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For a few weeks now, rumors have been swirling about the latest flagship smartphone from Taiwan's HTC Corp., after leaks from the European press suggested the possibility that it took a new approach to digital imaging, and might perhaps bear a Foveon-like full-color image sensor. Today, the company finally took the wraps off that new...

 

 

Remember the days when you were forced to fumble with the often poorly designed software that came with your camera just to see the "raw" images you shot with it? Seems like a long time ago, right?

Actually, it was only ten years ago today that Adobe launched Camera Raw, a plug-in that allows photographers to...

 

 

GoPro cameras are popular because their portability and ruggedness lets them capture extreme footage in places that didn't seem possible just a few years ago. Yesterday, for instance, we shared this video of a GoPro that was nearly swallowed by a hungry lioness, but was still able to record remarkable...

Last month, Olympus Europe announced an interesting camera that included many of the features typical of premium compacts, but not the larger sensor and body sizes. The Olympus XZ-10 design includes a bright lens, physical controls, manual and priority exposure modes, and a raw file format. At the time, Olympus USA said nothing about the...

The latest release of French software company DxO Labs' flagship, photographer-centric workflow app, DxO Optics Pro,  is now available, and it adds support for an additional six cameras from four manufacturers. From a glance at the version number, which increments by just one digit, DxO Optics Pro v8.1.3 might seem like a very modest...

 

 

Lions certainly seem to be prone to gnawing on perfectly good cameras. Or maybe it's those pesky photographers who keep putting their gear in places where lions mistake it for food.

Last November, we told you about this lioness who tried to take a bite out of photographer Ed Hetherington's Canon 5D Mark II. Now...

Back in November 2011, Canon launched its new Cinema EOS video camera line. Although several previous EOS-series cameras had been widely adopted by videographers, this was the first time the company had created EOS-branded products designed first and foremost for video use. As evidence of its ambitions for the series, the new cameras...

 

 

Canon released its EOS-M mirrorless APS-C camera a few months ago, and we've finally had the opportunity to test the prime lens in that system, the Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM. The tiny prime lens offers a 35mm field of view in a small package - just under 4 ounces. Click here to read our full review of the Canon EF-M...

Early on Friday morning local time, the industrial city of Chelyabinsk in southwestern Russia made headlines around the world. As commuters traveled to work and children started school, a massive meteor disintegrated in the skies overhead, in what's known as an airburst.

Such events are, it has to be said, relatively commonplace -- but...

 

 

Now here's something we were excited to see: the official trailer for an intriguing new documentary about the lost photos of street photographer Vivian Maier. Titled "Finding Vivian Maier," the movie follows the 2007 discovery of the photos by Chicago historian John Maloof, who helped bring worldwide attention to...

Swedish photographer Paul Hansen's dramatic image of a Palestinian funeral possession was named World Press Photo of the Year for 2012. The photo, shown below, was captured in Gaza City last November shortly after an Israeli missile hit the area.

 

World Press Photo of the Year: Gaza Burial by Paul Hansen

Here's how...

 

 

The International Center of Photography in New York is presenting an intriguing show of hundreds of photographs by the Russian-American photographer Roman Vishniac from Jan. 18 to May 5, 2013. The title of the exhibition is "Roman Vishniac: Rediscovered," but a better title might have been "The Enigmatic Roman...

If you're shooting with the tiny Pentax Q10 mirrorless camera, you'll want to install a new firmware update released by the company yesterday, as it will likely bring a noticeable improvement in your photos.

That's because the new update, firmware version 1.01, offers improved autofocus performance. Faster focusing means you're less...

 

 

If you watched the Super Bowl last month, or even if you didn't, you might have seen the popular "Farmer" commercial for Ram trucks, which features a slideshow of beautiful photos by a range of great photographers including William Albert Allard, Andy Anderson, Jim Arndt, Daniel Beltra, Mark Gooch and others. The...

 

 

A couple of days ago, we told readers about the DiveBot, a new, affordable remote-control underwater vehicle capable of operating at depths of 500 feet below the surface. At the time, maker F5 Innovations had revealed the basic design, but had yet to announce its supplier for the DiveBot's onboard 720p high-def...

 

 

If you've just started using a digital SLR or compact system camera and want to learn more about how to pick out the right lens to pair it with, the following how-to video tutorial is a good starting place. It's led by professional travel photographer Kerrick James and focuses on Pentax lenses but the information...

Over the last couple of days, several Japanese media organizations including Sports Nippon, an affiliate of the famous Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, have published stories suggesting that Olympus might be preparing to further dial back its participation in the DSLR market, or perhaps even withdraw entirely. Today, the company has been...

Amongst the recent winners of the International Loupe Awards, we were struck by this photo showing a Leopard Seal about to gobble up a penguin in Antarctica.

 

Image by Amos Nachoum

The stunning image by underwater photographer Amos Nachoum captured fifth place in the Science and Nature category of the awards. (Yes,...

All may not entirely be well in the land of Dell, as shareholders decry founder Michael Dell's plan to take the troubled computer maker back private, and employees bemoan the loss of their stock options, but if you're a photographer there's good news coming out of the company as well. Dell has just launched several additions to its...