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Almost a year ago, Olympus Corp. was rocked by an accounting scandal that obliterated four-fifths of its stock's value within a frantic month's trading. Over the following weeks, it became clear that the fraud took place at the very highest levels of the company's management. Several high-level executives at...

 

©Anton Custers

About a month ago, we read an interview with photographer Anton Kusters in Steward Magazine describing his Yakuza project, which documented the life of Japanese gangsters in photos.

While it was an interesting interview that featured Kusters' powerful photos of the yakuza, we felt there was more to...

 

 

Digital cameras allow me to choose among four image formats: 4:3, 3:2, 16:9 and 1:1. This could be a great asset, but I think that having so many choices actually makes things more difficult for photographers. Simply put, when camera format, screen shapes and photo print paper and frames are all in different...

 

 

There have been a fair share of Instagram parodies these days including this one, which compares female Instagrammers with male Instagrammers; and this one, which satirizes a "professional" Instagram photographer.

So add to the satirical mix this catchy little tune and video entitled "The Instagram Song (Put A...

 

 

Here's one of those multimedia devices that's either the perfect tool for our self-obsessed, social-media sharing, Facebook-driven lives or a scary example of how digitally solipsistic we have all become.

Called the Autographer and designed to be worn around your neck, the device is a hands-free, 5-megapixel...

 

 

Adobe has given Elements 11 a makeover and taught it a few new tricks. Both Photoshop Elements for photo editing and Premiere Elements for video editing enjoy an easier to read interface with icons that blush with color and buttons big enough to see without reading glasses.

Underneath it all in Photoshop Elements...

 

 

An announcement from sensor provider Aptina last week suggests that there could be competition on the horizon for Nikon's 1-series cameras, as well as Sony's Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 fixed-lens compact. Aptina has revealed that it is now shipping samples of its new AR1011HS image sensor, which would appear to be...

 

 

I'm a fan of the New York Jets, which means a lot of heartbreak. So when controversial quarterback Tim Tebow arrived in the off-season, I was not optimistic (which is still the case three games into the season).

The media, however, has gone haywire over the Tebow signing in New York and one photographer who has...

Back at the start of July, the Samsung EX2F digital camera was unveiled, claimed by its manufacturer to have the brightest lens of any compact camera model. Admittedly, that record didn't last long: just two weeks later the Panasonic LX7 was revealed with an even brighter zoom. Still, there's no denying that with a maximum aperture varying from f/1.4 to f/2.7 across the...

 

 

Remember those infamous death photos of Osama Bin Laden that were never released to the public? They were more than likely captured with an Olympus digital camera. That's what we learned while reading "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden," written by a former Navy SEAL.
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Justin Stailey, Product Specialist, M-System at Leica Camera Inc.

Leica made a splash as Photokina 2012 by introducing five new cameras, headlined by the Leica M, M-E and S. But it wasn't merely alphabet soup -- a lot of thought and technological innovation went into these new releases. Our founder and publisher Dave...

 

 

We don't know what to do with this candy-covered Canon EOS 7D designed by artist PJ Linden: eat it or take pictures with it.

Linden, who specializes in transforming digital products into playful "tech toys" with 3D paint, created this one-of-a-kind 7D using...

 

John Carlson, Senior Manager of Sales and Marketing, Pentax Ricoh Imaging Americas Corp.

During the Photokina show, Dave Etchells sat down with Pentax representatives from both the American and European continents to talk about future directions for the company's cameras. Topics for discussion included the...

 

Kazuto Yamaki, Chief Executive Officer, Sigma Corp.

IR's Dave Etchells totally geeked out over Sigma's announcements at Photokina 2012, calling many of them firsts for the camera industry. And we're not only talking about their new products, but also their ground-breaking approach to quality control and lens...

 

Mark Weir, Senior Manager of Technology and Marketing at Sony Electronics Inc.

Imaging Resource Founder and Publisher Dave Etchells talked with Mark Weir, Senior Manager of Technology and Marketing for Sony Electronics Inc., at Photokina 2012. Weir discussed the attention-grabbing RX1 full-frame compact camera, as...

 

Mike Owen, Professional Image Marketing Manager at Canon Europe Ltd.

Imaging Resource Founder and Publisher Dave Etchells caught up with Mike Owen, Professional Image Marketing Manager for Canon Europe Ltd., at Photokina 2012. Owen discussed the technical tradeoffs Canon had to make in developing the 6D, the...

 

 

Ladies and gentlemen, the Leica M digital camera is here, and it is not your Daddy's rangefinder! After the first significant overhaul in three years, Leica's latest M-system camera sports a number of significant new features that are quite a departure from the Leicas of days gone by. The Leica M (Typ 240)...

 

 

Think quickly! How much would you pay to have a USB port and an extra switch on your Leica digital camera? Did you say US$1,500 or more? If so, then you can stop reading this preview: the German camera legend would rather you looked at our review of their M9 and M9-P instead.

If, though, you're the kind of...

 

 

For quite a few years now, Germany's Leica Camera AG and Japan's Panasonic have had a partnership in the consumer camera market. Leica supplies its know-how regarding the lenses, while Panasonic provides the brains of the camera behind the lens. The cameras appear first under Panasonic's Lumix compact camera...