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This Week in Photography: Canon's Unexpected Retro Camera, Inverted Color Film, and a $218K Award

This week on The Photo Files: Canon stole the show at CP+ 2026 with a concept camera that looks like it time-traveled from 1963, Harman dropped a wild new film stock that inverts color in ways that will make your head spin, the Ricoh GR IV Monochrome is shipping, and the world's biggest photography prize has a new winner. Big week for both digital and film photographers — let's get into it. 🎬 IN THIS EPISODE Canon Analog Concept Camera Canon showed up to CP+ in Yokohama with something nobody expected — a palm-sized box camera with a waist-level optical viewfinder and fully manual focus. The Analog Concept Camera uses a dual-mirror system: light enters the lens, bounces up into the viewfinder, and when you shoot, a second mirror flips down and redirects the image onto the sensor. You're essentially photographing an image that's already been reflected twice — and Canon is leaning into the softness and dreaminess that creates. Two designs are on show, a rugged Model A and a cleaner Model B, and Canon is actually asking the public to vote on which direction to take it. No price, no release date, no guarantee it ever ships — but the reaction on the floor and online has been enormous. FILM CORNER: Harman Switch Azure Harman — the UK company behind Ilford and the Phoenix line — just released Switch Azure, a new ISO 125 color film available now in 35mm and 120. The colors switch: blues render as orange, yellows go azure, reds shift to purple, and skin tones go blue. It processes in standard C-41 and costs around $13 for 35mm — but here's the thing: the results look noticeably different depending on your scanner. Harman shows a side-by-side on their product page of the same negative on a Fuji Frontier versus a Noritsu, and they look like almost entirely different films. There's also a deeper technical reason for that variability worth discussing — and we go into it. I've been watching what other photographers are doing with it online, and Yvonne Hanson's nighttime results are the best I've seen so far. I'm planning to run it through my half frame, full frame, and medium format cameras — stay tuned for that. Quick Hits The Ricoh GR IV Monochrome is now shipping at $2,199 — $700 more than the standard GR IV — with a dedicated monochrome sensor, no color filter array, sharper detail, cleaner tonal gradation, and ISO up to 409,600. If you shoot black and white and you've wanted a dedicated camera for it, this is now the most accessible option on the market. The Hasselblad Award — the world's largest photography prize at around $218,000 — has gone to South African photographer and visual activist Zanele Muholi, whose portrait work documenting Black queer communities in South Africa spans more than two decades. A major solo exhibition opens at the Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg in October. Look up the work if you're not already familiar with it. The Bigger Picture In the same week, Canon showed a camera designed to produce imperfect images, Harman released a film built around unpredictable color, and Ricoh put out a camera that shoots no color at all. The Fujifilm X Half has been a genuine hit, film sales keep climbing, and Fujifilm is reportedly building new Instax production lines — which may also explain why Velvia and Provia have been harder to find lately. Younger photographers who never shot film are actively choosing limitation: fewer frames, colors they can't predict, a process they can't immediately review and redo. At a moment when a smartphone can produce a technically flawless image in any light, the things that feel human and irreversible are starting to matter more, not less. 📎 REFERENCE LINKS Canon Analog Concept Camera Digital Camera World: https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/ca... DPReview: https://www.dpreview.com/articles/122... PetaPixel CP+ Roundup: https://petapixel.com/2026/03/01/the-... Harman Switch Azure Official Harman product page: https://www.harmanphoto.co.uk/harman-... Ricoh GR IV Monochrome Official Ricoh page: https://us.ricoh-imaging.com/product/... DPReview launch: https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/rico... Zanele Muholi / Hasselblad Award PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2026/03/06/sout... ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:00 — Opening 0:14 — Canon Analog Concept Camera 1:24 — Film Corner: Harman Switch Azure 3:11 — Quick Hits: Ricoh GR IV Monochrome 3:41 — Quick Hit: Hasselblad Award / Zanele Muholi 4:05 — The Bigger Picture 5:08 — Next Week + Upcoming Videos 5:39 — Roger's Switch Azure Plans & Kodak Gold 200 Preview 6:01 — Outro #photography #filmphotography #canon #harman #ricoh #cameranews #analogphotography #filmisnotdead #ThePhotoFiles #CP2026 #SwitchAzure #GRIVMonochrome