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With the exception of Fujifilm cameras based around EXR and X-Trans image sensors and the Foveon-based camera lineup from Sigma, almost every digital camera on the market today shares one important feature in common: a Bayer color filter array, named after inventor and Kodak scientist Bryce Bayer. In fact, the overwhelming majority of...

 

 

The World Photography Organization just revealed the shortlist of photos for the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards and, as expected, some amazing work has made the cut. We've included a selection of some of our favorite photos from the Professional and Open category shortlists below.

Organizers said they...

Valentine's Day is almost here: are you looking for a surprise gift for that special person in your life? Or perhaps you want to show your camera bag a little love! Either way, a few deals crossed our inbox today from IR affiliates Adorama and Amazon that seem too good to pass up.

Just a few days ago we completed our Panasonic G5...

 

 

Now here's something that should calm your nerves on a Monday. Check out this amazing video by director Jacob Schwarz of colorful ink drops blooming, moving, and intersecting with each other in water in slow motion.

If that doesn't sound particularly interesting, consider that it was shot at 4K (4,096×2,304)...

 

 

We got a good response to last week's gear piece on a Victorian era pocket watch camera that looks anachronistic enough to be considered Steampunk, so here's a video in a similar vein. It's a behind-the-scenes clip from photographer David Honl on how to light and photograph portraits of models dressed up like...

 

 

Canon announced the 24-70mm f/4L IS USM  in November of 2012 as a lighter, less expensive alternative to the 24-70mm f/2.8. The lens is also equipped with image stabilization, and a specific macro mode. We've put the lens through its paces in our test lab: Click here to read our full review of the Canon 24-70mm...

Canon USA has issued updated firmware for its EOS-1D X digital SLR, fixing a couple of problems and adding one new feature.

Canon EOS-1D X firmware v1.2.1 adds a new function to the Recording Card Image Size Setting option, found on tab four of the Custom Functions menu. The "Disable image size button" option deactivated this button,...

It's been over a year now since Kodak entered bankruptcy proceedings, but fans of the one-time industry icon will be pleased to hear that it finally seems to be getting closer to putting its house in order.

Last December, we reported that Kodak had found a buyer for a large chunk of its patent portfolio. While the US$525 million...

 

 

Over time, I've often been struck by how much goes on behind the scenes at IR that never makes it out to our readers. We sometimes spend dozens of hours in the test lab and weeks of calendar time tracking down and characterizing problems that we've found with cameras, only to have the result  reduced to just...

 

 

The new Panasonic G5 takes the best features of the earlier G3, steps them all up a notch and tosses in much-improved ergonomics as icing on the cake. We immediately fell in love with the G3 when we first saw and shot with it back in May of 2011, feeling it was a real watershed product in the Micro Four Thirds...

Feast your eyes on this Steampunk-like 1886 Victorian Lancaster Pocket Watch Camera, which could be one of the first camera watches ever made. (Incidentally, camera watches are a now rare gadget subgenre that seems to have gone out of fashion with Dick Tracy.)

 

 

The Victorian Lancaster Pocket Watch Camera, which is...

If you're shooting with a Pentax interchangeable-lens camera made in the last few years, there's a good chance the company has released new firmware for you, among a raft of updates today.

The new firmware covers no less than five different K-mount digital SLRs, as well as the K-01 compact system camera. In all cases, there's only one...

 

 

We've posted quite a few amazing underwater photography videos here before but this story might be the most unbelievable yet.

In the clip (embedded below), National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen talks about his encounter with one of Antartica's most vicious predators, the Leopard Seal.

On assignment in...

What, precisely, defines a premium compact camera? For many photographers, it's the presence of a larger image sensor than is typical of most compacts, the better with which to grab as much light as possible. It's an understandable point of view -- photography is all about capturing light, after all -- but it's perhaps a rather narrow...

Tired of aiming your camera, pressing the shutter button, and then finding out that your subject has already left the building before you got their photo? That's the problem Fuji aims to tackle with its latest compact travel zoom, the Fuji F900EXR. Thanks to the pairing of an EXR-CMOS II image sensor and an EXR Processor II CPU, the Fuji...

 

 

A month or so ago, IR's Dan Havlik reported on 10 early color photographs of Paris and, to all our surprise, it turns out there are more: a total of 85 in all at the “Paris 1914” website.
 
These are more softly colored Autochrome images that remind me of the first time I saw Paris. It was through the scratched...

 

 

We here at IR thought Fujifilm's X-Trans sensor was one of the top camera tech innovations of 2012. Now, in the figurative blink of an eye, the company has turned around and launched the X-Trans II sensor plus two new, exciting X-series cameras at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show. IR founder and editor-in-chief...

 

 

This photo essay is a few years old but it's a great how-to for anyone who has dreamed about having their own little darkroom right in their backyard.

Photographer Dave Miller didn't have a spare room in his house to convert into a darkroom so he decided to do "a garden makeover incorporating a shed."

At...

There are a lot of rugged, weather-sealed digital cameras to choose from these days, but to date they've pretty-much all shared an Achilles heel. To charge them, you've had to open the camera up, adding a little wear and tear to the weather-sealing and perhaps introducing some dirt or debris in the process. The Pentax WG-3 GPS is, we...