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Last November, we shared with you a treasure trove of rare, color images of life in Paris in the 1920s. And now here are some extraordinary color photographs captured during an even earlier time period -- pre-revolutionary Russia on the eve of World War I.

The images, 10 of which are shown below, were shot by...

Korea's Samsung brought no less than seven new camera models to the Consumer Electronics Show this year. The consumer electronics heavyweight updated two of its existing long-zoom Smart-branded cameras with new versions, and added a third model to the line that's smaller and lighter than past efforts.

Other additions to the line...

 

 

We've written about drone quadrocopters and octocopters for capturing amazing aerial footage before but those unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are really designed to be piloted from the ground by experts. Now here's a fully automated glider-like drone made for amateurs to easily shoot aerial images or video.
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How often have you wished you could pan, tilt, and control your camera remotely, without spending a small fortune to do it? A solution is on the way from Satarii, creator of the Swivl.

The original Swivl is a clever, puck-shaped device that holds a smartphone or other device weighing less than six ounces, and acts as a "robotic...

 

 

“Camera Chain Jessops Collapses into Administration” read the crawl below the BBC-TV news presenters. Jessops, the largest camera retailer in the UK with 187 stores and 1,370 employees, had gone into administration, the British equivalent of filing for bankruptcy protection.

(UPDATE: Administrators have just...

Consumer electronics giant Sony announced five new fixed-lens camera models for the Consumer Electronics Show: one each in the long-zoom, Wi-Fi connected, and rugged lifestyle camera segments, plus two affordable and approachable entry-level models.

The long-zoom Sony H200 looks rather like a digital SLR, and that's no accident -- its...

 

 

Have you ever been so engrossed with the blips of information scrolling across your smartphone you've accidentally walked into a tree or a signpost? Have you ever accidentally walked into another person?

If you have serious texting "issues" like these, you might want to check out a tumblr blog called "We Never...

 

 

After sifting through more than 22,000 entries from over 150 countries, the winners have been picked in the 2012 National Geographic Photography contest and there's some pretty spectacular stuff. Both professionals and amateurs competed in this year's competition and photos were submitted in three categories:...

 

 

Canon so far has made one of the biggest digital imaging splashes at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with its new PowerShot N, a small, square-ish digicam that's so simple that it does away with the traditional shutter button and zoom controls. We got our hands on one at the show, and we found it to...

 

 

We love images from outer space but it's even better when they're captured by a real human behind the lens. (No offense to all the spectacular photos we've posted recently shot by satellites and the Cassini space probe.)

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has kept our interest in space photography satiated thanks...

 

 

The Nikon 70-200mm f/4G ED VR AF-S was released near the end of 2012, offering a smaller, lighter alternative in the 70-200mm range. Incorporating Nikon's latest version of its Vibration Reduction technology, we've put the new lens through its paces in our test lab: click here to read our full review of the Nikon...

 

 

Olympus has introduced six new fixed-lens camera models for the Consumer Electronics Show. Among the group is the first fixed-lens digicam with a five-axis stabilization system (as featured previously in the OM-D E-M5 mirrorless camera), plus a variety of rugged lifestyle cameras and long-zoom digicams. We'll...

 

 

Fujifilm's X-Trans sensor technology was arguably one of the most significant technical developments of 2012 for the photo business. Offering superior resolution without moiré patterns or other aliasing, the Fujifilm X-Pro1 was a true breakthrough product.

Now, an updated version of the unique X-Trans sensor...

If you could ask your favorite camera company any question you wanted, what would it be?

We landed today in Las Vegas, Nevada, for what's shaping up to be a very interesting 2013 Consumer Electronics Show. Things are heating up in the enthusiast compact camera market, hybrid phase detect autofocus makes a return to fixed-lens cameras,...

Nikon's fledgling 1-mount system has only been around for a little over a year, but in that time it's seen a pretty impressive pace of development. Today, the announcement of two more 1-mount cameras makes that adjective seem insufficient. A greater superlative is needed to describe a schedule that sees no less than six cameras released...

While we've not yet put together all the details on Fuji's big news of the day from the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas -- the announcements of two exciting new X-series cameras, the X20 and X100s -- we do have the skinny on seven new FinePix compact and bridge models released today.

Fujifilm FinePix HS50EXR
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Photographer Anton Orlov made an amazing discovery after he purchased a French stereoscopic camera at a cluttered antiques store recently: a collection of rare images of the first World War were stashed inside.

The images, a few of which are shown below, were in negative form on thin plates of glass inside a...

Panasonic's making quite a splash at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this year, debuting no less than nine fixed-lens cameras and six Full HD-capable camcorders, one of them wearable. We've just published previews of four of the cameras, and we're just wrapping up our coverage on the fifth model as we speak. First up: the...

 

 

UPDATE: Lots of confusion out there, but it appears Adobe is not giving away free copies of Creative Suite 2 (CS2) as we reported earlier.

After IR and many other sites shared news that Adobe was letting users have free downloads of the 2005 software package, which includes an old version of Photoshop, Adobe...