Photo Review

Photo Review was privileged to be able to interview Mr Masaya Maeda during our visit to Canon's headquarters in the Shimomaruko area of Tokyo on 8 February. At the time of the interview, Canon had just announced total consolidated net sales for 2010 reached almost 3707 billion Yen and represented growth of 15.5% over the previous year.

Photo Review was one of two Australian magazines whose technical journalists were invited to join a party of representatives from leading Australian and New Zealand retail chains on a visit to the Oita Canon factory on 7 February, 2011.

Fountain pens have long appealed to me. In fact, this editorial started out as a series of disconnected thoughts and notes jotted down on the back of an envelope with a cheap, but functional, midnight blue plastic model.

The quiet, unobtrusive nature of change struck me recently when, on returning from an extended overseas trip, I realised that for the first time ever I had not packed an analogue camera of any description. On further reflection, it occurred to me that more than a year had passed since last I dropped a roll of film into my trusty vintage Nikon FM.

One of the questions I get asked most frequently is ‘should I buy a digital camera now, or wait until the prices drop some more?'. There is no short or easy answer to such a question. Instead, one has first to find out in some detail what sort of photography the potential digital camera buyer thinks they want to do. Then you need to know the state of their computer hardware and finally, what sort of budget they have to work with. At every stage you have to be asking yourself if analogue pho...

Unlike its hard edged, high contrast counterpart in Australia, the Golden State's sunshine often has a kind of warm, enveloping quality that seems ever so subtly to open up the shadows and soften the highlights. Perhaps it's something to do with the cold Pacific Ocean which every summer creates dense fogs along the coast for weeks at a time. Or maybe it's the ever present photochemical haze created by car exhaust and, in some cases, the vegetation on California's chapparal clad hills. Whateve...

Photography news highlights from 2008.

Contact, Photographs from the Australian War Memorial Collection is a powerful collection of some 200 images drawn from The Australian War Memorial's collection of 900,000 photographs of Australians at war. Written and assembled by the AWM's Curator of Photographs, Dr Shaune Lakin, Contact is not just another collection of stodgy official war photographs. Instead it sets out to illustrate how photography was used both to record and portray Australians at war.