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Hurricane Sandy walloped New York City and the upper Atlantic coast yesterday, and along with leaving a trail of devastation in its wake it brought thousands of incredible photos showing the destructive power of Mother Nature.

We scoured government agency websites and social networks to compile the following...

 

 

An update to Google's popular Android mobile operating system announced today brings a variety of new features, and comes accompanied by new Nexus-branded hardware on which to run the operating system. Key among the additions for photographers, though, will be Google's interesting new panorama function, which...

 

 

Camera bag specialist Think Tank Photo has just announced three new products due to launch imminently: the Glass Limo, Retrospective 40, and Retrospective 50.

The trio are all set to ship sometime in November 2012, and while you can't yet place a pre-order, the Think Tank Photo website does let you sign up to be...

 

 

In our final video from PhotoPlus 2012, Imaging-Resource.com founder Dave Etchells and Managing Editor Roger Slavens met with Philip Berne of Samsung to get a first look at the Samsung Galaxy Camera, with its impressive Android Jelly Bean interface.

As...

 

 

Panasonic makes an excellent pair of Micro Four Thirds pancake lenses, the Lumix G 14mm f/2.5 Asph. and Lumix G 20mm f/1.7 Asph. While they look similar, there are several differences.

The optical formulas of the two lenses are quite different from each other, for example, as you can see in the diagrams...

Here's a seriously impressive photo of Hurricane Sandy captured from the NOAA-NASA GOES-13 satellite yesterday.

There are no words that quite describe the power of nature as this single image does.

(Via Laughing Squid)

 

NOAA's GOES-13 satellite captured this visible image of the massive Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 28 at...

 

 

As everyone knows, big, bad Hurricane Sandy is in the process of walloping the East Coast but these photos of an emptied out New York City show the (panicked) calm before the storm.

They're photos of some of New York's busiest transit hubs including Grand Central Station, Penn Station, and various subway...

 

 

Last week at PhotoPlus 2012, Imaging-Resource.com founder Dave Etchells and Managing Editor Roger Slavens caught up with Chuck Westfall of Canon USA to see the Canon 6D's built-in WiFi feature in action.

Not only is the Canon 6D a reasonably affordable full-frame digital SLR, it also includes a built-in...

 

 

Back in mid-2011, Panasonic launched its tiny Lumix GF3, nicely demonstrating the size advantage of mirrorless over SLR cameras. This year's Panasonic GF5 takes that design and swaps in an improved sensor, faster image processor, higher-resolution touch screen display, and a raft of other tweaks.

Key among...

 

 

If driving around trying to find places to buy and process film using the Kodak app we reported on earlier today doesn't seem like your idea of fun, then perhaps a new iPhone app from Alien Skin software will be more your cup of tea.

If you like to fiddle with your images in post-processing, chances are...

 

 

35mm film might not entirely have gone the way of the dodo, but it's certainly seen more popular days. There are still more than a few photographers who refuse to entirely retire their film cameras, though. For them, it can be a little tricky finding places to buy film any more, let alone to get it...

 

 

IR founder Dave Etchells and Managing Editor Roger Slavens are in New York at the PDN PhotoPlus Expo, and they've captured a video of the brand-new Nikon V2 mirrorless camera in action.

Beyond its radical new styling, the Nikon V2 sports quite a few other changes from the earlier V1 model. There's a new control...

 

 

If you've been reading our news page for any length of time you'll doubtless be familiar with Canadian company Chipworks: we've mentioned them more than a few times over the years. They specialize in tearing all the latest gadgets apart, then analyzing the pieces to see what can be learned about the...

New firmware today from Pentax Ricoh Imaging improves two of the company's camera models--the Pentax K-30 digital SLR, and the Pentax Q compact system camera.

The Pentax K-30 v1.01 firmware update, says the company, brings improved performance for contrast detection autofocus in live view shooting. It also improves overall stability and performance of the camera, although...

 

 

Last September, Samsung announced two new lenses for its NX-mount mirrorless cameras at the Photokina tradeshow in Cologne, Germany. Today, the company has taken advantage of another tradeshow to provide more information. At the just-launched PDN PhotoPlus Expo in New York, Samsung has provided US-market pricing...

 

 

We rolled down the hill with a Samsung EX2F digicam before tonight's opening game of the 2012 World Series between the Detroit Tigers and San Francisco Giants. Thought we'd get you in the mood.

We tried some digital zoom images (it isn't a long lens) because our test shots on Twin Peaks had come out so well.

 

 

Since its launch a year ago with the V1 and J1 compact system cameras, Nikon's nascent 1-mount has faced a challenge shared by several of its mirrrorless competitors: a rather limited selection of glass. The Japanese camera manufacturer has today indicated an awareness of the problem, though, and shown itself...

 

 

Even Bob Dylan isn't immune to the lure of Instagram, it seems. His latest video (below) is comprised of Instagram shots of fans holding up signs bearing lyrics from the song "Duquesne Whistle," off his new album Tempest.

The video is an obvious spoof on Dylan's famous "Subterranean Homesick Blues" video from...

 

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There's lots of strange art on the Internet but one of the stranger things we've run across lately are these whimsical creations by an Italian artist who goes by the name Dito Von Tease.

The 33-year-old resident of Bologna takes a photo of his index finger and then runs it through Photoshop to create...