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It doesn't take an awful lot to get into medium format film photography these days. Older, rock solid medium format models can be had on the cheap through secondhand sellers, and it won't be long before you're lugging around an enormous old Mamiya on all your photography excursions.

But as amazing as the photos...

 

 

The last few years have seen many photographers in the United States run into police trouble for photographing the wrong building or place, but generally street photography of people has remained free of hassle. But in Australia, a photographer has just been convicted of "disorderly behavior causing offense" for...

 

 

In late February, Adobe issued release candidate versions of updates for its Photoshop Lightroom, Photoshop Camera Raw, and DNG Converter applications that offered refined support for Fujifilm X-Trans based cameras, squashed a number of bugs, and extended support for new camera bodies and lens profiles. Those...

Kevin Collins takes stunning images of insects, like this incredible photo of a giant leopard moth, which he graciously licensed under Creative Commons on Flickr and Wikipedia, where it was nominated for an award. But you can bet that when he uploaded the photograph, he wasn't expecting someone to take the image, modify it, then submit it to a competition -- and win.

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It's a bit  of a strange paradox: photographers are, by nature, visual people -- and yet for the most part our cameras are decidedly dull, unattractive boxes in either black or silver. A few years ago, Japanese camera brand Pentax decided to do something different, launching its consumer-friendly K-x digital SLR in a selection of colors for a...

 

 

Remember that bizarre new photo meme out of Japan we told you about last week where schoolgirls reenact anime/magna inspired fight scenes? We called it Dragonballing since it seemed inspired by the upcoming Dragon Ball Z animated feature. (Others, however, refer to it as Hadokening.)

Well, a new, particularly...

 

 

An Ice Light is an incredible piece of lighting technology: a dimmable, even, LED light source with a built-in battery that's great for portrait photography. But at $500 a pop, it's probably a bit out of reach for many people. Simon Ellingworth at DIY Photography, however, has put together a terriffic guide on how...

 

 

Nikon released the 18.5mm f/1.8 with the introduction of its 1 series of camera. Offering a 50mm field of view, the lens is very tiny and lightweight, making it an attractive walk-around option. We've put it through its paces in our test lab. Click here to read the full review of the Nikon 18.5mm f/1.8. 

We're starting to get the feeling there's a contest on, and the contestants have forgotten to tell us. One after another since the start of the year, camera manufacturers have been taking turns to release huge rafts of updates for their interchangeable-lens cameras.  First Pentax updated six of its DSLRs in the dying days of January,...

 

 

Spanish cinematographer Enrique Panheco has produced a gorgeous short movie about Morocco using, primarily, a Sony A99 digital SLR. The sensual, 4-minute clip is called "The Maghreb" and was recently named a "Staff Pick" on Vimeo. (See the movie embedded below.)

"Morocco is a country that awakens in the...

 

 

It's pretty common to see third-party and older lenses attached to CSC cameras, thanks to the ready availability of mount converters. But it takes a special kind of person to take the fixed-lens Sigma DP Merrill line of cameras, and completely convert them to take Leica lenses. That's the incredible modification...

 

 

In concert photography, drummers are notoriously difficult to capture because they're usually positioned at the back of the stage behind an obstructive drum kit. But what if the drummer you wanted to photograph also had a custom-made rig that allowed him to play upside down? Sounds like a tough challenge, right?
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The Sony Alpha A99 is Sony's current flagship full-frame camera, and our review showed that it lives up to its prime position in the company's lineup. For those wincing at the rather hefty list price of around $2,800, you'll be pleased to hear that Sony has announced a new bundle which packs in a flash and vertical...

The Canon S110 is the latest in a long line of PowerShot S-series cameras, and it has some mighty big shoes to fill. The PowerShot S line has proven popular with enthusiast photographers, and for good reason: The pairing of a pocket-friendly body with enthusiast-oriented features like twin control dials and a raw file format is a potent...

If you've spent much time using Adobe's Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, you'll probably at least have dabbled with plug-ins, the little (or sometimes not so little) bits of software that extend your image editor, gifting it with new capabilities or extending existing ones. Since Adobe first added  support for Photoshop's plug-ins over...

If you're still shooting some or all of your photos on silver halide film, now would be a good time to stock up. The explosion of digital photography over the last decade and change has brought many benefits, but for film lovers -- and the companies who supply their beloved medium -- it's also created a rather difficult situation. The...

 

 

It is April Fool's Day, after all, but this is one of the stranger things we've seen on the Internet today. In the clip below from celebrity gossip site TMZ, an angry waiter tells a paparazzo to leave a parking lot where actor Liev Schreiber is about to drive away. When the photographer swings at the waiter with...

It's hard to believe, but it was 15 years ago today that I first brought Imaging Resource live on the Internet. Some say Internet Years are like Dog Years, only more so; by that measure, IR is more like 100 and I don't feel a day over 99.

IR was a classic entrepreneurial startup, beginning its life in a spare bedroom before eventually moving to the basement. Nine years...

We've come a long way from the earliest days of aerial photography. While current legislators debate the use of flying drones to capture airborne images, cast your mind back to just how amazing the very first crop of aerial photographs must of been for people, offering them a view that few had seen of their cities from the skies. The very first aerial photographs were from...