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In a pair of interviews (1, 2) with Nikkei Business, Sony Vice Chairman Shigeki Ishizuka discussed the early days of Sony's camera business, including Sony's A-mount Alpha DSLR cameras, a potential move to Micro Four Thirds, and the eventual decision to make full-frame mirrorless cameras.
The interviews are published...
Leica's 20th annual Leitz Photographica Auction is just around the corner. Starting on June 11, collectors worldwide will be able to bid on many different cameras and lenses, including a Leica 0-Series No. 105 "Oscar Barnack" camera. This camera is estimated to sell for between 2 and 3 million euros, about $3.2M USD....
Manufacturers, such as OM (formerly known as Olympus), Canon, Nikon and Sony, have all released cameras featuring sophisticated autofocus modes designed specifically for tracking high-speed subjects, such as cars and motorcycles. These modern cameras work amazingly well and capture sharp, high-resolution photos in...
We've featured photographer Mathieu Stern here on Imaging Resource many times over the years. He's shot with a lens he made out of ice, he's worked with rare equipment, and he's made a name for himself by using 'weird' lenses. In his latest video, Stern focuses on photo restoration.
He purchased a couple of glass plate...
Starting last October, Vox began their Vox Darkroom video series, which shares "stories of the past, one photograph at a time." Since launching the series in the fall, Vox has published five episodes, all of which can be viewed below.
The latest episode is about Hippolyte Bayard, the first photographer to ever hold a...
Our friends over at the Red River Paper Blog have long been producing unique content. It's been a while since we have shared their latest work, so let's see what's been going on.
Recently, Arthur H. Bleich wrote about Lotte Jacobi's America. Johanna Alexandra "Lotte" Jacobi was an incredibly accomplished photographer...
Photographer Sean Tucker generally focuses on modern photography in his videos, including camera and lens comparisons, behind-the-scenes videos, discussions on art and photographic technique and much more. However, his latest video is a look back and a look toward the future. Tucker was able to sit down with his...
Last week, Ted Forbes released a video discussing the intent of the photographer. He focused on multiple famous photographers who all utilized the same color film stock, Kodachrome, to create images with vastly different styles. Not only were the images different in terms of composition, use of light and much more, they...
Arthur Bleich with Red River Paper has written a fascinating article detailing one of photographer Jack Delano's most interesting and important photo assignments. American photographer Jack Delano was born as Jacob Ovcharov in 1914 in the Russian Empire. At age 83, he died as Jack Delano in Puerto Rico and between those...
If you thought brand-new Leica cameras were expensive, then a recently-auctioned Leica prototype camera will blow your mind.
At the Westlicht camera auction in Vienna, a Leica O Series prototype has been sold for 2.4 million euros. That's equivalent to nearly US$3 million and six times the opening price for the camera....
Instagram isn't just for photos of food and cats thanks in part to accounts like the GettyFlashback page. GettyFlashback is an account dedicated to sharing rare old photos from Getty's massive archive of images. The images come with informative captions, which makes perusing through their past posts an educational...
When you think of digital cameras, it's likely you think of capturing landscape images, portraits or wildlife images. Perhaps you think about preserving family memories. There's an important and related aspect of digital imaging happening in museums and other conservation centers around the world, archival and cultural...
For car fanatics, there is something special about the roar of an engine. It's not easy to point to what exactly makes cars special, and perhaps there are as many answers to that question as there are cars on the road. It could be the unique shapes, the incredible engineering or maybe just the flat-out speed of a...
Shutter Release is our regular roundup feature here at Imaging Resource. We aim to bring you the best in original content. With that said, there is a lot of great photography content from around the web worth sharing with you. That content might be a new product release, an interesting editorial or helpful educational...
There is a lot of interesting content out there and we want to help make sure you see as much of it as possible. While we are dedicated to bringing you the best original content we can, our colleagues and peers around the web create a lot of great articles, tutorials and videos worth sharing. Alongside the occasional...
Shutter Release is our ongoing series in which we briefly describe and share photography-related news and videos we find around the web. Let's press the shutter release and burst fire an assortment of stories today including a neat action camera finder website, a Lensrentals promotion, a Nikon camera quiz, a look back at...
In Shutter Release, we find the most interesting photography news and videos from around the web to share with you. Alongside links, we supply short descriptions of the content to help you determine if it is something which will interest you. Today’s stories include a guide to radio triggers, SANDMARC iPhone filters, the...
In 2000, Sony released the MVC-FD85 digital camera. What made this camera interesting is that, like other Mavica models, it utilized a floppy disk for image storage. There was an optional adapter which accepted Memory Stick cards inside of a dummy floppy disk as well. The FD85 used a 1.3-megapixel CCD image sensor and...
The Met Museum in New York City recently digitized its collection, releasing nearly 400,000 images for free under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. A CC0 license means that all of the images are available for unrestricted use.
You can search through the collection of digitized work here and utilize several filters...
Whether you are a Star Wars fan or not, you are almost certainly familiar with the lightsaber. The iconic weapon from the Star Wars universe has found itself enshrined in popular culture for decades. Did you know that the basis for some of the lightsabers in the original Star Wars trilogy were repurposed camera flashes?...