One of the most reproduced photographs of Earth ever made was shot upside down. When an Apollo 17 astronaut framed the fully lit planet through a Hasselblad on December 7, 1972, the South Pole sat at the top and Africa ran sideways, exactly as the crew saw it on the way to the Moon. The version fixed in your memory has been turned a half circle from the original frame.
For my latest film, The Love Nest, I opted to shoot using the Blackmagic Design URSA Cine 12K LF. Here's a little of what went into the decision, as well as some of the results.
Apple fans have been waiting for a touchscreen MacBook Pro with an OLED display. Instead, Apple released an entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro with its new M6 chip, starting at $1,999.
Your passport photo got rejected because of a shadow. Not a dramatic one. A soft gradient under your jaw, maybe a quarter-shade darker than your cheek, the kind of thing you would never notice and the clerk who handed the print back probably could not have described either.
Planning a landscape photography trip is something I spend a considerable amount of time doing, and living here in Ireland means that checking the weather is an important part of that process. The conditions can change quickly, and even when you use several weather forecasting apps, there is never a guarantee that things will work out as you hoped.
The children chose the spot. Nyancho NwaNri was photographing a ballet class at a free school in Lagos, Nigeria, when she asked the young dancers where else they wanted to be photographed, and they led her outside to a worn concrete platform.
Small cameras are no longer only a compromise. For interviews with people who are not used to being filmed, a two- or three-camera pocket setup can reduce the visible footprint of production while still giving the editor real multicam coverage. The question is whether that can also help the person in front of the camera behave more naturally.
Buy a Canon EOS R7 this afternoon, and the manual will tell you that you can register up to six LP-E6P, LP-E6NH, LP-E6N, or LP-E6 battery packs to it. That last one is the cell Canon put on sale in the EOS 5D Mark II in November 2008, nearly ten years before the RF mount existed.
On February 17, 2005, Leica Camera AG issued a Verlustanzeige, the notice German stock law requires once a company has lost half its share capital and has to say so to its shareholders. Four days later, it told the market that its banks had partially canceled its credit lines.
For the last few months, I've been doing something that has completely changed how I run my businesses. I set up agentic AI to handle the parts of business I've always hated: email, bills, bookkeeping, taxes, client follow-ups and advertising. It watches everything, it never forgets anything, and when it needs me, it asks a quick question and I tap an answer.
You have decided to transition from DSLR to mirrorless, and that should feel exciting, with a whole new way of shooting waiting for you. Changing systems does mean planning around the cost, but you may already own more of the funding than you realize. The DSLR kit sitting in your bag can pay for a good part of the switch, and how you sell it decides how smooth the whole process feels.
The shafts of light you call god beams are lying to you about their shape. They look like a fan bursting out of a hole in the clouds, splaying wider as they fall toward the ground, but the beams are very nearly parallel. You are watching the same trick that makes railroad tracks pinch together at the horizon, just pointed at the sky.
Getty Images image number 53509740 is still on Getty's site today, and the caption still reads: "Two residents wade through chest deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store after Hurricane Katrina came through the area on August 29, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana." An Associated Press frame of a young Black man in chest-deep water, carrying what looks like a case of Peps
Every Leica shooter has a dream lens they would love to buy. Price is usually the obstacle, but sometimes that lens is not only expensive but rare as well. Perhaps no other Leica lens is more sought after than the Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4 with the word “Aspherical” written in full on the rim.
The National Archives still lists the negative as "Crowd of citizens, soldiers, and etc. with Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg." Everything before the president's name is the label the plate wore in federal storage for most of a century. The rest is there because Josephine Cobb enlarged a broken piece of glass about 20 times in 1952 and found him in it.
You've noticed that tripods come with two basic kinds of locks: twist locks and lever locks. They're quite different. Which should you purchase? I'll tell you my experiences and observations.
Twist Locks
The Robus RC-5570 has high-quality twist locks.
A judge in Hartford wanted to know how the computer had made a set of plaster teeth semi-transparent so they could be laid over an autopsy photograph of a murdered woman's breast. "Judge, you got me," the state's forensic odontologist answered. "I don't know how they do it, but they do it," he said, and then, "I think we really need an engineer."
Canon rates the EOS R6 Mark III at up to 8.5 stops of stabilization at the center of the frame and 7.5 stops at the periphery, depending on the lens. The footnote under that number says it was measured under the CIPA 2024 standard with an RF 24-105mm F2.8 L IS USM Z at 105mm.
At 11:21 on the morning of November 24, 1963, Jack Beers was standing on a railing in the basement of Dallas police headquarters with a Mamiyaflex twin-lens reflex, and he tripped his shutter as Jack Ruby stepped into the open. Several feet lower and to his left, Bob Jackson released the shutter on a Nikon S3 six-tenths of a second later. Beers got Ruby walking; Jackson got the bullet.
In the whole plate daguerreotype the Getty Museum catalogs as "Early Operation Using Ether for Anesthesia," a young man lies on a table in a Boston amphitheater with both legs bare below the knee and his socks still on. Nine men crowd around him, and several of their faces are smeared by the length of the exposure.
The War Department's April 20, 1865 reward broadside carries three photographs a little over three inches tall, pasted by hand into printed frames at the top of a sheet nearly two feet long. Somebody sat with a pot of paste and a stack of prints and mounted them one sheet at a time. No two copies of the most famous wanted poster in American history are quite the same object.
When you build your first photography website, the platform you use can make it remarkably easy to include everything. Within an afternoon, you’ve populated a portfolio template, drafted an "About Me" page, and installed an e-commerce plugin to sell prints. You create a space for your blog. It feels productive, with every feature you can think of accounted for.
Fujifilm, a company that spent most of a century making film, looked at the tidy checkerboard of color filters printed onto every digital sensor and decided the tidiness was the enemy.
How do you photograph something like this? Two enormous radio telescopes, the Milky Way rising between them, and a foreground that actually has detail instead of disappearing into blackness. The answer involves a little planning, some tricks to reduce noise, a way to light the radio telescopes, and access to one of the most extraordinary locations in California.
Walk into a department store in Tokyo and you can buy an anti-aging skin cream made by a camera company. It is called Astalift, and the collagen and antioxidant science inside the bottle came straight out of the labs that once kept your photographic prints from yellowing.