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A few months ago, the first rumors appeared of a new underwater housing for the iconic GoPro HD Hero action camera line, with availability expected from winter 2012. Today, GoPro creator Woodman Labs Inc. has made the AFLTH-001 Dive Housing official, and reconfirmed the previously-expected price of around US$50. Availability is well ahead of the earlier schedule, though:...

A New York-based startup will soon unveil an open air, portable event studio setup that it claims will couple "the fun of a photobooth with the quality of a professional studio". Detailed information isn't available yet, but the mobile studio looks to be based around a Nikon D800 digital SLR, plus a variety of other hardware and software, including both a printer and...

And the winner for the title of "world's most expensive camera" goes to…Leica. A 1923 Leica Series-0 camera was sold for a record 2,160,000 euros (nearly $2.79 million dollars) at an auction in Vienna, Austria this past Saturday, turning the heads of photo gear collectors around the world.

The 1923 Leica Series-0 camera is one of only 25 prototypes produced to test the...

American photography has many fathers, like Mathew Brady and Alfred Stieglitz, but there was just one woman who was its mother, Gertrude Käsebier. Not only was she one of the first American women to have a successful career as a photographer, but she was one of the first photographers anywhere to focus on the family. In her timeless images of mothers and children, she...

We've just updated our review of Photoshop Touchwith new screen shots 
and sample images to reflect the changes introduced yesterday.

Adobe released Photoshop Touch version 1.2 yesterday afternoon with the following enhancements:

• Maximum resolution is 2,048 x 2,048 pixels restricted to 10 layers. The default remains 1,600 x 1,600 pixels with up to 16 layers....

One day while taking pictures in Florence’s Piazza della Signoria, I came upon a strange sight. There was an old man standing beside a huge wooden box camera on an old wooden tripod. I watched with curiosity as an elderly woman come up to the man and asked to have her picture taken.

Carefully sitting her in a sunny spot near the copy of Michelangelo’s statue of David, he...

Germany's Leica Camera AG is making quite the splash today, with a surprisingly large collection of new announcements. (Well, surprising unless you've been paying attention to all the rumors and leaks in the run-up to today's 'Das Wesentliche' press event in Berlin, that is.)

Probably the most significant of the announcements is the Leica M Monochrom, the world's first...

An article published today by the Wall Street Journal offers an interesting insight into the future of the camera market, as Samsung sees it. WSJ correspondent Jung-Ah Lee interviewed Myoung Sup Han, Senior Vice President and Head of the Digital Imaging Business at Samsung Electronics, and uncovered an interesting fact: the company is in the process of converting production...

If you're a Mac owner running OS X 10.6.6 (Snow Leopard) or later, chances are pretty good that you've used the Mac App Store, Apple's one-stop-shop for app downloads. It's a pretty convenient way to find and purchase new applications, and now you'll be able to find another big name on its virtual shelves.

Effective immediately, Adobe's photographer-centric Lightroom app...

Apple's iPhone 4S is an impressive computing and communication tool, and one of its strengths is a better camera than you can find in most dumb phones, to be sure. Enhanced by downloadable apps, Apple also souped up the iPhone 4S camera in its latest hardware rev, with a higher-resolution sensor, a faster lens, support for Full HD video, and access to the smartphone's more...

As product reviewers, we're faced with a bit of a problem. The cameras we most want to tell you about are the ones we find really enjoyable to shoot. Since we're having fun with them, though, it can be difficult to extract these gems from anybody's hands for long enough to put them through our lengthy lab testing process, let alone get some writing done! If you've been...

Remember that massive 6mm f/2.8 fisheye Nikkor lens that went on sale in London last month for a whopping $160,000? Well, the giant lens was eventually sold for that asking price to a private collector via Nikon retailer Grays of Westminster but not before a short video of it was made.

The video, which features this whale of a fisheye lens attached to both a Nikon F...

Like lots of photographers, I'm a movie buff and I especially love movies that feature cameras. To test your "cameras in the movies skills," here's a pop quiz with 15 questions.

How many can you answer correctly without cheating with Wikipedia or Google?

We'll provide you with the answers in a follow-up post on Monday. In the mean time, feel free to sound off with your...

The Pentax Q is a camera that instantly polarizes opinion more than most.

Some love it for its incredibly compact design: there is truly no other interchangeable-lens camera that comes close to the size and weight of the Q, especially when one takes into account the optics. Others decry its smaller-than-average image sensor, and the limitations that brings in a number of...

Rugged, lifestyle cameras have really taken off over the last few years, thanks in no small part to the efforts of Olympus, an early pioneer in the field of lifeproof digital cameras. Even with camera phones gobbling up compact camera market share, these solidly-built fixed-lens cameras still offer a clear advantage over your smartphone: the ability to shoot in pretty-much...

There's a good reason not to buy Photoshop Touch, although it has nothing to do with how well the feature set has been implemented.

In fact, we enjoyed composing images with it and even exchanging files with its big brother using Adobe's new Creative Cloud. Touch includes Layers (which you can review in 3D) but it also brings the Healing Brush and Squiggle Selections to...

I’m a tabletop studio fan. They are easy to use and despite their small size, these tiny “studios” are a great way to get very high quality photographs of coins, stamps, flowers, jewelry, collectibles or water drops like Martin Waugh’s amazing liquids frozen in motion photos. Simple to make, I’ve constructed them out of everything imaginable -- my favorite was my studio in...

Adobe has today published new v7.1 release candidate versions of its DNG Converter application and Camera Raw plugin, hot on the heels of the just-issued v6.7 versions that shipped last week.

This is the first Camera Raw release which requires Photoshop CS6 to function, and hence cannot be used with CS5 or earlier versions of Adobe's flagship imaging app. Adobe Camera Raw...

News from Eastman Kodak Co. today brings closure to a decade-long battle between two of the biggest names in the online photo sharing / photofinishing business. The public debuts of both Ofoto Inc. and Shutterfly Inc. on the very same day back in December 1999 set them up for a head-to-head fight, and Shutterfly now emerges the victor as it purchases the remains of its...