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Ever wish your camera better matched your personality? Perhaps the answer to that is no: lots of us like the anonymity of our black or silver camera bodies. Plenty of people these days have grown up to expect their consumer electronics gadgets to match their personality and fit their lifestyle, though. More and more, camera makers are...

A couple of days ago, we told readers about updated firmware for the Fuji X-E1 and X-Pro1 digital cameras, promised to bring faster autofocus and a focus peaking function to both models. If you eagerly downloaded the firmware version 3.00 update, but haven't had time to put it on your X-Pro1, then you'll want to stop right there and...

 

 

It's happened to all of us: a tired fellow passenger on a cramped flight nods off onto your shoulder. But what do you do? Wait for the person to wake up? Gently nudge them until they wake up? Or just let them go on sleeping as you guzzle rum and cokes until you pass out on them?

When someone conked out on Steve...

Tired of hunting down cables or fumbling with flash cards every time you want to show off your photos on the biggest picture frame in the house -- your TV? Newer models come with built-in Wi-Fi, but even then getting your pictures on screen can be a lot more awkward than it should be. A new gadget from search giant Google promises to...

 

 

What happened to Rosalind Franklin is one of the great crimes of modern science. Franklin was a British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer who was instrumental in discovering the double helix shape of DNA — but was never given the credit she deserved during her life. Today's Google Doodle marks what would have...

 

 

Despite all the useful software tools available these days, photo restoration and colorization is still a painstaking process that can take countless hours to do right. Thankfully, there are services like THS Photo Restoration & Colorization, which not only...

 

 

Need a DSLR, mirrorless camera, or how about a large-sensor compact camera? Well, you're in luck as we've found sweet deals on all these types of cameras, plus great DSLR lens savings from Canon, Nikon and Tamron. Be sure to check back every weekday for new deals, rebates and bargains on all sorts of camera...

 

 

The Petzval lens is one of the oldest and most storied photographic lenses ever developed. Invented in 1840, it sparked a revolution in portraiture thanks to its ability to handle wide apertures and short exposure. The lens is now difficult to find and expensive, but the folks at Lomography have just announced they...

Want to take your photos beyond the dynamic range limits of your digital camera's sensor? Software company Unified Color Technologies has two products aimed at fans of high dynamic range photography, and today, both received significant updates.

The changes in HDR Expose 3 make themselves known almost immediately that you open the...

 

 

We've shared some amazing, early color photography here before but these shots of circus performers from the 1940s and 50s might be the most vivid and gripping images yet. The photos are from "The Circus Book: 1870-1950" by Dominique Jando, which includes approximately 180 of the earliest color images ever captured...

 

 

Getting enough light to capture good portraits while outside of the studio can be tricky. You can use a strobe and be stuck with a harsh, direct light. You can take your softboxes with you but then have to lug them everywhere and deal with power supplies. You can use natural light but be stuck when it gets dark...

 

 

We've seen year-long timelapses before, put together by people who have stashed cameras in remote locations for extremely long periods at a time. But this is the first time that we've seen 360 day-long timelapses, all played at once in an enormous grid.

Shot from famed San Francisco science museum, the...

 

 

It's Wednesday, and with all these great deals today, it's more like "Winsday," right? Right? Ok, I'll show myself out. Anyway, we've found a great bundle bargain on the highly popular Sony RX100 compact digital camera, as well as a nice discount on a new Canon Rebel T5i kit. There's also a great Buy Together...

 

 

Some 900 million miles away sits Cassini, a spacecraft we launched in 1997 and sent to Saturn. And on July 19th, it took a photo of us. All of us. Cassini shot an incredibly rare, long-distance image of Earth, set against the rings of Saturn.

The images were released by NASA on July 22nd, and were, in fact, not...

 

 

It's important to capture emotion in a portrait but how about photographing a good, old-fashioned primal scream? With a free, sound-triggering iOS app and an attached dongle, all you need is a visceral scream to create one of these powerful portraits with your digital SLR.

The folks from Triggertrap, which...

In many ways, the Canon SL1 DSLR provides the best of both worlds, pairing the compact, lightweight body of a mirrorless camera and the performance and image quality of a DSLR. You could almost call it a miniaturized version of Canon's Rebel T4i and T5i DSLRs. And that's a good thing: Both standard-size interchangeable lens cameras are...

 

 

Despite all the sound and fury that -- thanks to the ubiquity of cell phone cameras -- real photography is dead and cameras are disappearing, more than 1,450 photographers still applied for the 2013 Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer's Fellowships. In fact, the work they submitted was so good that the...

 

 

About a month ago, Fujifilm announced new firmware for the Fujifilm X-Pro1 and X-E1. Today those free firmware updates became available, bringing faster AF speeds and the much hyped "focus peaking" highlight feature to Fuji's X-mount cameras. Simultaneously, Fujifilm has announced a new lens as part of its XC line...

 

 

Must be the summer heat or the humidity or, likely, both but funny photo memes seem to abound this time of year. The latest meme stems from an accidental photo bombing of a wedding proposal at Disney World. (See to the right and below.)

The guy awkwardly...