credits: Harman Technology Harman Technology has introduced a new experimental colour film called Switch Azure, and it does something a little unusual with how colours appear in the final photo. Instead of reproducing colours in the typical way, the film deliberately shifts them around. Blues can show up as orange, yellows may turn into bright azure tones, and reds can shift toward purple or blue. The idea is to create a very distinctive look straight from the film itself, wi
credits: Samyang (3D-printed mock up of 200mm) Samyang seems to have some fairly ambitious lens ideas lined up for the coming years. In a new interview with the French photography publication ‘Phototrend’, Samyang’s head of product planning, Kim Dubin, talked about several concepts the company is currently exploring. Samyang is already working with Schneider-Kreuznach on projects like the upcoming 60–180mm f/2.8 full-frame zoom, but it is also developing a number of lenses in
Zone Focusing for Street Photography If there is one technique that every street photographer has to learn/get familiar with, it is zone focusing. Autofocus is great, it is fast, accurate, and incredibly advanced now. But on the street, moments happen in fractions of a second. And sometimes even the fastest autofocus system is just a little too slow, or it grabs the wrong subject, or it hunts at the worst possible time. Zone focusing removes that delay entirely. Instead of fo