First, there was that comment from Steve Jobs that the iPhone 4 looked like “a beautiful old Leica camera”. It did not take long to see the first iPhone-Leica modification and now flickr member joey_joey_joey has an even better implementation, this time t
A controversial image of bodies piled up in a morgue in Caracas, Venezuela, has sparked an intense debate over the government’s efforts to clamp down on news outlets it does not control
Those who follow camera introductions already know that Canon has just announced a successor for its S90, which itself is only a year old. The S90 has been an extremely popular product this past year, and for good reason. The…
At the periphery of my vision I was aware of a scuffle and went to investigate. An unusual scene presented itself that demanded to be photographed, a middle aged man sitting on the pavement looking up to the police and obviously verbalising his disdain. The police ignored him as two demonstrators attempted to help him to his feet. I took one photograph and moved on. I took another one of the Territorial Support Group to the right of this incident to get a full picture of the scene. In amongst them was a police officer who had hidden his facial identity skulking in the back. I thought nothing of it.
So you thought the megapixel race was over? This will probably be in the 1D Mark IX TOKYO, August 24, 2010—Canon Inc. announced today that it has successf
Sony has announced a camera with a new kind of mirror that gives it the fast-focussing of an SLR and the shooting speed and live-view of a mirrorless camera. Sony claims this technology as “ground-breaking”. The problem is that Canon already did it back i
It is with great pleasure that I get to announce my foray into the self-publishing world with the release of the Accidental Rothko book with over 60 pages of saturated goodness
A middle-aged woman throws a cat into a trash can. It happened near the Sacred Heart School in Coventry. Too bad for her there was a camera pointed at her. She will be identified, maybe with the he…
In the late 1970s, when he was in his late 20s, Andy Levin began exploring Coney Island as a G-rated family destination, not entirely unlike the seaside community on Long Island where he was raised.
Take a lens from a Super 8 camera, a whole stack of ni-cad batteries, a digital to analog converter from a voltmeter, a highly experimental CCD and what have you got? Kodak’s first digital still camera, cobbled together with hand-soldered wires and circui
UPDATE: I am not going to be able to “feature” all the comments that deserve to be singled out—there will be many good comments in the Comments section, and I’m very sorry, but I’m just not going to be able…
I’ve used a number of other brands of 35mm f/2’s and 35mm f/1.4’s and reviewed old images for comparison while testing Leica’s new model, and can definitely say this is the best 35mm focal length lens I’ve tested, period.
Chase Jarvis play by play post production photoshop retouching techniques. Step by step better digital photography adjustments in aperture and photoshop layers.
Each year, the non-profit Aftermath Project awards two $20,000 grants to photographers exploring the lasting effects of conflicts on civilian populations, in order to encourage conversation about the value of journalism that goes beyond the headlines to
A Detroit area ad agency has put out a call for photographers to shoot car beauty shots on spec. Latcha + Associates of Farmington Hills, Michigan has distributed an electronic brochure called “Shoot a Sample” that tells photographers they can “assist in