Lots of photographers often wonder about what the best travel photography lens is; but when you look at many lists they often talk about zooms despite prime lenses like the Tokina 20mm f2 FiRIN being fantastic offerings. I’ve been playing with the lens for a really long time now both in NYC and in Thailand. The Tokina 20mm f2 FiRIN is designed for Sony full frame E mount cameras and is a manual focus optic with pretty fantastic image quality overall. I’m pretty in love with it for a specific reason: my fading eyesight.
Not to be outdone by Sony and Fujifilm, Panasonic has some deals going on right now as well on some of their excellent micro four thirds cameras and lenses. If you have been thinking about jumping into the Panasonic system, then maybe now is a good time.
Hi everyone, In addition to featuring lots of analog photographers right now, we’re also really interested in featuring the work of the strobist photography community. To be clear there, we want to see the work of photographers who have shot photos with off-camera flashes. Your submissions will be considered for our Creating the Photograph series, …
What does your camera look like? What does that style and appearance say about you as a person, as a photographer? It is not uncommon to care about what your camera looks like, though this aesthetic preference usually takes a back seat (as it should) to other more important issues with a camera, such as image quality, performance, etc. But assuming your threshold for desired performance is met, what style and design qualities are important to you in your next camera?
“When a photograph is captured on film, you are freezing a moment in time that would otherwise only live in your memory.”
When you consider the history of Ilford film, Delta probably gets the most love despite another film like Ilford FP4 being highly capable and perhaps even better at delivering a look that so many modern digital photographers try to emulate. Through lots of experimentation though, I’ve been able to find a way to mimic the look of the film with a Sony a7 or Sony a7r II. It’s a fact, if there is one thing beyond battery life that photographers complain about with Sony cameras then it’s sometimes the colors. The camera company has been known to deliver incredibly saturated (sometimes a bit too much) colors in their images. This partially comes from the lenses that they work with. To get the best absolute best colors that you really want, I suggest leaving Lightroom for Capture One 10. But if you’d just like some great images which you’ll be fine with when it comes to the JPEGs then consider this short tutorial.
I had the pleasure of meeting Ori Aguila recently at the Lomography NYC store and quickly found that we’ve got a lot in common. They love film, are a street photographer, lives in Brooklyn, were in the Army, and they’ve got a problem with their eyesight that affects the way she creates images. Commonalities aside though, Ori is a pretty fantastic documentary photographer who, in 2007, joined a media group as a freelance music photographer and photojournalist. They haven’t looked back since.
The Tokina 20mm f2 FiRIN lens is company’s first entry into creating lenses for the full frame Sony E mount lineup of cameras. After speaking with the company at Photokina last year, we learned that this will be the only option with manual focus-only capabilities. As it is, the 20mm f2 is one of the wider angle prime lenses available for full frame Sony E Mount cameras that also has full focusing and exposure communication.
The Fujifilm GFX 50S has been in for review for a few days now and I’m sort of wrapping my head around how to test it correctly. You see, that’s kind of tough to explain for many reasons. Fujifilm sent me the camera along with the 63mm f2.8 and the 120mm f4 lenses–both primes which are great for general work, portraiture, and the mainstay of most medium format photographers out there. Zooms are often tough to work with, but in some ways I feel like Fujifilm is genuinely trying to redefine the way that people work with medium format cameras, lenses and sensors.
Photographer Anirban Chatterjee is a Melbourne based photographer. He doesn’t like labels, but if you were to label him, he’d be a street shooter. “Personally, I think myself as a narrator who uses the street as a stage and real people as characters to tell stories.” says Anirban. When you look at his work, it makes a whole lot of sense. His photos combine aspects of many schools of thought in the genre.