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I know how to take pictures, but ask me how the lens on my camera is made and I have a lot less to say. A visit to the Okaya Manufacturing Site in Japan, followed by some research afterward, gave me a lesson in a subject I’d never understood particularly well. I wanted to understand how the glass inside a lens is crafted, how the tools used in that process are prepared, and how people learn to do that work.
Canadian photographer and inventor Peter Modzelewski has launched Forma on Kickstarter via his independent photo gear studio, Oramod. It is a pocket-sized optical viewfinder designed for a wide range of film and digital cameras.
In May, VSCO came under scrutiny for wording in its Terms of Use that seemed to give the company permission to use certain user content to develop, train, and improve generative AI or machine learning models. It has now taken the extra step to clarify that it doesn't do that, and won't.
Home security can now fly. Amazon-owned Ring has announced the Ring Drone Cam, a $250 indoor flying security camera designed to automatically patrol a home's interior.
The good news keeps coming for photographers using Adobe's software. Alongside big Lightroom Classic updates, Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) has been updated today to version 19.0, ushering in a wide range of tweaks, some of which are major.
Adobe's MAX press kit focused on just a few updates to Lightroom and gave Lightroom Classic no specific attention, but that doesn't mean that the popular RAW editing and organization app hasn't received big changes. Lightroom Classic 16.0 is here, and it includes a ton of meaningful improvements.
