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Affordable and easy to use, the Nikon D3200 really doesn't disappoint, providing a small body, improved controls, and a remarkably high-resolution 24.2-megapixel APS-C sensor. We found it capable and pleasantly quiet to shoot, and it's still easy to recommend to novice or advanced amateur alike. We wish the lens...

 

 

Hard to believe this is real but check out this incredible video from a sea gull's perspective as it snatches someone's GoPro camera and takes it on a wild ride over San Francisco Bay near the Golden Gate Bridge.

You couldn't make a commercial this good! (Or perhaps this is some kind of viral commercial for...

 

 

(UPDATED with daylight images!) Sleep's sometimes overrated, if you ask us camera nuts. While the rest of North America was in bed, Imaging Resource senior editor Shawn Barnett pounded the streets of Manhattan, just-announced full-frame Nikon D600 digital SLR in-hand.

Shawn grabbed us an extensive raft of...

“Visa pour l’image” is the largest exhibition of photojournalism in the world and this year’s top awards went to Chilean photographer Tomas Munita and American Stephanie Sinclair.

Munita received the top award, the ‘Visa d’or’ (Gold medal: daily press photography) for his photography of the effects of war on the lives of ordinary Syrians, while Sinclair received the...

 

 

Signaling the dawn of the affordable full-frame digital SLR camera, the Nikon D600 features a 24.3-megapixel FX CMOS sensor, an optical viewfinder with 100% coverage, a 3.2-inch 921K-dot LCD, and dual SD card slots for US$2,100, body-only. It's true, $2,100 isn't exactly cheap, but it's more affordable than...

 

 

If you're shooting a Nikon 1-series camera, your options for first-party prime lenses just tripled: the company has revealed a brand-new 1-mount lens option in the runup to the Photokina tradeshow.

The new 1 Nikkor 18.5mm f/1.8 is the brightest option available from Nikon for its nascent mount, which...

 

 

For an hour or so, the world paused this afternoon as Apple fanatics--including many of us here at Imaging Resource--geeked out over the introduction of the iPhone 5. We've paid close attention to its upgrades, including those of its built-in iSight camera, and unfortunately it seems more evolutionary than...

 

 

The Sony Alpha NEX-6 is the Sony I've been waiting for. Not just the camera, but the company. They are back in fighting form, and what's more they seem to be having fun. Sony wasn't sure the NEX-7 would be quite the smash hit it clearly was, even at its higher price point, but that smash hit told them there was a...

 

 

Only a handful of cameras have made me want to utter expletives of happy astonishment. "Holy Moly, they finally did it!" I thought (paraphrased). Yes, it's real: Sony has shoehorned a full 35mm-sized sensor with a fairly fast 35mm prime lens into a nearly pocket-sized camera called the Sony Cyber-shot RX1....

 

 

Though Sony already had an impressive full-frame camera, the company completely rethought their flagship SLR with the introduction of the Sony Alpha SLT-A99. Instead of forging new classic design as the A900 did, the Sony A99 builds on the design of the speedy A77, a more modern look with sloping shoulders...

 

 

Sony couldn't introduce two new, exciting interchangeable lens cameras without introducing some serious glass to go with them. The just-announced Sony Alpha A99 seems a perfect match for a bright new super-telephoto fixed lens, while the Sony NEX-6--along with the company's other E-mount cameras--gets a lightweight...

Ok, this doesn't exactly have anything to do with photography but it would make a very cool gift for anyone with a Star Wars fixation (and that includes many photographers we know).

 

 

We're getting ready to fly to Europe for the photokina show in Germany next week and while a rolling suitcase that looks like R2D2...

 

 

“The world does not conveniently fit into the format of a 35mm camera.” - W. Eugene Smith.
 
Over the Labor Day weekend, I found a marvelous, short video about W. Eugene Smith, entitled “Minimata by W.Eugene Smith.” (See below.) Smith was one of the best...

 

 

Excited by the new cameras Pentax announced today, and trying to decide what lens to couple them with? Or perhaps you're already a Pentaxian, and you want to add some new glass to your camera bag? Either way, the company has new options for you today, no matter which Pentax mount you're shooting.

Starting...

 

 

We're not nostaglic. But we really like shooting with old lenses (even if -- or because -- they don't autofocus).

And while our old-lens images captured on our pristine digital sensors look about as modern as a kit lens, we really thought they deserved a more analog rendering.

It turns out there are a few...

 

 

For the third straight generation, Pentax Ricoh Imaging has retained almost exactly the same body for its new Pentax K-5 II and K-5 IIs digital SLRs. That's not surprising: we weren't alone in heaping praise on the body they share with the earlier K-7 and K-5 models. What is rather surprising, though, is just...

 

 

Last year when Pentax released its super-compact interchangeable lens camera, the Q, our tests showed it sacrificed image quality for the sake of size. While the new Pentax Q10 still employs a 12.4-megapixel, backlit, 1/2.3-inch CMOS sensor to stay small, Pentax says they upgraded the sensor with increased...

Panasonic Corp. has today released firmware updates for four of its Lumix-series digital camera models that promises better image quality in one specific shooting mode.

The new firmware for the Panasonic ZS20, SZ7, and several closely-related models is said to improve the cameras' Handheld Night Shot mode, which lets you take low-light shots without a tripod. The mode...

Like a lot of people out there coming back from vacation, this post-Labor Day week has been a challenge for us. Here's something though that has lightened our mood on a busy Friday: a ghoulishly great photo of a Steampunk monster from this week's Photoshop World show in Las Vegas.

 

 

The creature is the creation of...