Not all of James Bond's gadgets were fictional. In the 1969 movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Bond uses a strange-looking metal square to photograph supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld's secret ...

In photography, necessity has always been the mother of invention – and a number of very pressing needs gave rise to the Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex (TLR) camera, a design that survived for 70 years.

A short film about how economic interests have, throughout history, influenced how we use the camera — from the earliest photographs to today’s algorithms and AI. This visual essay expands on themes ...

This is the third in a multipart series by broadcast historian and former TV Tech Technology Editor James O'Neal. With the introduction of increasingly better and more reliable transistor types during ...