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Faced with the onslaught of camera phones, the market for compact, fixed-lens cameras might have become a tough one in which to make a profit, but there are certainly some manufacturers that have identified convenient niches for their products. One such is Woodman Labs, creator of the popular GoPro action camera series.

Consumer electronics giant Sony looks set to...

It's a shame that the Flip Video camera is no longer being manufactured. It's the perfect, basic imaging device for projects like this series of videos capturing what it's like to be homeless.

The videos (including the one embedded below) are being created by Henry Moses Thirkield, a homeless man known as Mo, who has been documenting his day-to-day life on the streets of...

Polaroid's a name that still comes up now and then in our gear coverage but if the stylish new Z2300 instant digital camera catches on, we might be hearing more from this venerable brand in "instant" photography.

Available in black or white with a rainbow sash across the front that a few blogs have likened to the Instagram logo (which several IR readers have correctly...

New firmware for Ricoh's unusual GXR camera system today brings a variety of fixes for problems identified by the company.

Ricoh GXR firmware version 1.51 improves image quality when shooting with Multi-P AUTO white balance and negative exposure compensation, regardless of the lens module in use. The remaining changes are all specific to one lens module. For the GXR...

There's an old saw that says "Every cloud has a silver lining." Software giant Adobe Systems Inc. just added some extra silver to a cloud of its own today: the Creative Cloud, to be specific.

Earlier this year, Adobe launched the Creative Cloud alongside the debut of its new Creative Suite 6 product line. At the time, the company suggested that one of the main advantages...

Last week, we shared a classic (and rare) TV interview with photography legend Henri Cartier-Bresson from the Charlie Rose Show on PBS. While that interview had some choice moments, we were somewhat put-off by Rose's interview techniques.

There's actually a much better film (embedded below) about Cartier-Bresson on YouTube which, thanks to its subtitles, makes it much...

Shopping for lenses to mount on your shiny new Fujifilm X-Pro1 compact system camera? Your selection might be a little limited at the moment, but that will soon change, according to a roadmap released by Fujifilm today.

Currently, there are three lens models available for the Fuji X-mount, all of them primes: the Fujinon XF18mm F2 R, XF35mm F1.4 R, and XF60mm F2.4 R...

Pentax may have taken a while to hop onto the mirrorless camera bandwagon, but when it finally did, it wasn't half-hearted. Shortly after it debuted the tiny Pentax Q, it followed up with a compact system camera that was almost its polar opposite: the Pentax K-01.

Beneath its unique Marc Newson-designed styling is a compact system camera that keeps the mirror box--it just...

Bankrupt imaging icon Eastman Kodak Co. and its one-time partner, consumer electronics manufacturer Apple Inc. have both fired their latest salvos in a lengthy struggle over ten patents dating back to the early 1990s, reports UK-based tech website The Register, among others.

In the middle of last week, Kodak filed a complaint with the US Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan,...

If the camera industry was smart and forward thinking, it might do well to take a page from the past and make an updated version of these camera-themed comic books from the 1940s.

Published between 1944 and 1946 by the U.S. Camera Publishing Company, the Camera Comics series was a fun, marketing gimmick to try to inspire more people to take up photography as a hobby.

Growing up a rangefinder camera user, I have been using optical viewfinders (OVF) since an early age. They were, metaphorically speaking, my eyes. This is an idea powerfully visualized in Andreas Feininger’s portrait of recently deceased, Magnum photographer Dennis Stock. The portrait is shown to the right with Stock holding his Leica with optical viewfinder.

Today,...

How many pixels can you fit into a liter? A bit of a nonsensical question, perhaps, but for a prototype camera built by researchers at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, the answer is around 270 megapixels.

Duke's researchers, working in cooperation with the University of Arizona and the University of California San Diego, have been given a tough goal by the...

Offering just about everything you want from a waterproof digital camera, the Panasonic TS4 dives deeper than most any other camera on the market, down to 40 feet. The TS4's built-in GPS is icing on a cake that includes Full HD video recording, an altimeter and a barometer. Its 12-megapixel sensor sits behind a 28-128mm lens, and it works about as well as we expected. Our...

A few days after it issued updated firmware for the EOS 60D / 60Da and EOS 5D Mark III digital SLRs and four of its professional camcorder models, Canon USA has released firmware updates for two more products in yet another category. This time, the updates are for two of its Cinema EOS-series professional interchangeable-lens video cameras, the closely-related EOS C300 and...

We don't know about you but we've got so many external hard drives, card readers, printers, chargers and other devices hooked into our iMac computer, our USB hub looks like a Medusa-head. And despite having a very serviceable 10-port hub, we always have a shortage of spare USB slots.

That's why we like the Manhattan's Mondohub, which offers a whopping 28 different USB...

Yesterday, we published our first gallery shots from a production-level Pentax K-30 digital SLR, an interesting camera that couples a consumer-friendly pricetag with a great pentaprism viewfinder and a weather-sealed body. At the time, we said to expect our lab shots soon.

True to our word, Lab Technician Luke Smith's been hard at work, and we've just posted the first of...

Worldwide, sales of smartphones are soaring, and that means an increasing demand for the tiny image sensors that form the heart of the multiple cameras found in a typical smartphone. Responding to that demand, Sony Corp. has today announced plans to invest another 80 billion yen (close to US$1 billion) in a semiconductor facility in Fukuoka, Japan.

The new cash injection...

Are you frustrated with your images? Do you feel like your images have gotten repetitive? Are you visually tongue-tied? If you answer yes, then let me offer five keywords that can improve your photography.
 
Despite protests to the contrary, all photography is about communicating something to someone. Whether it is a proud mom photographing her daughter’s first dance...

Sony released its 50mm f/1.8 prime for the NEX E-mount at the end of 2011, and we have had some interesting results from it in the lab, particularly in the area of chromatic aberration. If you ever wanted to learn about longitudinal chromatic aberration, the Sony E 50mm f/1.8 OSS we tested is an excellent case study: click here to read our full review of this lens!