The Cameras

Every photograph on Lux Forma comes from one of three cameras, each a different answer to the question of how a picture gets made, and each one the world has mostly moved past.

Canon New F-1 →
A professional mechanical SLR from 1981, fed with Tri-X, Portra, Kodak Gold and other 35mm stocks, developed and scanned.

Ricoh GR Digital →
The original 2005 GRD1, an 8-megapixel CCD compact whose black and white files are published here exactly as the camera made them.

Sigma DP2 Merrill →
A 2012 oddity carrying the Foveon X3, the only sensor ever built in layers like film, its files developed by hand.