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The Hollywood Distagon at f/2: A Single Daffodil and the Contax Zeiss 28mm on the Sony A7RV
April 28, 2026
Sigma DP3 Merrill
The Sigma DP3 Merrill is the latest in the series of compact cameras incorporating the Foveon X3 direct image sensor. It’s making its debut this week at the CES show in Las Vegas, NV. The new SIGMA DP3 Merrill, featuring a 50mm F2.8 lens, will join the lineup of the “SIGMA DP Merrill” series. The SIGMA DP3 Merrill is the next generation of high image quality compact digital cameras. Equipped with the Foveon X3 image sensor, the DP3 Merrill ensures outstanding resolution and natural rendering with rich gradation as well as a three-dimensional feel. Featuring a high performance 50mm
Read moreIntroducing The Fuji X100S
Today, just ahead of the official start of CES and via a press release on it’s website, FujiFilm unveiled its latest camera: the FUJIFILMX100S. Two years ago, FUJIFILM launched the prestigious X100 with a FUJINON 23mm f/2 fixed prime lens and superb image quality in a beautifully designed compact camera body. Its unique style and international acclaim carved out a niche for a new genre of Premium Compact Camera designed in pursuit of optimum operability. The FUJIFILMX100S, the successor to the FUJIFILM X100, inherits its elegant design and high-performance lens, whilst evolving further to meet customers’ demands with the introduction of a
Read moreUp North
UP NORTH from Joël Wagner on Vimeo. From Essen, Germany Joël Wagner (Profile in German HERE) and his brother spent 16 days for their dream adventure trip of a life time, a 750km journey from Whitehorse to Dawson City, Yukon, the month of September, 2012. Their choice of equipment for this adventure: Olympus OM-D EM-5, Leica Summicron 50mm/2.0, Panasonic/Leica Summilux 25mm/1.4, Olympus 12-50mm, GoPro HD 2. As the results clearly show, the OM-D EM-5 is perfectly capable of sitting at the table with all the top-gun bad boys of the mirrorless camera revolution. The color grading on this piece is excellently
Read moreGH3 & X-E1 Meet The House of Blues
CraigsList All Stars from TheCameraForum on Vimeo. The House of Blues in Los Angeles opened in 1994 and is located in the heart of West Hollywood. Home to unique pieces of art and architecture such as work by Alan Sainte, James Boudrot and their “Jake and Elwood Blues Brothers” movable bars; the Los Angeles venue is covered in tin from a gin mill that was reportedly only 500 feet away from the Delta crossroads — the mystical field where Robert Johnson created his famous partnership with the Devil for his soul. Notable acts that have played at the House
Read moreIra Block’s Bhutan
Bhutan Panasonic GH3 October 2012 from Ira Block on Vimeo. My friend Ira Block is an internationally renowned photojournalist, teacher and workshop leader who has to date produced more than 30 major stories for the National Geographic magazine and its affiliates, N.G. Traveler and Adventure. Ira tells the backstory of this video in his seminars that he presents in dealer locations around the country. I had the pleasure of joining Ira for the first of these, held at Samy’s Camera in Los Angeles. Ira shot this video footage by himself (no sound crew or assistant) using his Panasonic GH3 & various Panasonic
Read moreX-E1 First Outting
Back in August, thanks to a kind loan from Will Crockett over at DiscoverMirrorless.Com, I got to try the Fuji XPro-1 for a couple of days. That story is here:https://thecameraforum.com/xpro-1/ I liked it very much. Though I didn’t have time to shoot any low light, or “available darkness” subjects with it as I would have liked, I did have time to do some daylight work that looked pretty fabulous. The dynamic range on the XPro is fantastic, and while some do not enjoy it’s retro form factor, I do. I come from many years of shooting Leica rangefinders, first
Read moreCity of Light
City of Light from H. Paul Moon on Vimeo. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m a complete sucker when it comes to two things: Paris, France, and great video productions. Both represent the pinnacle of the arts in my mind, so when they are artfully combined as they are in this H. Paul Moon production, it really gets my juices going. A fantastic effort from a very promising filmmaker. For his family and friends in Christmas 2011, Moon shot all the footage 5-10 December 2011 in Paris. The music is by Francis Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos
Read moreSigma DP Merrill
Here’s Chris Niccolls from TheCameraStore in Calgary, Alberta, & Nick Devlin, renowned landscape photographer and columnist on Luminous Landscape, testing the Sigma DP1 and DP2 Merrill edition cameras. While certainly not for everyone, these horrible little cameras produce absolutely stunning landscape photographs. I particularly like Nick Devlin’s comment that shooting a DP Merrill is about the same as using a 4×5 camera. Both seem to have a lot of limitations and workflow challenges, and both produce stunning results. Please don’t miss Uwe Steinmueller’s excellent review of the Merrill at http://www.outbackphoto.net/news/2012/10/18/sigma-dp2-merrill-field-report.html PLEASE RATE THIS STORY! [ratings]
Read moreGH3 Hands-On Field Test
I always enjoy watching the reviews TheCameraStore produces. I wish I could do reviews this well myself. They cleverly sum up my own first impressions of my GH3. I too admit to being a bit disappointed in the GH3 in the high ISO stills department, but at least some of this is my unfamiliarity with the camera. As with all complex electronic systems, it does take some time to let everything sink in. The GH3 is a complex and capable beast at it’s best. One this photographer has yet to learn to tame… PLEASE RATE THIS STORY! [ratings]
Read moreMicro Expressions
Micro Expressions: exploring motion image photography from untitled film works on Vimeo. Follow Abraham Joffe, CANON’s new EOS-1DC and the professional image makers who gave of their time to be interviewed who included: Dean Bentick (inlighten photography) Brett Purmel, David Stowe (Society photography), Ryan Schembri (Xsight) Sue Bryce, Phillip Bloom, Wissam Abdallah, Graham Monro (gm photographics) Michael Martin (MM Photos) in this interesting topic of exploring “motion image photography” as Joffe calls it. One school of thought puts forward the idea that one day all still photography will be done in this manner. Another, the idea that the two are so different in nature,
Read moreShotgun Shootout
Shootout of the Mini Shotguns! from Chad Johnson on Vimeo. Each new camera release seems to bring an ever growing list of new features. Some of these are well worth having while to my mind some of them are little more than fluff. One of the major features on my new Panasonic Lumix GH3 that I appreciate is the external microphone jack. For hybrid photography, your sound quality is every bit as important as your video and stills. Without a great sound track, all your hard work capturing video and stills doesn’t shine like it should – and could!
Read moreLooking For Lenses
Looking For Lenses from TheCameraForum on Vimeo. There is something to be said for the hand feel of a good pro grade DSLR. Strong. Heavy. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and still pull off ten frames a second without breaking a sweat. Confidence is built into this equipment, the confidence to get the job done and done right. But with heft comes weight. Three pound bodies coupled to two pound lenses add up to five pounds of weight my arthritic right arm can no longer sling around with abandon. Will Crockett and we other
Read moreThe New Swivl
It isn’t every day that something new comes along in the way of a photography “gadget” that is much more than a novelty; a cute toy we all buy from time to time, normally on impulse . I know I have a drawer full of them, and I bet you do too. Once in a great while, one of them turns out to be such a valuable photography tool that you simply can’t do without it. Gary Fong’s tupperware container on top of my big old Metz DSLR flash immediately springs to mind. It’s saved my bacon more than once
Read moreKeeping It Simple
By Lawrence Beck In the mid-80’s, while on a flight to New York, I met a San Francisco photographer named Jimo Perini. What caught my eye was two bricks of film sticking out of his tote bag: Tri X and Ektachrome 160. I asked him where he was headed, and he said, “Europe.” The conversation moved to film and his camera; he had one body and one lens. The Tri-X would be exposed at 200 as well as the Ektachrome, unless he needed the speed. If so, he’d expose the Tri X at 400 or 800 and
Read more(based on a true story)
photographer: David Alan Harvey layout and design: Bryan Harvey producer: Eva-Maria Kunz coordinator: Diego Orlando production: Andrea Barbato, Michael Courvoisier, Candy Pilar Godoy Attention photographers! We at thecameraforum.com offer the following presentation as a whole new take on just what a printed book can be. The ability for the reader to reorder the story to suit their personal tastes allows for an innovative interactive experience for the reader. It’s a first in our experience and we present this to you as yet another example of extending the art of photography. David Alan Harvey’s groundbreaking limited edition book, (based on a
Read moreNEXT GENERATION iPad!
We want to shout out to all of our German friends and thank them for joining us here on TheCameraForum.Com with this “First Look” at the next generation iPad. No, it will not be available for sale in time for Christmas 2012, at least not here in the United States. We have no information on Apple’s plans for the European market, however this iPad salesman captured on video in Germany may indicate there is indeed a difference between the iPads available here in the United States and those presently available in Germany. When contacted by TheCameraForum.Com editorial staff to
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