Wasim Ahmad

As a photojournalism professor, one of the questions I get asked most by beginning photographers is, "What camera should I buy?" As if there's a single, definitive answer to that. The answer I always give is: What do you want to do? There's a camera out there for everyone, and here's a guide for what to look for when you're starting out. The big question that one had to ask 10-15 years ago was whether you wanted to shoot video or photos with your camera.

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When I was a young photo student studying in college, my professor gave us a scavenger hunt for photography of sorts. One of the categories was "shoot from the hip." I thought it was strange, but in hindsight, it was prescient advice.

Utkarsh Kumar Wasim Ahmad Gazi Salah Uddin First published: 09 April 2024 Abstract

It's been a few days since a swath of the United States was engulfed by the solar eclipse. Internet traffic dropped drastically as everyone turned their (protected) eyes to the sky.

In 2019, I wrote about how I would never quit full-frame DSLRs . Back then, I complained about mirrorless cameras for wonky bodies and mediocre autofocus. Today, I'm eating crow.

The title of this article makes it seem like I'm heaping some sort of superlative description upon what is, more or less, a typical Zink-based printer that doesn't require ink or cartridges. And when it comes to this, the $129 HP Sprocket 3x4 Instant Photo Printer, I am. Well, more or less. Zink-based printers offer many similarities, but also differ from the typical dye-sub printers in this price point. The ink is embedded into the paper and is brought out in only one pass to produce an image (instead of the four for typical dye-sub printers).

Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-56478-4 , published online 14 March 2024

I’ve often said there’s not a bad camera on the market today. At this point, that logic is starting to apply to 360 cameras as well. Though there are no bad cameras — and the PanoX V2 is included in that — there are also cameras that may be more worth your hard-earned money. And that’s the dilemma that the PanoX V2 finds itself in. PanoX itself is a sub-brand of Labpano, makers of high-end 360 panoramic cameras. The $399 Panox V2 is the first real stab at the consumer market by PanoX. True, Labpano had the earlier PilotPano, but it didn’t really catch on.

Your social media feeds have probably been full of purple and green night skies that last few days if you're almost anywhere in the United States, or if you have U.S.-based friends. Chances are, they got a good glimpse of and possibly photographed a rare event: Northern Lights.