SLRs didn't have leaf shutters in the film days either. There's a few reasons for that. Firstly leaf shutters tend not to allow high shutter speeds unless you want massive vignetting, generally ...

The purpose of a shutter is to control the amount of light reaching the image sensor. Back in the days of film, mechanical shutters were the only option and there were only two types: focal plane and ...

Mamiya have announced their latest digital camera, and if you're a slave to megapixels then you won't be disappointed. The Mamiya DM40, as the name suggests, has a 40-megapixel sensor with a new "DF" ...

To think, it's been the better part of five months since Phase One teased us with some professional-grade photography equipment, and here to satiate our cravings yet again is the new 645DF medium ...

Leica's new DSLR, the S2, has 37.5 megapixels. When I read that, I actually shouted out loud. "What?!" Upon further reading, though, I saw that the sensor onto which these pixels have been affixed is ...

The Mamiya Leaf Sekor 120mm F4.0 AF Macro ($4,290) is a sharp macro lens for Phase One and Mamiya Leaf medium format camera systems. Its field of view is roughly equivalent to a 90mm lens on a 35mm ...

Leaf-shutter lenses exist for flash use on focal-plane-shutter medium-format SLRs, with shutter speeds up to 1/1600s @ f/2.8; so they'd be possible for small-format cameras - possibly with full TTL ...