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Last week, we got to test the new Sony Alpha A99 in the field at a special Sony shooting event in San Francisco. And now we have the A99 in our lab, with our first studio test shots posted.

Here are some first impressions from IR founder and publisher Dave Etchells:

"The Sony A99 is really pretty incredible. I...

 

 

What monster is this just a few days from Halloween? A new medium format camera for Lomographers? With auto exposure? And three aspect ratios? Long and multiple exposure capability? Interchangeable lenses?

Not only that, but the Belair X 6-12 comes in three models:

• The Globetrotter edition has a beautiful...

 

 

Called "The Greatest R/C Car Chase Ever," this video has been making the rounds today and it's a blast. As its title suggests, it's an epic car chase using small remote controlled cars instead of real vehicles. There's even an R/C police helicopter that swoops down from above.

The video was created by...

Here's a clever spoof that tweaks our social network-fueled obsession of taking photos of ourselves in the mirror.

 

 

If you slept through your art history class in high school, it's a take-off on Dutch master Johannes Vermeer's famous painting "The Girl with a Pearl Earring," with a point-and-shoot camera added in....

 

 

Every time we promise to cool it on the time-lapse videos, we find another one we think is impressive enough to share with IR's readers. In this case it's two amazing time-lapse videos of the same event: Space Shuttle Endeavour's trip through the streets of Los Angeles before arriving at its final destination at...

 

 

With the latest firmware update, the Canon 1D X "will now be capable of AF point illumination during AI Servo AF and cross-type AF for maximum apertures as small as f/8."

If you're working in any low light situation, the new firmware can illuminate the autofocus points in red when you press the Shutter button...

A long-awaited update for the Sony NEX-7 finally arrives: Version 1.01 promises a few enhancements ranging from granting the ability to disable the Movie Record button to improving image quality when using a wide angle lens.

Sony also released firmware updates for the Sony A65V, A77V, A37 and A57 digital cameras, adding lens compensation to correct for chromatic...

 

 

We went bonkers -- in a good way -- covering all the new photography gear that was announced leading up to and during Photokina 2012. Now the hottest new cameras and lenses are arriving on our doorstep nearly every morning, and we're working feverishly to get you as much first-hand information about them as fast as...

 

 

You might not think of the set of the creepy thriller "Silence of the Lambs," as being a particularly fun place to work but some behind-the-scenes photos from the movie that have just surfaced suggest otherwise.

The black-and-white images, by an unnamed photographer, show actor Anthony Hopkins in his Hannibal...

 

 

It isn't even Halloween and we're already compiling our annual Gift Guides, which we publish around Thanksgiving in the Newsletter.

But when we saw Beth Quinn Design's She Captures Life's Moments necklace, we figured why wait? After all, it doesn't have to be a special occasion to let someone know how much they...

 

 

In his Digital Imaging Crawl Space, Adobe Product Manager in Digital Imaging Jeff Tranberry has documented his hardware and software recommendations for tuning Photoshop CS6 for faster performance. But Jeff has tuned the recommendations, too, addressing them to different uses of the program so you know what factors...

 

 

GoPro launched its new HD Hero3 camera line this morning, which includes three versions in white, silver and black. The black model, officially called the HD Hero3 Black Edition, is the real headline-maker since it's capable of shooting 4K video, which is a first for a small rugged action camera.

While 4K video...

 

 

Bird photographers are going to love this. It's a cleverly designed bird feeder you can use to remotely snap close-up photos of feathered visitors.

Called Bird Photo Booth, the device was invented by ornithologist Bryson Lovett to snare photos of birds who come to the feeder for a bite.

Set up is fairly...

One of the more anticipated compact system cameras of the year, the 16.3-megapixel Fujifilm X-E1, has just gone on sale in Europe. 

Here are black and silver versions of the new Fuji X-E1 being unboxed in a short video from BCH in Brussels, Belgium.

The X-E1, which is the little brother to Fuji's X-Pro1, is expected to hit U.S. shores and go on sale on...

 

 

With its latest two Perfection LED scanners, Epson has extended its reach to the cloud with document capture software that the company claims can scan directly to remote services like Google Docs and MS SharePoint.

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The elegant Epson Perfection V37 ($89.99) and the Epson Perfection V370 Photo ($119.99),...

 

 

Most photographers know that shooting in rainy weather actually helps you get more luscious and verdant landscape photos. This summer, we offered these tips on how to improve your rainy day photos.

But the one main issue with shooting in inclement weather is that those pesky raindrops can short circuit your...

Of course, we really couldn’t stand the idea that there was a lens somewhere that we didn’t own. So, Tyler went and got us a new telephoto. It came in a rather large box today.

 

 

Even unboxed, it’s rather large.

 

 

The Sigma 200-500 f/2.8 between the Canon...

 

 

Recently the Library of Congress published a very unusual gallery of gorgeous color photographs taken between 1939 and 1944 that seem to cover the entire range of American life, from rural and farm life to World War II mobilization. They were, in fact, taken by a variety of photographers working for the United...

 

 

When you want to document an incredible event like Felix Baumgartner's record-breaking jump from space, you've got to bring a lot of camera gear. According to the below video, the Red Bull Stratos mission used over 35 cameras from infrared to high definition video cameras to record Baumgartner's successful plunge...