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The Solarcan Puck is a tiny, reusable pinhole camera designed to track the sun’s path

The new Solarcan Puck analog pinhole camera. Solarcan Back in early 2016, Scottish photographer Sam Cornwell first created the Solarcan, a pinhole camera in a beverage can that made light work of months-long exposures tracking the sun’s path. It proved hugely popular on Kickstarter, pulling in a whopping ten times its funding goal. He followed… Continue reading The Solarcan Puck is a tiny, reusable pinhole camera designed to track the sun’s path

Best Leica cameras in 2022

Dan Bracaglia Best overall Leica M11 Check Price This super-versatile camera maintains the old-school style. Best Leica film camera Leica MP Check Price Yes, Leica still makes a film rangefinder and it’s great. Best Leica compact Leica Q2 Check Price It has a beautiful 28mm lens attached. Mention Leica cameras around photography nerds (like us)… Continue reading Best Leica cameras in 2022

Nick Brandt’s panoramas put the clash between wildlife and urbanity in stark relief

“Wasteland with Lion”. © Nick Brandt Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York To celebrate Earth Day 2022, we’re revisiting some of our favorite environmental stories and interviews from the PopPhoto archives. Nick Brandt’s 2016 photo book, Inherit the Dust, was his visual cry of anguish about the looming apocalypse for animals habitats in Africa.… Continue reading Nick Brandt’s panoramas put the clash between wildlife and urbanity in stark relief

Best compact cameras of 2022

Jeanette D. Moses Best for Street Photography Fujifilm X100V Check Price This range-finder style camera with its fixed 23mm lens has analog design accents that make it an absolute joy to shoot with.  Best for Beginners Canon EOS M200 Check Price The Canon EOS M200 is an inexpensive option that’s extremely easy to use, making… Continue reading Best compact cameras of 2022

Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve 18

DaVinci Resolve 18 has been announced with major new updates that focus on collaboration, DaVinci proxy workflow, new AI-based Resolve FX, improved subtitling and Fairlight Fixed to FlexBus. DaVinci has rapidly become a powerhouse in the video editing world, and the latest update sees a huge leap in the collaborative tools it offers production teams. … Continue reading Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve 18

Why you should experiment with gels in your next Licensing studio shoot

Last year, Pinterest named “vibey lights” as one of their top trends of the year, with searches for “neon room,” “blue lights bedroom,” and “LED light signs” all rising year-on-year. It was official: the neon aesthetic was back. Throughout the year, neon-lit rooms trended over on TikTok, while Kendall Jenner showed off her neon pink… Continue reading Why you should experiment with gels in your next Licensing studio shoot

Migrant self-portrait series wins the 2022 Sony World Photo Awards

Photographer of the Year. From the series “Migrantes,” by Adam Ferguson. 2022 Sony World Photography Awards. © Adam Ferguson A couple of months ago, we introduced you to the finalists in all ten categories of the Sony World Photography Awards, not to be confused with the smaller but still very prestigious World Press Photo awards… Continue reading Migrant self-portrait series wins the 2022 Sony World Photo Awards

Hubble photographs the largest comet ever observed, and it’s headed this way

This sequence shows how the nucleus of Comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) was isolated from a vast shell of dust and gas surrounding the solid icy nucleus. On the left is a photo of the comet taken by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 on January 8, 2022. A model of the coma… Continue reading Hubble photographs the largest comet ever observed, and it’s headed this way