Sigma Shows How the Internal Zoom of its New 16-28mm Lens Works
Sigma has shared a digital cross-section of its upcoming upcoming 16-28mm f/2.8 lens that showcases the intricate internal focusing system in action.
These Vintage Cameras Were Sliced Up and Frozen in Resin
Swiss photographer and artist Fabian Oefner has released a new series called CutUp that features cameras cut into slices and then fixed in resin. The resulting sculptures offer a unique view of the internal components of well-known camera bodies.
This 1939 Cutaway Diagram Shows the Anatomy of a Leica Camera
When the Leica camera was born in the early 1900s, it was the first practical 35mm camera to use standard 35mm cinema film. In 1930, Leica introduced the Leica I Schraubgewinde, which used an interchangeable lens system based on the Leica LTM (Leica Thread Mount) 39mm screw thread.
Want a peek of the inner workings of Leica's early LTM camera? Today's your lucky day.
Nikon Sliced This D5 in Half to Reveal the DSLR’s Guts
Nikon's big announcement at CES 2016 in Las Vegas this year was the new flagship D5 DSLR. In the company's exhibition space, Nikon is displaying a Nikon D5 DSLR and Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 lens that have been sliced cleanly in half to show off the innards with a cross-section view.
‘The Cut’: A Stop-Motion That Offers a Cross-Section Look Into Fruits and Vegetables
Photographer Carl Pendle created this clever stop-motion titled "The Cut" that offers an interesting perspective into different fruits and vegetables.
Cross Section Photos of Fireworks Give Us a Peek Inside the BOOM
It's the fourth of July (on the off-chance didn't know), which means your Facebook feed is about to get flooded with firework photos from friends, family and professionals alike. But the firework photos in photographer Andrew Waits' series Boom City are unlike any others your likely to come across.
While most people take pictures of fireworks right after they explode, Waits took a different approach: he cut them open ahead of time to give us a peek at the insides.
Cross Section Photos of Golf Balls Reveal the Diverse Beauty Within
Photographer James Friedman doesn't play golf, but he had a collection of golf balls lying around. One day, he began to wonder what the guts of the golf balls look like, so he cut a ball open to take a peek at a core. Then he sliced open another, and another; after cutting open over twenty different types of golf balls, Friedman found a strange sort of beauty that he began to document through photographs. The resulting project is titled "Interior Design".
AMMO: Cross Section Photos of Bullets
In October of 2012, LA-based photographer Sabine Pearlman found herself ensconced in a Swiss WWII bunker photographing 900 different "specimens" of cross sectioned ammunition. Her resulting photo series, AMMO, shows the beauty and craftsmanship that went into creating these destructive little pieces of engineering.
Videos for Creating Cool 3D Light Objects Using Only a Tablet and Camera
We’ve shared a few pretty cool cross-section light painting projects before, but none of them were ever very... shall we say... cheery. Both projects -- 21:31 and Andy Leach's hologram photo -- were created using the same eerie video of human slices from the Visible Human Project. But for those who wanted to toy around with cross-section light painting and re-creating 3D light objects in their photos, that’s all they had.
Well, not anymore. Photographer Hugo Baptista has put together a Vimeo group called "Cross Section Objects for Light Painting". It contains a number of videos that you can load onto your tablet or smartphone and use to create 3D light painting objects.
A Look Inside Lytro’s Light Field Camera
Lytro‘s groundbreaking light field camera is finally landing in the hands of customers, …
Cross Section View of the Lytro Camera and Speculation on Its Sensor Size
Here’s a cross section view of the consumer light field camera …
Canon 1Ds and 400mm f/4 DO IS Lens Sliced Down the Middle
Leica and Sony aren't the only camera companies that slice their cameras and lenses down the middle to give the world a peek at their guts -- Canon does it too. On the first floor of one of its headquarter buildings in Japan is a small museum that has a cross-sectioned Canon 1Ds DSLR and 400mm f/4 DO IS USM lens on display. Back in the day, the camera had a price of $5,500 and the lens cost $8,900, meaning Canon sliced nearly $15,000 of gear in half for this display.
Sony Alpha DSLR Sliced Down the Middle
Camera innards are often shown in cross section diagrams, but here’s a Sony Alpha camera and lens that were …
Cross Section Views of Leica Lenses
If colleges offered camera equipment anatomy classes, this Leica lens cutaway might be one of the things you'd be examining in the lab. It's a Leica Tri-Elmar-M 28-35-50mm sliced cleanly down the middle, revealing all the glass and pieces inside that go into making the lens.