Photography

Canon has announced the latest generation mulit-purpose cameras, the ML-100 and ML-105, that can reach a staggering ISO 4,500,00 for astonishingly detailed color photo and video capture in extremely dark environments. We haven’t heard that much from Canon when it comes to its multi-purpose cameras lately. The last major announcements we have on record was in 2015 with the ME20-F SH. Not long…

The South China Morning Post published this 10-minute short film titled “The Camera Guardian.” It’s about Hong Kong shop owner David Chan, a lover of cameras who has spent over 60 years collecting and selling vintage photographic equipment. Chan considers old cameras “works of art.” “Though Chan buys and sells some equipment, he considers himself more of a guardian of vintage…

Why does someone build their own camera? Maybe for technical reasons, usability enhancements, or perhaps personal style and artistic outlook. The raison d’ètre for the experimental camera I made here falls somewhere between all of the above. The prototyping process, over the last few years, has been about creating a tool that enables some of my own photographic ideas to be more readily…

If someone would ask me what digital camera brand is the most different from all the others, I would definitely answer Leica. A couple of weeks ago I bought my first Leica rangefinder, after using virtually every other camera brand on the market. I went for the cheapest one available, the Leica M8. In this article, I have written down my notes on what the biggest differences are from other digital…