New Filters, Kodak’s New Service, A New Leica, And Yet Another Bag We Are Coveting, Here Is This Week In Photography

Things were pretty interesting in the world of photography last week, especially in the hardware side of the spectrum, from a dead revival from Yashica to some mouthwatering leaks from the newest to-be Leica M10-D.

Wine Country Camera's Circular Filters

Having a great lens with a lousy filter attached in front of it has no sense at all, but that is exactly what many people end up doing when buying filters. Many cheap filters render color in odd ways, jeopardizing the resulting image quality from your camera and lens set-up.

Wine Country Camera is a pretty young yet innovative company with one single product in their lineup, high-quality filters made to enhance the photographer's workflow. They became quickly famous due to their holder system, but now they've decided to expand a little and are about to release circular filters as well.

Fujifilm is never going to make a full-frame camera

There have been a lot of opinions around why Fujifilm hasn't yet released a full-frame camera. The answer is simple, they are not interested in that, period. Some people have already come to that conclusion since the appearance of their second medium format mirrorless camera system. But if there were still some people expecting full-frame from Fuji, here you can see the interview made by the folks over at Dpreview in which Toshihisa Iida makes it very clear to everybody out there.

Kodak Digitizing Box

Kodak has been releasing a lot of interesting things lately, from their cryptocurrency to the Ektachrome revival. Now they are aiming at simplifying the process of digitizing physical photographs with their new Digitizing Box. This is more a service than a piece of gear. You simply send them your stuff in their Kodak branded box, and they'll do the rest.

Keep your photographs (and other files) biometrically secure

If you are worried about who gets to access your photos, then the Lexar JumpDrive® Fingerprint F35 USB 3.0 flash drive is for you. This is a biometrically secure flash drive that promises to keep your files safe by prompting for your fingerprint (and some other allowed ones) in order to access the files. Although, you might want to be careful if you have a heavy thumb…

Another great looking bag

Bags are a guilty pleasure for many photographers (we included), and last week we stumbled into this stylish looking messenger bag from Ona.

New Leica on the block

Not so long ago Leica released their M-D camera, it is a digital rangefinder without a back screen. Apparently, this wasn't as crazy as you might think, and they are about to release the remake of that camera, and until this date, it could be known as the M10-D. Thanks to the leaked photographs, we can see that the camera will have a winding lever so we can assume that it will give a more analog-like experience by at least cocking the shutter prior to every shot.

Yashica Dead…

Even though when the concept was a built around some pretty unnecessary stuff, the hipstery idea of reviving the Yashica Electro 35 gave this Kickstarter campaign some benefit of the doubt, so we waited (even though we weren't even gonna pledge).

A couple of days ago we finally got some information about it and wow… the worst revival ever. The camera turns off whenever it wants, it is all plastic, lousy image quality, they even got the connections wrong for crying out loud.

Would you imagine paying up to $500 for this joke? People are pretty upset with this campaign…

SOME STORIES

Magnum Photo Agency wants new talent

It is that time of the year in which Magnum seeks talent. Do you have what it takes to be a Magnum Photographer? Try out, the worst you can get is a non-reply.

Ara Güler dies at 90

“Photography is not an art. It is more important than art” – Ara Güler

Last week we said goodbye to Ara Güler, best known as the “Eye of Istanbul”. Ara was one of Turkey's few internationally known photographers, and he left us with a magnificent photographic legacy. Here you can see some of the images he shot when working with Magnum.

THE WEEK IN IMAGES

Last week hundreds of people from Central America (especially from Honduras) gathered together in order to march to the United States of America. There has been a lot of noise lately on this topic, and the caravan quickly swelled to approximately 7,000 immigrants. Here are some photographs that show the collective despair of the people.