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It's baaack. Only a week after being kicked out of the Apple App Store for allegedly featuring "pornographic images," popular photo sharing app 500px was available once again for the iPhone and the iPad.

It was unclear exactly what has changed in the 500px app that allowed it to return to the Apple app store but,...

 

 

Celebrity photographer Mark Seliger always has interesting and eclectic guests on his YouTube show CAPTURE, and this week's episode is no exception. On the show (embedded below), Seliger interviews Russian dance legend Mikhail "Misha" Baryshnikov, who's also a photographer.

Baryshnikov discusses what it's like...

January has been quite the month for Nikon. The company already announced two new 1-series mirrorless cameras and a Coolpix compact just prior to the Consumer Electronics Show, and now it's followed up with seven more cameras for the largest photography show in its home market -- the annual CP+ Camera and Imaging Show. That's a total of...

 

 

In advance of the CP+ Camera & Imaging Show in Japan this week, Canon unveiled three new PowerShot pocket digital cameras -- two ELPHs and one A-series entry-level model. The Canon PowerShot ELPH 330 HS replaces the popular ELPH 320 HS, adding advanced WiFi connectivity and functionality, as well as doubling the...

 

 

We don't know about you but the radiator in our office keeps it crazy dry during the long winter months. Not only is it unpleasant -- cracked skin, anyone? -- the dry air can cause the nozzles in an inkjet photo printer to clog up.

Here's a fun solution with a photography theme: the USB Camera Lens Humidifier...

 

 

Called "the next generation in surveillance," the 1.8-gigapixel Argus is the world's highest definition camera and it just might be spying on you.

In the below clip from the PBS show NOVA, Yiannis Antoniades, director of BAE Systems and one of the creators of Argus, discusses the über-definition camera, saying it...

 

 

No one was voted into Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame this year, mainly due to the taint of performance enhancing drugs. But when it came to adding another model to the pantheon of legendary DSLRs, the Canon 5D Mark III -- introduced last spring -- earned IR's full support in just its first year of...

 

 

That problem with the Nikon D600 accumulating dust or oil on its image sensor lessens the more you shoot with the digital SLR but it doesn't seem to completely go away, recent testing shows.

"The dust is still building up, but the accumulation of new dust spots has slowed, and the spots that do show up are not...

 

 

We recently shared early color photographs of Paris and Russia and now here are a few more images showing another part of old Europe in color: Ireland in 1913. These photos were captured by Marguerite Mespoulet and Madeleine Mignon-Alba, two French women who documented Ireland in 1913 as part of an international...

 

 

"Hurley is a warrior with his camera, and would go anywhere or do anything to get a picture."
-- Lionel Greenstreet, First Officer of the Expedition Ship Endurance.
 
"Mad" Frank Hurley was a photographer who by any measure was bigger than life. Compared to him, Mad Max was just an out-of-work traffic cop in a...

 

 

Josh Cogan's background in anthropology gives him a unique perspective as a photographer, and his passion for traveling around the world to document its peoples, cultures and traditions gives us a rare glimpse at humanity's hidden stories. We were struck both by the beauty of his portraits and by the ways he pushes...

 

 

Despite the many advantages of digital photography, do you still find yourself hankering for the look of your favorite films? You're not alone, and software such as DxO Labs' FilmPack aims to provide a solution.

FilmPack takes your digital photos, and recreates the look of a variety of popular film types...

 

 

We post quite a few interesting vintage photos here on the IR News Feed, but here's a set that are vintage in style only. These gorgeous, black-and-white shots were released by the AMC channel to promote the upcoming sixth season of its popular show, "Mad Men."

The show, which is (usually) in color, focuses on...

 

 

Vacation, it clearly was not. Sophie Schmidt, the daughter of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, recently took a trip to North Korea with Bill Richardson, former Governor and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and her father, and captured some rare photos of the closed-off country.

Sophie shared the photos of...

Are you the designated photographer for your family? If so, there's a good chance something is missing from your photo albums: you. Fulfilling the duties of family record-keeper means you spend almost all your time behind the lens, making an occasional appearance only for posed, tripod-mounted shots. The Sony NEX-F3 aims to solve the...

Some five years ago, photo-sharing service Flickr launched The Commons in cooperation with the Library of Congress. Since then, 56 libraries, archives and museums from around the globe have added more than 250,000 copyright-free photographs to the catalog.

To celebrate The Commons' fifth birthday, the Library of Congress asked Flickr Common contributors to share their...

 

Sony's been trying to crack the pro DSLR market for years, but with relatively little success until now. With the Sony A99, it looks like the company finally has made a breakthrough: It's a blazingly fast shooter that also delivers 24 megapixels of resolution, and Sony's new dual phase-detect AF system means it can focus...

Two newly-announced lenses today take the selection of Sony E-mount optics to no less than fifteen, including 13 lenses and two converters. The newest optics are a tiny pancake prime, and a power zoom lens aimed at video use. The latter has actually been shipping for a while in a bundle with the NEX-VG30 camcorder, but will now be...

It's sadly been many months since we last managed to post Judges' Comments for the monthly Photo of the Day winners, and we apologize to all the winners over that period of time whose photos haven't received the recognition they deserved. The reason has simply been the ongoing editorial overload here at Imaging Resource headquarters.