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Earlier today, several sources, citing a press release on DPReview, reported that the …
Earlier today, several sources, citing a press release on DPReview, reported that the …
Time to dust off your old Polaroid cameras. The Impossible Project has just …
If you need a way to protect your camera gear while on the move, …
Burger King recently partnered up with marketing agency Ogilvy for a unique "Have It Your Way" campaign. In order to convey how personalized the orders are, they used a hidden camera and printer to slap a candid photograph of the customer's face right on the burger wrapper. A separate hidden camera was used to document the reactions of the customers after seeing themselves on their food.
InVisage, a California-based start up company, has announced a new image sensor technology that it claims is up to four times more sensitive than traditional sensor technologies.
Their product, QuantumFilm, is a layer of semiconductor material added on top of the traditional silicon that uses quantum dots to gather light.
Lady Gaga's most recent music video for "Telephone", featuring Beyonce, is like most modern music videos: rife with product placement. But among the most prominent products was Gaga's own employer, Polaroid, which gets a 10-second spot.
According to the Canon Japan website, the company is experiencing a shortage of the EF 70-200 f/2.8 L IS II USM lens. The company says demand for the lens, which was announced in January and released recently in the US, was much higher than expected.
Photographer Jon Beard has a terrific set of photos called "Burning Bulbs" in which he breaks lightbulbs and photographs them with the filaments exposed.
Our recent post showing vinyl records at 1000x magnification was pretty popular, and many of you had ideas for things you'd like seen under a scanning electron microscope.
Here's the latest innovation from Pentax: a puppet body for your lens cap! The "Cameraman" is a handmade puppet body that comes with a 52mm lens cap showing a smiley face. It costs ¥2,914, or about $32, and is only available for a limited amount of time.
Well, that was fast. Just a day after removing Version 2.0.3 of the 5D Mark II firmware due to a bug, Canon has released firmware Version 2.0.4, which simply fixes the bug in Version 2.0.3.
Fashion label LeSportsac will be joining with Canon in its release of a case designed exclusively for the PowerShot …
Danish-Norwegian artist Nina Maria Kleivan has come under fire for a series of photographs in which she dresses up her year-old daughter Faustina as some of history's most evil figures. The series, titled "Potency", has been shown in exhibitions around Europe, and is meant to explore the nature of evil.
Just days after releasing a firmware update that brought 24 fps video to the 5D Mark II, Canon has pulled …
Ever wonder what a vinyl record looks like under an electron microscope? Okay, probably not. Luckily, there's people who do, including Chris Supranowitz, who created a number of electron microscope images for a course at the University of Rochester.
Here's a photograph of the record grooves captured by Supranowitz at 500x magnification. Those dark chunks you see are dust particles.
This past week we ran a poll asking our readers what operating system …
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will soon be accepting applications for new …
We reported last month that the New York auction house, Sotheby’s will be …
It might be hard to believe, but each of the following “paintings” is actually a photograph by artist …
When Canon released the 5D Mark II, many who wanted to utilize the HD-video recording capabilities were disappointed that it …
The Paparazzi Bots are a series of robots invented by Ken Rinaldo, a faculty member in the Department of Art at Ohio State University. Each bot is autonomous, and moves about on a wheeled platform, using infrared sensors to move towards humans. It's goal is to take single photographs of people, and it makes decisions on whether or not to capture the photograph based on facial expressions of the subject. If you happen to be smiling, the bot is more likely to photograph you.
Fifty years ago, Cuban photographer Alberto Díaz "Korda" Gutiérrez took a picture of Ernesto "Che" Guevara at a funeral with a 90mm lens on a Leica camera.
Photo Magician is a free and lightweight (less than 1MB) program for Windows that allows you to batch convert a directory of photographs. It's similar in functionality to Photoshop's "Image Processor" feature, with one difference being you can't select the output quality like you can using Photoshop.
Japanese company Green House recently released the Mini Digi, an “ultra-compact” digital camera that fits on your keychain. This …
If you’ve ever tried photographing a dog or cat, you probably know how difficult it can be to take a …
The Cloak Bag is a minimalistic camera bag with a pretty unique feature: …
The Washington Post just published an interesting article called “ …
Sony has been quite mum with regards to their upcoming ultra-compact camera. However, they've begun releasing some teasers to give us a better idea of what's to come, including the above YouTube video and the following screenshots of the touchscreen interface:
Hallmark Cards recently held a photography competition in the UK called “The Picture of Motherhood”, inviting people to enter …
There's a new video on YouTube showing a gigantic shipping container camera promoting a Samsung camera. In the video, bystanders can actually use the "camera" by inserting some money into a coin slot, and then having someone jump onto the massive shutter button on top of the shipping container. The resulting photograph is then displayed on a gigantic screen atop a nearby building.
The Open Camera Controller (OCC) is a project that aims to build a …
This fascinating video shows how Magnum photographer Bruce Gilden does his street photography …
Acclaimed photographer Harry Benson was recently flipping through the New York Times when …
Last year the Veolia Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition dealt with controversy when …
Kai at DigitalRev was recently given the challenge of painting a Nikon D90 pink magenta. He chooses to dismantle the camera in order to paint individual components, but works on it as carefully as one would work on a steak. At one point he even gets an electric shock from the components, though we're wondering why he didn't simply remove the battery. The camera miraculously looks somewhat normal in the end, but several parts are broken in the process (LCD won't turn on, and popup flash wont' go down).
More good news for photographers in the UK. A week after UK’s terror …
Pentax has unveiled the 645D, a medium format DSLR with impressive specs and a (relatively) low price of ~$9,400.
Looks like the Canon 70-200mm might not be as “collectible” as we all previously thought. Perhaps after seeing how …