Photography

A photographer has repurposed an old and broken Sony Ericsson smartphone lens into a camera that shoots film and integrated it into his Samsung Galaxy S2. Alireza Rostami had an old Sony Ericsson k700i that was broken and unable to be repaired. But instead of throwing it away, Rostami decided to repurpose it by taking the camera out and adding it to the back of his Samsung Galaxy S2 in…

Leica has teamed up with Xiaomi in a new long-term strategic partnership to create smartphones, the first of which will launch later this year. As can be inferred from the image the company uses to commemorate the partnership which shows an invisible smartphone, there isn’t much in the way of details on the announcement, though some are suggesting that the first phone to feature the…

Photographer Bill Hao from Vancouver, Canada, spent two years building a huge oakwood camera. It shoots gigantic wet plate collodion photos measuring 32×48 inches. The collodion wet plate process has one very critical requirement: the photographer must be able to coat, expose and develop the plate while wet within 15 minutes. This would be fine for shooting in a studio with an attached darkroom…

McDonald’s and Wendy’s are being sued by a New York man who claims that advertisements for their burgers look much bigger than they actually are. The proposed class-action lawsuit says that the marketing photos make the burgers look at least 15% larger than they are when you buy them from the restaurants. Justin Chimienti was disappointed after buying a Big Mac from McDonald’s and the…