News entries for August, 2013

Last April, we mentioned Red Bull's Illume contest in our coverage of the company's incredibly cool wakeboarding-and-light-painting photo shoot. Red Bull Illume is an action and adventure-themed photo contest that takes place every three years, and the latest round of winners have just been announced at a ceremony in Hong Kong.

If...

Apologies for the tardiness of our weekly Firmware Friday update today. A few technical issues mean we're a few hours later than planned in getting the article online, but we're back running on all cylinders now.

This week, we have updates for no less than eleven cameras to report on, but most share the same changes, so they'll be...

 

 

In the eternal war of one-upmanship that is the wedding-industrial complex, everyone wants their wedding to be the most unique and special thing ever imagined. And every photographer who has worked a wedding knows that that applies to them too. Well, how's this for something that you probably haven't seen at...

The Nokia Lumia 1020 launched to much excitement earlier this year, thanks to its large 41-megapixel sensor. Nokia has been doing a big push on marketing its smartphone as a camera for taking excellent photos, and it has teamed up with National Geographic for a photoshoot around the Grand Canyon.

NatGeo photographer Stephen Alvarez...

 

 

Happy Friday! We've got a long weekend coming up (it's Labor Day on Monday for the U.S. and Canada), and hopefully everyone can take time to go out and take some photos. To help you get in the mood, we've found a great selection of camera and photo gear deals for you this morning, including savings on gear from...

Yahoo, parent company of Flickr, clearly has big plans for its photo sharing service. The company has been making some pretty radical changes over the last few months, including revamping its site, boosting storage to a whopping terabyte free for each user, and hiring an ex-Google exec to head up the service. It's also been acquiring...

Snap quiz: What do lightning striking, balloons bursting, and skittish animals have in common? If you guessed that you'd need quick reflexes to get a picture of them, you hit the nail squarely on the head. A new product called the Nero Trigger aims to help you get those tricky shots, by eliminating your reaction time from the equation....

 

 

Earlier this week we showed images and video of the Rim Fire that is currently devastating Northern California and Yosemite National Park. Today we saw another video, this time filmed and published by the Yosemite park staff, that gives us a broader look at how the fire is raging. This time-lapse video, shot from...

 

 

Judging by the actions of camera manufacturers of late, it appears we're in the midst of something of a backlash against the optical low-pass, anti-aliasing filter. Long used to reduce moiré in photos and video at the slight cost of sharpness, more and more digital cameras are now shipping with the low-pass filter...

 

 

Happy Thursday everyone! We've found a great set of new deals, including some great prices on Nikon, Canon and Sony cameras, as well as on a pancake Canon STM lens. We also discovered an awesome bargain on a Canon inkjet photo printer, as well as a big discount on DxO Optics Pro 8 software. Lastly, Adorama has a...

 

 

The latest camera to be put through its paces in the IR Lab is the much-talked-about Panasonic GX7, and we've published First Shots taken with the mirrorless compact system camera for you to examine. The GX7 follows in the footsteps of its predecessor, 2011's Panasonic GX1, and like that camera, its mission is to...

Last June, Samsung announced the Galaxy NX, the world's first camera to combine the smarts of an Android device with the interchangeable-lens design of a mirrorless camera. Today, the company has revealed pricing for the Galaxy NX, which will be available either body-only or in a bundle with an 18-55mm lens.

When it ships this October,...

Alongside its new flash and lens announcements yesterday, more news from imaging giant Ricoh -- owner of the Pentax brand -- slipped under the radar. The company has also issued an updated version of its Pentax K-mount lens roadmap.

The main change on the new roadmap is pretty straightforward. In light of yesterday's announcements, the...

Don't let the PEN moniker fool you. The Olympus E-P5 not only outshines its PEN predecessor, the E-P3, but also in a few ways outpaces its older, acclaimed cousin, the OM-D E-M5. Though the E-P5 and E-M5 boast a lot of the same advanced photographic capabilities -- thanks to their shared 16-megapixel Four Thirds Live MOS imager -- the new...

 

 

While the world may seem stacked against film photographers, every now and then there's a glimmer of good news. The folks at Ilford, makers of black-and-white film and papers, have opened up a lab in California, and will turn their expertise to developing and printing your film for you.

While the lab will print...

 

 

It seems like the last year or so has seen an explosion of incredible photos and video captured by aerial drones. The convergence of affordable remote-control drones, cheap, light and high-quality video recorders, and excellent stabilization means it doesn't take much to be able to send a hexacopter skywards to...

 

 

It's a new day, and that means new deals on cameras, lenses and more! We've found a nice mixed selection of gear bargains today, with great discounts on Canon, Panasonic and GoPro cameras. In the lens department, we've uncovered bargains on Canon, Rokinon and Bower lenses for both DSLRs and Micro Four Thirds...

 

 

A few weeks ago, we gave you a sneak peek by publishing beta First Shots taken with a pre-production model of the Canon 70D, but we now have the final version of the hot DSLR in the IR Lab, and we've posted new test images for you to analyze. Like many of you,...

For a while now, we've been asking Pentax when it would offer weather-sealed flash strobes. Dust and water-resistant sealing is available in varying degrees across much of Pentax's product line, including camera bodies, lenses, grips, and remote controls, but external strobes have been the one chink in the company's weather-sealed armor....