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Happy Friday! Here's hoping for a photography-filled weekend! We've got some great stuff for you all this morning, including a handful of price drops on cameras from Canon, Fujifilm and Panasonic. Also, there's a nice deal on a refurbished Nikon DSLR kit, plus a great price on a Timbuk2 camera backpack so you can...

In creating its entry-level Sony A58 DSLR, the consumer electronics giant took its well-regarded predecessor, the A57, added some significant tech upgrades -- most notably its new 20.1-megapixel APS-C sensor -- and then made just a few compromises to deliver the new model at a $200 lower price point. By doing so, the A58 effectively...

 

 

If summer feels unbearably hot to you, just try imagining you're totally nude in a winter forest in England with only a fox to keep you company. That's the scenario photographer Drew Gardner set up last March while capturing the dramatic image below using a Phase One medium-format camera system.

Gardner borrowed...

 

 

Street photography is a tricky business. It takes a certain amount of self-confidence to put yourself out into the public and photograph strangers. Photographer John Free is very accomplished at the art of street and documentary photography, and in the brief video below he lays out his best tips for helping people...

 

 

Trying to get your sensor as sharp as humanly possible seems to be a major theme in photography these days. Manufacturers produce the likes of the Nikon D800E, with its removed anti-aliasing filter for sharper images, or the black-and-white only Leica M Monochrom. Photographer Lasse Beyer took a page out of Leica's...

 

 

In our recent, hands-on preview of the 16-megapixel Panasonic Lumix GX7, we praised this mirrorless, compact system camera for its portable, rangefinder-like design and its bevy of features that rival many digital SLRs. In an excellent online commercial for this Micro Four Thirds-based street shooter, photographer...

 

 

Hwody folks, it's time for a new roundup of camera deals on this fine Thursday morning. Today we've found some great bargains on Canon gear, plus savings on Nikon and Samsung cameras. Browse through deals below, and be sure to check back regularly for more discounts and special offers!

• Canon EOS-M, 18-55mm IS...

One-click image correction of your iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch photos just got a boost, thanks to updated software today from iOS software developer Fresh Air Software.

The company licenses the technology used in Pictocolor's iCorrect plugins for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom on the desktop, and uses it to power its own iCorrect...

 

 

While Adobe's subscription-based Creative Cloud design software has drawn controversy since it was announced last May, it's hard to argue with some upcoming free online classes to help explain these complicated but important programs. From August 19th to 23rd, 11 experts in Adobe's Creative Cloud programs will be...

Ever had to send your photo gear in for repair? If so, you know that the worst part of the experience is being without your equipment for... how long will it be? Days? Weeks? Months? Often you won't know when you send it in -- but you do know that for all that time, you're potentially missing photos. Either you live with it, or you have...

 

 

Feel like the 41-megapixels of the Nokia Lumia 1020 isn't quite ludicrous enough? How about squeezing that same number of megapixels into a watch? That's what the Hyetis Crossbow is promising, alongside Carl Zeiss optics, as well as a whole host of connectivity options.

According to a post on Google+, this...

 

 

Earlier this week, a federal judge ruled that New York City's controversial stop-and-frisk program was unconstitutional, calling it "indirect racial profiling" due to it disproportionately targeting black and Hispanic individuals. As part of U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin's ruling, the judge ordered...

 

 

Lots of great deals this morning, folks -- deals for Nikon, Canon and Olympus cameras, as well as for a couple Sigma APS-C lenses and a Pentax fast prime lens. Also, there are some big one-day savings on SanDisk memory card and USB flash drives at Amazon and Adorama. As always, be sure to check back on IR for new...

 

 

Student design projects are always interesting. Since they're not saddled with having to actually be produced, it gives an opportunity for people to play with ideas and concepts that can really push the boundaries of how someone might interact with technology. Francesca Barchiesi's Hand-Tech camera glove is just...

Nikon's 1-series compact system cameras have some pretty unusual features for mirrorless models, but perhaps the rarest of the bunch is their provision for high-speed capture. Across the whole line, full-resolution capture is possible at up to 60 frames per second, and at lower resolutions, rates of up to a staggering 1,200 fps are...

 

 

Samsung has just won gold awards at the 2013 International Design Excellence Awards for a trio of printer concepts that take the normally expensive, hard to dispose of, bulky printer, and radically change their outsides. Our society is very quick to treat printers as disposable: Some even replace their printer as...

 

 

Here's the funniest thing we've seen on the Internet today: Jamie Taete's hilarious photos of dads looking completely disinterested at tween sensation pop group One Direction's recent concert in Los Angeles.

If you don't know who One Direction are, it simply means you've got more than 12 years on you and are,...

 

 

There's a million stories in the naked city and taxi driver turned photographer David Bradford aims to capture some of them. The multi-talented Bradford first started shooting photos from his New York City cab in 1990, mostly using these early shots as reference points for his illustration work. (Bradford graduated...

 

 

We've gathered up a nice little selection of camera, lens and software deals for you this morning. We found a couple of DSLR deals for Canon and Nikon cameras, plus a great price on a Nikon waterproof camera. We also undercovered savings on two fast f/2.8 zoom lenses from Tamron. Lastly, Adorama offers big...