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"High Ice" was the first of many movies I shot stills for and on my first day on the set I met Marvin Greenberg, the focus puller. Focus pullers are the unsung heroes of movie making. Their job is to sit next to the big 35mm Panavision movie camera and hold onto the lens focusing ring. Then, in a pre-rehearsed dance, they slowly shift the lens' focus as the cameraman keeps the...
Earlier this year, Pentax Ricoh Imaging revealed new lens roadmaps for its K, Q, and 645 lens mounts. On the map for the K-mount--which is used by the company's DSLR models and its mirrorless K-01 compact system camera--was a new portrait prime lens, tentatively named the smc PENTAX-DA 50mm f/1.8.
Today, the name and the lens itself are tentative no more, as Pentax prepares for...
I may never drop another camera lens again thanks to a new invention called the Backer Capper Lens Swapping System from the folks at camarush. The device, which is shown in prototype in the image to the right, looks remarkably like a lens cap mounted on a belt but it solves the problem of the “third hand.”
You know what the "third hand" is, right? It's the thing you wish you...
Panasonic Corp. has today announced its third Lumix G X branded Micro Four Thirds-mount lens, the Panasonic LUMIX G X VARIO 12-35mm/F2.8 ASPH./POWER O.I.S. With the addition of this new model, the premium X-series lens lineup now covers focal lengths from a very generous 24mm-equivalent wide angle to a powerful 350mm-equivalent telephoto, with only a very small gap in coverage...
Leica has gotten a lot of press in the last few days between the record-breaking auction of a 1923 Series-0 camera for nearly $3 million, to the announcement of a digital rangefinder that shoots only in black and white: the 18-megapixel Leica M Monochrom ($7,950).
Reading these reports including what we’ve written here on Imaging Resource, I must admit my initial reaction was...
Tilt-shift lenses are great for giving your images that miniaturized or shallow depth-of-field look but they can be expensive, very expensive. If you're a photographer on a low budget -- and who isn't short of cash these days? -- you might be interested in this cool step-by-step tutorial from Instructables on how to make a printable tilt-shift lens adapter.
The materials you...
Remember that massive 6mm f/2.8 fisheye Nikkor lens that went on sale in London last month for a whopping $160,000? Well, the giant lens was eventually sold for that asking price to a private collector via Nikon retailer Grays of Westminster but not before a short video of it was made.
The video, which features this whale of a fisheye lens attached to both a Nikon F Apollo...
Ever grab the wrong lens in your bag in the heat of the moment? Yeah, join the club. Well, the folks at BlackRapid have come up with a good solution for that: the LensBling Cap System, which features easy-to-see graphics and labels giving you the focal length of the lens on the rear lens cap.
We know BlackRapid from the company's popular Camera Sling strap and its LensBling Cap...
One of the main advantages of mirrorless camera designs such as those pioneered with Olympus and Panasonic's Micro Four Thirds format is that they allow more compact bodies and lenses than would be the case with a standard SLR camera. There's only so much that can be done, though, and longer lenses can be fairly bulky even for mirrorless models.
At the CP+ show last February,...
Sitting for your picture in a Daguerreotype photographer’s studio in the middle of the 19th century was a form of torture for both sitter and photographer. An agonizing experience, it required the subject to sit for several minutes, immobile while clamped into neck braces and head supports.
For the portrait photographer, it was a struggle too. There was no question of taking a...
For the photographer who has everything, how about a snazzy bracelet made out of an actual recycled camera lens?
The creation of photographer Craig Arnold, the bracelets -- Arnold calls them "cuffs" -- are made from camera lenses he recycles in South Australia and sells under his re:vision brand.
Arnold also makes original sterling silver pieces modeled on real lenses and...
If you thought the megapixel wars were over, you've probably never heard of the 3.2 billion pixel Large Synoptic Survey Telescope camera.
Comprised of 189 sensors and over three tons of components, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), is designed to capture the entire visible sky every week. In doing so, it will create an unprecedented public archive of data: about 6...
We had to check the calendar to make sure it wasn't still April Fool's Day when we saw this one. It's a massive Nikon 6mm f/2.8 fisheye lens and it recently went on sale in London for 100,000 British pounds (about $160,800).
According to Amateur Photographer, the jumbo fisheye lens was created as the "the world's most most extreme wideangle lens to cover the 24x36mm image area...
Nikon has today announced its latest consumer digital SLR, the Nikon D3200. As the name would suggest, it's a followup to the D3100, which launched back in late 2010. The new model boosts resolution significantly, but simultaneously brings a step forward in terms of speed.
The D3200's new DX-format image sensor has a resolution of 24.2 megapixels. That's almost double the total...
Blackmagic Design made one of the surprise announcements at NAB 2012 by unveiling its small but powerful new Cinema Camera, which can record 2.5K raw video but costs just $2,995.
According to Blackmagic, the Cinema Camera's 2.5K sensor offers 13 stops of dynamic range which, if true, should make it extremely versatile, especially since it's capturing uncompressed raw video with...
Now that just about every digital SLR on the market shoots HD video -- and some even 4K video such as the recently announced Canon EOS-1D C -- is there any way to make zooming with these cameras any smoother? VizTools thinks its new HandiZoom handgrip and control unit is just the answer.
HandiZoom is designed to turn your DSLR into an ENG (Electronic News Gathering)-style video...
Canon USA today made quite a range of announcements revolving around the National Association of Broadcasters tradeshow, which is about to kick off next week in Las Vegas. The list includes a new video-oriented EOS-series professional DSLR and a Cinema EOS-series video camera, both with 4K resolution. There are also four new EF Cinema zoom lenses, a 30-inch 4K industrial display,...
Erik Johansson is a Swedish photographer and master image retoucher who lives and works in Berlin. A few years ago, he began to create a portfolio of personal photography to demonstrate his Photoshop skills. This collection of “impossible images” both tricks the eye and fools the mind because of Johansson’s attention to detail.
Starting out as a professional photographer and...
Earlier this week, we told you about these cool cocktail coasters shaped like old floppy disks. Now, here's something else you can add to your novelty timber collection: a wooden camera necklace.
No, you can't actually shoot photos with it but people will probably shoot you some sly glances when they they see this attractive little camera around your neck. Designed like a...
Olympus has released updated firmware for the M. Zuiko Digital ED 12-50mm f/3.5-6.3 EZ zoom lens. Announced last December, the M.Zuiko 12-50mm is the company's first to include a power zoom feature, and is also weather-sealed.
There are only two change listed in the release notes for firmware version 1.1. The first is improved stabilizer performance for macro shooting with the...
