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AMIENS, FRANCE — Literary scholars announced that they have unearthed a 33-page handwritten manuscript of "Le Telephon-Photographique," ("The Camera-Phone") an unpublished short story by the father of science fiction, Jules Verne.

Written in 1874, this story of a hand-held communications and picture-taking device that leads to social upheaval in 21st-century France...

Earlier this week Columbia University announced the winners of its 96th annual Pulitzer Prizes, including Massoud Hassaini for Breaking News Photography and Craig F. Walker for Feature Photography.

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Agence France-Presse Photographer Massoud Hossaini was honored for his image of a 12 year old girl "cyring in fear after a suicide bomber's attack"...

We have camera bags up the wazoo but the ones we grab when we're in a hurry tend to have two things in common: they're relatively small and they're inconspicuous. Think Tank Photo, one of our favorite bag companies, just announced it will be releasing a new bag in May called the Retrospective 7 and it seems to fit those discrete characteristics.

Available in three...

Hasselblad has today released new versions of its Phocus tethered shooting software for MacOS, as well as the Phocus Mobile app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The updates are particularly interesting because they aim to solve a common problem on larger photo shoots: the huddle around the monitor to review images as they're captured.

With Phocus 2.6.6 and Phocus Mobile...

We thought we were being cheeky when we referenced now-ancient Sony Mavica cameras in this piece on cocktail coasters shaped like floppy disks. It turns out you can get one of those classic Mavica cameras in what looks like an unopened box right now at Wal-Mart for a cool $269.

The camera model is the Sony MVC-FD200 FD Mavica from 2002 -- it debuted at CES! -- and it...

Blackmagic Design made one of the surprise announcements at NAB 2012 by unveiling its small but powerful new Cinema Camera, which can record 2.5K raw video but costs just $2,995.

According to Blackmagic, the Cinema Camera's 2.5K sensor offers 13 stops of dynamic range which, if true, should make it extremely versatile, especially since it's capturing uncompressed raw...

A blog post from Image Sensors World brings our attention to an interesting slideshow from Dr. Joachim Linkemann, Senior Product Manager at Basler AG. Basler produces industrial and network cameras for everything from food inspection to casino video surveillance, and so Dr. Linkemann has more than a passing acquaintance with image sensor technology. The slideshow was...

As it prepares for the launch of a significant update to its flagship PhotoKey green screening application in just a few days, Norwich, UK-based FXhome Ltd. is teasing the new release with a number of videos showing off its new features.

PhotoKey v5 ships from April 19th, and customers purchasing version 4 now will receive free updates once version 5 is available. Among...

Canon USA Inc. has acknowledged a problem experienced by some photographers shooting with its EOS 5D Mk III digital SLR, we hear from the folks over at PDN Pulse. The company confirms that it has replicated an issue whereby light leaking from the top-panel LCD info display's backlight is picked up by the camera's metering system, affecting the displayed exposure value. The...

Sigma's new 105mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM macro lens is a redesign of an older design, with a few extra features. HSM focusing replaces an older (and slightly confusing) focusing system, and optical stabilization has been added in case you didn't want to lug a tripod into the field. We've put this lens through its paces in our test lab - click here to see our full review of this...

The best worst thing happened today: a nearly new Canon 5D Mk III came back from rental with a loose screw rattling around inside. We had to decide if it went back to Canon or if we should go looking for the screw ourselves. That’s a tough decision. So we thought about it for a while. Until Tyler and Drew went to lunch. Then we decided it had to be handled in-house. Since...

The recently published “Photographs Not Taken: A Collection of Photographers' Essays” (Daylight, 2012) is a remarkable collection of words about photography that contains not a single photograph. In their own words, the sixty photographers who contributed the essays in this book tell the stories of the images they never took. The overall effect is powerful and thought...

GoPro's Hero-series cameras have proven very popular with fans of the great outdoors, and for good reason. They're simple to operate, relatively compact and light, and pretty rugged. GoPros have shot video of everything from wingflying to wakeboarding, and they've even been up to the stratosphere. Wherever they go, though, it's usually pretty easy to recognize the footage...

Now that just about every digital SLR on the market shoots HD video -- and some even 4K video such as the recently announced Canon EOS-1D C -- is there any way to make zooming with these cameras any smoother? VizTools thinks its new HandiZoom handgrip and control unit is just the answer.

HandiZoom is designed to turn your DSLR into an ENG (Electronic News Gathering)-style...

Clik Elite camera bags are known for their modern take on rugged cameras bags for the adventurous outdoor photographer. But with Clik Elite's new Classic Line, the company is going for a more stylish, retro approach with these photo backpacks and bags.

The Clik Classic photo line is made up of three new photography bags designed for outdoor landscape photographers or...

Canon USA today made quite a range of announcements revolving around the National Association of Broadcasters tradeshow, which is about to kick off next week in Las Vegas. The list includes a new video-oriented EOS-series professional DSLR and a Cinema EOS-series video camera, both with 4K resolution. There are also four new EF Cinema zoom lenses, a 30-inch 4K industrial...

Color science company X-Rite Inc. has interesting news on a couple of fronts today, launching several new products and announcing its acquisition by Danaher Corp.

Of the four new products, three are based around an updated spectrophotometer, the i1Pro 2. Compared to the earlier i1Pro, the new version has a dual-illuminant design that allows tungsten, D50 and UV cut...

Erik Johansson is a Swedish photographer and master image retoucher who lives and works in Berlin. A few years ago, he began to create a portfolio of personal photography to demonstrate his Photoshop skills. This collection of “impossible images” both tricks the eye and fools the mind because of Johansson’s attention to detail.

Starting out as a professional photographer...

A couple of days ago, we reported on news that Facebook has agreed to purchase photo sharing app-maker Instagram for the staggering sum of one billion dollars. While the news has been welcomed by many--not least of them being Instagram's dozen-or-so employees, we'd imagine--a not-insignificant section of the community has reacted with alarm. With Facebook having become so...