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VWFNDR MBL Is a New Android Camera App and an Actual Camera Is In the Works

Nine smartphones display various photography app interfaces, showing cityscapes, trains, flowers, and taxis. The screens feature camera controls, sliders, and settings, emphasizing mobile photography and customization options.

VWFNDR has announced VWFNDR + MBL, a new Android camera app designed to work like a camera, "not as a computational filter." The company says it has built its new app to be a tool for intentional, deliberate mobile photographers.

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Icelandair Found its β€˜Really Bad Photographer’ and Gave Her $50,000

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Back in March, Icelandair launched an extremely unusual photo contest. Instead of seeking the most talented, best photographer, Icelandair wanted a "really bad" one. The airline wanted to show that Iceland is so beautiful that even a bad photographer could get good photos.

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I Fundamentally Disagree With Canon Building a Wall Between its V and C Series Cameras

A person in a gray Canon T-shirt builds a brick wall, holding a trowel with mortar in one hand and a brick in the other, under a bright blue sky.

Canon's recent video-first and hybrid cameras, the EOS C50, EOS R6 Mark III, and brand-new EOS R6 V, are a perfect example of what I consider Canon's biggest EOS R System mistake. These products are segmented in extremely annoying ways.

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Nikon Stock Skyrockets Amid Rumors of a Sale

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Nikon lost a lot of money last fiscal year. In fact, Nikon lost a record-breaking amount of money, a whopping 86 billion yen, or more than $542 million at current exchange rates. Nikon's largest shareholder, EssilorLuxottica, is reportedly weighing a major acquisition of the company, sending its stock soaring.

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Thypoch’s Stylish Ksana 35mm f/2 Prime Promises 1980s-Inspired Flare

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Hot on the heels of its new, ultra-stylish Ksana 21mm f/3.5 lens, Thypoch has launched the Ksana 35mm f/2, a new standard prime Leica M-Mount lens. While a native M lens, this manual focus prime is extremely easy to adapt to full-frame and APS-C mirrorless cameras.

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Divers Capture First Footage of a Great White Shark in the Mediterranean

Side-by-side underwater images of a great white shark; the left shows a close-up of its face, while the right shows a profile view with striped fish swimming above its head. The scene is bathed in blue light.

Divers working to dismantle and remove discarded fishing nets in the Mediterranean Sea had an incredible and historic close encounter with a great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias). It is believed to be the first time a great white shark has been caught on film underwater in the Mediterranean.

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