This is a bit futuristic, yet the technology already exists and over time it will become more mainstream, if not a new standard: CtrlMovie, a novel interactive movie format that gives filmmakers the tools to tell seamless multi-optional stories. Right, a bit like a combination of film and game. The audience gets to make decisions […]
Had a bit of a frustrating and at the same time enlightening experience during an assignment in Singapore. The most rewarding part was that while covering a news event, established camera crews were running around with big old camera gear plus sound guy. All I had to shoot a video was the humble Lumia 830 […]
Looks like major management changes could be ahead at the German boutique camera maker Leica who’s increasingly troubled by QC issues, supply chain problems and dissent between strategic investor Blackstone and the current Leica leadership under CEO Alfred Schopf and chairman Andreas Kaufmann. German business insider newsletter Der Platow Brief was first to report the […]
Nikon’s new performance-boosting D7200 for preorder — available from Amazon (body / kit), Adorama (body / kit) and B&H Photo (body / kit). Kits come with $200 instant rebate! Plus the new Nikon Coolpix P900 (Amazon / Adorama / B&H Photo). Nikon also announced the neat new ME-W1 wireless microphone (Amazon / Adorama / B&H […]
Would you have any idea how to make use of this beautiful lot of 600 Zeiss Ikon, Nikon, Leica, Canon, Rollei and Kodak cameras from the 1880 to 1980 period? Great eBay auction. A 100% positive seller auctioning off a lot of 600 Vintage Cameras — see the auction here. Totally tempted to hit the […]
Adorama starts off March with great instant savings and rebates on the 5D Mark III and more Canon special prices. These new deals consist of price drops and new instant rebates. All Canon DSLR savings can be found here. Find the link to instant rebates on a variety of lenses here. Last but not least: […]
Remember when Nikon president Makoto Kimura in 2013 confidently said, “We want to create a product that will change the concept of cameras.” The company, under pressure by the proliferation of mobile devices, was working to “find an answer” to the rapidly changing photography. Not that Nikon launched a game-changer technology since, but maybe they’re […]
Photographic exposures that are insensitive to time — a kind of the opposite of what a digital camera does: keeping track of a history with photographic exposures that completely obliterate time, integrating over weeks, months even… Sounds like dreams of the future? It’s reality, actually, at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva, the mega […]
Adorama, B&H Photo and Amazon extend Nikon combo rebates for March. Lens-only rebates you find here for Adorama, B&H Photo and Amazon.
Behind Photographs — it’s a one of a kind photobook by Tim Mantoani, a photographer from San Diego who produced editorial imagery for Sports Illustrated, Newsweek and ESPN, as well as advertising photography for Fortune 500 companies. His love of photography led to tracking down and photographing the shooters behind some of the world’s most […]
Don’t know about you, but what’s nicer than chilling out to a good movie after a hard day’s work. The Internet turns our computers into phenomenal movie libraries with access to every movie imaginable, such as Amazon’s Instant Video. Well you know the name of the game… While everyone has his or her favorite genre, […]
It’s a bit like what wafers are to digital photography: chemicals and mechanical processes, the heart of the production of photographic film, are a kind of analog photography’s wafers. Just like the production of wafers that push the bounds of image sensor quality, making a good photographic film is a highly complex process involving a […]
A thought fun pondering is how the old philosophers, thinkers and artists would have dealt with the onslaught of the digital revolution. How people whose only means of expression was the pen and brush would have made use of new communication technologies. Imagine Salvador Dali with a digital camera and image manipulation — right, he’d […]
Sony α77II Translucent Mirror DSLR Digital Camera 24.3MP, 12fps, OLED Electronic Viewfinder, Full HD Movie with AVCHD $948.00 after $250 Instant Rebate (reg. $1,198.00) Includes Free Expedited Shipping Available from Adorama and B&H Photo.
Call it more of a marketing stunt — and Olympus is good at that. Fact is that the 40MP high-resolution mode of the new Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II seems to be a lot of fun to shoot with. If you’re care about maximum detail in landscape photography, this is a worthwhile alternative to a […]
Japanese are known for their kinky tendencies. The island often surprises the rest of the world with the weird and wonderful. And beautiful things can happen when you mix the Japanese sense of awkward imagination with Hasselblad: a remarkable catwalk fashion show, supported by the high-end camera maker, has helped amputee women in Japan to […]
This is from Lomography, the guys who reinvent film photography. They make some, yes, film soup, based on an own secret recipe. You’re still with me? Well developing good old film is all about the right mix of chemicals. You wash and bath the film. So why not just… cook it. Depending on the recipe, […]
Adorama offers a Nikon $900 instant rebate on their D810 kit with a 24-120mm lens. The Nikon D810 line of cameras has the highest resolution in the Nikon DSLR lineup. Nikon D810 Digital SLR Kit with AF-S 24-120mm F4G ED VR Lens $3,696 after $900 rebate (reg. $4,596) Free expedited shipping, offer expires February 28, […]
The other day I had a short business trip to Bali. Lovely place, as you can imagine. Indonesia really got its act together lately. The government’s no longer focused on oil and mines solely to fill the state coffers with. A new focus is on tourism, and having been traveling to the mystic island since […]
Imagine a world without Adobe Photoshop? Five years ago, with Photoshop turning 20, some folks asked the exactly same question — see the video further below. The constantly evolving imaging software that continues to redefine creativity in the digital age turned 25 on February 19, 2015. It began in 1987, when a certain Thomas Knoll […]
Beauty is not a question of money, makeup or background — this is the message of Romanian photographer Mihaela Noroc who portrays young women from all over the world. Most notably, her photographs are (largely) wide angle portraits, not focusing on perfect skin and hairstyle, but on women, their eyes and natural, authentic beauty and […]
One could argue that with arrival of the Canon EOS M3, the world’s imaging technology leader is finally taking mirrorless a bit more seriously, as suggested by Damien Demolder’s op-ed on DP Review. Right, that rather sounds like wishful thinking. The simple fact that the M3 won’t be available in the U.S. suggests the camera […]
The new Nikon rebates are here, from Adorama and B&H Photo (lenses and bundles). Here from B&H Photo: Here the Adorama deals:
Special Sony savings — save hundreds in instant rebates: Details here.
Before I dive into today’s topic, in the course of the past weeks I’ve received several alerts from readers that THEME was down in their area. Once it was in Germany, then in the U.K… The question was always: have you given up on the site Dan? Maybe was a server hiccup. Boy I’m not […]
Right after announcement with a flood of emails arriving I was quite excited. Amazing stuff. Full-frame Canon 5D siblings with an astonishing 50.6MP sensor. On second thought though the enthusiasm vanished. Not because the new Canon 5DS and 5DS R are no astonishing cameras — the latter has a “self-canceling” AA filter. Sounds Nikon D800Eish? […]
This is a great looking infographic which has been completed by Mediaworks in conjunction with Clifton Cameras, U.K. Using sources from the BBC and National Geographic, it compares and contrasts the camera lens vs. the eye. It’s a fairly technical piece which takes into account aperture, single-element convex lens tech, angle of incidence and then […]
By BENGT NYMAN A case of megalomania or a proper challenge? I am definitely a fan of DxO as a source for scientific, photographic test and performance data for camera image sensors and lenses — as published on DxOMark. I much prefer to have this data under my belt when deciding on a new purchase. […]
This is to follow up on our previous post on the most popular camera brands used, a.k.a. Apple followed by Canon and Nikon, with both the previous market leaders offering a huge range of individual cameras, so the overall popularity of individual models is likely lost in the diversity. Reference site Flickr has just released […]
If Flickr be trusted, the Yahoo-owned social photography site, then Canon is no longer world’s most popular camera brand. It is, I’m afraid, Apple. Have a look at the Flickr Camera Finder page, with graphs showing the number of Flickr members who have uploaded at least one photo or video with a particular camera on […]
