Camera

OVER TIME I’VE HAD A FEW MEDIUM FORMAT cameras, including two trusty Hasselblads (a 500C/M and a 500EL/M… of course, I’ve still got them) and a number of Fujifilm’s fixed-lens rangefinder models, in the 6x9cm, 6x7cm and 6x4.5cm formats. The Fuji GS64

Of all the analog-era film products, the instant print has been the most enduring. It simply never went away, despite the demise of its chief protagonist (Edwin Land’s original Polaroid) and the swamping of photo-chemical photography by digital imagi

THE LATEST ADDITION to Nikon’s Z mount mirrorless system is an 85mm f1.8 short telephoto which has been designed primarily with portrait and people photography in mind. The new Nikkor Z 85mm f1.8 S is a premium ‘S Line’ series lens and similar in sty

SONY HAS JUST upped the ante in ultra-high resolution cameras by installing a 62.5 mega-pixels back-illuminated, full-35mm CMOS in the Alpha 7R Mark IV. What’s more, Sony claims its new ‘Exmor R’ sensor delivers a massive 15 stops of dynamic range. T

WHILE THE UPDATED X1D II mirrorless camera (below) is good news, perhaps even more interesting are two other Hasselblad digital medium format products announced at the same time. One is the revival of the CFV 50C capture back, which is designed to wo

THE INSTANT PRINT camera revival shows so no signs of slowing down (see comment p6), but the vast majority of models available now are essentially simple point-and-shoot types. The long-awaited MiNT InstantKon RF70 is a very different animal and prov

WITH FUJIFILM’S GFX mirrorless medium format digital cameras selling like hot cakes (and the 50R very keenly priced), Hasselblad has responded with the much-awaited upgrade of its stylish X1D. The new X1D II 50C uses the same 51.3 megapixels ‘44x33’

IT MAY BE pocket-sized, but the seventh generation of Sony’s Cyber-shot RX100 is packed with big camera features… in fact, Sony is claiming it delivers “Alpha 9 performance in your pocket”. The new RX100 VII is built around a ‘1.0-type’ format stacke

THE 37TH RUNNING of the biannual Nikon Photo Contest attracted a record 97,369 entries across all three categories from more than 33,000 photographers across 170 countries and regions. This participation makes it one of the biggest photo contests in

NEW CAMERA ANNOUNCEMENTS that aren’t in the mirrorless category are becoming rarer events these days, but Canon has provided some light relief by upgrading two higher-end PowerShot compacts. The new models are the PowerShot G5X Mark II and the G7X Ma

Arguably the most significant photograph of the 20th century was recorded 50 years ago on a specially-prepared Hasselblad camera after the Apollo 11 lunar module, named Eagle, had successfully landed on the surface of the Moon. The date was, of cours

Margaret Street in central Sydney during mid-winter, so the low sun was creating dramatic and graphic shadows. Part of a series commenced in the early 1990s, documenting the continually changing characteristics of Sydney’s CBD. After a long career as

The 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, held in France over June and July, highlighted just how popular the women’s game has become, with capacity crowds at many matches and heightened interest around the world. That meant lots of demand for stories, footag

The economics – and size advantages – of the half-frame 35mm format were the catalysts behind Olympus’s hugely successful Pen series of cameras. The SLR designs were hugely innovative too, with the reflex mirror turned sideways to allow for a very st

Following a long association with Camera & Cine magazine under the editorships of Allan Moult and Terry Duckham (last issue in December 1978), I became involved with Iris Publishing and Paul Curtis who was the editor of the first issue of Camera Craf

All the popular sensor sizes have their devotees, but it’s generally been the case that competition between the mirrorless brands has tended to be defined by format… so, Panasonic versus Olympus in M43, Fujifilm versus Sony in ‘APS-C’ and, until rece

You have to take your hat off to Sony and acknowledge just what a huge effort it’s put into the development of its FE mount full-35mm mirrorless camera system over the last few years. Ten camera bodies and 34 lenses is no mean feat, but before the A7

There are numerous ‘firsts’ associated with Fujifilm’s 100 megapixels GFX series camera, not the least being that we can talk about it in relation to a potential group of users that extends well beyond a small handful of high-end studio photographers

A beautifully balanced composition, thoughtful cropping and a little help from the natural elements have combined to create this coolly atmospheric landscape study by Adam Fry. The location is Lake St Clair in Tasmania and this, believe it or not, is