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Left: Two people sitting in a studio setting being filmed, surrounded by cameras and equipment. Right: A person wearing a blue shirt operates a video camera outdoors, standing in a grassy field.

Are Camcorders About to Make a Big Comeback?

2025 has so far proved to be the year of comebacks. Point-and-shoot compacts are flying off shelves faster than camera stores can restock them. But there could be another resurgence set to occur, and this one has flown well under the radar: camcorders.

Our Favorite Weird Zoom Lenses That Buck Conformity

A person with a beard smiles while holding two camera lenses against a colorful, swirling background. The text "WEIRD ZOOMS" is displayed in bold, multicolored letters.

The photographic world tends to flow into a state of normality, order, and conformity. Certain lenses just work for most situations, and the popular choices of the professionals quickly become the traditional tools of the masses. It seems everyone starts with a general-purpose lens that covers a rough full-frame range of 28mm to 70mm or so, and then eventually, you end up with something wider and something longer.

Left: Two individuals and a dog ascend a ladder to an elevated structure on a snowy landscape. Right: Two people in winter clothing handle long, cylindrical ice core samples inside a dimly lit facility.

Inside a Covert Cold War Army Base Built Beneath a Greenland Glacier

More than 60 years ago, in the far northern reaches of Greenland, the United States Army built an underground scientific research base, Camp Century. Carved into the ice and snow, the nuclear-powered base operated from 1959 until 1967 and comprised 21 tunnels, totaling three kilometers in length.