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It doesn't take a lot of money these days to get an ultrazoom digital camera with a good image sensor, and that's certainly true of the Panasonic FZ47. Its whopping 24x zoom lens reaches from 25-600mm equivalent, allowing you to be incredibly selective about what you shoot. Supporting Full HD video, the Panasonic FZ47 is quite versatile. The FZ47's image quality was not...

Pentax Ricoh Imaging Americas Corp. has today announced the launch of a new weather-sealed ultra-wide prime lens for its medium format Pentax 645D digital SLR.

The smc Pentax DA 645 25mm f/4 AL [IF] SDM AW lens replaces the D FA variant that was listed on the 645 Mount roadmap revealed shortly after the CP+ tradeshow in Japan, a design that was announced a little over a...

A series of new firmware updates released yesterday by Olympus Corp. all have one thing in common: they aim to resolve issues with high-capacity SDXC memory cards.

The new firmware for the Olympus E-5 SLR and four of the company's Micro Four Thirds cameras is said to improve stability with SDXC cards of 48GB or greater capacity. For the E-5, E-P3, and E-PL2, this is the...

Wotancraft is a name that may sound like it belongs in a Harry Potter novel but the company's camera bags are truly designed for adults. They're also aimed at photographers who don't necessarily want to look like they're carrying around a geeky camera bag.

Handmade and aged with premium leather parts, Wotancraft's City Explorer bag series wouldn't look out of place in a...

Love your iPhone and playing with popular photo apps like Instagram, Hipstamatic, and Snapseed, but convinced your photos could be better? London's Kensington and Chelsea College has the course for you, held at the Chelsea Centre and promising to teach techniques that will turn your iPhone photos from mundane to magnificent.

The course, entitled "iPhoneography:...

Natsumi Hayashi is a Tokyo teenager who likes to fly, or at least to photograph herself in mid-air as though she were Mary Poppins or Supergirl. She's made dozens of photographs of her flights across Tokyo and has become a bit of an Internet sensation.

In an interview with the U.K.'s Daily Mail, she explained she got the idea for her levitation images from a Japanese...

Almost exactly two years ago, Adobe first started teasing a major update to its flagship digital imaging application Photoshop, with a variety of interesting new features including an eyecatching content-aware fill tool.

Fast forward to today, and the company has relegated mere teasers to the trashcan: today it launches its first ever public beta of Photoshop, and we've...

An article posted recently on the official homepage of the United States Army caught our eye today, thanks to a blog post from John Nack, Principal Product Manager, Mobile at Adobe Systems.

The piece, entitled "Geotagging poses security risks", takes a look at the security implications of location tags that are often silently embedded in photos shot with smartphones. (A...

The latest generation of professional digital SLRs are really starting to push performance of CompactFlash cards to their very limit, and to get their maximum benefit, you need a really fast card to match. At its highest full-resolution rate, the Nikon D4 can capture almost 180 megapixels per second, and the Canon EOS-1D Mark IV comes close, at over 160 megapixels per...

We Homo Sapiens are a voyeuristic lot, and between X-Ray glasses and sideways-viewing camera lenses, we have a child-like curiosity about seeing without being seen. If you remember the 1982 sci-fi thriller Blade Runner you will remember how future-cop Deckard, played by Harrison Ford, used an Esper machine that allowed him to see around corners.

Well, while Harrison Ford...

Our exhaustive camera testing often smokes out issues in cameras that others (and often the manufacturers) don't find. Though that's a good effect of exhaustive testing, it often leads to much time spent verifying an issue before publishing, and leaves us with the unenviable task of reporting a problem with a popular camera. But we'll get right to the chase: While shooting...

Your smart phone can do everything these days so why not use it to help trigger your camera? That's the thinking behind a new product called the TriggerHappy Camera Remote that lets you fire your digital SLR just by touching your phone's screen.

The product comes with two things:

• TriggerHappy Unit -  a one-meter cable with an embedded signal processor inside that...

Last week, we reported on news from Europe suggesting that Fujifilm was preparing a number of measures to resolve an image quality defect present on two of its cameras: the Fujifilm X10 compact, and the Fujifilm X-S1 ultra-zoom. Today, we note that the company's US division is likewise preparing its response.

Both cameras can exhibit unnatural-looking white...

Like the thrill of the hunt but don't want to actually fire a gun? Brothers Randy and Michael Gregg have created a digital camera that looks like a high-powered rifle to let you aim and shoot photos instead of bullets.

Randy and Michael, who are hunters themselves, got the idea for their invention when they spotted a large deer bedding down for the night. Since hunting...

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...