Cameras

Less than a month after publishing an article about how The Youth are totally into flip phones these days, The New York Times is talking about how Gen Z is obsessed with crappy old digital cameras. As a 26 year-old who went through a CoolPix phase in college, then a film phase, and who just bought another point-and-shoot, I just want the kids to know I support them.

Well, with Elo ratings specifically, but it’s a damn rigorous way to sort community votes (all 21.2 million of them) on the best pictures taken by 2022’s crop of smartphones. Brownlee’s big comparison videos are always worth a watch, and, like always, this one contains some surprising results.

The latest cover of our sister publication features dozens of famous New Yorkers all crossing the same intersection. How? Photographer Pelle Cass created a grid of walkways and timings and gave ‘em all call times, and staffers held up placards to guide everyone through a very not-closed intersection. Here’s the full behind-the-scene details.

Fujifilm’s X100V, the fifth iteration of its retro-inspired point-and-shoot digital camera, came out in February, 2020.

We might have hit peak film camera hype: Leica is reissuing its M6 film camera from 1984 and selling it for $5,295, in this, the two thousand and twenty second year of our digital photography.

Halide is touted as one of the best photography apps on the iPhone, and as usual, it has a new update out to help you get the most out of the best camera available on the platform — that 48-megapixel sensor on the iPhone 14 Pro.