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This image was taken by Front Hazcam: Right B (FHAZ_RIGHT_B) onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 223 (2013-03-23 02:59:22 UTC). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

After a spate of technological problems lead to the Mars Rover going quiet for a brief spell, Curiosity is back in action, beaming photographs from the red...

 

Canon's PowerShot G-series cameras were some of the first premium compact cameras to really grab the attention of the professional photographer and the amateur shooter alike. With the PowerShot G15, Canon takes a huge step forward by adding a fast 5x optical zoom lens with a maximum aperture that ranges from f/1.8 at wide to...

A couple of weeks ago, search giant Google took flak for discontinuing Snapseed Desktop, an unusual and much-lauded photo app from recent acquisition Nik Software. Today, the company has another announcement related to Nik, but this time it's much more positive news that will be welcomed by photographers -- especially those using...

Most people view their digital cameras as inscrutable black boxes, but as the fellow in this video demonstrates, it's actually not all that hard to take them apart.

Watch his do-it-yourself tips and tricks on how he goes about fixing a digital camera. As you'll notice, the video starts off slow but gets interesting really quickly. ;-)

Check out more of his tech videos...

In the middle of last year, a new project debuted on crowdfunding site Kickstarter which promised a simple, compact and affordable way to stabilize video from smartphones, compact / action cameras, and perhaps even a light DSLR or camcorder. Created by brothers Karim and Nadim Elgarhy, the Picosteady stabilizer was a success, reaching...

This photo of a skateboarding daredevil pulling an "Ollie" jump across the tracks of a New York City subway line has garnered a variety of reactions on the Internet in the last week. But one thing now seems clear: it's not a fake photo.

"I knew I was facing where the train was going to come from," Allen Ying, the photographer who captured the shot, told the Daily...

"In photography, like in all things, there are people who can see and others who cannot even look."  -- Nadar

He was born Gaspard Félix Tournachon in 1820, and grew up in Paris. He first became known for his biting and sarcastic political cartoons which earned him the nickname "tourne à dard"-- the one who stings or twists the dart. He liked...

 

 

The Sun and Cloud camera is a curious concept. It can be powered charged by solar cells or by cranking a retractable handle, giving it enough juice to function without needing to plug it in and charge a battery. An idea like that sounds like it could be perfect to keep in your emergency kit, for when you need to...

 

 

Here's a sweet little photography tool you should check out if you work with studio lighting. Called the Online Lighting Diagram Creator, it is just that, letting you create and save set-ups for future reference.

We've embedded the tool below but you can also access it online here.

Created by QH Photography,...

Fujifilm has today unveiled two new digital cameras that do what your smartphone can't, then neatly hand it the results for instant photo sharing. The Fuji S8400W packs in a super-powerful optical zoom lens that reaches clear into next week, while the rugged Fuji XP200 is part tank and part submarine, ready to go anywhere you do without...

 

 

More and more of the latest crop of cameras are starting to roll through IR's test lab, the two latest being the Nikon D7100 and Fuji X100S. Full sets of test shots for these will be going up within the next week or two, but for now, we have our standard "First Shots" posted, so you can compare these cameras'...

We all know where our favorite camera brands hail from, but have you ever looked at the sticker on the bottom of your camera to see where it was made? If not, you might be in for a surprise. Like so many products these days, digital cameras are often produced in a completely different country to the manufacturer's corporate headquarters....

 

 

It may be the first day of Spring but we've still got snow on the ground here in the Northeast, and we have to say we're getting a little tired of it. But if you look at those snowflakes extremely closely, as the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) in Maryland has done using an electron microscope,...

Wacom's lustworthy Cintiq pen display lineup now has a new entry-level model, with the introduction of the Wacom Cintiq 13HD. List pricing is unchanged at US$1,000 or thereabouts, but compared to the previous Cintiq 12WX, you now get a lot more for your money, making the 13HD an interesting proposition for photographers on a budget.

 

 

Part of the problem with using an iPhone for photography is how little direct control you have over the process. Now a new app called "Digital Negative" has popped up for the iPhone that's promising to give you the uncompressed raw data in the commonly used DNG file format. The question now is how much extra...

Our readers seemed fascinated by the recent art installation of a large camera obscura in New York City's Madison Square Park. But what if you can't get to the Big Apple in time to see it? It turns out it's pretty easy to make one yourself, and transform a room of your house into your very own camera obscura, using this tutorial by...

Today Canon announced two new Rebel DSLRs -- including the EOS Rebel SL1 which the company calls the "the world's smallest and lightest DSLR camera" -- and a new PowerShot 20x travel zoom, and together the trio represents a major upgrade of Canon's consumer-geared offerings. IR was fortunate to get some time with working prototypes of all three models, and you can find out...

 

 

Makeup giant L'Oreal has opted to pull a series of mascara ads from print, broadcast, and in-store after accusations that the images were overly digitally enhanced. The National Advertising Division (NAD), an investigative unit of the advertising industry’s system of self-regulation, has put out a press...

 

 

The Invasion of Normandy in 1944 was one of the most important battlefronts in WWII and made an indelible mark on the history of the United States. The D-Day invasion and the following weeks saw hundreds of thousands of both the Axis and Allied forces killed during the action in what was a crucial military...