Photographer Puts the iPhone 5S, 6 and 6 Plus Through Their Paces in Iceland

While everybody was still speculating and chasing after rumors about the then unofficial iPhone 6, photographer Austin Mann was hopping a plane to Iceland with a 5S, 6 and 6 Plus in tow. His mission was to test these three phones out side-by-side and see if the major tech updates Apple made to the camera translate into real-world results.

Humor: ‘Creepiest Canon Camera Review EVER’ Parodies Camera Comparisons

Editor's Note: There is both strong language and a few borderline NSFW scenes in this video. Proceed with caution.

'Frank Lasagna' wants to highlight the differences between the Canon 6D and the T5i. He also wants to spy on his neighbor's wife in the highest possible quality. Fortunately for you if you need a laugh, he does both in this parody review titled, extremely accurately: "The Creepiest Canon Camera Review EVER."

Old, Inexpensive, and Tack-Sharp: Canon’s Best Lenses You Don’t Know About

These days, it seems that if you want to get a nice sharp lens, you have to spend $1000 on a piece of L glass. Aside from the nifty fifty’s of the world, there are very few lenses that deliver quality results at a low price. But if you look harder, there are actually a few old lenses that still offer amazing quality for extremely low price. How is that possible? Well, it is. Keep reading to learn how.

Biracial Woman Asks Photoshop Artists From 18 Countries to ‘Make Her Beautiful’

Two months ago we shared with you the interesting experiment by journalist Esther Honing that involved taking one photograph and having people from 27 countries Photoshop it to end up with what they considered to be their countries definition of beautiful.

Fellow journalist and friend of Honig's Priscilla Yuki Wilson wanted to try the same thing, and see how her biracial ethnicity would affect the outcome.

The Lens Flipper: A Super Simple Mount Accessory that Lets You Swap Lenses in a Flash

Photokina isn't just a place for major camera brands with big lens and body announcements, a lot of smaller companies use the trade show to gain some traction for their sometimes-weird, sometimes-ingenious camera accessories as well.

Fortunately for us, the Lens Flipper by Go Wing -- a double sided mount accessory that makes carrying and swapping lenses super quick and easy -- fits into the latter category.

5 Reasons Why I’m F***ing Done With Rooftopping

So it has been an amazing run. I owe a lot to my 'rooftopping' adventures. I've sold prints, had gallery shows, been on TV, in magazines, on the front page of the Toronto Star, and most importantly the rest of my work got more attention as a by-product of it. People really seemed interested - they liked these types of images and the attention was nice. It is hard to turn away the likes and faves. It was addicting to an insecure photographer just starting a new career in photography. Rooftopping was my security blanket.

10 Wedding Photos by Australia’s Best Professional Photographer

As of this last Monday, photographer James Simmons can officially call himself Australia's best professional photographer. A wedding photographer by trade, he's joined distinguished ranks as this year's Canon AIPP Australian Professional Photographer of the Year and earned himself some viral fame in the process.

Spellbinding Macro Photos of Fish and Reptile Eyes… and an Owlet

Photographer Suren Manvelyan is back with more of the types of images that he's made his name capturing. Namely: intense macro photographs of the strange shapes and landscapes found in animals' eyes.

In 2011 we shared part one, in 2013 part two, and now we get to share part three: a fishy exploration into the eyes of animals that spend much or all of their time underwater... and an owlet.

Rumor: Canon to Release 46MP Pro DSLR Next Month

Talk of Canon dropping a bomb on the megapixel war with a high-MP DSLR is nothing new, but several rumor sites are now reporting on the possibility of a 46MP pro Canon DSLR next month at PhotoPlus in New York City. Take THAT Nikon and your measly 36 megapixels.

Protip: Perfectly Synchronize the Clocks on Multiple Cameras Using a Computer

If you've ever needed to deal with photos shot with multiple cameras at the same event, you've probably found how important the clocks on the cameras are for keeping the resulting photos neat and orderly. If timestamps are off, then figuring out when photos were captured in relation to each other can be a pain.

One way you can make sure the clocks on your cameras are perfectly synchronized is by automatically synchronizing them to your computer.

Peak Design Strap Failures Causing Dropped Cameras for Some Photographers

Update on 3/15/17: Here's a statement provided to PetaPixel by Peak Design regarding the issue reported in this article:

The product issue described in this article was limited to a single batch of products sent out to a subset of Peak Design's Kickstarter backers in October, 2014. Upon discovering this defect Peak Design immediately halted production until they fixed the manufacturing error. No defective units ever hit retail shelves or peakdesign.com. Peak Design offered their Kickstarter backers free replacement straps, as well as a DIY fix-it-kit.

When you're in the business of keeping photographers' cameras secure and safe, having your product fail can lead to disastrous results. This past weekend, San Francisco photo gear company Peak Design sent out an email to some customers warning them about a newly-discovered issue with their straps.

Apparently a small percentage of straps have a component that can disengage without the photographer wanting it to, potentially leading to dropped cameras.

The World’s Largest Salt Flat, Where Heaven Meets Earth: Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni

Salar de Uyuni is a gigantic salt flat found in southwest Bolivia. Measuring over 4,000 square miles (10,000+ square km), it's the world's largest salt flat. The ground is especially flat and white, and is often used to calibrate instruments on satellites due to its properties.

Japanese photographer Asako Shimizu visited and captured images of this location for a project titled On Her Skin. It's a series of 9 square photographs showing how the flat blurs the distinction between heaven and Earth.

JIBO: The World’s First Family Robot That Can Double as Your Private Photographer

Cynthia Breazeal envisions a world in which every family has its own personal robot helping out at home -- one that can help out around the house, and even help take photographs when needed. To turn this idea into a reality, the MIT robotics professor has created a robot called JIBO.

The robot has already become a top 5 most funded campaign on Indiegogo after raising over $2.2 million from over 5,500 supporters.

What an Auroral Substorm Looks Like in Real Time

The Aurora Borealis (AKA Northern Lights) often makes an appearance in time-lapse videos of the night sky, but have you ever seen what it looks like in real time? That's what Korean astrophotographer Kwon O Chul was able to capture in the video above.

Puppies Jumping Into Swimming Pools Make for Unbelievably Cute Photos

If you haven't smiled yet today, you're about to. That's because photographer Seth Casteel -- the man behind the NY Times bestseller and viral sensation Underwater Dogs -- is back with another installment of his series that promises to be even more adorable than the first.

How could this possibly be, you ask? Well, for this second iteration, Casteel taught 1,500 puppies how to swim, making the resulting photo book so squee-inducing you might just explode from all the cuteness.

Photo Throwdown Reality Show Pits Photog Against Photog in Fun Photo Challenges with a Twist

Last week we got an email from photographer Damian Battinelli that really piqued our interest. He told us that he and five of his friends had, in a moment of drunken brilliance in a Las Vegas casino, come up with a fantastic idea for a new online reality show that would pit photographer against photographer in a series of fun photo challenges with a twist.

Thus was born Photo Throwdown, a photography show that just aired the very entertaining and exciting 'part one' of its first episode today!

Canadian Newlyweds Nearly Hit by Train During Bridge Photo Shoot on the Tracks

One day the stories of photographers being hit or nearly hit by trains while taking photos on the tracks will become so prevalent that people just stop doing it altogether, but today is not that day. Just this last weekend another unidentified photographer and the newlyweds he or she was photographing had an uncomfortably close call.

PSA: Dropbox Can’t Automatically Backup Your Photos in iOS 8 Yet

Update: Dropbox has contacted us to let us know that the issue has been fixed!

Dropbox users waiting anxiously for iOS 8 to drop so they can take advantage of all the cool new features like manual controls and a more robust photo experience take note: your automatic backup will be temporarily shut off once you update to the new OS and download the newest version of the Dropbox app.

Relonch Case Slaps an APS-C Sensor and f/2.0 Lens Onto Your iPhone

The Panasonic CM1 smartphone with its 1-inch sensor and super-fast Leica lens might not be available outside of a few European countries any time soon, but that doesn't necessarily mean you can't have a supercharged smartphone camera.

Enter Relonch: an iPhone case that adds a much larger APS-C sensor and fast f/2.0 lens to any iPhone 5 or 6.

TIME Sends War Photographer to Shoot Zombies in a Video Game

Conflict photographer Ashley Gilbertson was recently sent into a very different war zone by TIME. Instead of capturing images of human versus human conflict in real life, Gilbertson was told to document the main characters in the video game The Last of Us Remastered.

Rumor: Photo of a Canon EF 11-24mm f/4L Lens Pops Up Online

A photo of a previously-patented ultra-wide angle zoom lens leaked online earlier today, and it has the Canon faithful all atwitter in the hopes that the leaked image is indeed the real thing and not just some hoax playing on their hopes and dreams.

Artist Photographs His Adorable Bull Terrier Jimmy in Creative, Fun and Silly Situations

Rafael Mantesso's dog, an adorable bull terrier named Jimmy Choo, is taking the Internet by storm today after Mantesso's creative Instagram photos of Jimmy caught the attention of the world at large.

An artist and editor, Mantesso draws, dresses and otherwise inserts an unbelievably cooperative Jimmy into countless fun adventures on his Instagram account -- from a screaming vocal performance, to a day spent with troublemaking cartoon duo Calvin and Hobbes.

Polaroid Shows Off Instagram Logo Lookalike ‘Socialmatic’ Camera at Photokina

The long-awaited Polaroid 'Socialmatic' -- a square camera that looks like the Instagram app logo (which was, of course, inspired by a Polaroid camera in the first place) -- is one step closer to an official release. And now that Polaroid brought some prototypes with them to Photokina, the unwieldy digital instant camera is starting to look more and more like a potential flop.

Olympus Jumps On Lens Camera Bandwagon with ‘Open Platform’ Project

It looks like Sony started something with its QX-series lens cameras. Olympus, with some help from MIT, is jumping on the bandwagon at Photokina where they've debuted a Micro Four Thirds interchangeable lens module that is meant to connect up with your smartphone and tablet and be used much the same way the QX cameras are.

Leica Unveils the All-New, All-Mechanical M-A Film Rangefinder

If removing the LCD from a digital rangefinder just isn't retro enough for you, Leica has something that even the most adamant of purists won't be able to dog. Dubbed the Leica M-A (Typ 127), this all-new film rangefinder is 100% mechanical: no built-in light meter, no electronic control, this beauty doesn't even take batteries.

Canon Pixma Photo Printer Hacked to Run Doom

The "Internet of Things" is likely what the future holds, but it's a future that has it share of security concerns. As more and more devices are making their way online, hackers will have newer points of entry into our lives.

Case in point: a security researcher has shown that Canon Pixma printers can be hacked to run custom code. As an example, he loaded the game Doom onto the printer.