January 2016

Power users on Instagram have millions of followers who view and interact with their photos. They also almost certainly also have push notifications for those interactions turned off on their phones.

365 projects. It seems that most photographers attempt one at least once. It’s a massive commitment, but you can make it easier on yourself and get a lot out of it if you approach it the right way.

Kodak CEO Jeff Clarke is on a mission to bring film back, and his business card reflects that: it's literally a strip of 35mm film that has his information displayed on it.

Another day, another innovative solution for catching, disabling, or destroying rogue drones. If your camera drone isn't taken down by a radio wave rifle or a drone with a giant net in the future, you now have another countermeasure to be aware of: a "Spider-Man" drone that shoots out a web-like net to neutralize other drones.

What’s in a viewfinder? The view within a viewfinder has always been an opportunity to display additional information to the user. In this post, we'll take a quick look at 8 film SLR and rangefinder camera viewfinders.

Photographer Alexis Cuarezma is a master of doing rapid-fire portrait shoots of famous athletes for Sports Illustrated. When some of his shoots are limited to just 1 minute, Cuarezma uses 2 lighting setups simultaneously and sometimes even 5 setups on 1 set using a burst of exposures.

Yesterday's NFL football playoff game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Minnesota Vikings was the 3rd coldest game in NFL history, as temperatures were -6° F with a wind chill of -25° F. It was so cold that camera batteries weren't performing well and had to be warmed up on the sidelines.

Want to see what the Nikon D5 can do on the video front? Nikon ambassador photographer Corey Rich shot this short film titled "Inspired" using the new flagship DSLR. The video "explores what drives today’s most diverse and interesting professional photographers and filmmakers, and captures the commitment it takes to tell truly meaningful stories."

Some people can't get enough of having their photos taken. Photographer Mikaël Theimer's girlfriend is the opposite. She's extremely camera shy, so it's difficult for Theimer to get any photo of her smiling and looking into his camera.

This year's NFL championship game is Super Bowl 50, and it'll be played on February 7th, 2016, at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California (the home of the 49ers). To celebrate what is often the most watched TV broadcast of the entire year in the United States, Sports Illustrated is spending 50 days posting 50 iconic photos from each Super Bowl to the magazine's Instagram page.

Photographer Emma Jean Nolan of Brisbane, Australia, recently captured and shared an unusual baby photo that's attracting a great deal of attention. While photographing the birth of a baby boy named Harper, Nolan decided to arrange the umbilical cord so that it spelled the word "love."

One of the biggest drone stories in 2015 was the unveiling of the Lily drone, a robotic device that makes shooting aerial photos and videos as easy as tossing a drone into the air. There's no complicated piloting: AI, computer vision, and GPS help take care of everything for you.

The new Nikon D5 is available in 2 different versions: one with dual CompactFlash memory card slots, and one with dual XQD slots. Both cameras cost $6,497 right now, and you'll need to make a decision on which one you want when you purchase.

There's a new photographer-themed hotel that just opened up over in Japan, and it features photos in an unusual way. The new DAIDO MORIYAMA X ROCK STAR HOTEL in Osaka is a six-floor building that's packed with photos by Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama -- some of the spaces have images on the walls from floor to ceiling.

This amazing composite picture by photographer Stephen Wilkes shows the different animals that visited a watering hole in the Serengeti over the course of 26 hours. The photo transitions across time as you move across the frame starting with sunrise on the right.

Tim Jones is a Bristol-based photographer who is currently serving as a British Army Photographer covering West Midlands and Wales. His photos for the army are published in local and national publications …

For his latest Weird Lens Challenge experiment, French photographer Mathieu Stern found a 136-year-old lens and mounted it to his Sony a7 II mirrorless camera to see what the results would look like. You can see his test footage in the short video above.

It’s been a big week for Nikon announcements at CES 2016 in Las Vegas, with launches of the Nikon D500, Nikon D5, and new SB-5000 Speedlight. The new D500 is a camera that many people have been waiting a long time for — a successor to the Nikon D300/D300s and a true flagship for the Nikon DX line of APS-C cameras. The D500 packs in many of the same new, next-generation features as the Nikon D5 that was also just announced, including a brilliant new autofocus system, EXPEED 5 image …

Nikon's big announcement at CES 2016 in Las Vegas this year was the new flagship D5 DSLR. In the company's exhibition space, Nikon is displaying a Nikon D5 DSLR and Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 lens that have been sliced cleanly in half to show off the innards with a cross-section view.

Smartphone camera quality has gotten pretty darn good in recent years, but one of the limiting factors is still the tiny lens that's found in front of the (usually) tiny sensor. Accessory makers have started addressing this problem by creating add-on lenses that you can attach to your phone to improve the look of your photos -- even ZEISS jumped into the game this week.

The Federal Art Project was a Depression-era program that launched in 1935 to fund projects by visual artists in the US. That same year, American photographer Berenice Abbott received funding for a "Changing New York" photo project to document New York City.

Hungarian journalist and human rights lawyer Boglarka Balogh recently published a series of photos for a good cause... and it blew up in her face.

Things definitely aren't looking too hot for you if you're a fan of Samsung's digital cameras. The South Korean company has been showing off many of its latest and greatest products in Las Vegas at CES 2016, but there hasn't been a single mention or appearance of a Samsung camera.

A CCTV traffic camera in Canada is getting high praise for its photography skills this week after shooting a series of beautiful photos of a snowy owl flying directly toward it.

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Kodak's iconic Kodachrome film was retired from service back in 2009, but back in 1973, American singer Paul Simon immortalized the classic film stock in his hit song "Kodachrome." …

They say everything in life happens for a reason and while I didn’t hold much faith in that phrase before, I definitely do now. It took a serious life threatening experience to ignite in me a passion for my own photography as part of the healing process and then turn it into a career.

Nikon's new flagship DSLR, the D5, features 12FPS continuous shooting -- 14FPS with the mirror locked -- and a new autofocus system that features 153 AF points and a dedicated AF processor (a first for Nikon). The extended buffer stores up to 200 shots of 14-bit lossless RAW plus JPEG fine.

This is pretty wild: the lens adapter company Techart has announced that it has created the world's first Leica M-mount to Sony E-mount autofocus adapter. That's right. Autofocus.

We recently shared a 52-week photo challenge you can do to improve you skills over the course of a year. The challenge for week #1 was "self portrait," and photographer Trevor Mahlmann completed it by creating this eye-popping photo, titled "The Universe At My Feet."

This week, the New York Public Library announced that it has released 187,000+ high-resolution digital images of public domain items in its collection.

If you ever visit Antarctica in the summer, you'll find yourself in a place where there's 24 hours of sunlight in a day. Instead of setting in the horizon and ushering in the night, the Sun "bounces" on the horizon and rises up again -- it's a bounce that can be captured in a series of photos captured through a day.

Here's a short 3-minute video by Australian photographer Pete Leong on how you can set your flash and camera settings to illuminate portrait subjects while a bright sun is in the background back-lighting them.

Fujifilm helped popularize the retro camera aesthetic with its X-series line of cameras, and the next generation will continue that trend. The company is set to announce a set of new models later this month, and now photos and specs of one of them, the X70, have leaked ahead of the unveiling.

Camera drones have exploded onto the scene in the past few years, and they're being used by photographers around the world as a cheap and easy way to obtain aerial photos and videos. But what if you want both the convenience of a drone and the joy of being able to see and shoot things from the air with your own eyes and camera? …

If the only things you care about in a digital camera are novelty and thinness, then the "Paper Like a Digital Camera" is for you. It's a retro-styled toy camera that measures just 6mm thick thanks to its barebones construction -- it's essentially a set of tiny camera components sandwiched between paper parts.

After launching its peer-to-peer camera gear rental network back in 2013, CameraLends is now pushing into new territory: mobile.

It seems that there's finally some resolution in the curious legal battle between PETA and a photographer over whether a monkey owns the copyright to the viral selfies he shot back in 2011.

ZEISS today announced that it is partnering with Fellowes Brands to create a premium line of lens accessories for smartphone photography, "setting a new quality standard" in the space.

Video effects specialist Robert McIntosh was recently featured by Vimeo for this 2-minute video showing an unusual continuous shot captured with a camera drone.

My name is Nick Fancher and I am a Columbus, Ohio-based commercial and portrait photographer. I specialize in lighting -- specifically with the use of small flash in unconventional locations.

Nikon surprised the photo industry yesterday by announcing its very first action camera, the KeyMission 360, which shoots 360° photos and videos in 4K resolution. Now the company has released a set of first 360-degree interactive videos on YouTube to show what the camera can do.

Phase One dropped a bombshell this week by announcing the XF 100MP, a medium format camera with a staggering 100 megapixels. To see just how big a 100MP photo is, photographer Brian F created this illustration that compares the relative dimensions of a number of popular cameras.

Want a LEGO minifigure of yourself? You can now have a custom 3D-printed head made using just 2 standard portraits of yourself.

While other photo brands are busy announcing their latest and greatest digital cameras, Kodak has a rather unusual unveiling: it's bringing back the legendary Super 8 camera as a film product with digital features.

Olympus has announced a new durable compact camera in its Tough lineup and a new 300mm f/4 super telephoto that boasts the "highest resolution ever."

Camera companies were overshadowed yesterday by Nikon's major announcements (i.e. the D5, D500, and new action camera), but there was other gear unveiled as well.

Nikon surprised everyone today by announcing an entirely new type of camera at CES 2016 in Vegas. The Nikon KeyMission 360 is a new wearable, waterproof action camera that can capture 360-degree footage in 4K.