Genius move by Sony: a wolf in sheep’s clothing with the heart of a NEX. By introducing the A3000, a no-nonsense mirrorless camera disguised as a DSLR, Sony might very well convince the people that still think a good camera has to look like a DSLR. Mirrorless adoption is still lagging in the Western countries […]
He may have even changed the way we use and look at photography, but by encouraging people’s deeply confessional urge to show and share themselves in every possible situation Steve Jobs taught us to forget about enjoying real life moments. Smartphones are amazing. Not less amazing is the colossal loss of interpersonal relationships. Wasn’t photography […]
Right, there is Virb, an easy way for photographers and videographers to build a nice website. And now there is VIRB, a GoPro-like Garmin action camera. VIRB is not just another 1080p HD, water- and shockproof gadget in a highly saturated market. VIRB is like the reborn action camera. Not only the form factor is […]
Good camera bags are expensive. You might have payed thousands of dollars for your gear setup. It’s only logical to carry the precious hardware in a worthy bag. There are all kinds of bags, the options are overwhelming, but still not good enough for photographer Allen Mowery who was “just sort of shot in the […]
They’re almost gone, but if you’re in the market for the enthusiast full-frame Canon I wouldn’t waste a second. Over at eBay a Top Rated Plus dealer has the 6D for $1,499, that’s 25% off list price. Read our The Canon EOS 6D File for all the essential 6D reviews. Order the camera here.
The average contents of a photographer’s bag cost anywhere between $1,500 and… well a lot. Photography is big business. It’s not only the camera and lens makers, the providers of accessories and how-to books, tutorials and dedicated websites. It’s all the advice from pros and fakes alike telling and selling you how to shoot better […]
While Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson experienced the intense joy of new life and fatherhood with the birth of his first child, a son, his father was diagnosed with lung cancer. With life and death so close to each other, it seemed obvious to Anderson to explore the bliss of life and tragedy of death with […]
Digital photography has come a long way since the 90s, the early days of consumer digital photography that were filled with cameras that broke new ground, though not necessarily in directions that were widely adopted. After more than a century of “conventional” film photography, also the old mechanical ways became questioned: be it the sensor, […]
Photojournalism legend and Magnum photographer Thomas Höpker, 77, romances over the good old times when a magazine employed a dozen photographers and didn’t ask any questions about travel expenses. Photographers flew business class back then, enjoyed big paychecks and enough time to do a proper job — sometimes they even flew back on location for […]
Not the luckiest of names, but after a makeover photography site Camerapixo is back up and running again. Camerapixo is, in a few words, an online service which publishes several photography magazines as well as portfolios of photographers from around the world, famous, less known, beginners. The “new 1.0” site is well worth a visit. […]
It may be a sign of our photoshopped times that many don’t trust their own eyes anymore. Everything can be completely fabricated in Photoshop. Take Paul Hansen’s Gaza Burial, awarded the World Press Photo of 2013. Many say it’s doctored, the light’s just too perfect. Now here comes a cute innocent little frog clinging to […]
Don’t look like a photographer and get rid of the tension, says photographer John Free who has some strong and rather philosophical thoughts on what makes a good photographer. “Be able to effectively react to a particular instant in a situation that you wanna react to,” he says. Henri Cartier-Bresson might have called this the […]
Not that THEME is the philosophizing photographer’s site. But we like to dwell upon things that are contrarian at times and not always mainstream. You should find on THEME what you don’t always find on other sites. This horse, however, has been beaten to death many times already — the question what’s more important: sensor, […]
Over at Leica forums the article is named and shamed — mainly because Ken Rockwell (who at least has made a name for himself) is interviewed as a Leica authority. But leaving personal grudges aside, the New York Times article Leica Cameras Have Eye-Popping Prices, With Photos to Match is a good read — and […]
In case you haven’t yet heard of a digital photography project called Phototrails, haven’t you ever wondered what happens to the millions and billions of photos that are uploaded day after day? What really happens to the trillion of photographs shot each year? Right, they’re not only floating as endless combinations of ones and zeros […]
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Amazing that one year after the launch of the revolutionary large sensor RX100 Sony is still in a position to sell the camera without substantial discounts. Still, now you can get several RX100 bundles for some $600 — and nice RX100 II bundles for $748 upwards. If you ask me the extra $150 are worth […]
Shuttered Italian company Ferrania makes any film aficionado’s heart beat faster. “The future of analog film starts again from Italy,” says their motto. The Italians are going to revive a professional color reversal film derived from Scotch Chrome 100. The new film is a re-engineered version of the Scotch Chrome 100 previously produced by Imation. […]
By BENGT NYMAN Film resolution and later image sensor resolution used to be the limiting factor driving the design of the equipment used in photographic image capturing. For example, we take the continuously variable zoom lens for granted. It was once necessary to accurately frame just the part that we wanted to become our image. […]
This is actually quite big and I’m a bit surprised that no major camera or lens maker has yet bought up Swiss company Optotune for their ingenious invention of a focus tunable lens — or in other words: of optics that are no longer based on solid glass or plastic lenses that move back and […]
German magazine Spiegel has an excellent interview with photographer Roger Ballen, a black-and-white film photographer for nearly 50 years who believes that he’s part of the last generation that will grow up with this media. Black and white, says Balen, is a very minimalist art form and unlike color photographs does not pretend to mimic […]
The amazing Sony RX100 II is in stock at Amazon and B&H. The RX100 II’s additional flexibility over the already very capable RX100 makes the successor a very attractive proposition for enthusiasts who want a lot of power in a small package. What’s new? 1-inch 20.2MP Exmor R sensor for extreme low light shots Bright […]
Let’s go back in time a bit, to the year 1840 exactly, the birth of the legendary Petzval lens developed by Joseph Petzval. The lens revolutionized photography thansk to its F3.6 aperture which was considerably faster than other lenses of that time. But not only its speed made this piece of glass consisting of two […]
Toronto war doc Under Fire: Journalists in Combat is a documentary about the psychological cost of journalists and photographers covering war. We all think to understand what’s going on around the world, but who really understands what war really means. It’s mainly thanks to war journalists and photographers that the outside world has at least […]
By MICHAEL ERLEWINE Just when you think there are no more new opportunities, one pops up, in this case a demographic not yet exploited by big advertising: the entire world of hotel and college dorm rooms. Hotels all over the U.S. and the world are jettisoning some of the standard cable channels and simply building […]
Text by BEATRIZ SILVA Photos by LORENZO MOSCIA The monumental transformation undergone by Barcelona with the 1992 Olympic Games has failed to make disappear the diverse working-class city full of contrasts disappear where Pablo Picasso began painting in 1896. It is not necessary to venture too deep into the narrow streets of the El Raval […]
By IMPROMPTU IMPRESSION We photographers like to talk gear and in a way we are all geeks. The late great Ansel Adams even made a name out of how to best utilize gear in the form of the fabled Zone System. But there is another side to us photographers too, very much out of geek’s […]
This is in part a continuation of B. D. Colen’s thought-inducing The Subject Is Black and White, dealing with the question that a color photograph may or may not distract from the subject. Without light — or wavelenghts for that — everything is black, right? Let’s assume every person sees black as is, as black. […]
While CaNikon — the still dominant players in the standalone camera market — keep on copying each other and incrementally improve their technologies, competitors Fujifilm and Sony are thinking outside the box. While Fujifilm is betting on the retro form factor supported by its outstanding experience in imaging technology, Sony pushes the limits — what […]
By B. D. COLEN One of the few inviolate rules I force upon my documentary photo students is that they may not use Photoshop or other processing software to manipulate images beyond making the normal adjustments that would be made in a traditional darkroom — no adding anything to, or subtracting it from the image; […]
