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Leica has just debuted the much-anticipated and much-rumored Leica M-D (Typ 262). It’s the first production M-Series Leica that leaves out the LCD screena camera for photographers with a love of simplicity, a dislike of chimping, and a... more

Im like a lot of photographers. I want to shoot more often. And one big reason I dont shoot as much as I like is that I waste too much time reading about gear.

Now Ive been shooting since 2008, which means Ive been reading about photo equipment for 8 years. Thats not an eternity, but its long enough to realize that when it comes to cameras and lenses, photographers have a bad habit of making dramatic statements that have zero basis in reality.

Here are... more

It's really here. The wait for the D300's successor has been a long one, but the Nikon D500 has officially arrived. So what does the D500 bring to the freshly-revived flagship APS-C lineup? We break down just what's new and notable in our video overview.

Newly released firmware updates for the Sony a7R II and a7S II enable XAVC S format video recording to SDHC memory cards. Previously, XAVC S format video could only be recorded to an SDXC card. Sony makes a couple of notes on the use of SDHC cards for XAVC S video  any recorded files larger than 4GB will be split into multiple files to comply with a 4GB maximum file size limitation.... more

In some sense, you could call photographer Jason Chen‘s latest work multiple exposures. Except that, instead of capturing two images on a single frame of film, he’s literally weaving together two prints in a fascinating exploration of “... more

Ever wanted to strap a portable telescope to the end of your camera and carry it around? With the soviet-made MTO 1000A 1,100mm f/10.5 mirror lens, you can just about do it. A monster of a lens, Christopher Frost Photography put it through its paces... more

Capturing the supersonic shockwaves of a fighter jet going faster than the speed of sound might seem like science fiction, but NASA actually captured this phenomenon on camera. Not only that, they did it by using a 150-year-old German photography technique.

Released a year ago, the images in this post were captured using a technique we’ve mentioned before on PetaPixel called... more

The Canon EOS 80D is an enthusiast-level DSLR, and the successor to the 70D. It sports a new 24MP APS-C CMOS sensor which, like the 70D, offers Canon's Dual Pixel on-sensor phase-detection autofocus system. The 80D also gains a new 45-point hybrid AF system with all of the points being cross-type. This is a step up from the 19-point AF system in the 70D, though not quite at... more

It’s a big day for rumors and leaks. In addition to details about Canon and Olympus, photos of the upcoming Leica M-D Typ 262 have leaked, and they show the first production M-Series digital Leica without an LCD on the back.... more

I found them on the bottom of a box in a New Jersey antique shop filled with photographic junk from years gone by. They were just sitting there, four faded yellow boxes mixed in with haze covered filters, dirty lens caps, ancient darkroom thermometers and broken cable releases.

The box said Kodak Plus-X, one of my favorite black and white films discontinued not too long ago, and they didnt even warrant a place in the locked cabinet above were all the valuable... more

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