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DxO Labs has today announced an update to its flagship image processing application, DxO Optics Pro. The latest release marks a milestone for the company, taking the total number of optics modules for the program to an impressive six thousand, less than four months after it past the five thousand point. According to the company, it has shipped no less than 500 new camera...

There seems to be no end to the number of smart products to give you fast yet secure access to your camera. The latest one to catch our eye is Capture Camera Clip ($80), which fastens to any belt or strap and lets you attach your camera so it's always close at hand.

Created by Peak Design and begun as a Kickstarter project -- the company raised a whopping $364,698! --...

Everyone seemed to enjoy my destruction of an NEX camera a couple of weeks ago. I made the statement in that post that it was amazing how simple and clean the camera was compared to even a small SLR. So, of course, a number of people then wanted me to open up an SLR so they could see the difference. Having matured only marginally since 3rd grade, I had no choice except to...

Pasting a 100-year-old folding camera on a 24-megapixel Digital SLR may seem the height of strangeness. Don’t bet on it. You'll find it's just the tiniest tip of an iceberg of photographic oddity if you check out this photo gallery of "The World's Strangest Cameras."

Here are a few from the list we found interesting (to say the least). 

There's the artist Wafaa Bilal,...

Arriving at the Celebrity Camera Club Tumblr blog full of anticipation of seeing Flavor Flav or the Octomom with a Canon 5D Mark II, I was badly let down. The celebrities in this gallery of the would-be and the almost famous and their cameras are for the most part folks from the past. The talented and not so talented, holding film cameras, all supposedly caught in the act...

Just two weeks after Sony announced major changes to its upper management and a restructuring that refocuses its businesses on digital imaging, gaming, and mobile technologies, reports are surfacing that the company plans to shed some 10,000 jobs over the next year or two.

Japanese newspaper Nikkei broke the story, which has subsequently been reported by a variety of...

As a digital camera made expressly for enthusiasts, the Panasonic GX1 is a little larger than the smallest compact system cameras, but is still small enough to bring along easily. While the GX1 is in some ways a return to an older design, it still includes improvements in resolution and image quality. Its new touchscreen interface also manages to add a bit of utility as...

Popular social networking site Facebook just hit the corporate 'like' button on Instagram in a big way, agreeing to buy the photo sharing app-maker for a whopping one billion dollars. The purchase is said to be Facebook's largest purchase to date, and comes hot on the heels of Instagram's debut on Google's Android platform last week. The photo app already claims an...

We've seen lots of miniaturized digital SLRs in our day but most of them are for looks only. This mini Canon 5D Mark III clone can actually shoot images and HD video.

Made in Japan by Thanko and available via GeekStuff4U for $185.88, the shrunken Canon 5D III look-a-like can shoot 5MP still images (2560x1920 resolution) and 720p HD video at 30p.

(We're not sure about...

Earlier this week, we told you about these cool cocktail coasters shaped like old floppy disks. Now, here's something else you can add to your novelty timber collection: a wooden camera necklace.

No, you can't actually shoot photos with it but people will probably shoot you some sly glances when they they see this attractive little camera around your neck. Designed like a...

A couple of days ago, I pointed readers towards Project Glass, an interesting--if perhaps a little stereotypically geeky--project from Google. Project Glass aims to create an augmented reality, heads-up display device suitable for use by the general public.

In our earlier article I linked to Google's official concept video, which suggested a variety of possible uses for a...

Kevin J. Weir’s animated photo GIFs are something out of an Edgar Allen Poe ghost story. Like half remembered nightmares, you just can't shake off these moving photographic hauntings that linger in the mind. 

Weir is a student at Richmond, Virginia’s, VCU Brandcenter graduate program in advertising and he's spent a good deal of time in peripatetic exploration of the...

Tired of hunting through your camera bag for where you put the spare camera batteries? Pockets full of flash cards? Does the lost socks fairy seem to have branched out into abducting strobe gels as well? If so, the folks at Think Tank Photo have a new line of products aimed at helping you reduce your photo gear clutter.

The DSLR Battery Holder 2 and DSLR Battery Holder 4...

Smartphones have taken over as the daily snapshooter for a lot of folks, but there are still plenty of situations where your smartphone can't replace a dedicated camera. A new camera case from Concord Keystone aims to negate the dedicated camera's advantage in one of these areas: underwater.

The Concord Keystone ECO™ MarineCase is a waterproof case for Apple's iPhone 4...

There are lots of apps that produce zany toy camera effects when shooting with your iPhone but here's something slightly more whimsical: a case that fits over your Apple phone with nine plastic Holga camera lens filters.

Just spin the wheel on the Holga iPhone Lens case and choose the filter you want, including one that creates the "Holga Hole" vignette effect;...

Last February, Olympus announced its first OM-D series Micro Four Thirds camera, the Olympus E-M5. Like the PEN-series cameras before it, the retro-styled Olympus M5 draws a parallel with an iconic product line from the company's history: the film-based OM-series cameras. Featuring what Olympus claimed to be the world's fastest autofocus system coupled to the world's first...

The Camera Table Dolly is a high-tech skateboard adapted for shooting digital video with a DSLR. A cleverly designed variation on an adolescent’s street speeder, the Table Dolly solves one of the biggest problems facing HD video shooters: picture jiggle and bounce.

It is a frustrating problem that happens whenever I shoot videos of moving subjects. Not wanting to pan the...

Panasonic has today announced the Lumix DMC-GF5 compact system camera, a new model that revisits the design of its earlier GF3 model, and makes refinements in a number of areas.

Most significantly, the Panasonic GF5 has a new image sensor and processor combo. Sensor resolution is unchanged at twelve megapixels, but the GF5's imager has lower-profile, better-positioned...

If you remember floppy disks -- or even if you don't -- you'll dig these snazzy coasters designed like those once ubiquitous storage disks.

Though "floppies" could hold only a few kilobytes of data back in the day, these wooden coasters provide ample room for a cup of coffee, cold drink, or cocktail of your choice.  The coasters are 3.25 x 3.25 inches and made of laser...