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- Extreme Photography: Climbing the World’s Tallest Building
- Camera & Photo Management Updates Coming to the New Apple iOS7
- Interesting Photo of the Day: Pair of Dogs Present Shared Treasure
- A Brief Inside Look at How Carl Zeiss Lenses Are Made
| Extreme Photography: Climbing the World’s Tallest Building Posted: 11 Jun 2013 04:43 PM PDT One early morning, one world landmark, and one brave photographer make for one epic photo shoot. Joe McNally recently climbed the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai, in an extreme quest for unusual and unique photographic perspectives (for those of you reading this by email, the video can be seen here): After taking an elevator to “level 160,” the last concrete platform on the building, McNally tested his own endurance by tackling seemingly endless flights of steel stairs, then harnessing up to climb the last couple hundred meters of the tower. At the top, he photographed two maintenance workers who do this kind of potentially dangerous work every day, dangling more than 2,700 feet above the desert metropolis below.
So why climb the tower? Why go through the physical and mental stress — because even someone with no fear of heights has to get a little nervous being so high above the ground, right? Well, McNally seems to have the same answer as the first man to scale Mount Everest when asked why he would want to climb the forbidding mountain: just “because it’s there.” (Via New York Times)
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| Camera & Photo Management Updates Coming to the New Apple iOS7 Posted: 11 Jun 2013 03:20 PM PDT On Monday, the smartphone giant Apple announced the launch of their newly designed mobile operating system iOS7. At the company’s WWDC event in San Francisco, Apple gave a demo of all the revamped features including the new camera and photo app available on the iOS7. The re-designed photo app now gives users various filter options, provides more control with the photo sharing function and gives them even more organizing capabilities (for those of you reading this by email, the release presentation can be seen here): Some of the highlights of this newly designed photo app includes -
The updated iOS7 enables users to utilize 4 camera functions in one. This includes swiping from the video camera, to your photo camera, to the square cropped camera and finally the pano camera. Go to full article: Camera & Photo Management Updates Coming to the New Apple iOS7 |
| Interesting Photo of the Day: Pair of Dogs Present Shared Treasure Posted: 11 Jun 2013 12:51 PM PDT When it comes to photographing pets, the sky is the limit. If they can sit still long enough, you can dress them up in bows, hats and tiny clothes, and organize a mini photoshoot, but there's nothing like capturing our furry pals in a more natural setting. Doing what they love and are born to do ensures wide toothy smiles just screaming for a photo such as this one:  Pair of Pooches Present Stick to Owner (Provided via Imgur) Entitled A Shared Treasure, the photo is an excellent reminder of the simple moments that we may sometimes overlook. For these two, finding a stick and presenting it to their owners in the hopes of a treat or a pat on the head resulted in a priceless moment captured on film. I'm guessing it’s also the product of good timing because I can't imagine them sitting still too long before eventually wrestling for ownership of their prize! Go to full article: Interesting Photo of the Day: Pair of Dogs Present Shared Treasure |
| A Brief Inside Look at How Carl Zeiss Lenses Are Made Posted: 11 Jun 2013 10:35 AM PDT No matter how curious you are about the inner workings of your camera gear, the high cost of quality lenses probably keeps you from dismantling your favorite lens to take a peek at its innards. If you’ve been wondering about how a lens is made, you’ll enjoy this short look at how the Zeiss Touit lenses for Sony NEX and Fujifilm X cameras are assembled (for those of you reading this by email, the video can be seen here): Each hand-assembled lens is comprised of over 100 individual parts. Care is taken to remove every last dust particle, and a special black lacquer is painted onto the glass. Once all of the pieces are in their proper places, each lens is inspected and tested for quality control before it’s packaged and sent off to an eager photographer. The Touit 2.8/12 offers the most extreme wide angle fixed focal length in the current APS-C range. "It is an extremely sophisticated lens which has been equipped with the great effort and care that an extreme focal length of 12 millimeters requires," explains Dr. Michael Pollmann, who is responsible for the development of the Touit lenses at ZEISS. The lens has eleven lens elements arranged in eight groups and was designed according to the Distagon optical concept. In addition, the lens has floating elements, two aspheric lenses and three lens elements made of high quality glass materials with anomalous partial dispersion. This lens is especially suited for nature and architectural photography. The product design of the Touit 2.8/12 has received an iF as well as a red dot product design award.
The Touit 1.8/32 offers the user an angular field that resembles natural eyesight. The goal during the development stage was to create an easy-to-use standard lens that the photographer can leave on the camera continuously and which can be used for a wide range of everyday situations. Touit 1.8/32 was developed according to a modernized Planar design approach that was adapted to today's requirements: instead of six lens elements, which is common for the Planar, the Touit 1.8/32 is equipped with eight lens elements and therefore offers an even higher i]maging performance when used with digital sensors. The Touit 1.8/32 can be used in many types of situations: travel photography, family photos, photojournalism and portrait applications. The Touit 1.8/32 recently received an iF gold award and red dot product design award for its innovative product design. As announced during photokina 2012, the Touit 2.8/50 Makro will come on the market at the end of 2013. Other focal lengths will follow. We also recently published an article on how the glass is made for Nikon lenses. Go to full article: A Brief Inside Look at How Carl Zeiss Lenses Are Made |
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