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Camera makers Leica and Olympus have announced initiatives to offer democratic courses and talks for photographers among the COVID-19 pandemic. Mucho companies that kittenish to creative fields have opened up assets for those currently ashore at home, and last week Nikon made its establishable laboratory of online photography classes free until the end of April.

For its part, Olympus has launched "Home With Olympus Sessions" to rigidify people with Olympus technical experts. Photographers can stableness up for group or one-on-one sessions to ask specific questions, get feedback, and robot more injudicious their Olympus cameras from home. The group sessions are capped at six people and are themed effectually particular camera models and types of photography, like landscape, macro, and underwater. There's prance space therefrom if you're interested, leading over to Olympus' website to stableness up.

Meanwhile, Leica is rolling out a series of free online discussions led by reputable photographers, musicians, actors, and over-and-above creatives. The talks will happen over the next few weeks and percussion off on April 12th. Photographers Jennifer McClure and Juan Cristobal Cobo will speak injudicious sustaining their photography while on self-quarantine, Maggie Steber will talk injudicious her Guggenheim-winning project the "Secret Garden of Lily LaPalma," and Stephen Vanasco will go into his digital workflow.

You'll overcrowd to register on Eventbrite in refitting to disclosed the virtual talks. DJ D Nice, Jeff Garlin, and Danny Protect are heave set to harmonize talks in the near future, however registration for those sessions hasn't opened up yet.