Here's an interesting behind-the-scenes video series that shows the creation of a Canon 500mm f/4.0L IS lens. It's a neat look at the guts of glass, and an opportunity to see how exactly the various components of a lens are created and put together.
The big news in the tech/gadget world is that an Apple iPhone 4G prototype was found lost in a …
When Instructables member bertus52x11 had his cast removed after breaking his arm, he …
Picsean is a new travel magazine that resembles Laura Brunow Miner‘s …
Doxie is a portable, USB-powered scanner for scanning things on the go. It scans documents and photographs at 600dpi …
Richard Renaldi has an interesting approach to street photography: he asks complete strangers to touch one another. The resulting interactions …
The Holga 120 3D Stereo Camera is a plastic, medium-format camera that captures …
photobattle.me is a fun little web application that pits two submitted photographs against each other and asks the visitor to vote on which photo they think is better. Of course it's entirely subjective, and photos can be of different types and flavors, but it's an interesting way to see what the general public thinks of your work compared to other photos.
Sigma announced yesterday that the upcoming 8-16mm f4-5.6 DC HSM, first announced at PMA 2010, will have a retail price …
PicTreat is a free online application that allows …
We’ve featured a couple posts on cakes shaped like Canon cameras recently, while Nikon has …
The Chobi Mini Digital Camera is an uber-compact digital camera that captures both …
This year’s nominees have just been announced for the 14th annual …
On Monday afternoon, just hours after the 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer …
We recently featured a Canon 5D Mark II shaped cake, but didn’t have any photographs of the …
In his recent Twitter Q&A session regarding House being filmed with a 5D Mark II, director Greg …
Real time photo sharing service TweetPhoto has raised …
A signed print of Edward Weston’s Nautilus Shell purchased for $10 in 1927 has been auctioned off for a whopping …
NachoFoto is a new image search engine that …
The New York Times’ Lens blog is attempting a project similar to the worldwide 4am project we covered …
Here’s a fun concept design imagining the classic Kodak Brownie reintroduced to for …
Google has acquired UK-based mobile photo search startup …
Here's an amazing stop-motion video created for Nissan, and promoting zero emissions mobility. It's amazing that a sense of speed and danger can be created from photographs of people sitting still in wooden chairs.
Major tangent, but one of the big stories of the day is that Palm (yeah, the cell phone and PDA …
The “Sony a352” is a concept camera design by Ryan David Francis, a …
Athanasios Varzanakos, a Greek man, is suing Swedish dairy company Lindahls for using his image on containers of Turkish-style …
The season finale of the popular TV show House, which will air on May 17th, was filmed entirely with …
If you’re looking for a photographic adventure, check out …
If you’ve always wanted to see what a Canon 5D Mark II looks like opened up, you’re in luck. zakums06 …
The Last 3 Minutes is a beautiful short film by cinematographer Shane Hurlbut, the cinematographer of Terminator Salvation. It was shot using the Canon 5D Mark II, and was sponsored by Canon to show off the latest firmware that enables 24p (frames per second) recording, giving it a "movie quality". Filming spanned 17 locations across 4 1/2 days, and a wide assortment of Canon prime L lenses were used.
Flickr has its own URL shortening system to make links suitable for things like Twitter. However, for some strange reason, …
Google Books, an ambitious project to make millions …
Yale University has announced the acquisition of American photographer …
A common gripe about the iPad is that it doesn’t contain a built-in camera.
A photograph of a Canon 7D with firmware version 1.2.0 has appeared before any official word of the update …
As more and more people are ditching compact cameras for their camera-equipped phones, …
The Zero Angle Digital Camera is a conceptual design by Sun ho Sin and Jeong eun Park that protects …
Flickr recently changed how sets are displayed. Rather than displaying all the sets in an account on a single …
British newspaper The Guardian has teamed up with Canon on a new app …
Do you recognize this photograph? It’s the wallpaper for Apple’s new iPad tablet computer, which found its way into …
In an announcement on the Google Photos Blog today, Google …
Late last week we reported that Facebook had acquired the young photo sharing startup, …
Same Hill, Different Day is a series of project by Chicago-based photographer …
If you find yourself carrying around loose batteries all the time, here’s an …
In addition to Content Aware Fill, Puppet Warp is another powerful feature to be included in Adobe's upcoming Photoshop CS5.
4am Project is an ambitious project with a simple concept: have everyone take photographs at a particular time on a particular date, and pool them together on the Internet to share our unique perspectives on the world.
After nearly 5 years as the Community Manager at Flickr, Heather Champ has announced she is leaving to start an …
Divvyshot, a …
This video isn’t related to photography per se (though it is a time-lapse), but occasionally we like to show …
Israeli startup Dropico thinks there’s time to be …