Ricoh has announced that it's acquiring Eyefi's Cloud service, the photo hosting product that was launched in April 2014. Eyefi will continue to own and sell its Wi-Fi-enabled SD memory cards, now called the Mobi Pro, which it has long been known for.
Canon made lens replica mugs a big thing when it started handing them out during the 2010 Olympics. The market was soon flooded with all kinds of realistic lens-shaped mugs. But there's a new one on the market that shakes things up a bit -- literally.
Examining fingerprints is one of the key techniques in forensics, allowing investigators to identify suspects and build a case against them. In the same way, checking "camera fingerprints" could soon be a major tool in helping photographers fight copyright infringement, and a project called ToothPic is working to make that happen.
Photographer Ludgero Filipe recently spent two years living in Paris, shooting tourist portraits to make money while roaming the city for street photography. The 5-minute video above is a short film with some memories and some of his favorite photos from his time there.
Avast, best known for its antivirus software, has announced a new iOS app that's designed to help iPhone users free up space when snapping a lot of photos. It's called Photo Space, and it's designed to increase your photo storage by 7x.
Want an easy way to back up your memory card to any external hard drive without having to pull out your main computer? A Raspberry Pi computer can help you do just that.
Sebastian Weiss is an architectural photographer based in Hamburg, Germany. His passion is finding beautiful shapes, patterns, and colors in the architecture of buildings found across Europe.
Instagram boasts over 400 million users now and has never been more popular. But even though user growth charges forward, the interaction rate by users appears to be trending downward. A new study reports a 33% drop in Likes and Comments over a one year period.
Kristina Lechner of Kalamazoo, Michigan, is a fake-food photographer (not to be confused with a fake food-photographer). Her project Food Not Food is a series of tasty photos in which everything in the frame is something inedible that was found around the house.
Setting up your first portrait studio and wondering what color backdrop to get? If you can only choose one color, you might want to think about getting a gray one. In the 6-minute video above, photographer Joe Edelman explains why he thinks gray is the best color.
Remember the Filmomat automatic film processor that went viral in December 2015? If you said "want!" when you saw that machine, there's good news for you: a new personal automatic film processing machine has already hit the market: it's called the Osiris F1.
MoMo is a new soft-focus lens for digital cameras by the Japanese lens company Yasuhara. Inspired by a 100-year-old Vest Pocket Kodak's meniscus lens, the Momo has a blurry quality that can be adjusted by changing the aperture.
Animator Drew Christie of Whidbey Island, Washington, was recently commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to create a set of animated short films that tell the story of famous photography pioneers.
Want to shoot off-road racing from a creative perspective under a vehicle flying through the air? You should probably get permission to deploy some remote cameras. You probably shouldn't crouch in a dip on the track and wait for racers to whiz past above your head.
Want to learn an advanced yet easy technique for reducing noise more intelligently in Photoshop? Blake Rudis of f64 Academy made this fantastic 8-minute tutorial on how you can target shadows for noise reduction using Photoshop's "Blend If" feature.
Flickr generated a lot of bad feelings back in March 2016 by making its Auto-Uploadr app a Pro-only feature. If you're not Pro but would still like the convenience of automatically uploading new photos, you can build a custom gadget that does it for you.
If RAW photography coming to iOS wasn't enough exciting news for you today, get this: the highly-regarded pro photo editing app Affinity Photo is coming to the iPad.
Photographer Paul Richardson of Manchester, UK, just released a time-lapse short film that's garnering high praise on the Web. It's titled "Patience," and is a 4K journey around Europe that took a great deal of patience to create.
Apple just unveiled iOS 10 at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco today. Among the new features is a smarter Photos app for making, storing, sharing, and revisiting your memories.
Storehouse, the app for telling beautiful stories through photos, is shutting down. Competing against larger photo sharing services out there, Storehouse wasn't able to gain traction among the general public.
One of the big arguments against taking photos is that the act distracts you from actually enjoying what you're experiencing. But a new study has found that snapping pictures actually helps people enjoy experiences more.
BrushKnob is a new control device for Photoshop that aims to speed up your workflow by putting two extra physical controls at your fingertips: a knob and a button.
Want to own one of the biggest lenses you can get your hands on? Hastings, Nebraska-based photographer Jim Headley is selling just the lens for you: it's a gigantic 1000mm f/4.5 lens that was originally made for NASA back in 1964.
Netherlands-based photographer and videographer Chung Dha made this quick 2-minute video showing how he fakes the look of drone shots using a light stand and action camera.
Facebook launched its new Moments photo-sharing app back in June 2015. Now the social networking giant is pushing hard to get users onto the new app... by threatening the deletion of auto-synced photos.
While shooting a wedding back in December 2014, New Jersey-based wedding photographer Tom Harmon strapped a GoPro to his camera to show what the experience is like. The footage and final shots were turned into the 4-minute video above.
Professional Photographers of America, the world's largest pro photography non-profit trade group, is launching a big lobbying campaign in order to see the creation of a copyright small claims system in the United States, something that's "vital to your photography business," PPA says.
The Dutch company TomTom is best known for making GPS navigation devices, but did you know that it's also a player in the action camera market? The $300 TomTom Bandit action camera just got a software update that makes it even more attractive for underwater shooting: it can now auto-correct colors while submerged.
"Las Vegas In Infrared" is a new 4-minute short film by Philip Bloom, who visited Las Vegas with a Sony RX100 IV that had been modified for infrared photography through having its filter removed. Most of what you see was shot from a moving vehicle with 2 second bursts at 250fps through a 665nm filter.
Making food look appealing on camera is no easy task. For still photos, food photographers use all kinds of tricks and non-food products to make food look beautiful and tasty. Similar hacks exist for capturing food on video. In its new ad above, Carl's Jr. decided to go the easy route instead of using those techniques.
"Follow your passion" is a piece of life advice that's commonly thrown around. It's heard in the photography industry, and especially in graduation commencement speeches. But here's a 5-minute video in which well-known TV host Mike Rowe argues for the opposite: why you (maybe) shouldn't follow your passion.
Ricoh just announced the new Pentax K-70, a rugged DSLR designed for photographers who enjoy shooting in the great outdoors. It packs features that were previously only seen in high-end Pentax cameras, such as the new top-of-the-line Pentax K-1 full frame DSLR.
A wildlife photographer in Singapore was slapped with charges this week for baiting endangered eagles with air-injected live fish in order to capture action shots.
Can an algorithm-based service such as Google Images be racist? That's what people are suggesting this week after one man's video went viral.
Adobe today announced its latest updates to Lightroom and Camera Raw. In addition to new lens support and various bug fixes, the updates bring a brand new feature called Guided Upright -- it's a tool that lets you easily straighten lines in photos.
A rare unopened US military Leica camera has appeared on eBay with a price tag of $45,300. It's new in box, sealed inside an unopened paper bag, and comes with an X-Ray of the box as evidence of what's contained inside.
"Put Your Head Into Gallery," is an unusual interactive art project by Tbilisi, Georgia-based artist Tezi Gabunia. After creating realistic small-scale models of famous rooms in art galleries, Gabunia and his collaborators put them on display and invited visitors to his exhibition to pose with their heads inside the tiny spaces. The resulting photos show giant heads peering into well-known art galleries.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk famously said recently that he believes there's a "one in billions" chance that we're not all living in a computer simulation. This idea of real being indistinguishable from digital is the basis for photographer Ollie Ma's project Open World.
Instagram just released version 8.2 of its iOS app. Among the "bug fixes and performance improvements" is a new iOS extension that lets you post directly to Instagram from elsewhere in iOS.
The European investment group AURELIUS announced today that it has acquired Calumet Photographic and Bowens Lighting, two well known brands in the world of photography. The sale will allow Calumet to expand its retail stores in new cities in Europe.
Photographer Stephen Wilkes is known for his ambitious photo compositions that show scenes changing from day to night. Back in February 2016, Wilkes gave a talk at TED2016 about how he captures the passing of time in a single photo.
Founded in 1854, the British Journal of Photography is one of the world's oldest and most influential photography magazines. The 162-year-old publication was sold back in 2013, and now it's raising money through a crowdfunding campaign. Put in some money, and in exchange you get ownership shares in the magazine.
Have a virtual reality headset and enjoy browsing Instagram photos? Instamuseum is a new app that lets you combine those two things: it turns Instagram accounts into a virtual reality museum that you can "walk around" in.
Back in February 2016, skier Nicolas Vuignier captured the worlds imagination with a video shot using his "Centriphone," a plastic glider that lets you swing a camera around your head and have the lens constantly pointed toward you. For their latest music video, Indie pop duo Matt & Kim created their own centriphone... using a wooden coat hanger and some fishing wire.
The camera has found its way into all kinds of products over the past couple of decades, from the phone in your pocket to the car you drive around. One of the latest everyday products to adopt a camera is one you've probably never thought would have one: the toothbrush. The Prophix is a new $400 toothbrush that has a built-in camera for capturing images of your teeth and gums.
Here's a video from 2011 in which respected Los Angeles-based social documentary photographer John Free vents about his personal frustration with photographic education.
VSCO has announced that it's redesigning its popular mobile camera app for both iOS and Android. The new app will be focused on both creating and consuming content, increasing the app's strength as a photo sharing social network.
Want to see the power of ReelSteady's software based image stabilization for After Effects? The video above shows a crazy wingsuit stunt by BASE jumper Graham Dickinson and his friend Dario. The GoPro HERO footage has been stabilized using ReelSteady as a "stress test."
A female photographer was caught on camera getting too close to a large elk at Yellowstone National Park this past weekend. To the woman's surprise, the elk suddenly decided to charge at her.
Nikon recently gave filmmakers Wriggles & Robins the new Nikon D810 and asked the duo to showcase the low-light capabilities of the DSLR. They decided to shoot a stop motion animation in the dark outdoors.