Expelled from Hungary at the age of 17, Endre Friedman bounced from Germany to France learning photography along the way. When he arrived, the man we know as Robert Capa was born. Possibly the greatest war photographer in history, Capa’s contributions are as broad as his interests. The biography of Robert Capa is as captivating […]
Welcome to a THEME 2.0 facelift! We’ve polished the site a bit, made it look fresher, airier and newsier, rounded some edges and, yes, it’s now responsive. Let know what you think. Miss the old ways? Another alternative I’m still looking at is making the site lighter with less content, focused on the live feeds […]
Another invention that will make life even harder for journalists and media professionals — an app called Meerkat, allowing people to transmit live video from your smartphone. One reason for the rapidly growing popularity of the app is certainly its ease of use. Authenticate via Twitter, and the live transmission can be started with just […]
He catapulted himself onto the Olympus of media with a fake fake — presenter Jan Böhmermann of German television broadcaster ZDF made history with the faking of a fake video. You’ll say what’s the news, everything can be manipulated these days. We don’t trust the authenticity of photos any longer, but don’t we trust TV […]
It’s always a gamble with new technologies. If you were an investor in the 90s and believed in the then nascent digital imaging technology, chances are you got your fingers burned. It was two U.S. scientists who developed the first imaging sensor already in 1969, but it took until 1986 when Eastman Kodak launched the […]
Just announced is a special from Zeiss — save up to $300 on the beautiful Touit glass for Sony E mount. Beware, this is a limited time offer… You can get both the 12mm F2.8 and 32mm F1.8 instant rebates from either B&H Photo or Adorama (12mm / 32mm).
Does a photo have to be shot by a pro photographer to be more memorable? Or you could ask: who’s driving the extinction of pro photographers? Because the question is legitimate whether advanced camera phones have stunted our abilities to recognize professional photography. A new study by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) explores the […]
Basically, with a digital pro camera, you’re getting the approach to film in a digital package. Meaning: you want an as neutral as possible file, an as accurate as possible rendition of what you’re capturing. Problem is, digital imaging technology has advanced so much that it’s kind of obsolete to process files in-camera with algorithms […]
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 […]
