Late last month, a homemade camera dubbed Chronos surfaced alongside the claim that it can shoot at speeds up to 21,650 fps. The camera was notable not only for its ultra-high-speed shooting capabilities, but also its comparitively affordable $2500 price tag. The camera was the subject of a recent YouTube video showing off its various features and functionalities.
Chronos 1.4 is the brainchild of engineer David Kronstein, who first... more
The iMac with its beautiful 27-inch high-res screen and minimal design has long been a favorite of many creativesif not for their studio, then as their home computer. Microsoft’s innovative, beautiful new... more
French freelance photographer and graphic designer Sebastien Del Grosso has created a series of beautiful artworks based on the Star Wars universe. It might not look like it, but... more
Since the Google Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones have become available for purchase, there have been several reports about the camera of the devices, despite stellar scores in the DxOMark ranking, being very prone to lens flare with the sun at a certain angle to the camera lens. Now a group of affected Reddit users has described the problem in the... more
Google says its new Pixel smartphone has the best smartphone camera ever made, but it looks like the company still has some issues to work out. Pixel owners are reporting that the camera sometimes captures annoying lens flares in photos.
The OnePlus 3 smartphone amazed me in many ways. There are many things I love about this phone: from the build quality, to the speed of the Android interface. But the camera is where this phone... more
So what is a “Universal Tripod L-Bracket”? Well, I’m not sure, because I couldn’t find another on the market quite like it. Some tripod manufacturers make L-brackets specific to their own tripod, but I found nothing universal.
Well, since that did me no good and I’m an inventive fellow, I set out to make my own. Results: way simpler and cheaper than I thought.
The goal of having an L-bracket is to be able to mount your... more
Several years ago, I bought an old Soviet camera that I found in a London flea market. It cost me 4, so every time I put a roll of film in the camera, it multiplies its cost.
The Zenit E is one of the Soviet Unions most enduring photographic legacies. Designed in the mid-1960s, it was produced on an eye-watering scale. Millions and millions as many as 12 million, some believe were produced in Soviet factories until the middle of the 1980s, by which time its... more
There’s hopelessness in Dondi Tawatao’s eyes. The photographer, once a feature photographer in Manila, now spends his nights photographing corpsesdocumenting the victims of Filipino President Rodrigo Duerte’s ruthless drug war.
(Warning: This video contains graphic content).
In this short episode of VICE News Tonight, we join Tawatao as he goes from crime scene to crime scene, taking striking photographs of shocking killings. From police shootout... more
Back in 1967, Swedish National Television was granted a rare interview with Hasselblad founder Victor Hasselblad at his sea-side home in Sweden. In the 30-minute segment above, Hasselblad talks about everything from designing his first camera to dealing with copycats in Japan.
Hasselblad had a lifelong fascination with birds. He captured photographs of them earlier in his life, and he began capturing their sounds in his later years.
