News entries for October, 2012

 

 

It's Halloween, and Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, tumblr and other social networking sites are full of photos -- and sometimes even how-to videos -- that show off everyone's costume creations. And, of course, being photo-minded, we were drawn to several camera and photography costumes that range from the ingenius to...

Late last week, Microsoft's released the latest version of its Windows operating system to the public. Windows 8 brings many changes to the user interface and the underlying architecture, many of them aimed at promoting use on mobile devices such as tablets.

As is often the case with major OS updates, Windows 8's new features are...

 

 

NASA/NOAA's GOES satellites have done a spectacular job of capturing shots of of Hurricane Sandy from space. Now here's a stunning video that puts many of those images together in an animated time-lapse showing the inception and path of Sandy from water to landfall.

The animation was created with shots from...

Among digital SLRs, there are two kinds of good. There's the good that makes you think it's time to trade your old SLR in for a newer model, and there's the good that has you seriously considering selling your existing lenses and accessories, and jumping ship to a different lens mount.

On paper, at least, the Pentax K-30 manages the...

I did a fair amount of shooting before, during and after Hurricane Sandy and I wish I'd had the good sense to bring along a decent rain cover for my camera. (Luckily, my camera survived, though many trees in my neighborhood did not.)

Here's a very interesting looking dry bag for digital SLRs and compact system cameras that would have been great to use during a...

 

Jey Kelbley, Senior Marketing Manager, Digital Imaging, Samsung Electronics

Imaging Resource's founder and publisher Dave Etchells and Senior Editor Shawn Barnett recently sat down for a conversation with Jay Kelbley, Senior Marketing Manager for Digital Imaging at Samsung Electronics. Topics for discussion included...

 

 

One of my favorite photography stories is about one of the world’s first travel shoots. It's a little-known, true-life adventure that puts Indiana Jones to shame. I discovered the tale years ago at a flea market when I bought an old, yellowed paperback titled "Flaubert in Egypt."
 
The book is composed of...

 

 

Hurricane Sandy walloped New York City and the upper Atlantic coast yesterday, and along with leaving a trail of devastation in its wake it brought thousands of incredible photos showing the destructive power of Mother Nature.

We scoured government agency websites and social networks to compile the following...

 

 

An update to Google's popular Android mobile operating system announced today brings a variety of new features, and comes accompanied by new Nexus-branded hardware on which to run the operating system. Key among the additions for photographers, though, will be Google's interesting new panorama function, which...

 

 

Camera bag specialist Think Tank Photo has just announced three new products due to launch imminently: the Glass Limo, Retrospective 40, and Retrospective 50.

The trio are all set to ship sometime in November 2012, and while you can't yet place a pre-order, the Think Tank Photo website does let you sign up to be...

 

 

In our final video from PhotoPlus 2012, Imaging-Resource.com founder Dave Etchells and Managing Editor Roger Slavens met with Philip Berne of Samsung to get a first look at the Samsung Galaxy Camera, with its impressive Android Jelly Bean interface.

As...

 

 

Panasonic makes an excellent pair of Micro Four Thirds pancake lenses, the Lumix G 14mm f/2.5 Asph. and Lumix G 20mm f/1.7 Asph. While they look similar, there are several differences.

The optical formulas of the two lenses are quite different from each other, for example, as you can see in the diagrams...

Here's a seriously impressive photo of Hurricane Sandy captured from the NOAA-NASA GOES-13 satellite yesterday.

There are no words that quite describe the power of nature as this single image does.

(Via Laughing Squid)

 

NOAA's GOES-13 satellite captured this visible image of the massive Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 28 at...

 

 

As everyone knows, big, bad Hurricane Sandy is in the process of walloping the East Coast but these photos of an emptied out New York City show the (panicked) calm before the storm.

They're photos of some of New York's busiest transit hubs including Grand Central Station, Penn Station, and various subway...

 

 

Last week at PhotoPlus 2012, Imaging-Resource.com founder Dave Etchells and Managing Editor Roger Slavens caught up with Chuck Westfall of Canon USA to see the Canon 6D's built-in WiFi feature in action.

Not only is the Canon 6D a reasonably affordable full-frame digital SLR, it also includes a built-in...

 

 

Back in mid-2011, Panasonic launched its tiny Lumix GF3, nicely demonstrating the size advantage of mirrorless over SLR cameras. This year's Panasonic GF5 takes that design and swaps in an improved sensor, faster image processor, higher-resolution touch screen display, and a raft of other tweaks.

Key among...

 

 

If driving around trying to find places to buy and process film using the Kodak app we reported on earlier today doesn't seem like your idea of fun, then perhaps a new iPhone app from Alien Skin software will be more your cup of tea.

If you like to fiddle with your images in post-processing, chances are...

 

 

35mm film might not entirely have gone the way of the dodo, but it's certainly seen more popular days. There are still more than a few photographers who refuse to entirely retire their film cameras, though. For them, it can be a little tricky finding places to buy film any more, let alone to get it...

 

 

IR founder Dave Etchells and Managing Editor Roger Slavens are in New York at the PDN PhotoPlus Expo, and they've captured a video of the brand-new Nikon V2 mirrorless camera in action.

Beyond its radical new styling, the Nikon V2 sports quite a few other changes from the earlier V1 model. There's a new control...