Sometimes, good things come in small packages — is the Panasonic Leica 25mm f1.4 II one of those good things? The lens is a tiny 2.2 inches long, but you’d be surprised at what the Micro Four Thirds optic is able to pack into that small size.
Every time I speak with Lois Greenfield, she tells me about how she makes incredible photographs of dancers. She doesn’t shoot a ton of frames a second — instead, she simply understands the moment. At times, I swear she called it luck. “No matter how responsive the shutter on your camera is, you still have to take the picture a split second before the peak of the action,” she told us in a 2016 interview. “So it’s best to put your camera on a tripod, and concentrate on what the dancers are doing.” But that’s just the technical part: what Lois makes is art beyond belief. In her latest series called Forces of Nature, she’s returning to directing dancers in studio.
“I feel the work I do definitely is categorized as art,” says photographer Carianne Older to the Phoblographer in an interview. “I am taking timeless photos for people that will live forever. A lot of people out there are just taking iPhone photos or videos for the sake of content.” For sure, a ton of work goes into Carianne’s photographs. She’s been hired by Playboy, Cadillac, Interscope, Sony, Universal and so many more. Oh, and she shoots film!
There’s something about photography by Jon Enoch that makes us want to dive deeper. It has to do with the fact that his images look so simple yet have mystery to them without seeming metaphysical. His latest series, called Reflections, embodies that very well. Jon is an award-winning London-based portrait, lifestyle and advertising photographer that’s big on bright colors and bold looks. Reflections, however, takes those and puts one of his most artistic spins on the idea yet.
One of the cool things about the LUMIX S5IIX is the stealthy blacked out logo that doesn’t bring attention to itself. I’ve always wanted to get the look of film but digitally and with full-frame cameras. Thankfully, that exists by using Real Time LUTS! The LUMIX S5IIX is very capable cameras thanks to firmware updates …
This is the lens to get! This month, the Phoblographer is giving away a beautiful 7Artisans 50mm f1.1 lens in Leica M-mount to one lucky subscriber. It’s overall in pretty great condition and brings with it the patina and aging that makes its beauty shine through. Now, we’re giving it away to one lucky winner! …
Portrait photographers, there’s a reason you need medium format. Let’s be very honest here: Fujifilm’s best image quality comes from the Fujifilm GFX lineup. That goes for their lenses, their cameras, their sensors, etc. Medium format’s major different isn’t necessarily in how the aperture and depth of field works. But instead, it’s more about the …
“The photography of Matt Black lays down a portrait of two Americas, but it doesn’t necessarily focus on the America you and I…know,” says educator Tatiana Hopper in her video exploring the work of Matt Black. He’s a documentary photographer who goes after the stories that aren’t really being told. Specifically, he makes tons of photographs around the working class and poverty-striken in America. But his stories are sometimes obfuscated by social media algorithms around trends or more sensationalized stories in the news. In the media, you can call his work a human interest story. But if this is the type of stuff that gets you depressed, you should be very well aware that the people in Matt’s photos could be you one day.
I’m not sure why they’re not saying it directly, but the Fujifilm Instax Mini 99 is the successor to the Mini 90. We did that review over a decade ago. There’s a trend with Fujifilm in 2024. So far, it seems like they’re releasing products that are, honestly, kind of late. When Fujifilm released the XH2, they released the XT5 a few months after — and we expected the X100Vi to come right after that. Instead, we waited for over a year and got a mediocre upgrade and a long waitlist. Many of us feel the same about the X Pro 3 — where is the successor? But at least with Instax, we know that we shouldn’t take it as seriously. In fact, that’s probably one of the things saving it. I’m not riding the hype train for this camera; I’m the conductor – and we’re making all the local stops into the hearts of every photographer who loves Instax.
The early 2010s were the golden age of compact cameras. Many of us stopped calling them point and shoots and instead called them things like serious compacts, fixed lens cameras, or compact cameras. This era gave us the Fujifilm X100 series, the Ricoh GR series, the Panasonix LX100, Canon G1x and many others. During this time, Leica tended to clone Panasonic cameras. But for a while, they also broke off and did their own thing. These cameras were called the X series — and to this day, I still admire how gorgeous they were and how I wanted to bring them everywhere with me.