Mathieu Stern’s at it again with his crazy experiments. This time, he’s taken the lens off a 120 year old folding camera, and attached it to his Sony mirrorless camera. This is nothing new, but what is new is that he’s given it autofocus abilities. The first autofocus lenses were released around 40 years ago, so this is quite the feat. He used an ingenious adapter designed to give autofocus abilities to manual focus Leica lenses on the Sony A7 range of bodies....

Freckles are one of those strange things in life. Many who have them try to hide them. Many who don’t absolutely adore them. Sometimes, though, you get a subject in front of your lens covered in freckles and extremely proud of them. That’s the ideal situation for a photographer who loves freckles. Photographer Mathieu Stern’s on the side of loving them. And if you saw his recent UV video, then you can see why....

Richard Wong has been taking a bit of a deep dive into the HDMI output latency of his shiny new Panasonic S5 Mark II. HDMI latency is a big thing when using a field monitor, especially if a focus puller is watching that monitor to do their job. The problem with the S5 Mark II – and quite a few of Panasonic’s other cameras – is that the HDMI output latency is pretty high....

Last week, photographer Brendan Barry showed you how to turn your room into a camera obscura using only the stuff you can find at home. And if any of you decides to take analog photos with your “room camera,” you’ll need developer and fixer for the photographic film. Here’s some good news – you can also make these without leaving your home. In the video below, Brendan will show you how....

Backpacks are a tough sell for me. I think that over the course of ten years in the game, I’ve accumulated more bags than a shopaholic. Everything from travel bags, to slings, to mini bags, TSA Approved bags, the whole nine yards… But there is one bag I have been waiting a while to switch, my drone bag. I just have not found the perfect drone bag yet. Even with how small drones are getting, they, along with all their accessories need space and security, two things that regular backpacks, are hard to come by....