There’s something special about shooting analogue black and white for me. It takes on a quality and a character you just don’t get with modern colour digital. Fortunately, now, we have a choice. So, if we want to shoot flawless colour, we can. A hundred years ago, there wasn’t so much choice. We’ve featured Mathieu Stern before. He makes some great videos reviewing old lenses and offering tricks and tips. In his latest video, Mathieu shares some personal family history with us....

The Pixel 6a poses next to its siblings in Google’s new image The Pixel 6a poses next to its siblings in Google’s new image The Pixel 6a will go on pre-order on July 21, while it will become available to purchase on July 28. The phone will cost $449, and it’s coming in three color options. In addition to this Sage model, Chalk and Charcoal variants will go on sale. Google announced this handset during Google I/O back in May....

The owner of well-known Polaroid brand, PLR IP Holdings, LLC, now has a new owner. A group of investors has bought 100% of the shares, led by Smolokowsky family, particularly Mr. Wiaczeslaw (Slava) Smolokowski. He is a Polish businessman and a majority shareholder of the Impossible Project, who produces the instant film for Polaroid cameras. According to President and CEO of Polaroid, Scott Hardy, “this is a new chapter in the story of Polaroid brand....

Today, PolarPro has announced their new Peter McKinnon Edition Variable ND filters. They’re available in two strengths of 2-5 stops and 6-9 stops. I’ve been fortunate enough to have the 77mm 2-5 stops version in my possession for the last couple of weeks. As I write this, I’m sitting in Glasgow airport waiting to board a plane to take it on a real test in the deserts of Arizona, but I’ve been able to have enough of a play with it to give some first impressions....

For starters, the ISOCELL HP3 is smaller than the first-gen 200MP camera from Samsung. Its 200 million pixels have a footprint of 0.56-micrometer (μm) each, down from 0.64μm. The company says this is the industry’s smallest pixel size yet. For Samsung, this allowed the company to pack all pixels in a 1/1.4-inch optical format, which is over 12 percent smaller than the 1/1.22-inch diameter of the original sensor. For device manufacturers, it will result in around a 20 percent reduction in the surface area covered by the camera....