It’s easy to take a lot of camera functionality for granted. But only a few years ago, much of what we have today was on the wish lists of photographers everywhere. Autofocus is one of those things. In less than twenty years we have gone from cameras that had to be focused manually to a […]
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It’s spring again — in the Northern Hemisphere, anyway. Which means it’s around that time of year when people like to start fresh; you change the batteries in your smoke detectors, sweep up those mutated dust bunnies hiding behind the sofa, finally throw out the Christmas leftovers. The usual. Amongst all the unsavory tasks on […]
Too many photography subjects get muddled in argument: this brand vs. that brand; one technique vs. another. Yours vs. mine. Better vs. best. Certainly, one could argue credibly that their current pro level dSLR is better in every way than the point and shoot camera they started out with and no one would even challenge […]
In the last of this short series of iconic cameras, we are going to back in time a little and away from the single lens reflex models to what is arguably one of the most iconic cameras of all time, Leica’s M3 rangefinder camera. The Leica M3 by Jim O’Connell By the time Leica released […]
In the last article, we looked at an evolutionary camera that revolutionized 35mm photography. Today we are going to look at another evolutionary camera that revolutionized digital photography, Canon’s EOS1D In many ways the 1D is to digital what the Nikon F1 was to film. It was the first professional digital camera to be developed […]
In this, the first of a short series, we are going to take a look at some of the camera’s that defined modern photography. These cameras may have introduced new, revolutionary features or just refined the existing technology into something much more usable. In this first article, we will look at the Nikon F. The […]
