For Bellamy Hunt, also known as the Japan Camera Hunter, his love of vintage photo gear is rooted in the way it’s made. “Vintage cameras,” he says, “have stunning designs.” These machines, he adds, “have a certain magic that makes you look inside yourself when you shoot. You feel connect

A few years ago Nikon started putting 24MP or higher pixel-count sensors into its DSLRs. At first this hurt their noise performance some, but it also did something else

Not everyone gets to watch a camera being built in person, but anybody can take one apart—as long as you don’t care whether it never works again. That’s why I’d rather watch a teardown video, like this one by All About Circuits that shows a Fujifilm Instax mini 8 instant-

Not to be outdone be its competitors, Yuneec steps into the the pro drone arena with its new H920 Plus (from $2,500, street). We quite enjoyed getting to try out the company’s previous release, the Breeze, but this latest drone is no backyard toy: The H920 Plus hexacopter weighs in a

Whether you’re looking to get your kids to follow in your footsteps or you’re merely hoping to keep them distracted for a bit, the PixlPlay on Kickstarter is a great way to both entertain children and teach them about photography at the same time. To boot, the Pixlplay ($20 fo

The Nikon DL compact compact cameras seemed very promising when they were first announced in early 2016. Now, all three cameras, including the DL18-50 f/1.8-2.8, DL24-85 f/1.8-2.8, and DL24-500 f/2.8-5.6, have been cancelled. The DL compacts had a lot of interesting features, like 4K vi

It’s all about the mid-level cameras in today’s Canon product releases. In addition to the mirrorless EOS M6, Canon has also announced the EOS Rebel T7i and 77D DSLRs.

When the Canon M3 mirrorless interchangeable-lens (ILC) camera finally made its way to the U.S., it had already been on sale for months overseas. It was one of Canon’s

Whether you’re a diehard Pentaxian or just a gear-head who loves posters, you’ll appreciate these free downloads from Ricoh. The first poster is a no-nonsense grid of Pentax cameras from 1959 through today, while the second poster is a bit more deliberately designed as a zigzag

I’m a total nerd about film photography, but I realize it’s a niche hobby. It’s time-consuming and often involves gross chemicals that stain your kitchen counter. But, instant photography is different. Cameras that spit out self-developing and totally contained prints hav

CES 2018 was conspicuously devoid of new flying machines from drone-making behemoth DJI. Just a few weeks later, however, the company announced one of its most interesting crafts to date. The Mavic Air is the middle child in the DJI lineup, but its water-bottle-sized body and a bevy of hig

There’s a real sense of accomplishment that comes from learning how to nimbly pilot a drone. Unfortunately, that’s also frequently accompanied by a nervous anxiety stemming from the potential for your pricy flying machine to smash into a tree, mountain, building, or any other h

Lomography, our favorite creator of lo-fi film cameras, is currently raising funds on Kickstarter for a new Instant Square Camera with an interchangeable lens and a hotshoe flash. It’s called the Diana Instant Square Camera. It’s still in Kickstarting mode, but predictably, it

This month Sony announced an updated model to the compact RX line with the introduction of the RX100 VI. We’ve been big fans of this line of compacts since they w

Designing your own pinhole camera was once a staple of beginning darkroom classes. The concept is simple: Poke a small hole in a container that acts like a lens, then record the light it lets in with a piece of photographic paper or film. But, with the rise of digital photography, crafti

The concept of “zooming” on a smartphone camera is mostly a lie. They often “zoom” by simply cropping the image to narrow the angle of view or adding an extra camera module with a more telephoto lens to handle the longer shots. Both methods come with downsides in te

Last week Fujifilm announced a range of new products including a compact camera, new XF lenses and a roadmap of X-mount lenses currently in development. Here’s a rundown of all the new gear.

Nikon first got into the interchangeable-lens, mirrorless camera game back in 2011. The J1 and the V1 stood out from the already-established competition with its smaller 1-inch sensor (compared to Sony’s APS-C offerings and the Micro Four-Thirds cameras from Panasonic and Olympus available

Kodak recently announced it was bringing back one of its iconic black-and-white films, TMax P3200, which has been out of production since 2012. It’s a monochrome

This week Sony announced that it has sold more full-frame cameras in 2018 than any other camera brand, both in individual units sold and overall revenue. The company says that these strong sales results are directly related to its shift away from aging DSLR technology and into mirrorless—