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Honestly, cameras are objects of beauty and desire as much as they are working tools for photographers. Now there’s a new website gallery called Prism Yard, where the elegance and beauty of the camera is enthusiastically celebrated.

There are dozens of gorgeous images of cameras, old and new, at Prism Yard, provided to the site by owner/photographers from around the...

If you've been holding your breath waiting for an app that does photo ebooks on the iPad, you can now exhale. 58 North has just released Pholium, with which you can create and publish your own photos in an ebook.

We gave it a try yesterday and had a ball. It's elegant interface makes it easy to use and gets out of the way so you can play with the images you place on the...

The rest of the world joined the Instagram party yesterday after the popular photo editing and sharing app made the jump to Google's Android mobile operating system. So with Apple iPhone and Android smart phone users all now transforming their forgettable phone pics into funky filtered masterpieces, here's a fun way to bring them into the real world: turn them into...

If you know an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch owner, there's a fair good chance you also know an Instagram user. The photo sharing app--known for its lo-fi filter effects and the square aspect ratio of its images--has proven incredibly popular on Apple's iOS platform. Apple has sold a total of some 298 million units between the three devices worldwide, and Instagram now boasts...

In addition to testing the Leica M9-P camera, we managed to put the $4,000 Leica 50mm f/1.4 Summilux through its paces in the SLRgear test lab. Click here to read our full review of this lens!

Photographer Binh Danh prints his photos on leaves he gathers from his mother’s garden. They are fragile, brittle images of an imagined life in the chaos of post-war Vietnam that uniquely combine photography and organic materials.

In 1979, Danh’s parents were among thousands of refugees fleeing the turmoil of Southeast Asia. He was two at the time, too young to remember...

Canon has just announced the EOS 60Da, a followup to the EOS 20Da model released way back in 2005, incorporating improvements made in the many intervening years. Like that camera, the EOS 60Da is aimed at astronomers, and is closely related to an existing model: the Canon EOS 60D.

Beyond the new model number, the most notable difference from the standard model is a...

While Canon's previous megazoom digital camera was a good performer, the PowerShot SX40 HS is a finely tuned upgrade. With the same startling 35x zoom ranging from 24-840mm equivalent, the Canon SX40 sports a new, lower-resolution sensor and a punchy DIGIC 5 processor, resulting in better low light performance and better corner sharpness overall, as well as reduced...

Airline surcharges: There aren't a lot of things everyone agrees upon these days, but we don't know anybody outside the airlines who's in favor of them. Every time you turn around, it seems another obscure fee has been added to the laundry list that you're presented with when you arrive at the airport, and one in particular that gets our goat is the checked bag fee.

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Last week we told you about the Polaroid Sunglass Camera designed by Lady Gaga that was unveiled over a year ago but has still not gone on sale. Now, we'd like to share some better Polaroid news including a new Polaroid camera and film you can purchase today.

First, there's the Polaroid Z340, a 14-megapixel digital camera that delivers instant prints, just like in the...

Although cameras like the Nikon D800 are taking SLR camera resolution to new highs, they still have a way to go before they catch up to the resolutions offered by medium-format cameras and camera backs. Nevertheless, medium format manufacturers are actively seeking new niches for their products, aware that SLRs are starting to encroach on their territory. Two new...

Choosing a smaller sensor, the Nikon V1 didn't earn a lot to praise from the spec hounds at its introduction, but Nikon was aiming at a smaller system overall, including lenses. They certainly achieved that, while maintaining excellent image quality and including impressively fast autofocus speed. Though many were disappointed with the smaller sensor, our test results show...

New firmware updates seem to be rolling in faster than we can keep up with them lately. That might mean more typing for us, but it's great news for photographers out there: it means products that are more stable, and occasionally, that offer new features.

First of all, Canon's EOS-1D Mark IV gets a new update to firmware version 1.1.1, available immediately from the Canon...

Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photograph of the Nobel Prize winning writer Albert Camus is one of Bresson's most famous images. Taken in 1947, the good folks of Montpellier, France decided to display it outside their new médiathèque, a multimedia library, in the center of the city.

Most everyone agreed that it was a wonderful way to honor one of France's most famous authors and...

With the recent camera releases (or maybe Spring fever) I’ve been rather amazed watching various photography forums have major melt downs during the last few weeks. I said something about cameras and lenses just being tools, not life and death, and got immediately annihilated. They aren’t just tools, I was told, they are the means to make a living for some people, and the...

I just got a press release that makes me wonder where the world is headed. A team of researchers at Japan's Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) in Ogaki have designed a device called the Ubi-Camera that takes pictures of what you frame with your fingers.

That’s right, a camera that only requires you to frame your subject between your fingers. Sort of a...

No, not everyone is a fan of the Apple iPhone 4S' talking personal assistant, known as Siri. But if you don't mind Siri taking over your life -- and your iPhone -- you might be interested in this truly bizarre case that forces you to use Apple's chatty digital factotum for all your tasks.

Designed by Shapeways, the 3D iPhone case looks like something from a sci-fi horror...

Olympus has released updated firmware for the M. Zuiko Digital ED 12-50mm f/3.5-6.3 EZ zoom lens. Announced last December, the M.Zuiko 12-50mm is the company's first to include a power zoom feature, and is also weather-sealed.

There are only two change listed in the release notes for firmware version 1.1. The first is improved stabilizer performance for macro shooting...

A new release candidate of Adobe's photographer-centric imaging application Photoshop Lightroom released today aims to squash bugs in the major release that debuted about three weeks ago. Simultaneously, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.1 Release Candidate adds support for the Canon EOS 5D Mark III digital SLR.

Beyond the Canon 5D III support, there are six main changes noted...