Here’s How the Sony a7S II Compares to the Human Eye in Low Light

The Sony a7S II is known to have amazing performance in low light and at high ISO. To see just how powerful its low light capabilities are, a Greek photographer who goes by Boji decided to do a casual test that pits the camera against the human eye. You can see the comparison in the 48-second video above.

Boji says he was searching for dark places to test the camera’s high ISO performance but couldn’t find any place dark enough to challenge the camera.

The test was based on what he could see with his own eyes — Boji adjusted his cameras settings until the resulting footage roughly matched what he was seeing while looking around in the locations. For the “camera’s view,” he shot at between ISO 64,000 and ISO 256,000 (without any noise reduction added in post).

“The only thing I know for sure is how much more than me the camera can see in the darkness,” Boji says.

(via VideoArt GR via sonyalpharumors)

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Lea Clark: Showing American Girls How to Live Their Photography Dreams

If you’re interested in taking your photography business to the next level, you do not want to miss out on the newest photography workshop hitting the industry:

Lea Clark: Showing American Girls how to live their Photography Dreams.

According to her most recent write-up on Good Morning America, Lea Clark, American Girl’s 2016 Girl of the Year, is a talented photographer and animal lover, whose photography has taken her all over the world, most recently to Brazil.

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Lea, 10 years old, shared that she’s been involved in photography ever since she was 1. Her plastic eyes twinkled as she laughed and said, “My first word was ‘bokeh.’” We sat down with Lea, well, actually, WE sat Lea down, to ask her a few questions about her photography.

“I discovered my passion for photography the second my molded plastic camera was draped over my hand. It was like something ignited deep within my hollow soul. I feel really passionate about sharing that with others.”

When asked about her upcoming photography workshop tour, Lea was clearly excited. “It feels SO good to get out of my cardboard box and really share with others the secret to my success; that girls can be whatever they want to be, as long as they aren’t trapped in a cardboard box.”

In addition to Lea’s upcoming workshop tour, rumors are circulating that she will be presenting at PPA and WPPI in 2016. Neither organization was willing to confirm the rumor.

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About the author: Missy Mwac is a photography satirist, a lover of bacon, a drinker of vodka, a lover of sparkle, and a guide through the murky waters of professional photography. You can connect with her on Tumblr and Facebook. This article was also published here.

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Tokina Announces a 14-20mm f/2 Lens for Canon and Nikon APS-C Cameras

Kenko Tokina has announced a new ultra-wide zoom lens for Canon and Nikon crop sensor cameras. The new Tokina AT-X 14-20mm f/2 PRO DX has a 35mm equivalent focal range of 22-32mm on Canon APS-C cameras and 21-30mm on Nikon ones.

The lens has a large, fixed f/2.0 aperture that lets you keep your ISO low and shutter speed fast when shooting in low light environments.

It features a plastic aspherical lens for “improved surface accuracy” and anti-reflection thanks to a special coating (to combat ghosting and flares). To the rear of the lens are 2 low-dispersion aspherical glass elements that help correct for various aberrations.

A special feature in the new 14-20mm is the “One-touch Focus Clutch” system, which lets you toggle between manual and auto focus by simply sliding the focus ring instead of having to worry about a separate switch. Slide the focus ring forward for autofocus and back toward the camera for manual.

Other specs and features include an 82mm filter thread size, 13 elements in 11 groups, a 0.28m minimum object distance, a max macro magnification of 1:8.36, internal focusing, a 9-blade aperture, a weight of 725g (~25.6oz) and a length of 106mm (~4.17in). Pricing and availability have not yet been announced.

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A Camera Drone Flies Over New Year’s Eve Fireworks in Lima, Peru

When the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve in the capital city of Lima, Peru, things get crazy. People shoot fireworks high into the sky from the streets and from the roots of buildings, creating a spectacular light show.

Photographer Jeff Cremer was in Lima this year and decided to use his camera drone to capture what the crazy fireworks display looks like from above. It “looks like the start of the air campaign in Iraq,” Cremer says.

“At around midnight I flew the drone over all the fireworks at an altitude of around 200m,” the photographer writes. “I wanted to fly lower but I could just picture someone getting lucky with a direct bottle rocket hit to the drone so I stayed up high.”

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NHL Hockey Player Injured by Photographer’s Lens

NHL photographers are getting a little too involved in the action these days through the little hole in the rink glass that they shoot through. A week after a photographer dropped his lens hood through the glass and had it confused as a puck by the players, a photographer has accidentally injured a player by being a little careless with his lens.

The incident happened yesterday at the 2016 NHL Winter Classic between the Montreal Canadiens and the Boston Bruins. Early in the 3rd period, Canadiens captain Max Pacioretty was skating alongside the boards when he ran right into the long DSLR that a photographer had stuck through the hole. Pacioretty’s forearm took the brunt of the impact:

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“Vision also of Max the captain of the Canadiens, he hurt his arm on a camera that was sticking out of a little hole in the plexi-glass, and was cranky at the shooter man,” writes The Guardian’s live blog of the game. “So many things can hurt you in this game, you’d struggle to get health insurance.”

As you can see from the short clip above, Pacioretty was angry at the photographer, but he placed his blame on the wrong one. He made a gesture toward well-known NHL photographer Dave Sandford, whose epic photos of Lake Erie waves went viral recently, but the guilty photographer was the one to Sanford’s right.

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