News entries for February, 2013

 

 

We've told you about cameras disguised as juice boxes; cameras hidden in turn-of-the-century pocket watches; and disguised as smiley face buttons, and sunglasses; so we'd be remiss if we didn't tell you about this sweet new imaging product: doughnut camera!

Made in Japan (of course), these PVC-coated,...

 

 

With the recent widespread coverage of the use of drones both at home and abroad, a number of states have enacted legislation to restrict their use. A new bill up before the New Hampshire House of Representatives would not only strictly control how drones are used, but might end up rendering aerial photography all...

 

 

The Instagram photo meme of the day is a fun and sexy series of images of a photographer being led around the world by his girlfriend. Called "Follow Me To," the travel series is by Russian photographer Murad Osmann, showing him taking the hand of his girlfriend as they visit a variety of exotic (and familiar)...

Last month, Pentax released updated firmware for many of its digital SLRs, as well as the K-01 compact system camera. Even bearing in mind the fact that each update had the same basic goal -- to improve support for contrast-detection AF with the company's brand new HD Pentax DA 560mm F5.6 ED lens -- it must still have required a fairly...

One of the key attractions of Sigma's fixed-lens and single-lens reflex digital cameras -- beyond their full-color Foveon image sensors, of course -- has long been the image editing software with which they're bundled. Sigma Photo Pro was a powerful yet intuitive photographer-centric tool long before the likes of mainstream photo apps...

 

 

Snapping pictures of high-speed action —  like these diabolical exploding cameras —  usually requires some fairly extensive equipment. You generally need laser triggers or high end components to fire your camera with enough speed to catch such fleeting action. But photographer Oriol Domingo figured out an ingenious...

 

 

We've met quite a few camera collectors in our day but few seem as passionate about their hobby as the subject of this short documentary clip titled, simply, "The Collector."

In the lovingly shot black-and-white video -- which was captured with a Nikon D800 and a bevy of Nikkor prime lenses -- the collector, who...

It's been more than a year now since Canon's PowerShot S100 first hit the market, but the company is still showing the premium compact -- and its owners -- some love with a new firmware update that aims to resolve control problems with the camera's lens ring. Much the same problem is also fixed in a simultaneous firmware release for the...

 

 

Adobe Photoshop Touch has been wildly successful on the iPad and Android tablets, and now the app has been redesigned for even smaller screens, in an edition specifically crafted for smartphones. Unsurprisingly named “Adobe Photoshop Touch for phone,” the shrunken version of the app packs the same controls as the...

 

 

Noell S. Oszvald does not want to be called a photographer, claiming she's "not yet one" in a message to Imaging Resource when we contacted her about her work. While the 22-year-old, Hungarian artist is, perhaps, being modest, the reaction to her surreal, black-and-white self-portrait photos has not been.

After...

It's one of the dark marks of the U.S. Government in the 20th century — a complete willingness to expose unwitting citizens to dangerous substances in the name of scientific advancement. It happened with the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, with the MKUltra mind control project and with the atomic bomb testing of the 1940s and 50s. The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) knew that...

 

 

Let's say you want to learn a little more about how to use Photoshop -- and who doesn't need some extra help? -- but you can't get to your local photography store, school or learning center to take a class. Or let's say you're a struggling photographer who simply can't afford some of those classes in the first...

Washington Post photographer Tracy Woodward’s photo “State Champion” is a tremendous image of a High School wrestler triumphing over a downed opponent in a state wrestling tournament in Virginia. It was an image powerful enough to receive the Award of Excellence in the 2013 White House News Photographers Association "Eyes of History" contest. But that award has since been...

If you're shooting with a Fujifilm X-Trans-based camera, or a recent model that's not yet supported by Photoshop Camera Raw or Lightroom, there's good news from Adobe today. New release candidate versions of both applications aim to improve the quality of X-Trans demosaicing, and also add support for nine new cameras from Canon, Casio,...

Late last year, Denmark's Phase One A/S released a major update to its flagship imaging utility, Capture One Pro. Among other things, the new version brought a ground-up rethink of asset management, and an overhauled raw processing engine. Now, much of that flagship goodness trickles down to the company's consumer offering, the much more...

 

 

Pentax Japan's website has a new addition to its "Discontinued Model Lineup": the barely more-than-a-year-old Pentax K-01 compact system camera. Announced in early February 2012, the 16-megapixel K-01 immediately made waves with its unusual form factor, created by famed designer Marc Newson, and its compatibility...

 

 

A dispute between a photographer who runs a popular photo blog and a major fashion designer seems to have ended amicably with a big donation by the designer to the photographer's charity.

Brandon Stanton who runs Humans of New York, a blog that features his street portraits of New Yorkers, was incensed that...

 

 

Every year, the Imaging Resource staff has a lively debate about our favorite digital cameras of the year, and we've sometimes even shared our thoughts on the matter with readers. But we've never handed out formal awards to our top picks. That is, until now.

For our inaugural Camera of the Year Awards, we...

Last year's Sony Alpha NEX-F3 mirrorless camera revisited the earlier NEX-C3 design, adding both a built-in flash and a self-portrait friendly tilting LCD, but unfortunately also added significantly to the camera's weight and size. Now, the Sony NEX-3N -- recently launched in Europe -- has been unveiled in the US market, and while it's a...