There’s a scene in Jurassic Park where Dr. Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) gives the park’s creators a lecture on ethics. He ends with the famous line, “Your scie...
When you get right down to it, there are only three things a camera needs to do: form an image, record that image, and be otherwise light-tight. All the rest – focusing a...
Aren't humans amazing. We develop sophisticated technology – high-resolution sensors, superfast lenses – to record images. But we also make, and express ourselves with, the simp...
The Cameradactyl OG is a camera I have been meaning to write about since, well, ages ago (sorry Ethan). It's also my first large format camera review, and indeed the first large...
It was Day 6 of COVID-19 isolation, I was feeling more and more restless. Being one of the lucky ones, I could still work from home, but my mind was distracted by the barrage of...
I'm Ethan, I make cameras at Cameradactyl.com. A few months back I finished the initial prototypes for a new camera, the Brancopan, which is a 35mm panoramic camera that takes M...
I’ve recently bought myself a Panomicron Oxygen - a panoramic 35mm film camera that’s the same format as the Hasselblad Xpan, but at a fraction of the price. It might not be as ...
In the last few years there seems to have been loads of innovation around the democratisation of manufacturing, with 3D printing being - at least to me - almost the poster-boy f...