Best Xiaomi phones for 2022

Abby Ferguson Most affordable Xiaomi Poco X4 Pro 5G Check Price Best Redmi Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro Check Price Best mid range Xiaomi 11T Pro Check Price Chances are you might not have heard of Xiaomi phones (pronounced shao-mee, think “show me the money”!), which translates to “little rice.” And yet they are one… Continue reading Best Xiaomi phones for 2022

The new Xiaomi x Leica smartphone has the world’s largest camera sensor

The ascendant Chinese smartphone maker partnered with Sony for the new chip and worked with Leica to engineer the lens. Xiaomi Meet the new Xiaomi 12S Ultra, a flagship smartphone Xiaomi co-developed with Leica. It pairs a brand-new and (by smartphone standards) absolutely huge, stabilized 50-megapixel, one-inch image sensor with a Leica Summicron 23mm f/1.9… Continue reading The new Xiaomi x Leica smartphone has the world’s largest camera sensor

DJI pauses sales in both Russia and Ukraine

Chinese drone maker DJI finds itself in a precarious position. DJI With the war in Ukraine entering its ninth week, Chinese drone maker DJI announced a temporary suspension of business in both Russia and Ukraine last week. The company also issued a statement decrying the use of its products to cause harm but so far,… Continue reading DJI pauses sales in both Russia and Ukraine

Lexar’s new Diamond-series Type-B CFexpress cards are the world’s fastest

Lexar’s CFexpress Type-B cards will soon be much faster and it now has Type-A cards, too. Lexar With 4K video now the established standard and even higher resolution modes becoming more common—not to mention Raw capture—modern video cameras can output truly spectacular amounts of data. Thankfully, storage media performance continues to improve in lockstep with… Continue reading Lexar’s new Diamond-series Type-B CFexpress cards are the world’s fastest

How to Use Polarised Reflections: a Photographer’s Guide to Light

If you’d like to know more about the essential role that light plays in photography, then you’ll love our course, A Photographer’s Guide to Light. Photons have an electromagnetic field that fluctuates as it moves through space.  In this lesson, you’ll find out why that matters to photographers. Noticing Polarised Reflections Polarised light refers to the… Continue reading How to Use Polarised Reflections: a Photographer’s Guide to Light

A Photographer’s Guide to On-Camera Flash and Speedlight Features

Welcome back to our Introduction to Flash Photography series. In this lesson, we’re learning all about the different options that you have when it comes to choosing a speedlight. Here’s what Scott says about his lights of choice: “My current go-to speedlight is a Canon 580EXII. I’ve got three of them and they have been… Continue reading A Photographer’s Guide to On-Camera Flash and Speedlight Features

Video Contributor: Li Ben

Li is a Chinese 360º videographer and photographer who shoots HD and 4K videos. He has been publishing 360º content on 360Cities since 2015.If you would like to visit the Summer Palace, the Olympic area, or the Chinese Pavilion in Beijing, visit Li’s profile page straight away. You’ll also find 360º videos of the lovely… Continue reading Video Contributor: Li Ben

Best photography books: How to make sure you capture the art and industry of photography in the right light

Focus your studies on the best photography books. Bruno Emmanuelle, Unsplash One of the great things about the art of photography is that if you want to engage in it, it can be as easy or as sophisticated as you want it to be. You can get a basic, quick-shot camera or you can invest… Continue reading Best photography books: How to make sure you capture the art and industry of photography in the right light