Photography

Can you preserve a 30-year-old roll of color film and shoot it like the day it was purchased? Today I’m going to answer that question as well as give an in-depth history of one of Kodak’s most pivotal films, Ektar 25. I think that some of its history as well the results may surprise you. Announced in October 1988 at Photokina, along with 17 other color films, Kodak Ektar 25 was introduced with…

Gordon Laing, Editor of CameraLabs*, has *published his latest ‘Retro Review,’ featuring the Canon PowerShot 600, an early digital camera that he considers ‘Canon’s first consumer digital camera.’ The 10-minute video showcases the pros and cons of the 25-year-old camera, contextualizing the features with its contemporaries at the time of its release in 1996. Specifically, Gordon…

In a patent, Canon explains how it intends to translate its Eye-Control Autofocus (AF) technology into a camera with an electronic viewfinder (EVF). The technology was originally developed for the EOS 5 SLR, and as such needed updating. In early April, Canon announced that it was developing the EOS R3 camera which would use the company’s old Eye-Control AF for the first time in years. However…

2020 was the year 8K video finally arrived on the enthusiast camera scene, courtesy of the Canon EOS R5. A few months later, Sony followed suit with its flagship a1, Nikon pre-announced support for 8K on its future Z9, and more announcements are surely in the pipeline. The emergence of 8K as a mainstream technology gives manufacturers a new opportunity to differentiate their products and marketers…