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Ricoh Imaging has announced the Pentax K-3 Mark III Monochrome. The new DSLR combines many of the features of the company's flagship APS-C DSLR, the K-3 III, with a newly developed monochromatic image sensor, making it the world's only DSLR designed for black and white imagery.
"The concept of a monochrome-specific...
The Phase One XT medium-format camera is purpose-built to deliver a streamlined, intuitive photographic experience. It doesn't come equipped with many frills or even autofocus, but the field camera-inspired design is significantly more portable...
When shooting landscape images, deciding between a color photograph and a black and white one can be a very difficult decision. There are situations when the colors are nice, but a black and white image can still end up being more powerful. On the other hand, sometimes a scene which doesn’t work that well in color can...
Aaron Nace of Phlearn has hit the streets of Chicago to create a new video about creating "stunning black and white photography." Black and white photography offers unique advantages -- and challenges -- for photographers.
Nace has five tips for us and the first is to focus on simple shapes. "There's always an angle...
Over at PiXimperfect, Unmesh Dinda has created a new video tutorial about creating "classic" black and white images in Photoshop. The first step is creating a black and white adjustment layer. That's a simple start! Once your adjustment layer has been created, Dinda suggests that you play with the various sliders. Every...
Being able to create compelling black and white images is a skill unto itself. It is not easy to convert a color image into a dynamic monotone image. You lose a method of creating contrast and leading your viewer through an image, color, and have to instead rely on different elements of an image, such as brightness,...
Earlier this year, Phase One announced the IQ3 100MP Achromatic digital back. This nearly $50,000 digital back has just over 100 megapixels of medium format goodness and does not record any color data whatsoever. By eschewing a Bayer color filter, the sensor is said to capture more detail and luminance than other...
While travel photography is very appealing for a variety of reasons, including being able to visit different and exciting places, there are some potential downsides to shooting in new locations. Even if you scout locations ahead of time online, it is not possible to understand a new place like you know your favorite...
Tutvid’s Nathaniel Dodson produces many excellent video tutorials and his latest will be particularly appealing to Lightroom users and fans of black and white photography. Dodson’s video, seen below, shows three techniques you can use when creating black and white images in Adobe Lightroom.
The first way to create...
Phase One has announced the new IQ3 100MP Achromatic, a 101-megapixel digital back and the world’s highest-megapixel achromatic digital back. The camera utilizes a new CMOS sensor design which offers a maximum ISO of 51,200, which is an unprecedented ISO limit for a medium format digital back.
The IQ3 100MP Achromatic...
As photographer Jeff Rojas says, "There are a million different ways to convert color images to black and white," but you don't need to leave Adobe Camera Raw to get great monochrome images. The Camera Raw Filter's advantages include its simple user interface and its powerful built-in tools. Keep in mind, you will want...
There's plenty of demand for colorization of black and white photos. There's even a subreddit dedicated to adding realistic color to old black and white images. It can be a time-consuming process and you need to be very familiar with Photoshop -- or similar software -- to do it convincingly. However, Algorithmia has...
Photographer Huntington Witherill studied with Ansel Adams and has had a distinguished career spanning over 45 years. Recently, he met with Marc Silber to discuss composition. For Witherill, a good composition is one that shows the scene not only for what it is, but also as something else. He recalls a Minor White...
Portrait photographer Nino Batista has recently written an article for Fstoppers and made a tutorial video about his favorite black and white conversion method in Photoshop.
Despite regularly deciding that an image will be converted while shooting and then using Capture One software for the conversion, sometimes Nino doesn't decide to make an...
The Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia is currently hosting an Ansel Adams exhibit through March 20th. The exhibit, Ansel Adams: Before & After, displays his work amongst the work of "predecessors, peers, and contemporary photographers."
Atlanta's NPR Station, 90.1FM WABE did a story about the exhibit...
Can't get enough of black and white photography, but find it hard to recreate in print what you see on the screen? If so, you're the target customer for Epson's latest photo printer, the just-announced SureColor P600. Among the many features of this capable 13-inch model, Epson is focusing on its black and white...
Professional photographer David Friedman recently uncovered some remarkable photos of New York City he took back in 2000. The intriguing digital photos were not taken with an early DSLR as you might expect, but rather his Game Boy Camera.
Charmingly low-res (we're guessing there are app developers already hard at work...
Ansel Adams was not only a pioneering landscape photographer, but a conservationist as well, playing a big role in convincing the federal government to create the Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks. After his death, a section of the central California wilderness was renamed in...
It hardly seems fair but Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times photographer Damon Winter beat out nearly 2000 entries from amateur and professional photographers alike to win the Leica-sponsored 2013 i-shot-it.com black-and-white photo competition. The 38-year-old Winter, who is based in Brooklyn, wins the US $20,090...
We've written about the dueling documentaries on street photographer Vivian Meir and her lost images previously and now here's your chance to watch one of these movies via YouTube.
The BBC documentary, titled "Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?," originally aired on BBC One's "imagine…" series last week and is...