“It started has a hobby that soon developed into conceptualised way of approaching new things.” explains photographer Jorge Serra in an email to us before we interviewed him. “I started with film cameras, disposable and what was around. Then moved into digital with a point and shoot, bridge cameras and then moved up to M4/3.” Now, Jorge shoots Sony, with only prime lenses. But of course, gear isn’t everything and you can see in his images. Jorge is a genuine creative that finds ways to tell stories in a single frame. For this project, he explained that part of the creative process was working with City Number Nine–who he is good friends with. And so the comfort they had with each other helped things just flow.
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We all love prime lenses, and today Leica SL, and L Mount Alliance camera users should rejoice. Leica Cameras have just announced that a new fast prime will be joining their family; the APO-Summicron-SL 35mm f2 ASPH. This high performance lens may have a long name, but it’s short, wide focal length will make it popular with street, environmental portrait photographers, and documentarians everywhere. Join us after the break for more details.
If you’re in the market for some new CF cards, and you need them to be able to withstand extremes, these CF Express memory cards might be for you. Sony have just announced some new CF Express cards that are designed for professional and industrial use. These ultra fast memory cards will allow you to read and write data at blistering speeds, and they will let you work in conditions that others would run and hide from. Join us after the break for more info and for the official press release.
In light of the recent news of Fujifilm hiking up prices for photographic films and photographic papers, the film photography community continues to lament the company’s dwindling support for its film products. Could this be a good time for photographers to start printing their work (if they haven’t done so yet) on the company’s photo papers instead?
Looking for something new to experiment with for your film photography? It’s exactly what we now are set to have with the launch of the RETO3D camera on Kickstarter. As its name suggests, this new contraption is set to bring back the craft of 3D magic to the film photography world.
Open up Instagram and type in the name of any landmark, or any iconic place anywhere in the world and you will see hundreds of thousands, sometimes even millions of images that all look the same. Travel photography is nothing new, in fact capturing images of the places we visit is a favorite pastime of many, but why do we feel the need to copy images that have already been taken before? A new app has just been released that makes us ask this question, and we have to wonder if services like Instagram, and apps like Explorest are killing the desire to make original content. Lets explore this a little further after the break.
10 years ago or so, if someone had said professional photography will die due to ultra affordable cameras and powerful smartphone cameras, professional photographers would have roared out with laughter so loud it would have been heard in camera shops and studios around the globe, but here we are in 2019 where everyone with an iPhone or Samsung Galaxy something-or-other can take really great quality pictures. Couple this with the fact that cheap, yet powerful DSLR and Mirrorless camera kits sold at big box retailers all seem to come with a Facebook page entitled {insert name here} photography, and you can begin to see why some think the role of the professional photographer may be against the ropes. Join us after the break as we explore this a little further.
The Konica Hexar in itself is already quite a coveted item among film photographers and vintage camera collectors, and can go for a substantial amount of cash when sold in mint condition. Enter the even more valuable and rare half-frame version of this iconic 35mm rangefinder camera: the Konica Hexar 72 in mint condition. If you’re a half-frame fan seeking a premium shooter to squeeze more out of your film rolls, this might end up on your wishlist.
Almost every photographer has had a “Nifty Fifty” in their arsenal at some point during their career, due to the popularity of the versatile 50mm focal length, suitable for portraiture, landscapes, street, and many other genres of photography. With this in mind, it made all the sense in the world that Nikon NIKKOR Z 50mm f1.8 S was one of the three lenses that Nikon introduced during their launch of the brand new Z Mount camera system. Nikon was kind enough to send us a copy of the lens along with the brand new Z6 and Z7 cameras to review, so we naturally put it through its paces of test how well the lens performed.