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It's one of the most iconic images of the 2012 London Olympic Games, so far: a shot of U.S. gymnast Gabby Douglas leaping high above the balance beam, on her way to winning the all-around gold medal for Women's Gymnastics.

The image was shot by AP Photographer Gregory Bull and it's turned up on thousands of newspaper front pages and millions of websites around the world.

Canon USA has today issued product advisories noting new or upcoming firmware for several of its products. Key among these is an updated firmware release for the Canon 7D digital SLR that--as promised last June--makes extensive changes throughout, with numerous new features seen in more recent models.

Key among the changes in EOS 7D firmware version 2.0.0 is an...

The puzzle of what to do with the rest of the summer has just been solved by Carolina Road Software with its Jigsaw Explorer Web app. Good thing it's already August, because we've already spent the morning selecting images, exploding them into online jigsaw puzzles and meticulously putting them back together again.

But it isn't all just fun and games. It's a nice way to...

Updated firmware for LPA Design's PocketWizard MiniTT1 and FlexTT5 radios today adds support for several new camera bodies and flash accessories from Canon and Nikon, as well as certain Sekonic light meters. The updates also bring improvements in quite a number of other areas.

Newly-supported camera bodies include the Nikon D4, Nikon D800, and Nikon D800E.  The expanded...

When "max x" buys a new camera in the oddly endearing video below, and then takes it to the beach to see how it works, the results are surprising (to say the least). Immediately it's clear things in max x’s strange world never go as expected.
 
Think of this bizarre place as Mr. Bean meets Max Headroom.
 
It's a quizzical look at technology and a world that sometimes...

Two and a half years ago, Canadian software company Athentech Imaging ported its Perfectly Clear technology to Apple's popular iPhone smartphone. The new app took image correction capabilities that had been available for a while both as a Photoshop plugin, and an API for manufacturers to integrate into their own products, and placed these in a mobile device for the first...

If you're tired of the chore that is monitor color calibration, a raft of new LCD monitors from Japan's Eizo Nanao Corp. will be of interest. Announced last week, the new monitors all make light work of calibration, thanks to an automatic sensor that's hidden in the display bezel, but pops out at intervals to tune the monitor automatically. In all, there are five new models...

This morning we shared with you a low resolution black-and-white photo that Curiosity, the truck-sized Mars rover, captured after successfully touching down on the Red Planet.

In a few days, Curiosity will deploy its mast along with two additional, more sophisticated cameras to record higher resolution, color footage of Mars.

Here are pictures of those two cameras....

Here it is folks: the first image of Mars sent back to Earth by the Curiosity rover. And no, the Curosity's image from the Red Planet is not actually red, it's in black-and-white.

It's still very cool though. (Full resolution, color images from Curiosity will come later this the week, according to NASA.)

The $2.5-billion Curiosity probe and rover landed in the Gale...

If you're a big fan of Canon's EOS interchangeable-lens cameras and accessories, PowerShot compacts, or its PIXMA and SELPHY photo printers--or you just want a little more information, straight from the horse's mouth--then the company has the YouTube channel for you. Canon USA has just launched an official YouTube channel with which the company can communicate with its...

Hey, Kobe Bryant, star of the Los Angeles Lakers and the U.S. Men's Olympic Basketball team. That's a slick looking Canon digital SLR you have there and a nice looking premium Canon "white" lens on front. You'll notice though that you can't take pictures with that rig unless you take the lens cap off.

Just thought I'd let you know. Oh, there's a guy helping you with your...

Canon USA has today published a service advisory detailing a firmware update on four of its telephoto and super telephoto lens models for the pro market. In all four cases, the firmware updates autofocus algorithms for better responsiveness and more precise focus, especially when using AI servo AF to track irregularly-moving subjects.

The Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM...

A few days ago, I was standing in front of 50 different camera models on display at my local big box shop. My current digital cameras are ancient -- over two years old -- and recently I got the itch to replace them. But looking at all these cameras something odd happened: I froze up.

I stared at them and felt disoriented. I knew a lot about these cameras, I had even...

Action camera maker Woodman Labs Inc.--better known by its GoPro brandname--is planning an initial public offering that could happen as soon as this year, according to a report from the Reuters news agency. The goal of the IPO would be to raise some US$300-500 million, according to Reuters' unnamed sources.

Underwriters for the deal would include JPMorgan Chase,...

Aaron made a great demonstration yesterday while I was off playing with autofocus. One thing we preach here at LensRentals, a lot, is that just because a dropped lens looks fine on the outside doesn’t mean it is fine. The other thing we preach a lot is that a tiny difference in the centering, tilt, or placement of a single element can have a dramatic effect on image...

Ok, this is just for fun and, honestly, we feel bad for the guy because we've all been there before.

Check out this short video clip from NBC's Olympic gymnastics coverage and watch the befuddled photographer in the back try to figure out why his camera won't take pictures.

Yeppers, he's left the lens cap on.

D'oh!

(Via Deadspin)

Here's a nice little heart-warming tale from the cold and "heartless" big city. Photographer and filmmaker Casey Neistat was coming back from ten days of travel and shooting when he hopped in a cab at New York City's JFK airport.

The cab dropped him off at a garage in the city where Neistat picked up his car and drove to Connecticut to see his son. It was about an hour...

Some days it’s good to be a geeky gear-head. This is one of them because a) I finished testing autofocus on all of the Canon camera bodies we had, b) I actually found out some interesting stuff, and c) I got worked up about camera marketers while doing it, so I have my next post in the works already.

Because I’ve been writing this series on the fly (telling you what we...

Continuing its rapid, clockwork-like three week release schedule, Paris, France-based DxO Labs has unveiled a new version of its flagship Optics Pro image processing application. Optics Pro v7.5.3 adds support for three new cameras and an expansive list of 300 new optics modules. Various minor, unstated bugs are also said to have been fixed.

The newly supported cameras in...