Canon has officially announced the 70D, the company's latest mid-range DSLR for serious photography enthusiasts. It's a successor to the 60D that packs some major improvements in how autofocusing is done.
Are you ready for this? An international team of researchers have developed the world's first telescopic contact lens -- a 1.17mm thick pair of contact lenses that, when you want them to, will magnify your vision by 2.8x.
These days, it's easy to take for granted what the magic of the Internet, wireless technology, and fiber optic cables have made possible, but there was a time when sending a photograph a long distance in a short time wasn't quite that easy.
There are several very popular hashtags that make their way around Instagram daily, and one of them is #nofilter. It's the hashtag that proclaims to the world that they're seeing what you saw---no ifs, ands or earlybirds.
Want to watch a non-fiction film about photography? Here's a list of documentaries (and some other stuff) concerning photography that I've collected over the years.
In the most recent James Bond movie, Daniel Craig spent some time in the eerie emptiness of an abandoned island that the villain Silva had claimed as his lair. What many don't realize is that this setting was actually based on a real place.
As the Canon EOS 60D gets ready to make way for its big brother at an announcement expected later tonight, more info is leaking about the soon-to-be official 70D. In addition to the whole list of leaked specs and pictures from last week, we're now hearing that the camera will set "a new benchmark" when it comes to ISO performance.
Creating time-slices (better known as the bullet time effect) where you freeze a moment in time and move around your subject is an expensive thing. It's expensive mainly because it requires that you have several cameras at your disposal.
Casey Neistat is a YouTube filmmaker who has had several of his creations -- including this handy guide to not sucking on Instagram -- go viral. He's also the creator of the series The Neistat Brothers on HBO.
Photographer Karl Baden (a part time faculty member in Boston College's Fine Arts Department) tells us of a brief and humorous encounter he recently had while shooting on the street.
Elaborately staged tableaus have become a staple of fine-art photography and something of their own medium -- the artistry of a Gary Salter or Annabel Mehran image is as much in the building of the scene as the actual photography.
The 38-foot-high Gold Ray Dam had spanned Oregon's Rogue River for 106 years by the time Jackson County decided enough was enough. A defunct hydroelectric facility that hadn't been operational since the early 70s, it was one of the last fish barriers still up along the Rogue River. In other words: it had to go.
Vivian Maier never saw much recognition for her work. When she passed away four years ago in 2009, her treasure trove of over 150,000 photographs had only just been discovered by accident, and didn't begin receiving critical acclaim until after she had already passed.
For his project titled "Iridient," Zurich, Switzerland-based photographer Fabian Oefner shot a series of beautiful high-speed photographs showing colorful soap bubbles bursting and disappearing into a cloud of tiny droplets.
