LIKE a lot of professionals, Laura Pannack isn't crazy about modern cameras. Granted, the London-based photographer keeps an iPhone in her pocket for the occasional snapshot, but really she likes nothing more than to take out her well-worn Hasselblad and hear the satisfying pah-clunk of a mechanical shutter. "As an artist and a photographer, I do believe in embracing new mediums," she says. "But, to be honest, I use old technology more than new."
With cameras, though, what counts as old is relative. Pannack's camera phone and Hasselblad may be separated by several decades of innovation, but they have more in common than most gadgets spanning this timescale. Both focus light into an image using a series of glass lenses, like every other camera on the market. Whether that image is then captured on film or on the latest smartphone's digital ...
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