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September 2026 Links

The 1-Inch Sensor Is Not One Inch, and the Name Is a 70-Year-Old Fossil ­— what size actually is a 1-inch sensor?

What is ISO invariance, and should I care? — Should you?`

Woodland Photography for Beginners: The Basics That Really Matter When You’re Just Starting Out — Getting started with woodland photography.

Thanks to Nikon, Canon’s Closed RF Mount Could Be Forced Open — An explanation of why Viltrox doesn’t produce Nikon Z or Canon RF lenses: these companies are trolling with patent. Nikon’s got invalidated in China though. When you can’t compete, you just bully.

Full Frame Is 24x36mm Because a Leitz Engineer Doubled a Movie Frame in 1913 — It always boil down to a decision taken a long time ago.

The ColorChecker, a Photographer’s Best and Most Colorful Friend, Turns 50 Years Old — It didn’t realise this was so old.

Sask. company uses new technology to preserve memories caught on film — (From March 2026) Restoring / digitising film is important. So Film Rescue International developed a new device to digitise film, including old film that was left unprocessed.

Exhibits

‘Lunch Atop a Skyscraper’: Unraveling Photography’s Most Famous Mystery — An historical review the image. It’s a workplace safety violation, for sure.

Inside Lenne Chai’s Nostalgic Vision of a Queer Singapore

Nicolas Rachline’s Haunting Photos Capture the Solitude and Beauty of Modern Life — A new book.

The Winners of the 2026 Pure Street Photography Awards Invoke Happenstance and Commotion — Some very nice photography.

Film

Seems like Petapixel has been posting a lot about film lately.

We Are Living in a Panoramic Film Renaissance — New panoramic film cameras that are not the WideluxX.

The Excellent Kodak Ultramax 400 Is an Unfortunate Victim of Bad Branding — Spoiler: it is just Gold in 400.

Kodak Gold is Somehow Both Very Popular and Underappreciated — I have shot the old Gold from the 90s. I have a box of Gold in 120 to try out.

Kodak Ektar 100 Brings Fine Grain and Vivid Color Saturation — A fine film. Shot many times mostly in 120. And on the olden days it was a high sensitivity film.

GoPro

Following RIP GoPro:

Markiplier Says He Is ‘Genuinely Sad’ About GoPro’s Merger — Markiplier just happened to have become the single biggest shareholder of GoPro days before the anoouncement. One notable quote:

“If [GoPro] stops making cameras or starts making Flock-based cameras, I am out 100%,” Fischbach says.

GoPro’s Founder Promises It Isn’t Done Making Consumer Cameras — Just words.

DIY

This New Open-Source Camera Has Swappable Sensors and Lens Mounts — This project is not DIY as it comes from a company named Circuit Valley but it sure feels like it could be and encourages it with its open-source nature. Interesting concept. Digital Camera World also talks about it: In a world-first, this open system is a camera tinkerer’s dream with swappable sensors, global shutter options, programmable software, AND multiple lens mounts.

August 2026 Links

American Urban Life and the Influential Photographers Who Captured It — A documentary photography of urban life in America is hosted at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London.

Exhibition Uncovers Historical Photos From a Century of US Deportation Campaigns ­— at the California Museum in Sacramento will be on view through January 10, 2027.

How Nolan used a modified Pentax 67 to make IMAX history with The Odyssey — 6×7 is close to IMAX size so the viewfinder is quite close, and thus makes for a good viewfinder to block shot on set.

Film

Kodak Verita 200: No Consumer Version of This Film Exists But I Shot It Anyway — Interesting. Not sure why Kodak is protecting these motion picture stocks ; even Vision 3 is not available unless you are a movie production which makes it hard for film packagers to resell.

Kodak Ektapan 100 Is a Smooth, Sharp, and Beautifully Detailed Film — aka TMax 100. This is not a new film but it’s good to revisit what make people chose it for Black and White photography.

The Contax G2 Hype is Warranted: This Camera Rocks — A review of that modern classic of a camera, the Contax G2. On the pricey side, not helped by the fact that some pop stars were spotted using one.

DIY

This Photographer Built a Rig that Shoots Trichrome Photos Faster Than You Can Blink — Interesting rig.

How a 20-Year-Old Has Spent 3 Years Building Panoramic Cameras by Hand — Panoramic cameras are specialty, and the most advanced ones are the X-Pan and the rotating lenses model like the WideluxX. The latter is being reinvented and costing a few thousands of euros, while the former commands even more on the used market and is becoming hard to repair.

Linked: “Rant: I love photography”

Allen Murabayashi wrote Rant: I love photography. Allen is CEO and Co-founder of PhotoShelter, originally wrote this on the PhotoShelter blog, and got republished on Wired “rawfile”.

His only reason to write this:

There is a percentage of photographers who hate photography.

And he give special mention to Boston Globe’s Big Picture and later the Atlantic’s In Focus, my favorite photo blogs.

In Focus: All-Request

The regular In-Focus from the Atlantic has a crowd-source topic this time called All Request. You ask it via twitter, you get it, if the editor finds it. He has access to a powerful database of images from press agencies ; and as a last resort, uses Flickr.

This regular In Focus has joined The Big Picture in my list of feeds a while ago.

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Russia in Colour (1910)

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This time it is the Big Picture from the Boston Globe to present an exhibit about Russia in Colour, with these autochromes from the Prokudin-Gorskii collection at the Library of Congress (USA).

General view of the [Nikolaevskii] cathedral from southwest. Mozhaisk – Prokudin-Gorskiï­, Sergeï Mikhaïlovich, 1863-1944, photographer – From Library of Congress

Also I recommend the Big Picture as a regular “reading” for the pictures.