From DXOMark I know you may be getting tired of hearing it, but the Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG lens is an astounding accomplishment by Sigma, or any manufacturer fo
who better to ask than the CEO of Phase One, the makers of Phase One, Leaf and Mamiya cameras, backs and lenses? Henrik Håkonsson kindly agreed to fly to Mexico for a sit-down to discuss the state of the industry on-camera, and below we have a 41 minute long interview
Dukovic said that his experience documenting this growing movement in Yangon, as well as and in Jakarta and Banda Aceh, in Indonesia, was eye-opening: …
Link: Conscientious Extended | Meditations on Photographs: Riverfront by Curran Hatleberg
The world is there to be watched, to be seen; and a good photographer will visually organize its content into pictures that make us see what we could but usually don’t see. And crucially, one can try to take apart a good photograph and figure out how it operates, but it will still work afterwards
This rumors comes from phonearena.com: the upcoming Google Nexus 5 smart phone will have a Nikon camera module inside that will feature a mysterious “triple camera sensor”. Google has been promising to include an “insanely great camera” in the next Nexus
You should never use camera to make your pictures. You use yourself, your experience, to make the pictures with the camera. Not the other way around. — Antonin Kratochvil
Minox introduced a new version of their classic miniature Leica camera replica (1:3 scale). The DCC 14.0 has a 14MP sensor, 2” LCD screen and a $239 price tag. Technical specifications: Image sensor 14 MP, CMOS sensor Image resolution Still: 4.352 x 3.264
Among the basest of human fascinations is the one we have with ourselves in the form of celebrity. Christopher Dawson’s photo project Coverage attempts to bring the scale of this obsession to light by turning his camera on cable news itself and the infras
Makers of the film Hart Island: An American Cemetery, about a small potter’s field island in New York City where prison laborers bury the region’s unclaimed mass dead in mass graves, ar…
Link: Editorial Photographers UK | 2013 – the year we lost sight of what photography can achieve
This year’s announcement of the winners of two major competitions for photojournalists, World Press Photo and Pictures of the Year International, created more than the usual fire storm. Raking through the ashes, Graham Harrison looks for a way forward, and reveals how one major grants programme for photojournalists had no restrictions on image manipulation at all.
Today we celebrate The Portrait and your outpouring of images tell us that we are busy looking at each other with great interest. Thank you for sharing your work and for supporting Lenscratch. As always, thank you to Grant Gill and Sarah Stankey for the