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Leica Instant M: the first instant camera designed for Leica M lens
Daniel Huang
The first instant camera designed for Leica M lens. Instant M is a minimalist camera featuring a viewfinder display of 1:1 ratio to film. Stripped...
Why you’ll never find a camera that’s been to the Moon on eBay
Allen Murabayashi
NASA’s Apollo Program was an audacious mission to send astronauts to the moon – a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy’s in a...
It’s not a triangle: it’s the exposure quadrangle
Edward Crim
The Exposure Triangle; you’ve heard of it, I’m sure. It’s fabled in story and song and celebrated by photo instructors everywhere. We can even buy...
Nikon Z7 disassembly and teardown
Ilija Melentijevic
Our brand new Nikon Z7 full frame mirrorless camera arrived at the office this week, and we immediately got down to business. Four years ago,...
A 48-hour project to merge a Hasselblad 500C/M and a FujiFilm Instax 9
Isaac Blankensmith
Instant photos are magical. They develop before your eyes. You can share them, gift them, spill water on them, draw on them. The only problem...
A review of the most expensive hot shoe strobe in the world – the Profoto A1
Stefan Tell
The Profoto A1 is the new on-camera flash. And off-camera flash. And Air remote. You can use it any way you like. For me as...
Lessons from losing a week of photos to memory card failure
QT Luong
Summary: One of the photographer’s greatest fears is to lose a significant chunk of images from a big trip or event. In this long-form article,...
How to make a simple $10 DIY disco prism for Profoto A1
Stefan Tell
Controlling and modifying light is a lot of what photography with studio lights and battery powered strobes are about. Especially when it comes to portraits,...
Make a DIY low-angle quadpod under $20
Ilya Schiller
I love low angle photography! It brings fresh and unusual angles that makes your pictures stand out. You can buy Platypod for this purpose but...
Automating image capture for 3D scanning through photogrammetry
Michael J. Bennett
3D data creation is part of a growing trend in the use of computational imaging techniques within cultural heritage digitization shops. In particular, operational adoption...