Swedish auction house Auctionet, has listed a half dozen Leica cameras for auction later this week.
Four of the listed cameras are Leica IIIf rangefinders. Leica produced the camera from 1950 to 1957. The other two are Leica IIIg rangefinder cameras, which Leica began making in 1956. The IIIg was the last screw mount Leica camera, and production ended in 1960. Nearly all the approximately 40,000…
Optics manufacturer 7artisans has announced its latest lens, a 28mm F5.6 manual prime for Leica M-mount camera system.
7artisans says this lens was ‘born for street photography’ with the intention of ‘captur[ing] the decisive moment with hyperfocal focusing.’ the…
Truepic Lens, a company that identifies the authenticity of images and video, can fully integrate into photo capture apps and allow users to verify an image in real-time.
The rise of digital information being shared on the internet has raised the issue of provenance in…
Scrap metal artist and ASE-certified technician Christopher Bissett has built a camera out of scrap metal that features a “working” flash and shutter button.
Bissett wanted to create a camera that looked and felt as close to the real thing as possible. The design he had in mind had to be portable and relatively lightweight so it did not necessarily have to just sit on a shelf, but could…
Due to physical limitations, cameras can only become so small before they simply cannot shrink anymore. But a new lensless camera design could change that.
Researchers have also been steadily moving towards a computational approach rather than on that relies on optics…
A camera crew recently was given access to Sigma’s new headquarters in Kanagawa, Japan which reveals a complex filled with zen-like spaces and a “cellar” of lenses displayed like bottles of fine wine.
With its wide-open design concept, a stairwell encased…
Last month, Sigma opened the doors on its new headquarters in Japan’s Kanagawa prefecture. The facility isn’t available to the public, but YouTube channel Gizmomo Freaks managed to get an inside look at the four-story building to show off the company’s new home.
The 14-minute highlights all of the major components of the new facility, from the built-in photo book library surrounding…
We’ve been waiting a long time for a chance to try out Canon’s latest macro lens, and it was worth it! Take a look at the impressive sharpness and absolutely lovely bokeh. Is the Spherical Aberration Correction feature a useful creative tool or a gimmick? Check…
Photographer Bobby Wummer captured the moment a gator took a nibble on his GoPro camera, which was fortunately on the end of a 12-foot extension pole, keeping Wummer far away from the predator’s teeth.
Wummer, who describes himself as a self-taught wildlife and…
A pair of Stanford University astrophysicists have proposed a new way to use gravitational lensing that would be up to 1,000 times more precise than current methods. The hope is to use the concept to take better photos of distant planets.
While astronomers have discovered more than 5,000 planets orbiting other stars in the galaxy, the first of which was discovered in 1992, not much can be…
