“Didja hear the one about the guy who put a $35 lens on a $6,000 camera?”
Hey folks, We’ve finished our Sony 70-200mm f2.8 OSS G Master lens review, and you can find it here. Overall, we rate it to have an Editor’s Choice award. Go check it out!
Former DigitalRev TV host, Kaiman Wong, is back with another fun photography video. This time Kai and his friend, Rita, take to the streets of Hong Kong for an impromptu photo challenge. Being in the holiday spirit, they each gifted each other cameras. Kai gifted Rita a Lomo Instax Wide Camera and Rita gifted Kai a Hello Kitty version of the Instax Mini camera. Hitting the pavement, the two take their new cameras out for some street shooting; hilarity quickly ensues.
“I have sizeable collection of old folding camera that I don’t ever use, and a lot of instax wide I was given by family members who though it would work in m SX-70.” says photographer Spencer Lange in our emails previous to this interview. “Needless to say it doesn’t, so I went about trying to find other ways to put the instax to use. I found the Belair instant back on Amazon, and the snap on section looked about the right size for a 6×9 folder, so I had to go around picking one to basically tear apart.” That’s how this whole Frankenstein project began.
We hope that everyone who celebrates it had a wonderful Christmas holiday this weekend! No doubt many of you got some small $15-$20-$25 giftcards for the occasion and are now wondering what to spend your gift card on. It is true, in the photography world a $25 figure will not get you much, but there are some needed and important things you can still get for the $25 giftcard from your great aunt Verna. Here are some of our picks:
I’ve mentioned this in the past, but I have always felt that a big reason as to why Sony has had the success it has had with its mirrorless system, namely the A7 series cameras, is thanks in part to the vast array of third-party AF lens adapters. This has been one downside to the Fujifilm system, in my estimation, since there are no AF adapters to this point, there is no easy ‘try-before-you-buy’ option if you are a photographer who relies on AF (which most of us these days do). It looks like this could be changing, though, as a video demonstration of the first (to our knowledge) third-party Fujifilm AF adapter has surfaced.
Photographer James Andrew Ridley and I have known each other for a while now, and like me, he’s has involvement in the NYC Burlesque community. He’s a serious photographer in the sense not only from his work, but also from the fact that he understands and values the idea of relationships. He works to develop a rapport with subjects and keeps their comfort in mind. Sometimes, in order to make a subject more comfortable you’ll need to do things like working along one on one. For part of a series that he’s working on, he did just that with burlesquer Zoe Ziegfeld. Then they turned her into a human menorah.
The phone call was great; the groom and I had a lot in common and he sounded really excited to have me photograph the wedding. I made sure he understood I had never shot a wedding before, and that based on the budget, I would not be bringing a second shooter. The groom (also named Nathan) told me they weren’t looking for traditional wedding photos. He explained this would be a small wedding, no wedding party, and no expectation of a shot list.
To capture the world’s biggest Santa Claus networking and educational event, photographer Dina Litovsky made the unlikely trek to Branson, Missouri in July on assignment for National Geographic. The convention, Discover Santa, hosts over 800 professional Santa Clauses for workshops that range from “A More Comfortable Hat for Santa” to the more business-oriented “Finding and Keeping Clients”—but this isn’t your average mall Santa hangout.
Time takes a look at the work of Mexican photographer, Enrique Metinides, who has recently been featured in an upcoming documentary that goes in-depth into both his life as well as the iconic work he’s created as a crime photographer covering the crime beat in Mexico. Produced by 212 Berlin, the film, The Man Who Saw Too Much, allows Metinides to express himself verbally in regards to his work, adding a narrative and insight to images that are often violent and tragic yet awe-inspiring. Influenced by cinema, namely film noir, Metinides has dedicated his career to trying to convey tragedy in a single frame. Check out the trailer from the film.