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Are those two terabytes in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

Western Digital (WD) is now giving photographers the ability to carry around (potentially) all of their digital archive in an external hard drive not much bigger than a passport. Called, appropriately, WD's My Passport, the sleek drives offer up to 2 TB of capacity and come in five snazzy colors:...

For a few years now, the photofinishing industry has been faced with a problem. The number of photos being captured is soaring, but in an era of social networking and the throwaway snapshots posted on the likes of Facebook, print revenues aren't. In fact, the reverse is true: they're gradually falling. The answer for many businesses has been to refocus on products that...

Nikon updated its 85mm f/1.8 lens earlier this year and units are soon to be shipping: we've got our hands on a sample of the Nikon 85mm f/1.8G AF-S and put it through its paces in our testing lab. While slightly more expensive than the model it's improving on, the new features more than justify the price: weather sealing, AF-S focusing, rounded aperture blades for better...

Denmark's Phase One A/S launched an attractive new corporate website over the weekend, and to celebrate, it's made two other changes that will be welcomed by photographers.

Effective immediately, Phase One's flagship Capture One image editor has a new, lower price tag. It also now comes with a much longer trial period that lets photographers really come to terms with...

This digital-analogue mashup has been called a “Medium-Format Canon 5D Mark II” but what it really is is a new life for a very old camera.

Most photographers have old cameras stuck away in a closet or a drawer. We are a sentimental lot after all and there is something about a turn-of-the-20th Century camera that appeals to a photographer's heart.

But few of us look at...

Zoner Software, the Czech Republic-based company behind the Windows-only imaging application Zoner Photo Studio has today announced a brief opportunity for customers to get the flagship Pro version of the app at a significant discount. If you've been considering picking up a copy of the program, act quick -- the deal's only valid today!

Launched last November, Zoner Photo...

Let's say you want to buy a Leica M9 digital rangefinder but can't afford the $8K price tag. (Yeah, join the club.) The next best thing might just be this line of cases from Gizmon iCa that transform your iPhone into a rangefinder look-a-like. The latest case is the Gizmon iCa Military Edition, which will give your phone a textured, black-paint look that recalls the M9 and...

Even those who didn't grow up making home movies in the 1970s would probably recognize a Bolex camera with its familiar pistol grip and sleek, compact style. That classic 16mm film shooter looks like it will finally make the jump to digital if the plans of two Bolex enthusiasts come to fruition.

Joe Rubinstein and Elle Schneider recently got nod from the Switzerland-based...

If you're using Apple's Mac OS X Lion, and want to work with raw files from your shiny new camera or camcorder, a quick download may be in order today, as a new update from Apple brings OS-level compatibility for a variety of new raw file formats to Apple's imaging applications.

The Apple Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 3.10 adds support for seven new cameras and...

We had the opportunity recently to participate in an industry roundtable with top Korean executives from Samsung. Attending from the industry side were representatives of DP Review, Engadget, Laptop Magazine, and Reviewed.com, as well as Imaging Resource. Samsung executives participating in the roundtable session were:

• Mr. Byungdeok Nam, Senior Vice President, R&D...

We recently met with top Samsung executives in South Korea, discussing their product plans and vision for the future. We talked about many things, much of which is covered in a separate interview digest, but it was Samsung's strategy to save the pocket camera that we found interesting enough to warrant its own article. With everyone in the camera business nervously watching...

There are two types of firmware update in this world. Some--OK, most--just fixes some bugs in earlier releases, making your camera more stable and reliable. A rare few have loftier ambitions, however.

A new firmware update today for the Ricoh GXR is in the latter group, adding a variety of new features, and refining others. Ricoh seems particularly generous in this...

That buzz you've been hearing isn't a swarm of early spring bees. It's the discussion about Nokia's 808 PureView smart phone, the one with a 41-Mp sensor tucked inside.

That's bigger than the 36.3-Mp snesor in the Nikon D800.

A week ago Damian Dinning, the head of imaging experience for Nokia smart devices, explained the concept in an article on the Nokia 808. He was...

Last month, Sigma Corp. announced an amazing price drop on its flagship SLR, the SD1. The list price was slashed by 52%, while official street pricing fell by a truly spectacular two thirds of the then-market price.

Without question, it was great news for those considering buying the Sigma SD1. In a stroke, it made Sigma's high-res, full-color Foveon sensor-based SLR--now...

We received the 36.3-megapixel Nikon D800 and Luke immediately got to work shooting our Still Life target. Peering at the images, we were astonished to see enough detail to capture and clearly render the threads in our dreaded Red Leaf fabric, a feature of our standard Still Life target. Awesome.

Go to our Nikon D800 Samples page to see the Still Life target shots, both...

Having found the interface of its dreams for all of its plug-in technology with Snapseed, Nik Software wisely didn't stop there. They brought the interface to the desktop -- both OS X and Windows -- and for just $19.99 through iTunes, the App Store or from Nik Software.

Considering the plug-ins themselves run in the three figures, that represents quite a bargain. So we...

Eighteen months ago, Sony launched two new cameras with a shared industry first: a translucent mirror design that allowed full-time phase detect AF during shooting and video capture. The concept has since spread to almost all of the company's Alpha-mount lineup, and only one of those original duo continued as a current product. Today, it meets its successor, in the form of...

Adobe, oddly enough, hosted a private showing of "Arthur Tress: San Francisco 1964" at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, a collection of decidedly non-digital images by a photographer who doesn't own Photoshop.

The exhibit features a trove of images Tress rediscovered going through his late sister's things. He had visited Madelaine 48 years ago, taking photos at the...

With a whole new look on the outside, the Samsung NX200 gets quite a few internal upgrades compared to its predecessor, not the least of which is its 20-megapixel sensor. Combined with a new lens design and a slick menu system, we found the Samsung NX200 a kick to use. We were most impressed with the improved image quality and faster autofocus, and a few of the special...