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If you're interested at all in how imaging companies need to stay current to survive, you should check out "No Filter: Inside Hipstamatic’s Lost Year Searching For The Next Killer Social App" on Fast Company today. It's the first of a three-part series on how one of the more popular smart phone apps in the world...

 

 

Here's an interesting video on how to create a simple, motion-sensitive alarm to protect your pricey camera gear from being stolen.

In the how-to video, the folks at Kipkay explain how they bought a $2 "impact alarm" from their neighborhood dollar store, and then hacked it to make it motion activated.

While...

 

 

Good news, Zeiss fans! The folks over at LensRentals just received their first batch of the Zeiss ZE Distagon T* 2,8/15 super wide-angle lens, and company founder Roger Cicala intercepted a couple of copies for some preliminary testing.

If you're not familiar with the Distagon T* 15mm f/2.8, it's offered in...

 

 

Last month we shared some behind the scenes footage of famed celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz photographing Tim Tebow of the New York Jets for Vogue magazine. Annie was back behind the lens of her Hasselblad again recently to photograph Daniel Craig for the cover of Vanity Fair's November issue.

Craig, of...

 

 

Dave Etchells is out in San Francisco shooting with the amazing full-frame 24.3-megapixel Sony Cyber-shot RX1 and we've managed to post a few of his Gallery images. He's having a great time with the Sony RX1: "It's an absolute joy to shoot with. I can't believe how compact it is for a full-frame digital camera," he...

 

 

I immediately knew that there was something missing from my life when I saw the Dodge and Burn website: a selection of t-shirts that celebrates my love for retro film cameras. I had gotten an email from a Leica lovers group announcing that a New York-based apparel company was now producing a line of Leica camera...

I started this series to simply demonstrate a well-known fact: that contrast detection autofocus in live view was more accurate than standard phase detection autofocus for still subjects. It ended up being a bit more than I’d bargained for, just with the Canon cameras. After that series was done, I promised several people that I would take a similar look at Nikon cameras. I...

One of our favorite people in the photo industry, Pentax U.S. president Ned Bunnell retired last week. While Ned will certainly be missed at Pentax, it was hard to miss this giant Pentax camera cake at his retirement party at Pentax's offices.

 

 

Prior to Pentax, Ned worked at Canon, Polaroid, Adobe, and Agfa. He's...

 

 

When we reviewed Custom SLR's strap a while ago we heard from so many other strap makers that we did a roundup of sliding straps. Then we heard from Carry Speed. They make such a nice solution, we just had to tell you about that, too.

So we've updated our roundup to include two of their models. One's for lighter...

 

 

Photographers using yet another photo sharing service backed by a major name in the imaging industry will soon be faced with an either / or proposition. Last May, photo icon Kodak closed its Kodak Gallery service, and today its biggest rival from the film era, Fujifilm, announced that it will do the same with...

 

 

One of the longer exotic primes produced by Canon, the Canon EF 500mm f/4L IS II USM, is one of the more popular lenses for sports, nature and wildlife photographers. The new version of the lens integrates Canon's latest technology for exotic primes, and we have put it all through its paces in our test lab. Click...

Here's one of those "it's so crazy it just might work" ideas that photographers get from time to time. Photographer Robert Benson did some massive reverse engineering on his Canon 5D Mark II so he could mount and shoot with a Leica Noctilux 50mm f/1 lens on front.

 

 

The reason? He had the $6,500 Noctilux M-mount...

 

 

Last February, photo sharing site SmugMug launched a new app aimed at making iPhone photography a more awesome experience. That app, dubbed Camera Awesome, has done very well for SmugMug. Offered free of charge, it has a score of over four out of five from well over 10,000 user ratings--not bad at all for an...

 

 

Business cards may seem a little passé in this world of smart phones and social sharing, but we really like the thoughtfulness, craftsmanship and care that went into these cards for photographer Alexandra Stamopoulou. Stamopoulou's friend, a silkscreen artist who goes by the name Tind, designed these translucent...

 

 

There are two things we really like about StickyAlbums.

First, it gets your images off your hard drive and onto your client's mobile devices where they can easily share them. It gets your images easily off your hard drive, we should say, with a Web-based tool called Builder that assembles a branded (your brand)...

 

 

A few weeks ago, the Space Shuttle Endeavour got one last piggy back ride over South California before landing at LAX airport but it wasn't until today that we saw extended footage of this final flyover.

And since today is Friday, we thought we'd share this clip with you as a way to, hopefully, inspire your...

 

 

Fancy picking up a new digital camera or camcorder, but don't want to spend a lot of money? A bevy of new products from Sakar International Inc. are vying for your attention, and not a one costs more than US$200.

Every model in the group has one other thing in common--although it's made by Sakar, it's being...

Check out this amazing star-spangled night photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder. Does it look "faked" or heavily Photoshopped to you? It's not, according to an interesting behind-the-scenes lighting story on Strobist today.

 

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder

Snyder, an aerial combat...

 

 

There's a way to add interest and a touch of the dramatic to your photographs, purely by shooting "contre-jour" -- that is, against daylight. Normally when I take photos, just like most of you, I shoot with the sun over my shoulder and behind me so that my subjects are front lit. However, I am always on the lookout...