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Blackstone Wants To Sell Its 45% Stake In Leica

Austria’s Kaufmann family, whose vehicle ACM owns a 55 percent stake in Leica, brought in buyout group Blackstone as a co-investor in 2011. Reuters is now reporting that Blackstone is in talks with potential...

Ji-hee Lee’s Paper Vintage Cameras

couple of days ago, we looked at magazine ads for film cameras. For some of you, it must have been a nostalgic journey back to your beginnings in photography. Today, we look at more classic and vintage cameras, but...

Pluto Flyover from the New Horizons Spacecraft

he New Horizons spacecraft was launched in 2006 and shot past Pluto at a speed of about 80,000 kilometers per hour in July 2015. Recently, many images from this spectacular passage have been color enhanced and digitally...

“Retro” Camera Ads

hose of us who lived during the times of the film SLRs remember that these times were indeed exciting as we waited for the next film SLR model, with better features and functionality. Camera manufacturers numbered in...