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13/08/2022

There’sThere’s a class of cameras designed almost exclusively for studio use. Expensive, hulking things, they live their lives on tripods, churning out exquisite portraits and other specialist photography for truly committed professionals. Hasselblad makes such cameras, and its flagship H6D is an archetypal example, costing $33,000 without a lens, but producing epic 100-megapixel shots. It’s those grand extremes of resolution, courtesy of an extra-large medium format sensor, that attract photographers to spend five figures on a camera they can’t take everywhere with them.

In our review of the Hasselblad X1D medium format camera, we find out exactly how far 50 megapixels can take you

11/08/2022

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been testing out the Nano S 360-degree camera from Insta360. It’s a cute little camera that clicks into your iPhone’s Lightning port and takes 360-degree photos and videos. The camera itself is very compact and can easily be held in the palm of your hand or slipped into your pocket.

A cute little camera that clicks into your iPhone’s Lightning port

09/08/2022

TheThe Light L16 camera is an engineering marvel. It takes 16 different smartphone-sized imaging modules, each carefully aligned behind a piece of glass, and uses them in concert with each other to create images that are bigger and better-looking than the results the individual cameras are capable of. It does all this in a form factor that’s two or three times thicker than, but not quite as wide as, an iPad mini, something that actually fits in a few pockets and is easy enough to stow in a bag. That’s Light’s selling point for this $2,000 camera: the L16 is ostensibly a full bag of camera gear in one body.

A fantastic piece of technology that’s only slightly greater than the sum of its parts

07/08/2022

SometimesSometimes you need a break from toxic social media that’s filled with constant comparisons to how your friends are eating better, dressing better, and traveling to more exotic places than you. Well, there’s plenty of appeal in instant cameras. They have physicality since you can hold your mementos in your hand, and they’re a fun, unpredictable throwback to the analog days when you had to manually adjust the settings of a camera to get the best shot.

We’ve been testing them out for a few weeks to determine which is the best one

05/08/2022

TheThe Fujifilm X-T3 is the finest APS-C mirrorless camera that the company has ever produced, and it’s among the best and most versatile options on the market that isn’t full-frame. At $1,500 (body only) or $1,900 with a very good 18-55mm kit lens, the X-T3 is a refined showcase for the advances Fujifilm has made in stills photography, and it’s almost startling how quickly the company has honed its video chops. At a time when even Canon and Nikon are turning their attention to full-frame mirrorless cameras, Fujifilm is saying “not so fast.” Though it looks quite familiar, the X-T3 is a worthy upgrade to the X-T2 with a long list of improvements that become evident once you start shooting with it.

Fujifilm’s latest camera is just as good at 4K video as it is at still photography.

03/08/2022

In short, the answer is “yes.” Under the right conditions, this phone takes amazing photos with detail far beyond what I’d expect from a conventional mobile image sensor. But it does require a little experimentation to get the best results, and the ideal mode for each situation may not always be what you might assume.

It’s all about AI Ultra Clarity.

23/07/2022

Variety reports that Netflix has greenlit Heartstopper for two more installments with Oseman slated to return as writer and executive producer. Like the graphic novel, Heartstopper tells the story of how Charlie Spring (Joe Locke) and Nick Nelson (Kit Connor) fall in love while attending an all-boys grammar school. Heartstopper’s first season focuses on the beginning of Charlie and Joe’s romance with plot points pulled from the graphic novel’s first and second volumes. There’s currently no word on when production on Heartstopper’s next seasons will kick off, which means there’s plenty of time to get caught up on the books to get a sense of where the show’s likely headed.

Heartstopper’s already been renewed by Netflix

22/07/2022

ByBy the end of the second season of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy, the series had tackled two apocalypses and begun teasing out details on the small screen that hadn’t yet become canon in Dark Horse’s The Umbrella Academy comics from writer Gerard Way and artist Gabriel Bá. In its third season, Netflix’s show finally starts to answer many of the mysterious questions that have been weighing heavily on the Hargreeves siblings’ minds since we first met them and digs into the world-ending strangeness that seems to follow them no matter which reality or timeline they find themselves in.

With all of this year’s superhero stories about broken, beleaguered people fighting to save the world, it’s easy to write The Umbrella Academy off as just another comic book adaptation vying for your attention. But in its third season, The Umbrella Academy opens itself up to a slew of new possibilities with a fresh yet familiar story about found families figuring out what really matters to them in life.

The Umbrella Academy’s third season is its best yet.

21/07/2022

Comics have never been bigger: with Marvel TV shows, DC movies, and indie adaptations growing by the day, comic books have never been more prominent in pop culture. This biweekly Verge column recommends comic series new and old, whether you’re a longtime fan or a newcomer.

With most mainstream comics today tending to skew more toward sci-fi superheroes, Boom Studio’s Coda is a perfect gateway for those who prefer swords and sorcery — set in a magical post-apocalypse with some of the best comic art around.

What is it? Coda is a 12-issue fantasy comic set in a desolate apocalypse after a gigantic, magical war between the forces of good and evil that cost the world most of its magic. Think Mad Max: Fury Road if it happened after the final battle in Lord of the Rings, with magical power instead of water as the scarce resource that everyone is fighting for.

Who doesn’t want a demonic pentacorn?