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Zeiss LenspireMakersWinter Photography with the ZEISS Otus ML 1.4/35 There are winter days at the Baltic Sea when everything changes. The wind fades, the water loses its movement – and suddenly the landscape appears almost frozen in time.This winter was one of those…

Zeiss LenspireMakersReview ZEISS Otus ML 1.4/35 by Christian Nørgaard Christian Nørgaard, a Danish photographer and founder of “Better Moments Travel”, doesn’t just travel, he enters into a dialogue with the places and people he encounters.

Zeiss LenspireMakersPhotography, Technology, and Seeing the Light Douglas Dubler is a veteran American photographer whose career spans more than five decades, bridging editorial, commercial, and fine art disciplines.

Zeiss LenspireMakersBetween Light and Presence – The Magic of Portraying There are moments in portrait photography when the air seems to pause, when the connection between photographer and subject transcends technique.

December 3, 2025

Zeiss LenspireMakersFinding Focus Through Decay One hour from Bangkok to Chumphon. Then I'm in the south. Different light, different heat, different stories. I went there for the old trains.

Zeiss LenspireMakersSeeing With Care: Photographer Scout Pruski Captures Dyke Day LA 2024 & 2025 with ZEISS Batis Lenses How did you first get into photography?I've always been drawn to the way that science and technology enable art. I’m a very sensory-sensitive person and originally, I wanted to be a cinematographer.

Zeiss LenspireMakersOn the Road in Cambodia with the ZEISS Otus 1.4/85 Southeast Asia has fascinated me for a long time – I’ve had the chance to travel to countries like Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Borneo, Myanmar, Japan, Korea, and China.

Zeiss LenspireMakersDistagon, Sonnar, Tessar At ZEISS, we have a rich history of innovation in optics. In fact, many of our developments have shaped the field of photography and mobile imaging.

Zeiss LenspireMakersZEISS Talk – 台灣宗教人文攝影師Gray Chang 拍攝前是否先做功課，我覺得是很重要的，先大概知道活動內容節奏、人多人少區域範圍、我需要帶多少鏡頭及有多少時間可以換鏡頭等，尤其台灣宗教活動不論室內室外人很多時，不一定有機會換鏡頭，所以一開始選的鏡頭焦段就很關鍵，我認為事前先做功課，執行中判斷反應，還有事後修圖調整等各環節，都要考慮到，才是成功拍出這些作品的要素。

February 20, 2025

Zeiss LenspireMakersExpert talk: The Science Behind Color – Mobile Imaging and Color Join Dr David Abreu, Senior Scientist Mobile Imaging at ZEISS Consumer Products, as he delves into the science behind color and the role of imaging scientists.

January 8, 2025

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo