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No year could carry such horrible memories as 2020. Last year, when I penned the ‘Welcome’ section for January, there was not even the faintest inkling of how our lives would change so quickly. Stress has become an inevitable factor in our lives and

EDITOR Hoshang S. Billimoria TECHNICAL EDITOR Rohinton Mehta ASSISTANT EDITOR Sujith Gopinath COPY EDITOR Sweta Baruah PHOTOGRAPHY Mahesh Reddy HEAD-DESIGN & PRODUCTION Ravi Parmar ASST ART DIRECTOR Prathmesh Vichare PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR Dinesh Bhaj

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The Camera and Imaging Products Association (CIPA) has announced that the CP+ 2021 will be conducted in a new form. The show will be held on-site at Pacifico Yokohama and also online as an international world premiere show for camera and photo imagin

Sigma has announced three new additions, the 35 mm f/2, the 24 mm f/3.5 and the 65 mm f/2 to its DG DN Contemporary lens line-up, dubbed as the ‘I series’. The ‘I series’ features a compact and high-performance optics for mirrorless camera systems. I

Venus Optics has announced the launch of Laowa 10 mm f/2 Zero-D MFT ultra-wide compact lens. Offering a 96° Angle-of-view and equipped with 46 mm filter threads, the 10 mm Zero-D lens offers a full-frame equivalent focal length of 20 mm. It is constr

Leica has announced the launch of SL2-S camera that expands the multi-faceted SL-System with a versatile full-frame camera. The core element of the Leica SL2-S is the newly developed backside-illuminated CMOS full-frame image sensor with a resolution

WPPI has announced the postponement of the 2021 Wedding and Portrait Photographers International Trade Show (WPPI), which was scheduled for March 2021. The show has been moved to August 2021 owing to concerns over safety during the COVID-19 pandemic.

TTArtisans has announced the release of a 50 mm f/1.2 APS-C lens for Canon M, Fujifilm X, Micro Four Thirds and Sony E mount camera systems. The lens is constructed of 7 optical elements in 5 groups and sports a metallic design. The lens is fully man

Panasonic has won the Grand Prix in the 8K-Category at the Lumiere Japan Awards 2020, for its 8K short film, “History in Samarkand Blue.” This Grand Prix in the 8K-Category is a first for Panasonic, following its 2019 Grand Prix win in the 4K-Categor

Viltrox has announced the release of its new 85 mm f/1.8 STM autofocus prime lens for Nikon Z-mount mirrorless camera systems. The lens is constructed of 10 elements in 7 groups, including 5 ‘short wave length and high transparency’ elements and 1 lo

Skylum has officially announced the launch of its software Luminar AI. The latest software comes with many new features and AI tools for creating a smooth workflow. One such example is the new Templates feature wherein the software automatically chec

Profoto has announced the launch of its Beta App for Android. The Beta app has been released with additional functionalities for AirX Smart-TTL. According to its newsletter, the Profoto Camera AirX technology enables users to create professional imag

Nikon has announced that it has been selected for the highest rank ‘A-List’ by the CDP’s climate change questionnaire, for the second consecutive year, recognising it as one of the highest performing companies in its efforts against climate change an

Sony has announced that it has been included in the CDP’s Water A-List, recognising Sony as one of the highest performing companies in the area of water resource management. This is the fourth time following FY 2016, 2017 and 2019, that Sony has made

Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (“SPE”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation (“Sony”) and AT&T Inc. (“AT&T”), have announced that Funimation Global Group, LLC has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the equity interest i

On December 19, 2020, the Sanctuary Nature Foundation, supported by DSP Investment Managers Pvt. Ltd., IndusIand Bank and Greenko, in partnership with Delhibird Foundation, announced the results and of the Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards 2020 o

Tamron has announced the launch of the 17-70 mm f/2.8 Di III-A VC RXD (Model B070), a high-speed standard zoom lens for Sony E-mount APS-C mirrorless cameras. This is Tamron’s first high-speed zoom lens for mirrorless cameras with APS-C size sensors.

Optoma has introduced the P1 Pro and P2, the next-gen smart true 4K ultra short throw laser projectors as an addition to its CinemaX series. Both projectors come with advanced features. While the P1 Pro has elevated its brightness, the P2 has enhance

Renowned naturalists Surya Ramachandran and David Raju have released their new book ‘Photographic Field Guide – Wildlife of South India’. This is the first-of-its-kind comprehensive field guide covering all mammals, birds, butterflies, dragonflies, r

1. The picture has to be horizontal. 2. Kindly ensure that the longer side measures at least 17 inches, at 300ppi. 3. Low resolution images will not be accepted. 4. We do not check images on online galleries. 5. Kindly ensure complete contact/add

Atul Kasbekar is a graduate of the Brooks Institute of Photography, California. With over 25 years of experience, he has shot for virtually every brand and agency of consequence. He is recognised as the concept brain behind the famous Kingfisher Cale

Ashok Kandimalla has been in the photographic field for over three decades and has extensive experience in both film and digital photography. Being an electronics engineer by profession and a photographer, he possesses a unique and deep insight into

You might feel that the process for creating a calendar has too many steps, but, it is quite easy if you follow the procedure given here. And once you have created a preset, you can use the same one for any number of years. Creating a calendar with y

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Camera type: Mirrorless, with interchangeable lenses Effective pixels: 24.5 million Sensor type/size: CMOS/35.9 x 23.9 mm. Full frame BSI sensor: Yes, Back Side Illuminated File format: 12 or 14-bit (lossless compressed, compressed, or uncompress

Effective pixels: Approx. 26.1 million Sensor size: APS-C (23.5 x 15.6 mm) Type: X-Trans CMOS 4 sensor Storage media: SD/SDHC/SDXC cards Lens (Fixed): 23 mm f/2 Sensitivity: Still: ISO 160-12,800; AUTO; Can be extended to ISO 80, 100, 125, 25,60

Sensor type: 1.0-inch type (13.2 x 8.8 mm) Exmor RS CMOS sensor Effective pixels: Approx. 20.1 MP Lens type: Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* lens Lens construction: 10 elements in 9 groups (with 9 aspheric elements including AA lens) Aperture range: f/1.8

Display: 5.8-inch full-screen FHD+ Dimensions: 144 x 69.4 x 8.2 (mm) Weight: 143 g Battery: 3140 mAh2 RAM: 6 GB LPDDR4x Storage: 128 GB storage Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G GPU: Adreno 618 Main camera: 12.2 MP dual-pixel Front camera:

Social media channels, especially Instagram, has changed the way photography is being perceived and pursued throughout the world, aided by smartphones and the innumerable special effects possible on this ever-connected device. Consequentially, variou

1 Which of the following mounts is not a full frame mount? a) L mount b) Z mount c) F mount d) EF mount e) EF-S mount 2 Which Japanese Camera Company took its name from “ripening rice fields”? a) Minolta b) Nikon c) Yashica d) Canon 3 Wh