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Now, this is clever: a camera bag that lets you take photos without having to remove the camera from the bag. Called the Cloak Camera Bag, this stealthy satchel looks inconspicuous enough when it's fully zipped up.

Unzip the edges though, and the bag becomes more of a camera "cape," letting you snap away without having to take it out. Fold in the bottom panel of the bag...

Nikon announced its 1 series of cameras in October 2011; it wisely produced the FT-1 adapter to allow the use of standard F-mount lenses on a Nikon J1 or V1 camera. The adapter features a built-in tripod mount, and works best with AF-S lenses, though other Nikon or third party lenses are supported in manual focus mode. Click here to read our full review of the Nikon FT-1...

Even among the largest camera manufacturers, it's pretty common that in smaller, less affluent countries, the company is represented locally by a distributor rather than having its own presence. This was the situation for Fujifilm in Turkey, but as of last Friday, the country has graduated to one with its own local Fuji office.

Turkey is quite a young place--more than...

Ricoh's CX6 digital camera has had pretty regular firmware updates since it shipped six months ago. Thru March, the company had offered an update every month, squashing a variety of bugs and improving performance. April bucked the trend with no update, but in the closing days of May the company pushed another update with two new fixes.

Changes in Ricoh CX6 firmware v1.26...

When I first saw Andrew Bellamy’s wood paneled cameras, it reminded me of the 1948 Ford “Woody” station wagon a friend’s dad owned. It was the classic LA beach, surf bum machine, mixing the chubby round styling of the 1950s good life with the sleek elegance of beautiful wood. They are to my eyes, very Steampunk.

Bellamy, a British transplant to the U.S. started Ilott...

If you're using several of Topaz Labs' various image enhancement plugins, and find yourself wishing for a way to harness their power without having to jump back and forth between separate plugins, the company is about to release a new product you're going to find interesting.

Topaz photoFXlab--previewed in a recent blog post from the company, and a related YouTube video...

We've seen a lot of photo backpacks in our day but few have been as tastefully handsome as The Camps Bay camera and laptop bag from ONA.

The pack, which is made from waxed canvas and detailed with dark "truffle" leather (ooo la la!), is also practical, with enough padded interior space to house a digital SLR with a 70-200mm f/2.8 lens attached; seven additional lenses; a...

Some of our most interesting conversations here at Imaging Resource are over new photo products or what to cover in the news but they normally never see the light of day. We had such widely varying reactions to the following short film, which is comprised of 873 seemingly random Getty stock images (displayed at 15 images per second), though, that we thought it was worth...

At the NAB 2012 show last April, photo gear company Induro launched a new hi-hat tripod set designed for both still and video use, with an impressive weight limit of 220 pounds. The company had a pretty eyecatching--not to mention convincing--method of demonstrating the load-bearing capabilities of its new Induro LFB100S DR Hi-Hat Tripod Set: set it on the floor, and then...

Designed to take on the smartphone, the Canon 510 HS includes a blend of features to attract the savvy photographer. First, this digital camera has a 12x zoom lens with an impressive range from 28-336mm equivalent. Next, the Canon 510 employs a touchscreen so users can do just about everything without pressing a single button. Though we had a little trouble with the...

Summer arrives in the northern hermisphere tomorrow. For many of us, that means it's time to cool off with a swim, whether at the seaside, a lake, or maybe just the local swimming pool.

For anybody owning the Fujifilm FinePix XP150, there's now double the reason to get outside for a splash around. A new firmware update for the Fuji XP150 just shipped, and it brings...

More than seven months after the abrupt dismissal of whistleblower Michael Woodford, Japan's Olympus Corp. has reached a settlement with its former president and CEO, reports Associated Press correspondent Yuri Kageyama. The last-minute deal comes right as Woodford's claim of unfair dismissal was to be heard before an employment tribunal in London. The AP article,...

Whether you're strolling around the big city by day or hitting the town by night, ladies might want to consider sliding into this "Little Slide Dress" made out of slide film and illuminated by tiny LED lights.

Designed by New Zealand fashion student Emily Steel, the slide film dress is her modern take on "the classic Little Black Dress."

Steel says the dress is made out...

Last weekend I shot a video with my digital camera of our local wine and arts fair. Despite my best efforts, the resulting video had its share of "is it an earthquake?” panning shots, along with teeth jarring tracking-while-walking shots. Even with my camera's image stabilization technology and the assistance of a few people, getting these shots to flow smoothly was a...

Almost five weeks after Adobe debuted an updated release candidate of its flagship photographer-centric imaging application Photoshop Lightroom, the company has today issued a final version. Alongside the final availability of Photoshop Lightroom 4.1, Adobe has also delivered an update to the Adobe Camera Raw plugin for Photoshop, but only for customers who've purchased the...

Are you excited about the upcoming Summer Olympics in London and do you like photography? If so, you'll love this funny spoof video entitled "The 2012 World Photo Games" where various camera gear is substituted for batons, shot puts and other sports equipment.

Created by Calgary, Canada-based pro photo dealer The Camera Store, the video is a follow-up to the hilarious...

Nikon has today released updated firmware for several of its high-end digital SLRs, bringing similar fixes for several issues found since release.

The Nikon D4 was the company's first SLR announcement of the year, coupling a 16.2-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor and a new EXPEED 3 image processor to achieve sensitivity that can vary from as low as ISO 50 to a whopping ISO...

Hasselblad fans now have a way to show off their love of these classic cameras thanks to a trio of new t-shirts designed by illustrator Yujio Miyamoto. Each shirt comes emblazoned with vectored drawings by Miyamoto of Hasselblad cameras.

The shirts, which are offered in white, grey, and off-white "apple" versions, also have illustrations of Hasselblads on the back and...

The pioneering sci-fi blockbuster movie Star Wars celebrated its 35th Anniversary on Friday (May 25th was the day it premiered in 1977) and fans still can't get enough of product tie-ins from the original trilogy. In that vein, here are two Star Wars-themed digital cameras: a Darth Vader camera and a Storm Trooper camera.

As digital cameras, they aren't much: both have...