective distortion when the subject fills up the frame. Photographer Keydrin Franklin of 924photography recently decided to try his hand with shooting portraits with a 500mm super-telephoto lens.
Sony has announced a new FE 24-105mm f/4 G OSS zoom lens and the development of a new 400mm f/2. 8 super-telephoto lens, expanding the selection available to photographers using E-mount full frame mirrorless cameras.
PetaPixel has posted a nice piece about a Canon PE 300mm f/1.8 with an EF mount. We have to admit that we had no idea such a lens existed and it may be even rarer than the EF 1200mm f/5.6L. Apparently there are only 4 known copies of the Canon 300mm f/1.8 and the lens Read more...