The NY Times has a gallery of amateur photos from Kodak’s picture contests in the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s. Almost all of the photos are great even if none of the photographers even became famous.
First it was Kodachrome, now Kodak is ending production of Ektachrome slide film. Not surprising, really, but Ektachrome was much useful than Kodachrome, with higher sensitivity and ability to be processed in regular photo labs. When I was heavily into … Read More
It’s sad that Strobist has to publish How to Avoid Dealing With the Police When Shooting in Public but the truth is photographers are often considered suspicious when photographing outdoors. It happened to me in Queens (NYC) just because I … Read More
Michael Chiusano writes a Kodak Eulogy. In the mid-1990’s, I was involved in a consulting project with Kodak, having to do with some digital imaging initiatives. A group of us, including a high-level Kodak product manager, sat in an executive … Read More
Canon has suffered declines in sales of its compact cameras and inkjet printers but you’ll note that sales of dSLRs remain strong. With almost every phone having a camera in it, people just aren’t willing to lug along a separate … Read More
If you’re new to photography or have just upgraded to a camera that has manual settings, the Manual Photography Cheat Sheet from Living In The Stills is pretty useful. Making mistakes with digital cameras isn’t as fatal as it it … Read More
Gruber makes an interesting point in this post on the Process photo filtering app: The sensors and lenses of dedicated point-and-shoot cameras remain superior to those in smartphones, but, smartphones can run real photo editing apps right on the device … Read More
MIT has built a high speed video camera system that can take 1 Trillion frames per second. Yes, you read that correctly. Extreme Tech has a video describing how it works.
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