News entries for May, 2013

How tall would you guess the world's loftiest tripod to be? If you guessed a little over a thousand feet, you're certainly in the ballpark -- read on to see if you hit the nail on the head! (And if not, better luck next time.)

A little over a year ago, a record-breaking new tower dubbed the Tokyo Skytree was officially opened in the Japanese...

It's a bit of an open secret: printer manufacturers and online photofinishers love scrapbookers. In an age where many of us print few if any of our photos, simply viewing them on our high-def TVs, computers, tablets, and smartphones, the scrapbooking community is still out there printing away, and creating very tactile ways to share...

It's been a few years now since the Photo Marketing Association called curtains on its once-mighty annual PMA Spring trade show, later resurrected as a subset of the heavyweight Consumer Electronics Show. Today, news reaches us of another annual trade show that is no more, and this time it's Europe's largest annual photo show....

Consumer photographers looking for a new tool to organize, edit, and share their photos have a new option today, with the release of an updated version of Canadian software company ACD Systems' popular ACDSee photo app on the Windows platform. ACDSee 16 builds on its predecessor  with helpful new tools across the board, from import to...

In the last few days, new firmware has been released for no less than nine digital camera models, and with manufacturers working hard to provide reasons to shoot with a dedicated camera instead of your smartphone, the flood of updates -- both fixing bugs and in some cases adding new features -- isn't likely to let up any time soon.

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Over the last few months, Fujifilm has been putting an impressive effort into ensuring third-party developers' algorithms were optimized for its X-Trans sensor format, answering the concerns of its users that third-party apps offered inadequate image quality with X-Trans raw data. Today, Fuji adds another developer to the list, after...

 

 

A breakthrough in sensor technology could radically alter the way our cameras perform in low light -- but like any just published scientific research, there's a long and bumpy road before it reaches the consumer.

Researchers at the Nanyang Technological University have developed a new type of graphene light...

 

 

Oh yeah, it's Friday, baby! The weekend is almost here and to put everyone in even better spirits, we've found a great selection of camera deals including a crazy price for a Canon 1D X, other deals on Canon cameras, Adobe software and Amazon's usual Friday Lightning Deals on photo gear. 

• Canon 1D X Body Only...

Do you count horticulture alongside photography as favorite pursuits? If so, you might be interested to know that you can now combine the two, thanks to a new Kickstarter project from the Massachusetts-based Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science. Chances are that you're already aware infrared photography fans sometimes have...

 

 

The French photography magazine PHOTO recently devoted its entire May issue to 85-year-old American photographer and iconoclast William Klein. Born in New York City in 1928, Klein has mostly lived in Paris since 1948, which has done little to endear him in America. His photography was labeled outright un-American...

 

 

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Larry C. Price has been working on a powerful and poignant photo project documenting child labor around the world. He recently secured grant funding from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting in Washington, D.C. and completed another segment in the project, this time...

 

 

In our time covering photography news, we've seen plenty of 360-degree "bullet time" images; stop motion films; and light-painted photos. But it takes something special to combine all three, and to do it with human subjects, too. That's exactly what Eric Paré has done with LightSpin. Created with the TimeCode Lab,...

 

 

In what is, perhaps, another sign of the times for newspaper-based photojournalism, the Chicago Sun-Times has laid off its entire photography staff, according to reports. Anywhere between 20-30 full-time photo staffers at the Sun-Times got the news about their termination this morning.

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One of the fun things with cheapo film cameras is that you can play with, modify, and nearly destroy them without feeling bad. One such modification is the dual-lensed Janus camera, which while it might not work very well, certainly shows off an awful lot of innovation and what you can learn from an experimental...

 

 

Time for another batch of great camera deals, bargains and discounts. This morning we've rounded up lots of deals on DSLRs from Canon and Nikon, as well as savings on a Samsung compact system camera and a Sigma lens. Deals change or expire quickly and we're always finding new bargains, so be sure to check back...

Tired of lugging your big, bulky tripod everywhere you go, just in case a photo opportunity presents itself that demands a shutter speed beyond the realm of the hand-holdable? Monopod just doesn't provide the stability you need? Perhaps it's time for a new travel tripod: Italian camera support specialist Manfrotto just launched its...

If you like to take full advantage of the manual capabilities of your interchangeable-lens camera to unleash your artistic side, Korean lens manufacturer Samyang Optics has just announced a new creation that's likely to picque your interest. Over the last few years, Samyang has built a good reputation for providing affordable, completely...

Adobe's new Creative Cloud product suite has proven pretty divisive since its announcement three weeks ago, and the company has today made a new statement addressing three of the main concerns: pricing and the subscription model, the all-or-nothing approach to apps, and file access should you decide to cancel your subscription.

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Earlier this month, we shared a video where a lightning bolt struck the ocean during a pivotal moment in a wedding ceremony. Now here's another wedding disaster caught on tape. Watch the below video, captured by Remedy Films, where an entire wedding party falls into a lake in Georgia during a photo shoot when the...