DP Review Friday May 20, 2022
TTartisan has announced that it is adding two new mount options to its 50mm F0.95 APS-C lens. Now, in addition to Canon EOS-M, Canon RF, L-mount, Micro Four Thirds and Nikon Z-mount camera systems, Fujifilm X-mount and Sony E-mount users can get their hands on this affordable ultrafast prime. The fully manual lens offers a roughly 75mm full-frame equivalent focal length and has a 50cm (19.7-inch) minimum focusing distance. The lens measures roughly 64mm (2.5") in diameter by 63mm (2.5") long and weighs 411g (14.5oz). Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday May 20, 2022
There's a new title holder in photography: This week we learned that Man Ray's "Le Violon d'Ingres" (1924), his famed photograph depicting a nude woman's back overlaid with a violin's f-holes, sold
recently for $12.4 million, becoming the most expensive photograph ever to be sold at auction. The sale came after a drawn-out bidding period that lasted nearly 10 minutes during Christie's New
York's … Read the full Story >>
DP Review Thursday May 19, 2022
Samsung’s newly announced 256GB Pro Endurance microSD cards put durability and reliability above all else, including speed, notes DP Review. The card’s primarily suited for security cameras, body cameras and dashcams, which are constantly recording video, but its long lifespan also “makes it a reasonable option for photo and video use cases where you might be recording timelapses or hyperlapse videos over extended periods of time,” adds DPR. Read the full Story >>
The New Yorker Thursday May 19, 2022
Like many other fortunate New Yorkers, the writers and curators Maurice Berger and Marvin Heiferman fled the city for an upstate redoubt almost as soon as the pandemic arrived, two years ago. Days later, Berger began to feel sick and soon died. “I realized that there were no words that expressed what I was feeling,” Heiferman says. His bereavement led to an ongoing project that Heiferman describes as a kind of “photographic shiva,” a way of grieving communally through pictures. Read the full Story >>
