One of the more prestigious camera brands, Leica, has been pioneering camera development since 1913. When Oskar Barnack developed the system he couldn’t have known that later incarnations would have been the tool of choice for many legendary photographers; photographers like Bresson, Robert Capa, and Alfred Eisenstaedt. By 1996, Leica had already produced their first … Read more
Will it be a Phase One XF 100 or a Canon Rebel…that’s right you just saw those two cameras referenced in the same sentence. Check this out if you want to know what the best camera for still life photography is, the result may surprise you.
Do you remember the sensation when you first held your first camera in your hands? My first purchase was a Hasselblad 501cm (see below) in the special edition sun yellow color. It was a little hefty, but felt solid. I learned the basics of photography and fell in love with that camera. My ears still … Read more
Despite the fanfare surrounding the Sony A9, it seems the Adobe Update to Camera Raw and Lightroom which finally brought support for it went largely unnoticed, but alas, it is here. When the A9 was released not long ago it was, as is the case with most new cameras, difficult to really judge its raw … Read more
In the heydays of film, there was only one kind of shutter, the mechanical shutter. They came in two flavors, focal plane and leaf shutter, but both of them served the same purpose; they block light from reaching the film when closed, and move out of the way to let light accumulate on the film … Read more
Before the announcement Phantom 4 Pro, the Phantom 3 Pro was the unofficial king of the skies for almost a year. During the release of the Phantom 4 Pro a few months back DJI announced that the new drone would come with a mechanical shutter, 14 fps burst mode and a higher-res, 1” sensor. [REWIND: … Read more
Last updated: Jan 24th 11:15am There’s been a bumper crop of interest in all things film over the last two years, and from all angles it would appear that the momentum behind it only grows more forceful each day. I mean, for the past two Christmases this Fuji Instax has been the dark-horse hero of … Read more
Adobe is rolling out some new features for Lightroom CC and Lightroom for iOS; here’s a quick rundown of what to look for. PSA: There have been some assertions from some* photographers we know that the update to LR is making LR slower to load images, so ensure all your speed optimization settings like using … Read more
Note from the editor: The following is a guest post by photographer Matt Corkum, but he might as well have pulled the thoughts from all of our collective minds. This is the kind of ruminative thought vomiting that pulls what so many of us think but don’t say – or at least so coherently. It … Read more
We live in a digital era, but the enormous popularity of film emulation presets that seek to replicate film as closely as possible shows that there is still interest in that classic film look. Despite the enthusiasm for the aesthetic, many present-day photographers have never loaded film into a camera and shot a roll or … Read more
What first started off as a market research project for Photolemur has morphed into one of the largest lists that catalogs 148 photo editing apps and tools. Nazar Begen, the Chief Marketing Officer of Photolemur, searched for different tools in the realm of photo enhancement and photo editing and came up with a consolidated list … Read more
Profoto continues to deliver the ‘world’s best’ light shaping tools with their release of the 2400Ws Pro-10 studio flash.
