Category: News
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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.
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The PEN Is Back, and It Has a Switch Marked Mono
OM System has revived the PEN with a rangefinder body, a built in viewfinder and a switch on the front marked Color and Mono. Here is what it offers black and white shooters, and where it falls short.
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Apple Put a Real Aperture Inside a Phone
Phones have faked depth of field for years. The iPhone 18 Pro has six metal blades that actually move, and for once the choice about how much of the frame is sharp is yours.
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Weekly News Roundup
A solid week for gear news specifically. Fujifilm delivers a serious new super telephoto prime, OM System teases what looks like a new Pen camera, Pentax’s last DSLR quietly disappears from Japanese retailers, Westcott announces a genuinely clever collapsible cart, Metabones returns with refreshed adapters, and a Japanese retailer tests one of the strangest lenses…
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Weekly News Roundup
A genuinely varied week. A music photographer is suing over a painting made from his image that sold for nearly two million dollars, Linda McCartney is getting her own postage stamps, a New Mexico court hit Meta with its largest child safety fine yet, and the first photographs of a fresh impact crater on the…