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Cheap lens aficionado Mathieu Stern just released this 2-minute video review of the Minolta MD Rokkor-X 45mm f/2 lens.

Here's an 8-minute video in which photographer Alexi Lubomirski shares the story of how he became a professional photographer.

"Slit-scan photography," as it's known these days, has a long history. It is related to focal plane shutter distortion in the film era and to the rolling shutter effect in the digital age.

In the spring of 2014, I started a long-term photography project focused on Syrian refugee children. I traveled through Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon and photographed children who fled Syria since the war started.

Here's Instagram's latest celebrity: Juji the giant dog. His owner Chris Cline is making waves by using Photoshop to turn him into a giant fluffy best friend.

Today’s flash market offers a wide variety of options for anyone looking to dip a toe in the off-camera flash pool. While there are plenty of things to consider while shopping for a speedlight, one factor that doesn’t always receive the most attention is build quality.

Instagram is known as a place where people use photos to flaunt their lifestyles, both real and fake. 50 Cent may be one of the biggest names to do so on the "fake" side: he claims he's broke and that he takes photos of fake money for marketing reasons.

Here's a 3-minute video that explores why you almost never see portraits of smiling people from the early days of photography.

In February 2016, Fujifilm announced the end of its last peel-apart instant film, FP-100C. Now there's a growing effort to keep the film alive, and Impossible Project founder Florian Kaps is trying to help.

Could your smartphone camera one day be turned on and used by the government for surveillance? That's what Apple is warning the public about as it continues to battle the FBI in court.

My name is Ty Foster, and I'm currently on a mission of shooting portraits of every single purebred dog breed. The project is called Canine Collective.

Sony are back with the sequel to 2012s surprise hits, the RX1 and RX1R. The new RX1R II still packs a full frame sensor into a barely-larger-than-a-compact body, but this time it's the same sensor from their spectacular A7R II.

During the total solar eclipse on March 8th and 9th, NASA had a camera documenting it from a very special perspective -- one that's 1 million miles away.

Photo & Go is a new photo-making concept retail store that launched in Las Vegas in August 2015. The store was launched by Polaroid Fotobar's founders to take the idea of liberating digital photos to the next level. We spoke to co-founder Dov Quint about the store and the industry.

The band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros just released this music video for their new single "No Love Like Yours." Here's what's neat about it: it was created by actress Olivia Wilde using just the iPhone 6S Plus.

When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited US President Barack Obama at the White House today, one Canadian photographer had the chance to document the historic meeting thanks to a simple online application.

The Canon 35mm f/1.4L II lens announced back in August 2015 was the first Canon lens to feature the company's new Blue Spectrum Refractive (BR) lens technology, a special lens element that corrects for color fringing.

Facebook is spending dough to battle Snapchat on the casual photography front: the company just acquired MSQRD, a face-swapping camera app that has been exploding in popularity among smartphone users.

A massive thunderstorm over Dubai was recently captured in super slow motion at 1977 frames per second.

A photographer's awareness and quick-thinking helped save the life of a TV news reporter this week. His warning cry allowed the reporter to jump out of the path of a car crash, and it was all caught on camera.

Monogram is a new iOS app by the printing company MOO that lets you design an elegant portfolio of your photos and carry it with you in your pocket.

A long-time Los Angeles Times photographer was arrested on the side of a road yesterday while transmitting photos he shot of former First Lady Nancy Reagan's funeral motorcade.

Canon today announced its latest entry-level DSLR, the Rebel T6 (known as the EOS 1300D in other countries). If you're looking for a groundbreaking new camera, unfortunately the T6 isn't what you're hoping for.

If all journeys are teachers, it may well be that a journey to India is the greatest teacher of all. As Kurt Vonnegut said, "Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God," and it was in search of a new dance that I purchased a one-way ticket on the longest train in India.

My name is Dirk Hardy. I'm a 27-year-old Dutch photographer currently based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. For the past eighteen months, I worked on a personal project called Void. After having lived and worked in New York City for six months a few years back, I developed an obsession for the elevator.

If Darth Vader and Chewbacca camera bags are more than you need, you can now get a simple Chewbacca camera strap.

You never know when a good photo opportunity will present itself to you. Always be prepared.

Here's a major deal alert: Lexar 2933x XQD memory cards are currently selling for 50% off right now.

As many of you have noticed, we had a few hours of downtime this morning. We made some changes that didn't sit well with the server. Things seem to be stabilizing now. Sorry about that.

Flickr announced today that its desktop Auto-Uploadr photo uploading app is now a Pro-only feature that can only be used by paying members.

When shooting with your pricey camera drone, beware of... flying jet skis. That's probably not a warning you've ever heard before, but check out what happens in this video.

Google is seeing a huge boom in the number of takedown requests it receives from copyright owners wishing to get infringing webpages removed from the search engine. There were 76 million requests last month -- double compared to a year ago.