"This is a fully automatic exposure 35mm film camera introduced in 1968. Olympus made over 10,000,000 of them through 1988. It was, and still is, an inexpensive, lightweight camera with few adjustments.

The Olympus Trip 35 operates completely without batteries. Its light meter and programmed automatic exposure system is solar powered! This makes it one of the world's most advanced cameras which provides fully automatic exposure completely without batteries or external electrical power."

"I borrowed the Hexar’s moving brightlines, which discreetly indicate the aspect ratio and focal distance. From the Mamiya 7, I took the superimposed shutter speeds. Next, I created a custom dual-stage shutter release button. This gives you consolidated focus and exposure lock. Most importantly, I took the indefinable feeling of using the Hexar, and made I sure Mattebox gave me that same feeling."

Project to build marker posts from which anyone can take a set of panoramic pictures and upload them to track changes in the environment over time.

"Scientists have only reported seeing triple rainbows five times over the past 250 years, but German photographer Michael Theusner was recently able to capture this first ever photograph of a fourth-order rainbow. Ordinary rainbows (first and second order) appear in the area of the sky opposite the sun (and aren’t seen in his shot), but when higher order rainbows appear, they show up on the sunward side."

"The key to Vaughan's new series of images, now on show in his exhibition Ultima Thule, at Photofusion in London, is, he told me, "journey-making". These journeys began with his fascination for the geological map of Iceland. The landmass is a rocky boil on the Mid-Atlantic ridge where the Earth's crust is continuously being created afresh by hot magma from below, pushing the Eurasian and American tectonic plates apart and sculpting a truly primordial landscape. The newly created land corresponds to year zero in geological time. Vaughan travelled through the map into the island's geology to find the locations where these tectonic processes, glaciation, volcanism and geothermal activity could be best seen."

Timesliced image of a forest through a year

"It also resonates with something much bigger and older. In effect, it turns Google Maps into a worldwide, communal, open-air "memory palace". The method of loci (a way of memorising things by visualising them in, for example, an imaginary house) works for many people. When they want to remember things, they simply take a stroll through the house. It's a trick that goes back to the ancients, though: nearly a century before the birth of Christ, the handbook Rhetorica ad Herennium advised memorising images in this way, through mental architecture. Historypin is externalising, in other words, what's already going on in our heads. Perhaps that's why I'm gripped by it."

Firmware updates for Panasonic GF-1 body and lenses

"Other innovations would give the photographer control over factors such as motion blur. And the wildest ideas challenge the very notion of the photograph as a realistic representation. Future cameras might allow a photographer to record a scene and then alter the lighting or shift the point of view, or even insert fictitious objects. Or a camera might have a setting that would cause it to render images in the style of watercolors or pen-and-ink drawings."

"The compact combination of Panasonic's GF1 body and the 20mm f1.7 Lumix pancake lens works with you as a traveler. It's a light, sturdy, capable, exceptionally well conceived photography kit that demands to be taken on adventures."

"I am, you see, a bit of a food geek. When I visit a restaurant, I like to discuss what I'm eating – and photograph it, and, occasionally, tweet about it too (more on this phenomenon in a future post). But is this – I'll concede borderline obsessive – compulsion to photograph food inconsiderate, and should restaurants forbid it?"

"Slitscan imaging techniques are used to create static images of time-based phenomena. In traditional film photography, slit scan images are created by exposing film as it slides past a slit-shaped aperture. In the digital realm, thin slices are extracted from a sequence of video frames, and concatenated into a new image." - catalogue of slit-scan and timelapse related projects

"Since prehistoric times, humans have left their mark on the world around them by creating objects and markings designed to last the ages - and even perhaps to be seen from the vantage of the stars. " via phones and digital cameras apparently

What high-end compact to go for.

amazing model-like photos of cities - exhibition in London coming up