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Adobe adds impressive new AI technology to its Lightroom ecosystem

 
 

Adobe has announced significant updates to its entire Lightroom ecosystem, including the popular Lightroom on desktop, Lightroom Classic, and Adobe Camera Raw applications.

Many new features rely upon improved...

Leica announces M11 Monochrom, a 60-megapixel camera built for black and white photography

 
 

It's a glorious time for black-and-white photography enthusiasts. Hot on the heels of Ricoh announcing the Pentax K-3 Mark III MonochromeLeica has announced a new monochrome camera, the Leica M11 Monochrom.

The...

Sigma announces ultra-fast 24mm f/1.4 Art lens for full-frame DSLRs

Ahead of the CP+ show in Japan, Sigma, along with announcing the new dp0 Quattro camera, also debuted the newest addition to their lineup of Art-series lenses. The new 24mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art lens, designed for full-frame cameras, is the ninth Global Vision-designed Art lens.

This full-frame optic is an ultra-fast wide-angle lens, that's...

Wider than ever: Sigma dp0 Quattro’s new lens takes aim at architecture and landscape photographers


 
 

A year after Japanese camera and optics manufacturer Sigma launched a trio of unusual cameras whose unique sensor design was topped only by their strikingly different bodies, it returns with a fourth model for the family: the Sigma dp0 Quattro. A new, even wider-angle option than past Quattro cameras, the dp0...

Capture the cosmos: Nikon launches special D810A just for astrophotography

 
 

Some cameras cater to the needs of sports shooters or landscape photographers, but there's perhaps no more specialized niche than astophotography. Nevertheless, the niche appears big enough to interest Nikon, with the company set to introduce the D810A, a new astrophotography-specific variant of their popular ...

Nikon goes deep with the AW130 - rated to depths of 100 feet! Affordable S33 announced in tandem

 
 

Photographing deep dive sites like the Cayman Wall just became a lot more accessible to anyone wanting to tote along only a rugged compact thanks to the unveiling of Nikon's new Coolpix AW130. Where the other two primary specs for a rugged build - the shockproof and freezeproof ratings - remained virtually...

For long-zoom lovers - Nikon debuts updated P610 60x superzoom, S9900 30x travel zoom

 
 

Many members of Nikon's Coolpix family have undergone a refresh today, with the new Coolpix P610 (P610 vs P600) 60x superzoom and Coolpix S9900 (S9900 vs S9700) 30x travel zoom being two of the stand-out models. As these models are concerned, however, Nikon seems firmly in the "if it isn't broken, don't fix it"...

Pentax K-S2 targets the family photographer with handy mix of enthusiast, consumer-grade features

 
 

The division between consumer and enthusiast cameras is rather black and white, but we live in a world with many shades of grey. Chances are good that your camera is shared between multiple family members with different needs and skills, a fact that Ricoh acknowledges with the new 20-megapixel Pentax K-S2....

‘The Craftsmen’ takes an inside look at the passionate, gritty work of modern-day artisans

 
 

In this day and age, it’s not often we come across an object that was crafted by the hands of men and women. More often than not, our gadgets, toys, furniture and automobiles were fashioned via a computer-programmed machine, with minimal human interaction.

While this means of production isn’t bad by any means,...

Affinity Photo: a Mac-based Photoshop competitor that focuses on speed and precision

 
 

For Apple users, the choices for editing photos has long been Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom and Apple’s own Aperture. Aperture is no longer with us though, leaving only Adobe products as the most viable means to edit images. Software company Serif is looking to change that though, with their impending photo...

Fujifilm interview: Secrets of apodization, 5-stop IS, OLED EVFs with 5-millisecond lag (really?) and more!

All of our core readers will attest to the fact that we at IR love the various technologies lurking inside all those metal and carbon fiber shells that make up the cameras and lenses we use. And since that technology tends to get ever more complex with each passing year, we never grow tired of digging deeper in order to fulfill our (ahem, your) desire for more answers on...

Back to basics: understanding the fundamental techniques of portrait lighting

 
 

As enticing as it may be to dive head-first into portraiture, it’s important to know the basics of lighting a subject. Without these basics it's difficult to build a fundamental understanding of lighting for your own style to develop off of.

As part of their ‘Back to Basics’ video series, Brian Wilson of 500px...

Adobe Lightroom Mobile for iOS improves editing, presentation capabilities

 
 

Adobe has pushed out an impressive update to its Lightroom Mobile app for iPhone and iPad. Released under the 1.3 version number, the new and improved application provides a handful of features in addition to squishing a number of bugs from previous versions of Adobe Lightroom Mobile.

Feature-wise, Adobe...

Canon announces PowerShot SX 410 IS, ELPH 350 HS, teases G3 X

 
 

Canon has officially released their PowerShot SX 410 IS and ELPH 350 HS cameras, both of which make incremental improvements over their predecessors. In addition to the two new cameras, Canon is also hinting at development on the PowerShot G3 X, an upcoming point-and-shoot featuring a 1-inch sensor, similar to the...

Go big or go home: 50MP, full-frame Canon 5DS and 5DS R unveiled, world’s highest-res full-frame DSLRs

For those photographers yearning for oodles and oodles of resolution -- landscape, fine art, and magazine photographers come to mind -- Canon has come up with a solution -- two, in fact. The new Canon 5DS and Canon 5DS R sport an in-house designed and built 50.6-megapixel full-frame image sensor. The "R" model provides even more critical sharpness and detail by cancelling...

Canon Rebel T6s, T6i unveiled, offering advanced enthusiast-level features at affordable prices

 
 

Despite the Rebel family constituting Canon's consumer-line of DSLRs, the just-announced Canon Rebel T6s starts to cross the border into definite enthusiast-level territory. Superseding the "Txi" model name as the flagship Rebel camera, the new T6s introduces and incorporates some technology and features from the...

Canon debuts EF 11-24mm f/4L lens, the widest rectilinear full-frame lens on earth

 
 

Alongside their recently announced 50MP 5DS and 5DS R cameras, Canon has debuted a brand new ultra-wide angle L-series lens. The new EF 11-24mm f/4L lens is the latest member of Canon's 'f/4' family of L-series glass and is now the widest-angle rectilinear lens ever produced for full-frame DSLRs.

This premium,...

Apple releases developer preview of Photos, their iPhoto/Aperture replacement app

 
 

Today, Apple released the developer preview of Photos, their upcoming replacement app for iPhoto and Aperture. Not yet available to the public, this developer beta has been tested by a handful of publications, including The Verge, whose video we've shared below.

The developer preview release of Photos comes just...

Olympus OM-D E-M1 set to receive framerate-boosting 3.0 firmware update later this month

 
 

Alongside Olympus’s barrage of new products, they’ve also announced upgraded support for their older products as well. In particular, they’ve announced firmware version 3.0 for their OM-D E-M1 camera.

Set to be released later this month, the focal point of this firmware update is to boost the framerate of the...

Resolution Wars: Can a 16mp Four Thirds camera out-resolve a 36mp full frame?

 
 

The recently announced Olympus E-M5 Mark II makes a remarkable claim pertaining to high resolution imaging: the ability to capture a 40-megapixel "High-Resolution Shot" while in that mode. (We think it's safe to predict Mr. Spock's reaction to this.... "Indeed.")

We'll go ahead and caveat this news by saying that...

Olympus intros improved 14-150mm lens with weather-sealing, 8mm f/1.8 Fisheye Zuiko PRO lens in development

 
 

Alongside the newly announced E-M5 II, Olympus also announced a new and improved, highly versatile 14-150mm lens, as well as a development announcement of a new Zuiko PRO optic -- an 8mm f/1.8 fisheye lens.

The big feature with the new M.Zuiko ED 14-150mm f/4.0-5.6 II is the addition of full dust- and...

Samsung NX500 announced, basically crams an NX1 inside the NX300 and all for $800

 
 

For those tempted by the power and performance of the recently released Samsung NX1, but don't want or need a beefy, weather-sealed, DSLR-like camera body, Samsung now has the solution to your conundrum. 

Along comes the new Samsung NX500, which is essentially an NX1 crammed in the body of an NX300. Yes, even in...