Pixii Leica M Mount Digital Rangefinder Review

French company PIXII SAS first announced their new PIXII camera almost two years ago (literally just a couple of weeks shy), and then it was radio silence until July of this year when it finally went on sale. It’s a Leica M mount digital rangefinder, but with a twist. It looks a lot like the Leica M10-D, but without a memory card slot. The PIXII features an 11.1-megapixel sensor, comes with either 4GB or 8GB internal memory, has an APS-C global shutter (!...

February 26, 2023 · 3 min · 599 words · Shannon Cook

Powering A Camera For A Month Long 24 7 Timelapse

Long term timelapses are a lot of fun to shoot, but they can come with a lot of challenges. What happens if your gear gets stolen or damaged? What if it simply moves and you lose your framing? Or stops shooting entirely? It’s a constant learning experience of challenges that we have to figure out as we face them. But probably the biggest challenge is that of power. For Oklahoma farmer Derek Chisum, who wanted to shoot timelapse of his peanuts growing up out of the ground in his field, the solution is simple....

February 26, 2023 · 2 min · 401 words · Dean Gonzales

Ricoh Thinks Photographers Will Start Switching From Mirrorless Back To Dslrs Within 1 2 Years

Imaging Resource recently published their interview with Ricoh execs at the CP+ trade show in Tokyo. They spoke about Ricoh’s plans for Pentax. But in amongst the conversation was Ricoh’s thoughts on the whole mirrorless vs DSLR debate. And, apparently, they think that the people who have switched to mirrorless will switch back to DSLRs within a couple of years. It’s an interesting conversation, and I sort of see where he’s coming from, but it sounds to me like the folks at Ricoh just haven’t really tried any recent mirrorless cameras, or really sat down and compared them in the real world....

February 26, 2023 · 3 min · 554 words · Julie Frank

Samsung Hiring Thousands Of Workers To Expand Foldable Production

The Korean behemoth apparently wants to expand the production of its Galaxy Z Fold and Z Flip series foldables. It aims to sell no less than 25 million units of the next-gen foldable devices in a year. Samsung is further looking to hire 2,200 to 3,000 engineers and researchers for its upcoming R&D center in Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. The $220 million research center is on track to become operational next year....

February 26, 2023 · 2 min · 400 words · Adam Rowland

Shooting With A Nintendo Game Boy Camera From 1998

A little while ago I spotted a Nintendo Game Boy Camera in a second hand shop and my eyebrows went up. It looked pretty jazzy, like someone had melted an old webcam onto a game. Some of you probably own and have used these things before, but I had never come across one. I bought it straight away. Here are some facts I found out: Released 1998.Shoots 256 x 224 pixel images....

February 26, 2023 · 2 min · 356 words · Aaron Hernandez
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