Category: News
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Fifty Years of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery began collecting photographs in 1976, and they now make up nearly half its holdings. A new show of 120 portraits runs from November, from daguerreotypes to digital.
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A $368 Copy of the Leica Lens Everyone Wants
Mandler, a new Chinese lens maker, is selling a 50mm f/1.4 built after the pre aspherical Leica Summilux. The first batch sold out. Here is what it offers black and white photographers, and what nobody knows yet.
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Fujifilm Raises Camera Prices in Japan, Again
Fujifilm has raised Japanese camera prices by 6 to 15 percent and Instax by as much as 23 percent, eighteen months after a film price rise. Here is what it covers and why monochrome shooters should watch it.
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A Museum Just Paid a Record Price for Seven Platinum Prints From 1898
The Toledo Museum of Art has bought F. Holland Day’s The Seven Words, seven platinum prints from 1898 and one of only three known sets. Here is the work, the photographer, and why platinum still matters.
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Nikon’s Cheapest Full Frame Camera Has No Viewfinder
Nikon’s new Z5IIC removes the electronic viewfinder to come in $450 under the Z5II, and keeps the same sensor and stabilization. Here is what it offers black and white photographers, and what it costs them.
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The Color Photographer Every Monochrome Shooter Should Know
Jay Maisel, who photographed the Miles Davis cover of Kind of Blue and taught generations of photographers to watch for light and gesture, has died at 95. Most of what he taught works without color.
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Aperture Finally Has a Permanent Home in New York
Aperture, the publisher founded in 1952 by Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and Minor White, opens its first permanent home on New York’s Upper West Side, with a bookstore, a gallery and a season of talks.
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Canon Built the R8 Mark II to Look Like the Camera That Started EOS
Canon’s EOS R8 Mark II keeps its 24.2MP full frame sensor, adds in body stabilization and borrows its looks from the EOS 650 film camera. Here is what it offers black and white photographers.
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Leica’s New 66mm Summicron Began Life as a Navy Spy Lens
Leica’s new Summicron-M 66 f/2 reinterprets a rare lens built for US Navy reconnaissance. Here is what Leica announced, and why its unusual focal length and high contrast rendering might appeal to black and white photographers.
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A New Film Gives Gerda Taro Her Name Back
A new film from Alina Marazzi tells the story of Gerda Taro, the photographer who shared the name Robert Capa and was nearly written out of it. Here is what we know about the film, and why her story matters.