Optical giants Fujifilm and Canon, through their respective subsidiaries, are doing what they can to help fight the current pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China. And it looks like Fuji’s Avigan might be a drug that could help in the battle. But it still requires a little bit more study […]
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Canon Inc. is a Japanese multinational corporation that specialises in optics, imaging and other industrial and electronic equipment. It is well known for its cameras, lenses and printers.
Canon’s precision optical instruments laboratory in Japan date back to 1933. During its early years, it did not have facilities to manufacture its own optical glasses for its lenses and so its early cameras used lenses that incorporated Nikkor lenses.
Canon introduced its nigh end SLRs and FD lenses in 1971 and their first inkjet printer in 1985. Currently canon has a huge range of digital cameras, lenses, the best inkjet printers and many other electronic equipment.
You’ve seen it on the spec sheets for cameras you considered purchasing, you’ve read about it on one photography blog after another, and you’ve heard your photographer friends talk about it — shooting raw. But do you know what it is? What implications it has for your images and whether you should be doing it?
We typically bring you stories about the decline in camera sales and how sad that is, but now we’re talking about cameras not even being made at all and that’s the worst of all realities. Photo by Pixabay from Pexels. COVID-19 is disrupting travel plans across the world and it is also starting to impact […]
Film photography is in a good place. True, digital is still tops — by a wide margin — but analog photography is holding its own and doesn’t appear to be prepared to give up much ground anytime soon (even in spite of the impending death of several beloved Fujifilm film stocks). I’ve written more than […]
In this article, we’ll cover what is white balance and how to properly set a custom white balance manually in your digital camera.
Whether you have an overflowing amount of cameras or a single lens you’ve been using for years, you can take exceedingly impressive portraits. Read and find out how you can make the most of the affordable 50mm f/1.8 lens for shooting portraits.
