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So one mystery about the Samsung Galaxy Camera has just been cleared up. The unique "cellular" camera, which runs Google’s Android 4.1 (aka Jelly Bean) and has WiFi and either 3G or 4G connectivity, will be available from AT&T and use that company's cellular network.

Other questions still remain on the Samsung...

 

 

Samuel Morse: The man who (almost) never succeeded

It’s been a long time since I did a photography history article. I generally prefer the early days of photography. People just were--I don’t know, more--back then. There was more lying, more backstabbing, more drama, and more originality. You name it; they...

 

 

Remember that controversial move by Ikea we told you about on Monday where women were Photoshopped out the Saudi version of its furniture catalog? Well, someone has decided to have some fun with it on Tumblr by starting a blog where women in famous photos are...

 

 

Planning on buying an action camera any time soon? The number of options available to you--and the number of competitors to the venerable GoPro--are continuing to increase. First JVC and then Sony muscled in on the GoPro's turf, and now Polaroid wants a piece of the action too. (Or at least, C&A Marketing...

 

 

Here's a strange short movie called "Touchy, a Human Camera," which we're not sure how we feel about.

Part of us is charmed by this lonely human camera creature named Touchy who, according the description on Vimeo, "is blinded constantly until someone’s touch...

 

 

For a generation of photographers brought up on digital, this news may not mean a lot. For those of us who remember the days when strips of plastic coated with silver halide was where it was at, though, news of another discontinued Kodak product may well inspire a moment's reflection. The latest icon on...

That video history of Polaroid we posted yesterday made us nostalgic for the heyday of instant cameras, which is probably why our heart jumped when we saw this: a classic Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera on sale again.

 

 

This original, fold-up SX-70 has been refurbished and reskinned with white leather and it looks...

 

 

Action cams like those offered by GoPro, Contour and, more recently, Sony, are pretty cool but they do add an extra appendage to your helmet. While dedicated ski goggle cameras are nothing new -- Liquid Image has been making them for years -- we prefer them to action cams for recording high-def footage and still...

 

 

Last August, Adobe issued release candidates of its upcoming updates for Camera Raw, DNG Converter, and Photoshop Lightroom. After five weeks of testing, the company has today finalized all three, with bugs aplenty squashed and support for a raft of new cameras and camera backs added.

As well as those...

 

 

Photography didn't look like much of an interesting career nearly 70 years ago, at least according to a 1946 vocational guidance film that was recently rescued out of some dusty archive and posted online. "Your Life Work: Photography" is filled with characters such as the "commercial man" and the "portrait man" who...

 

 

Our friend Jeff Cable is featured in an interesting new educational video shot at the B&H Photo and Video Store in New York City. Jeff, who we know mainly as a sports photographer who wrote about how to pack a gear bag for the Olympics, discusses his passion for night photography in this seminar entitled: "Pixels...

 

 

Here's an interesting little video detailing the history of Polaroid. What's most remarkable about the clip though is the classic footage of Polaroid founder Edwin Land seemingly predicting a picture-sharing device not unlike the iPhone.

The video was created...

 

 

Could improved facial recognition technology be on the way for Google products like Android, Google+ and Picasa? So suggests CNET news, reporting on a planned purchase of computer vision company Viewdle by the Internet giant. According to yesterday's CNET article, the deal is expected to close today, with...

 

 

Talk about a photographic treasure trove! Over 600 signed prints by legendary American photographer Ansel Adams have been discovered in a box at the University of California's Berkeley campus.

The prints -- totalling 605 in number -- were part of a project Adams had been hired for in the 1960s, which involved...

 

 

A little over a month ago, we reported on Kodak's plan to divest itself of its film and imaging businesses, after having previously exited the digital camera, camcorder, and picture frame markets, shuttered its image sharing service, and sold its image sensor business. Now, Kodak has announced its exit from...

 

 

If you ever wondered about the transformative power of photography, you should watch this moving short film by Mike Allebach called "Fearless Jaleel King: Against All Odds."

When King was just eight years old, he almost died when an angry neighbor shot him with a sawed-off shotgun. When King woke up in the...

 

 

A new product line from Chinese camera support manufacturer Benro lets photographers match their tripod to their style, with a generous choice of colors. The Benro MeFoto Transfunctional tripods all share the same basic design, differing only in their color. The group all have a metallic finish, in either...

Artist Chris McVeigh (aka powerpig) has made this super cool Leica M9 replica entirely out of Lego pieces.

 

 

According to McVeigh, his Lego Leica M9 was inspired by a "stunning" Leica M8 Lego replica made by artist H.Y. Leung (aka Mr.Attacki) earlier this year.

"In order to prevent any sort of duplication of his...

 

 

Ikea has issued an apology for apparently Photoshopping women out of a Saudi version of its furniture catalogue.

"We should have reacted and realized that excluding women from the Saudi Arabian version of the catalogue is in conflict with the IKEA Group values," the company said in a statement.

The issue came...