Chinese lens maker Blazar's latest anamorphic lens series is highly unusual. The Blazar Beetle 1.33x anamorphic lenses for full-frame cameras feature a rotatable design, supporting distinct horizontal and vertical anamorphic shooting and expanded cropping possibilities. [Read More]
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French photographer and YouTube creator Mathieu Stern's latest video discusses the wonderful world of close-up lens filters. Unlike some of Stern's stranger topics, like working with the world's blackest material and capturing travel photos with an infrared digital camera, close-up filters are something nearly every photographer might want to add to their kit. [Read More]
French photographer Mathieu Stern is well known for his "weird" cameras and lenses, and one such is Stern's converted full-spectrum Sony Alpha 7 II. Stern recently visited London with it and documented the experience of using it for travel photography. [Read More]
Photographer and lens enthusiast Mathieu Stern has attached a disposable camera lens to a Sony Alpha A7 II to recreate the 1990s look. [Read More]
A photographer has created portraits of people who do not exist but were instead made with the artificial intelligence (AI) program Dall-E 2. [Read More]
Photographer Mathieu Stern recently got his hands on a handful of cheap expired film rolls to see what results he could get out of them. You can see his experiment in this 5-minute video. One commonly cited rule of thumb for shooting expired film is to add an extra stop of exposure for every decade […]
Photographer Mathieu Stern is a fan of creating strange lenses, but his latest creation is quite unusual, even by his standards. Stern visited Iceland and created a working lens out of ice from an iceberg.