Category: News
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Leica and Formula 1 Made a $9,950 Q3 43
The Formula 1 Edition of the Q3 43 costs $2,000 more than the standard camera. The sensor, the lens and the autofocus are identical, so what you are buying is carbon fiber and a color preset.
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The Pictorialists Were Staging Theatre
A new show in Santa Barbara argues the Pictorialists were not imitating painting so much as directing performances, with models, costumes and built sets.
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Twenty Eight Japanese Women Photographers Land in New York
The International Center of Photography gives a touring survey of Japanese women photographers its first American showing, covering seventy years the exported canon left out.
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Sigma Built an f/2.8 Telephoto That Weighs 390 Grams
The 50-120mm F2.8 DC OS Contemporary gives crop sensor shooters a constant aperture telephoto at a third of the weight of the full frame equivalent.
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Getty Images Is Going Private Through Bankruptcy
Getty has announced a prepackaged Chapter 11 and a $533 million rescue that wipes out its public shareholders. Contributors are told royalties continue as normal.
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Ron Howard’s Avedon Documentary Comes to Netflix in November
Avedon, directed by Ron Howard and made with the Richard Avedon Foundation, premiered at Cannes and reaches Netflix on November 11. Here is what the film has access to and what to watch for.
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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.