“The Photographer’s Eye” (2007) photography book Image: John Szarkowski For the latest Question of the week, we were curious to know what your favorite photography-related books and articles were. You took the idea a step further, not just listing titles but explaining how the works you read elevated your photography. Some of your reasons were […]
When you use DPReview links to buy products, the site may earn a commission. Nikon Z8 | Viltrox AF 55mm F1.8 Evo | F1.8 | 1/60 sec | ISO 900 Photo: Mitchell Clark Last month, Viltrox announced the AF 55mm F1.8 Evo, one of its first lenses to use an apochromatic design that’s meant to […]
Image: I’m Back Crowd-funded startup I’m Back has developed a clever fix for one of the drawbacks that photographers have pointed out in their digital module for film cameras. The I’m Back Roll, which is currently approaching $1M of backing on Kickstarter, is a self-contained APS-C sensor module designed to fit into the film bay […]
When you use DPReview links to buy products, the site may earn a commission. Photo: Richard Butler When the Fujifilm X half, a compact camera designed to provide a whimsical, nostalgic shooting experience rather than technical prowess, launched, it cost an eye-watering $849 in the US. Many commenters balked at that price, saying that they […]
Image: Tech Transfer HQ CMOS sensors are now so ordinary that it’s easy to forget how transformative they were. They’re used in an ever-growing list of devices, from dedicated cameras, smartphones and webcams, to security systems, glasses and cars. A new video from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) looks at how the CMOS image […]
Photo: Kamil Budzynski Since 2018, Polish photographer Kamil Budzynski has been placing homemade pinhole cameras throughout the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, leaving them in abandoned buildings, trees and other locations for months at a time. The resulting solargraphs are strange, quiet and even disorienting. Ghostly buildings and overgrown streets sit beneath bright arcs traced by the […]
Photo: Erez Marom In the previous article about photographing mammals in China, I told the story of photographing black-and-white snub-nosed monkeys in Yunnan – the first of two species of snub-nosed monkeys I had the opportunity to capture. I’ll tell you about the second species in the next article, but before we get to that, […]
Photo: Marc Aubry Despite Eastman Kodak making tentative steps back into the consumer photo film market, and its name still being applied to the front of countless licensees’ compact cameras, there’s still a widely-held sense of ‘What if?’ surrounding the Kodak name. Not only did the company dominate the film industry, it also did more […]
Shanghai, China – Bund downtown river view Sony a7R IV | F1.4 | 1/125 sec | ISO 1600Photo: Kevin Zhang Kevin Zhang, known as fatplanediaries in the wider community, began photographing at a young age under his father’s influence, a dedicated Leica street photographer. What started as a focus on street photography evolved over time, […]
When you use DPReview links to buy products, the site may earn a commission. Image: LK Samyang LK Samyang’s AF 14-24mm F2.8 is officially available for L-mount. The company previewed the lens at CP+ earlier this year, following the ultra-wide zoom’s E-mount debut last year as LK Samyang’s first co-branded lens with German optics specialist […]
