DP Review Monday September 26, 2022
Tamron has announced that it is bringing the ultra-telephoto 150-500mm f/5-6.7 Di III VC VXD lens to Fujifilm X-mount, notes DP Review. The lens was originally made for full-frame Sony E-mount cameras in April of 2021, adds PetaPixel. Though it reaches the ultra-telephoto focal length equivalent of 750mm, the 150-500mm f/5-6.7 is still quite compact in size with a length of 8.3 inches and a maximum diameter of 93mm. The zoom range can be achieved with a zoom ring arc of 75-degrees, which Tamron says enables rapid adjustment to the desired angle of view with minimal movement. Price: $1,500.
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David Schonauer Monday September 26, 2022
Canadian photographer Greg Girard has spent much of his career in Asia, examining the social and physical transformations taking place there--his work has been featured at CNN, The Washington Post,
The Sunday Times, and other publications--and now he's bringing together his unique photographs of Tokyo in the 1970s and 1980s in the book "JAL 76 88." His images are artifacts of a time when … Read the full Story >>
Space.com Friday September 23, 2022
Astrophotographers take note: Next week, the solar system's most massive planet, Jupiter, will make its closest approach to Earth in 59 years. The gas giant will be directly opposite the sun as viewed from Earth, an astronomical arrangement known as opposition, on Sept. 26, and will make its closest approach on Sept. 25. Because of its position, the planet will be unusually bright and large in the sky, offering a unique opportunity to view its features with binoculars or a small telescope for several days surrounding the two milestones, notes Space.com.
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AnOther Friday September 23, 2022
Before Cindy Sherman and Gregory Crewdson, there was Jo Ann Callis, notes AnOther. A conceptual photographer who began staging mysterious and erotic photos for her seminal Early Color series while studying with the legendary Robert Heinecken at UCLA in 1973, Callis’s crafted enigmatic visual metaphors of power and play, dominance and submission, desire and intimacy, adds the blog in a look at the exhibition “Jo Ann Callis and Jan Groover: Early Color,” at at Galerie Miranda in Paris through November 13. Read the full Story >>
