News entries for January, 2013

If you're shooting with a Pentax interchangeable-lens camera made in the last few years, there's a good chance the company has released new firmware for you, among a raft of updates today.

The new firmware covers no less than five different K-mount digital SLRs, as well as the K-01 compact system camera. In all cases, there's only one...

 

 

We've posted quite a few amazing underwater photography videos here before but this story might be the most unbelievable yet.

In the clip (embedded below), National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen talks about his encounter with one of Antartica's most vicious predators, the Leopard Seal.

On assignment in...

What, precisely, defines a premium compact camera? For many photographers, it's the presence of a larger image sensor than is typical of most compacts, the better with which to grab as much light as possible. It's an understandable point of view -- photography is all about capturing light, after all -- but it's perhaps a rather narrow...

Tired of aiming your camera, pressing the shutter button, and then finding out that your subject has already left the building before you got their photo? That's the problem Fuji aims to tackle with its latest compact travel zoom, the Fuji F900EXR. Thanks to the pairing of an EXR-CMOS II image sensor and an EXR Processor II CPU, the Fuji...

 

 

A month or so ago, IR's Dan Havlik reported on 10 early color photographs of Paris and, to all our surprise, it turns out there are more: a total of 85 in all at the “Paris 1914” website.
 
These are more softly colored Autochrome images that remind me of the first time I saw Paris. It was through the scratched...

 

 

We here at IR thought Fujifilm's X-Trans sensor was one of the top camera tech innovations of 2012. Now, in the figurative blink of an eye, the company has turned around and launched the X-Trans II sensor plus two new, exciting X-series cameras at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show. IR founder and editor-in-chief...

 

 

This photo essay is a few years old but it's a great how-to for anyone who has dreamed about having their own little darkroom right in their backyard.

Photographer Dave Miller didn't have a spare room in his house to convert into a darkroom so he decided to do "a garden makeover incorporating a shed."

At...

There are a lot of rugged, weather-sealed digital cameras to choose from these days, but to date they've pretty-much all shared an Achilles heel. To charge them, you've had to open the camera up, adding a little wear and tear to the weather-sealing and perhaps introducing some dirt or debris in the process. The Pentax WG-3 GPS is, we...

 

 

Our review for the Sony A77 has languished in an almost-finished status for months now, but we've finally tied it off. Or at least we have until we hear back from Sony on a significant video AF issue we encountered.

You can check the video page of our Sony A77 review for the details, but the gist of it is that...

 

 

It's baaack. Only a week after being kicked out of the Apple App Store for allegedly featuring "pornographic images," popular photo sharing app 500px was available once again for the iPhone and the iPad.

It was unclear exactly what has changed in the 500px app that allowed it to return to the Apple app store but,...

 

 

Celebrity photographer Mark Seliger always has interesting and eclectic guests on his YouTube show CAPTURE, and this week's episode is no exception. On the show (embedded below), Seliger interviews Russian dance legend Mikhail "Misha" Baryshnikov, who's also a photographer.

Baryshnikov discusses what it's like...

January has been quite the month for Nikon. The company already announced two new 1-series mirrorless cameras and a Coolpix compact just prior to the Consumer Electronics Show, and now it's followed up with seven more cameras for the largest photography show in its home market -- the annual CP+ Camera and Imaging Show. That's a total of...

 

 

In advance of the CP+ Camera & Imaging Show in Japan this week, Canon unveiled three new PowerShot pocket digital cameras -- two ELPHs and one A-series entry-level model. The Canon PowerShot ELPH 330 HS replaces the popular ELPH 320 HS, adding advanced WiFi connectivity and functionality, as well as doubling the...

 

 

We don't know about you but the radiator in our office keeps it crazy dry during the long winter months. Not only is it unpleasant -- cracked skin, anyone? -- the dry air can cause the nozzles in an inkjet photo printer to clog up.

Here's a fun solution with a photography theme: the USB Camera Lens Humidifier...

 

 

Called "the next generation in surveillance," the 1.8-gigapixel Argus is the world's highest definition camera and it just might be spying on you.

In the below clip from the PBS show NOVA, Yiannis Antoniades, director of BAE Systems and one of the creators of Argus, discusses the über-definition camera, saying it...

 

 

No one was voted into Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame this year, mainly due to the taint of performance enhancing drugs. But when it came to adding another model to the pantheon of legendary DSLRs, the Canon 5D Mark III -- introduced last spring -- earned IR's full support in just its first year of...

 

 

That problem with the Nikon D600 accumulating dust or oil on its image sensor lessens the more you shoot with the digital SLR but it doesn't seem to completely go away, recent testing shows.

"The dust is still building up, but the accumulation of new dust spots has slowed, and the spots that do show up are not...

 

 

We recently shared early color photographs of Paris and Russia and now here are a few more images showing another part of old Europe in color: Ireland in 1913. These photos were captured by Marguerite Mespoulet and Madeleine Mignon-Alba, two French women who documented Ireland in 1913 as part of an international...

 

 

"Hurley is a warrior with his camera, and would go anywhere or do anything to get a picture."
-- Lionel Greenstreet, First Officer of the Expedition Ship Endurance.
 
"Mad" Frank Hurley was a photographer who by any measure was bigger than life. Compared to him, Mad Max was just an out-of-work traffic cop in a...