January 2010

If the entire Calvin and Hobbes collection can be found in a complete set, then why shouldn't National Geographic? Well now it can!

Camera phone photography has been exploding in popularity in recent times -- pretty much every new phone is equipped with a camera nowadays, the iPhone is the most popular "camera" on Flickr, photographer Chase Jarvis has launched a mini-empire around the slogan "The Best Camera Is The One That's With You", the sensors for mobile phones are approaching absurd numbers of megapixels, etc... -- so it's not surprising that a UK-based photography school has launched a course dedicated to cell phone photography.

ffffl*ckr is a new Flickr web application that’s …

Update: This giveaway is now over. The three winners were randomly selected and announced below. Thanks for participating! When …

Award-winning portrait and landscape photographer Nadav Kander recently launched a new …

There hasn’t been much directly photo-related news at CES 2010 today, but the announcements of newly redesigned e-readers might be …

LEGO recently released a free iPhone app that turns your photographs into photomosaics made with 1x1 LEGO pieces. The app obviously isn't limited to faces, but can turn anything into a LEGO mosaic.

We're on a roll with controversial advertisements today. New York garment company Weatherproof has gotten the attention of the White House after illegally using a photograph of President Obama's visit to the Great Wall of China on a billboard in New York City (41st St. and 7th Ave.)

Harry Potter actress Emma Watson recently appeared in a Burberry advertising campaign with her brother Alex, and one particular …

Polaroid has been getting some viral attention today, partially from its addition of Lady Gaga to its staff, but also because it's new nostalgic line of instant cameras. That's right, folks, Polaroid's back in the instant business -- it couldn't let such a good cash cow run away, after all. Several models of the PIC-1000 were displayed today at CES in Las Vegas, including this nifty wooden body camera:

Here’s a brief interview with Lady Gaga by MSNBC. Aside from her distracting hat, she makes an interesting point …

Computer-generated animation has come a long way in recent years and has made films more and more realistic, from the photographic-technique effects in Pixar's WALL-E, to the stunning landscapes in Avatar. The Third & The Seventh by Alex Roman is a great example of just how beautiful and realistic CG animations can be. It's an artistic piece dealing with architecture and photography, and you'll notice many camera techniques throughout the film.

This is one of the coolest gadgets we've seen in quite some time. The Parrot AR.Drone is a quadricopter that you control visually through wifi using your iPhone or iPod touch. The quadricopter has a built in camera that displays the real time view of the drone on your screen while you control it. We're not sure if still photography or video capabilities are built in, but this could open the door to making simple aerial photography accessible to the general public.

The Consumer Electronics Show hasn’t even officially begun, but product announcements and press releases are already flying around. There are …

Whether you love her or hate her, music artist Lady Gaga’s made an interesting new business venture, expanding what she …

Here’s a video for your inspiration that shows what can be accomplished through good ol’ fashioned dedication and hard …

If you have an extra $45,000 lying around, you might still be able to purchase the Canon 5200mm f/14 lens that was listed on eBay last month. It ended on December 14th with 0 bids (I wonder why...).

The mystery of the disappearing Canon lenses deepens. Today, Canon announced the EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II …

If you're a fan of Polaroid instant film, then 2010 might soon become a great year for you. The classic instant film format is making a comeback through the Impossible Project, so it might be time to dust off your old Polaroid cameras (if the redesigned format is compatible, that is).

Camera phones may soon offer more megapixels than some DSLR cameras. Imaging company OmniVision announced today that they have developed a 14.6-megapixel image sensor that will fit in cell phones. These sensors are capable of both high-resolution still photography and 1080p high-definition video recording.

As Canon Rumors reported two days ago, a large number of lenses have completely disappeared from the Canon USA website. What made the story even more interesting was the fact that many of the missing lenses were among Canon's most popular and highly acclaimed, and lenses about which upgrade rumors have been circulating for a long time.

Welcome to 2010! I can’t believe it’s been 8 months already since we …