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Sigma today announced a new groundbreaking 50-100mm f/1.8 DC HSM Art APS-C lens, the first telephoto zoom lens with a constant f/1.8 aperture. The company also unveiled a 30mm f/1.4 DC DN Contemporary mirrorless lens, the first affordable f/1.4 for that segment.

Nikon just announced a completely new line of premium compact cameras. The DL series (the DL stands for "Digital Lens") is geared toward serious photographers and packs powerful 1-inch sensors into cameras of different focal lengths. The series launches with the DL18-50 f/1.8-2.8, DL24-85 f/1.8-2.8, and DL24-500 f/2.8-5.6.

Swedish photographer Mattias Burling recently decided to experiment with shooting 4K video with his Microsoft Lumia 950 smartphone... through his collection of Nikon SLR lenses. Using an old 35mm adapter, Burling put together a rig that lets him shoot with a Nikkor 25mm f/1.4, 50mm f/1.4, and 17-35mm f/2.8.

"This was a fun experiment taking advantage of the 4K video in the Lumia 950 and its awesome close focus distance," Burling says. "I used old Nikon glass and an old s35 adapter from the 'DV Days'."

Zacharie Turgeon is a photographer based in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. While he normally shoots with a digital camera, Turgeon decided at the last minute to take his Canon 35mm film SLR on a recent trip to Asia. It turned out to be the best decision he made.

After his adventure, Turgeon turned the film photos and digital footage he shot and turned them into the wonderful 2.5-minute-long travel video above. It's titled "Analog Asia," and has been selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick.

In this post I'll be sharing the best one light portrait setup I've ever used. I'll come clean right off the bat here and say that I stumbled across this little super easy lighting technique more by luck than skill.

Cambits is a new modular camera being developed by scientists over in Columbia Engineering’s Computer Vision Laboratory. It's a set of colorful plastic blocks that can be assembled into a custom camera of your choice.

Warning: this is a rant. This one just left me shaking my head. Sure, there are probably times when you think the words “Photography Experience Not Required” might be completely applicable or acceptable. But how about in a job listing for a camera store?

Samsung today announced a new virtual reality camera called the Samsung Gear 360. It's a ball-shaped camera that lets anyone easily capture 360-degree photos and videos.

This is the cheapest yet most effective photography hack I can think of. Step one: get disc reflector. Step two: cut lens-sized hole in said reflector. Step three: profit.

Tamron today announced a new accessory that helps photographers apply firmware updates and custom settings to Tamron lenses. It's called the Tamron TAP-in Console.

Tamron today announced a new 85mm f/1.8 VC lens, the world's first fast-aperture telephoto lens with Vibration Compensation (VC), and a 90mm f/2.8 macro lens.

Adobe today launched Lightroom on Android 2.0, the world's first end-to-end RAW mobile photography solution. It's an app that lets you shoot, edit, and share RAW/DNG photos using an Android smartphone.

There are a number of video and computer games out there that feature photography as a prominent in-game element. "Firewatch" takes the idea a step further.

The new first-person open-world game has a groundbreaking feature in its PC version. After you find an in-game disposable camera and take some pictures with it, you're given the option of having your in-game photos printed as real-life prints and mailed to your doorstep.

If you are willing to get up early or stay up super late, Milky Way season is back in North America! Above is a shot I made on February 14th, 2016, in Sedona, Arizona. This image was taken at 5:45 AM, just prior to sunrise. Something I tried for the first time with this photo is taking 10 consecutive shots of the sky at a higher ISO (5000) and shorter shutter speed (15s), and then stacking the photos, which gives you awesome pinpoint stars with minimal noise.

Here's a walkthrough of how I made the shot.

Someone Photoshopped Ronda Rousey's arm without her knowing, and the mixed martial arts star is publicly apologizing for the picture.

I was internalizing a dialogue I had the other day after seeing a mistake someone made on how they presented their thoughts and the reaction it received, when I realized that what I was actually doing was telling myself what I wish I knew early on in my career. It encompassed some mistakes along the way, and some key points that I feel some people may benefit from reading.

You will not agree with every point, and don’t worry, you shouldn’t. At the very least, you’ll agree with and consider one of them. That is what is what I hope to achieve.

Gulf Photo Plus 2016 just wrapped up in Dubai this week, and this year's event featured another ShootOut, which pitted 2 well-known photographers against each other on stage to see who could create the best shot of the same subject.

Photographers Andrew Heatherington, Martin Prihoda, and Zack Arias were each given 20 minutes to create the best photo they could that included a live goldfish. You can watch the shootout in the 20-minute video above.

My name is Aram Pan, and I'm a photographer documenting North Korea through 360° panoramas, photos and videos. I’d like to share with everyone my experience with what I call “copyright infringement abuse.”

Basically, I feel that the YouTube copyright reporting system is seriously flawed. Here's what happened to me...

World Press Photo yesterday announced the winners of its 2016 contest, honoring the best news photos captured in 2015. Above is a breakdown of the cameras that were used by the photographers who were honored by photojournalism's biggest prize.

The Southern California-based startup company Aurora Aperture has just announced a new variable neutral density filter called the PowerXND 2000. With a range of 4 to 11 stops, the filter is the world's most powerful, according to the company.

"Normal" stock photos often feature scenes and situations that would be incredibly strange if you ever saw them actually happening in real life. DigitalRev made this humorous 3-minute video that reveals what's actually happening in those generic stock shots of business people, doctors, and scientists.

Photographer Jay P. Morgan of The Slanted Lens made this short 8-minute video with 7 easy ways you can lose your photography clients.

"If you do these seven things, you’re going to lose your photo and video clients. I guarantee it," says Morgan. "That's right, I'm going to teach you the 7 best ways to keep your clients from ever hiring you again."

The British company Bullitt yesterday announced its new Cat S60 rugged smartphone, the world's first to feature a built-in thermal imaging camera. The product is essentially a fusion between Bullitt's Cat smartphones and FLIR's thermal camera technology.

My name name is Rustam Azmi, and I'm a photographer based in Dubai. I recently captured this photo of lightning striking the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest skyscraper. In this post I'll share a little about how the shot was made.

Have you ever wondered why some Canon lenses are white while most other lenses in the industry are black? No, it's not just for aesthetics and marketing... Canon has a technical reason for it: heat reduction.

For a short time every February, when conditions are just right, Horsetail Falls in Yosemite gets transformed by a phenomenon known as "firefall." When the sunlight hits the water just right, the waterfall looks like molten lava flowing down the side of El Capitan.

Photographer Sangeeta Dey was there to see and capture the firefall this year, and her above photo has been going viral.

NPR's All Things Considered aired this interesting 5-minute segment that discusses Japanese internment camp photos of photographers Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Toyo Miyatake.

Whoa. Sigma is on the brink of shaking up the camera lens industry yet again with another groundbreaking Art lens. Next week, on February 23rd, 2016, Sigma will reportedly announce a new 50-100mm f/1.8 DC HSM Art lens -- a zoom lens with an unusually large f/1.8 fixed aperture.

My name is Brian Podnos, and my wife Donna and I run an architectural photography company called Donna Dotan Photography. We were recently commissioned to create a giant 60-foot photo of Citifield with New York City in the background at twilight. Here's a look at how we made the photo.

Clifton Cameras in the UK is asking for help this week after a CCTV surveillance camera caught two thieves stealing £4,000 (~$5,700) worth of Sony cameras and lenses from the company's camera store in Dursley, Gloucestershire.

The edited 1-minute video above shows one of the suspects handing a $2,000 Sony a7 II and 28-70mm f/3.5-5.6 mirrorless camera kit to his accomplice, who then shoves it into his jacket.

As with many major cities around the world, the bustling streets of Tokyo, Japan, are filled with advertisements that vie for your attention as you pass through. French graphic designer Nicolas Damiens wanted to see what the city would look like if every single advertisement were removed, so he shot some photos of ad-filled locations and then digitally removed the ads. The resulting series is titled "Tokyo No Ads."

People often complain about how terrible they look in their passport photos, and it doesn't help that the US government has some pretty strict requirements regarding the layout, lighting, and composition. That's probably why everyone seems to be talking about Prince's official passport pic, which the musician shared with the world recently.

A year has passed since the controversial World Press Photo contest in which 20% of the finalists were disqualified the prestigious award was stripped from the winner, and today World Press Photo just announced the best news photos of 2015.

The Photo of the Year, shown above, is titled "Hope for a New Life" and was captured by Australian photographer Warren Richardson. It shows a baby being passed through a fence at the Hungarian-Serbian border in Röszke, Hungary, on August 28th, 2015.

A baby dolphin was killed in Argentina last week after beachgoers scooped it out of the water and passed it around for selfies. The incident has sparked outrage from animal rights activists and warnings from a wildlife foundation.

Canon just announced two new high-end compact cameras for advanced amateurs and pros who are looking for solid image quality in a portable body. Say hello to the powerful PowerShot G7 X Mark II and the lightweight PowerShot SX720 HS.

Canon's new 80D DSLR has a new 18-135mm kit lens, and that kit lens has a fancy new accessory. It's called the Power Zoom Adapter PZ-E1, and Canon says it's the "world’s first detachable zoom adapter that provides silent and smooth zoom."

Canon just announced the 80D DSLR, and unveiled alongside the camera was a new 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM kit lens (28.8-216mm in 35mm terms). The new lens is the first Canon lens that features a new type of focusing motor called Nano USM.

Canon today announced the new 80D, a mid-range crop sensor successor to the 70D.

Pentax is finally in the full frame DSLR game. Ricoh today announced the new Pentax K-1, a camera that it claims "offers innovations not available in any other DSLR."

Using a single, ordinary still camera, you can shoot a traditional 2D static portrait of a person. With an array of multiple still cameras, you can stitch together a 3D portrait. To add yet another dimension, you can use video cameras instead of still cameras.

That's what Tim Macmillan, the founder of a company called Timeslice Films, did. Using a crazy camera array of 53 GoPro cameras, Macmillan created a moving 4D portrait of his own head.

Becoming a professional photographer is pretty "easy" in one sense, yet incredibly "hard" in another. The lower and lower barriers of entry makes jumping in easy, but developing yourself and your business in the industry can be a challenge that takes a lot of time, effort, and dedication.

To help aspiring photographers take their first baby steps toward that goal, UK-based wedding photographer Robert Sail has created a giant infographic that serves as a roapmap.

There are often stories of huge (and often hilarious) Photoshop fails in the advertising industry, in which models are seen with extra limbs or ridiculous body proportions.

Snickers just released a clever advertisement that pokes fun at these Photoshop fails.

During the Great Depression, the US government launched the largest photography project it ever sponsored by sending photographers across the country to document America. Of the 170,000 photos captured by photographers such as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Arthur Rothstein, some of them showed other photographers at work with their cameras.

We've gathered together a collection of photos showing photographers during the Great Depression (and the few years following it) between 1935 and 1946.

Last week, the Museum of Modern Art unleashed a free online course on Coursera entitled “Seeing Through Photographs” as taught by MOMA Department of Photography Curator Sarah Meister. Although I’ve watched dozens if not hundreds of YouTube videos on everything from “How to tie a bowtie” to last night’s “Coq Au Vin Recipe,” I had never taken an online course, and was intrigued by the subject matter.

Earlier this month, Instagram finally added support for switching between multiple accounts in the same app. Now the photo sharing service is adding another oft-requested feature: 2-factor authentication.

That's the security feature that texts a security code to your phone when you're logging into your account to verify that it's actually you doing the login. It makes the login process slightly more cumbersome, but what you get is a lot more protection from people trying to hack in.

Dear Friend,

Oh how life has changed in such a short number of years. When I started out in photography I was still shooting film and sending ‘trannies’ to magazines on the other side of the world.

Everything, and I mean everything, has changed!

Here’s a short and sweet 2-minute-tip by New York-based photographer sports and music photographer …

You probably know about the chicken and the egg problem that aspiring wedding photographers experience. On one hand you want to shoot your own weddings as the primary photographer, but on the other hand you don’t have enough experience or an adequate portfolio to attract clients, and on top of that when you shoot as a second photographer you are not allowed to show your work.

My suggestion is rather simple: every time you get invited to an event, whether a wedding, a bar-mitzvah, or christening, consider it as an opportunity, and bring your camera and one prime lens.