“What was your first camera?” The answer to that question can reveal a lot about a person. Did you start on digital or film? Was it an SLR, a point-and-shoot, maybe even a medium format camera? Was it your mom’s camera? In this fun video, 10 top industry photographers share what their first camera was. […]
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Can you imagine a more 'DPReview' camera than the Nikon Z8? The Nikon Z8 is, without question, my gear of the year. It's probably the best camera I've ever used, and yet that's only part of what made it stand out to me. dpreview.com »
2023-12-13 17:00
The launch of the Fujifilm X Pro 1 caused a stir of excitement in the photo industry akin to what every new photographer enjoys and experiences when they pick up their camera. For many of us, we were dumbstruck by the fact that something new was embracing the older way we all asked for. thephoblographer.com »
2023-01-20 08:00
Lead image: Dan Bracaglia. All other images: courtesy of Ebay and used with permission. Not long ago, I was poking through a film camera forum where someone mentioned they were looking to 'dabble' in film – and they were about to spend $700 on a Leica. dpreview.com »
2020-08-21 16:00
Picture it, Cologne, Germany, 2018, thirsty photographers from around globe packed into an event hall for Photokina to get their grubby mitts on new and exciting cameras, and there, like a shining ray of light was the Zeiss ZX1. thephoblographer.com »
2020-07-19 07:00
These are the 20 most important cameras of the 2010s As we near the end of the second decade of the 21st Century, we wanted to take a look back, and reflect on everything that has happened in the last ten years. dpreview.com »
2019-12-08 17:00
Action cameras have enabled all kinds of unique point-of-view video capture. Sometimes though, the cameras can get a little too close to the action, as James Williams of Haida Gwaii, an archipelago roughly 40 miles off the Pacific coast of Canada, recently found out. dpreview.com »
2019-07-18 22:36
A new Panasonic GH-series camera always seems to mean having to learn more about video, but that also tends to mean getting experience behind a video camera. I'd like to think I'm getting better as a videographer. dpreview.com »
2018-02-14 17:00
A Japanese “machine gun” camera has popped on eBay. The camera, which was used in war-time during the World War II era, can be yours for a price of $4,499. The Konishoruko Rokuoh-Sha Type 89 camera was used for military training exercises. petapixel.com »
2018-01-26 00:20
Mount Rainier from Grand Park ISO 200 | 21mm | F3. 5 | 1/80th One of the things that I love the most about my Olympus PEN-F camera is its chameleon-like nature. One minute it can be a tourist snapshot camera, the next a rugged backwoods professional shooting rig. dpreview.com »
2017-08-12 19:00
Introduction Edited to taste in Adobe Camera Raw and cropped in slightly | ISO 200 | 1/60 sec | F2. 8 Japan has long been at the top of my list of places I would like to journey to. Like my coworker, Carey Rose, I enjoy traveling with a camera as a means to create a visual travel diary or log of my adventures. dpreview.com »
2017-03-09 15:00
For as long as I’ve been photographing, I’ve always had a soft spot for gear and the technical side of photography. In the beginning, I was obsessed with getting the best camera I could afford, which ironically was a refurbished entry-level Nikon DSLR – not exactly the pinnacle of camera technology at the time. digitalrev.com »
2017-02-27 03:00
If you enjoy seeing experimental photo projects and unique homemade cameras, check out this “Straw Camera. ” It was created by filling a wooden box with 32,000 drinking straws for light to pass through. petapixel.com »
2017-02-11 21:58
The Tessina is a vintage Swiss camera that was created by an Austraian chemical engineer named Rudolph Steineck and introduced in 1957 in Switzerland. What’s neat about the camera was that one of the accessories was a special wrist bracket that allowed you to wear the camera on your wrist like a watch. Redditor catchoooo […] petapixel.com »
2016-10-06 00:14
Ove Bengtsson looks relaxed despite the scrum taking place around him on the Hasselblad booth. Photo enthusiasts jostle to see the company’s latest products while a professional photographer demonstrates various techniques and, no doubt, advantages of the Hasselblad system to a growing crowd, but he seems content to stand back and watch, the hint of a smile on his face. dpreview.com »
2016-09-28 15:00
In a silly mistake that made us chuckle and shake our heads all at the same time. Earlier today, we were told Leica was using a DSLR photo on their Sofort Instant Camera landing page. In fact, they seemed to be implying the photo was taken with their camera. This is obviously a case of […] petapixel.com »
2016-09-16 20:03
You have to scroll a long way down the list of DPReview's camera reviews to find the Canon PowerShot Pro70 – all the way to the very bottom, in fact. The Pro70 was the first review ever published to the site, authored by site founder Phil Askey. dpreview.com »
2016-09-15 23:42
I recently built my own DIY large format camera using scraps. The idea of this camera started with vintage profile spotlight that I wanted to restore, only to discover that some of the internal lens elements were shattered. petapixel.com »
2016-09-06 17:29
Pretty? Yes. Well-built? Yes. Image quality? Ehhh. . . In 2007, I was chiefly concerned with three things: fixing whatever had recently broken on my 1980 Datsun 210, scouring the electronics section of the local Goodwill in an endless quest for a louder stereo, and finding older computer games that my home-built PC would play acceptably well. dpreview.com »
2016-09-01 16:00