Blog Post

In this week's blog post, I took a look at the Canon EFS STM Macro lens! I thought that this would be a perfect time to post about it with Canon releasing another Macro lens just this week! I hope that this will be helpful for those of you (like me) who aren't able to spend $1600 on a lens. 

Photography News!

As usual, here is the latest news from this past week! The articles at the top are the oldest with the newer articles at the bottom.

- Fujifilm showed off the Instax Mini 40 bringing a new film type and auto exposure! 

- Sigma fixed issues with the 28-70mm lens that was causing Ghosting in photos.

- Redmi's photo editor for mobile has a new blur removal feature... It is okay but not as good as it was made out to be.

- Windows 10 is going to get improvements to webcams including brightness and contrast adjustments. I use OBS for these kinds of adjustments, so it will be interesting to see it baked into the Windows software.

- Google has expanded Google Lens to desktop! You can now use the Google Lens through the photos site!

- Canon cameras have lost their place in the White House as the latest presidential portraits were taken on the Sony A9 ||.

- Moza has launched a competitor to the DJI Pocket 2. The Moza camera has a much bigger screen with touch screen and a wider FOV.

- Sightron and Player One have released FIVE astrophotography cameras.

- A small update from Verizon and AT&T gave some camera features and additions to the Galaxy S20 line up.

- This is not really photography news, but I wanted to put this in since I use a Galaxybook. Leaks have appeared for the Galaxy Book Pro and Pro 360 showing a new hindge design and a snapdragon processor. (no news on whether there will also be an intel model like last gen.)

- The new Surface laptop from Microsoft is promised to be 70% faster at photo editing.

- A new webcam from Microsoft is on its way and is trying to beat Logitech webcam quality with better specs and quality.

- Canon announced the development of the EOS R3.

- The Sony Xperia 1 ||| was leaked and tech enthusiasts are hoping that the cameras are better for this year.

- OBS has gotten support for Nvidia's incredible noise cancellation.

- Canon released a 100mm macro lens with some new tech for background blur type.

- Instagram is testing out a system to hide like counts. It will probably work a bit like YouTube where the creator has an option to hide the number of likes.

- The Galaxy S22, yes 22, is rumored to have sensor shift stabilization just like Apple added to the Iphone.

- Rumors come in that Samsung could be working with Olympus on a future flagship.

- After a lot of confusion last week over Pixel phones, it has been confirmed by Google themselves, that we will get a Pixel 4a 5G. (Google phone rumors are always so confusing)

- The Google Photos video editor is being rolled out to all android users!

- More rumors on the EOS R3 come this week.

- The Google Pixel 6 may be getting a Samsung sensor to replace the Sony sensor that has been on Pixels for years.

Wow! That was a ton of camera news. Next, I have some updates from my Instagram!

100 Soon?

My Instagram page @digitalwondersandsmiles just passed 80 followers! Getting soo close to 100 followers! I just wanted to say Thank you for that, it means a ton!

Site Updates:

This week, I improved the Image rendering problems. Also, I am beginning to work on photo naming descriptions so that when you enlarge the photo, you can see more info about it.

Thank you so much as always for reading!

I hope that you all have a wonderful week! Thank you as always!

- Digital Wonders & Smiles