This Camera Takes 1,000 Years to Capture a Single Photograph
These sights are ephemeral, fleeting treasures that have been offered to me and to me alone. No other person in the history of the world, anywhere in all of time and space, has been granted this gift to be here in my place. And I am privileged, through the camera, to take this moment away with me. That is why I photograph.”
Bill Jay • LensWork #83 (The Bill Jay's Best of EndNotes issue)
unlike the previous five generations of the Hubble, this space telescope had no barrel, or any connecting material at all between the six giant lenses. They floated independently, the rim of each lens equipped with multiple ion thrusters that could precisely adjust the distance between them or change the orientation of the entire group.
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
Using a Leica camera with a telephoto lens on a tripod, Horvat took several thirty-second exposures so that the architecture and some people would be still, and the moving crowd would blur. By using this technique, Horvat appears to underscore the physical movement and the transient nature of the environment as well as the moments spent within it. ... See more
Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris
Acratech makes plates specifically for the a7 II camera body; it allows free movement of the tilting monitor. The plate has a lip that engages the front surface of the camera body and prevents it from rotating.