Photography

I used to view digital Leica cameras as a classic example of style over substance. Surely this is a perfect example of a company developing a luxury brand on the back of their, admittedly wonderful, history and heritage. In a world of ever-increasing sensors, rapidly improved autofocus, and seemingly endless technical innovations to assist the photographer, to my mind Leica appeared to have…

Kolari Vision — a company that makes both filters and modifications for cameras — has announced what it claims is the first commercially available after-market mod for the Canon EOS R5 that it claims will nearly double 8K recording time and cuts its overheating recovery time by a factor of three. The company says that while initially, it was exciting to hear about the capabilities of the R5…

Leica cameras are renowned for their expense which normally puts them out of the reach of most photographers. But this wooden replica of a Leica M3 looks like one that nearly any photography fan can afford. Leica Rumors has added a limited batch — specifically called a “test run” — of the replica wooden Leica M3 cameras to its online store to gauge the popularity of the product, and…

Scientists have been able to capture the real-time electrical activity of a beating heart using a sheet of graphene to record an image. The result is almost like a video camera, and the generated images show the electric fields that trigger a heartbeat. Graphene is a material that has a high ceiling of potential that could be used to make a wide range of products and services. As explained by…