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If you look at the product page of any "exotic" piece of camera equipment on Amazon, there's a good chance that you'll come across some humorous fake reviews left by photographers looking to poke fun at the product's features. Last September, we shared some funny reviews left for the Sigma 200-500mm, which looks more like a bazooka than a lens. Another one is the Hasselblad H4D-50, a medium format DSLR that costs $19,000... as an open box demo. You can probably guess what the reviews poke fun at.

A Leica camera from 1923 became the world's most expensive camera earlier this year when it was auctioned for a staggering $2.79 million. The world's most expensive lens has a similar price tag... and is also a Leica.

Forget rings on your fingers or grills on your teeth: Japanese designer Jay Tsujimura thinks your camera is where bling should go. Presumably geared towards people who use pricey cameras as a fashion accessory and status symbol, Tsujimura's premium line of camera jewelry is designed to adorn hotshoes and shutter releases.

UV lens filters are a popular way to protect the front element of lenses from damage, but you should make sure you invest in a high-quality one unless you want to make a huge sacrifice in image quality.

Here’s an interesting graphic that’s floating around the social networks (anyone know the source?) that shows why photography is …

The largest photo book ever published sold yesterday at the Bonhams Book, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs sale in London. The book is made up of 20, un-enlarged prints of Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem taken by renowned English photographer Francis Frith that each measure a colossal 30in x 21in. To give you some perspective, we've superimposed a picture of Canon's new T4i (to scale) onto the picture from the book itself. As you can see, these are some big prints.

There are many different levels of camera, ranging from point-and-shoot compacts to medium format behemoths, but what if there was something much more powerful than even the highest end Haselblads? What if someone other than space stations could get their hands on a camera that could shoot, say, 112MP photos with enough dynamic range to capture the sun and the stars... in the same exposure... in broad daylight? Well, if we play our cards right, we may just get to see that.

A fake war photograph by Canadian artist Jeff Wall was sold yesterday at …

A few weeks back an amazing Nikkor 6mm fisheye lens resurfaced for sale in London for an …

Two years ago, we reported that an extremely rare Nikkor 6mm f/2.8 fisheye lens had been put …

Bad news if you’re a film shooter and Fujifilm is your brand of choice: the company has announced that …

This Holga camera is named the “Holga-Cam of the Apocalypse” and is worth $24,000. Photographer …

Last week, a collection of 36 prints by William Eggleston was sold for $5.9 million at auction.  The top ten list of most expensive photographs ever sold doesn't contain a single work worth less than a cool million. Just a few months ago, Andreas Gursky's 'Rhine II' became the world's most expensive photograph, selling for $4.3 million.

The Panavision PSR 35mm movie camera that was used for most of the principal photography in the original 1977 …

Despite what you might think, this isn't some random snapshot we found online -- it's actually the world's most expensive photograph. Titled "Rhein II", it's a 1999 photograph by Andreas Gursky showing the Rhine river. Last night it sold for a whopping $4,338,500 at Christie's.

Now here’s a camera accessory you don’t see every day: over in Japan …

Filmmaker Philip Bloom recently helped Lucasfilm shoot parts of their upcoming film …

Leica offers a funky $200 lens holder accessory for its M system film rangefinders that screws into the tripod mount and lets you store an extra lens on the bottom of the camera.

You know you’re ballin’ as a photographer when you can use your lens collection to play a giant game …

There’s a new entry in the list of most expensive photographs, and this …

Kate Spade’s Pocomo Gwem handbag features a pretty well-known rangefinder camera.

A Leica 0-series camera made in 1923 was sold this past weekend at WestLicht Photographica Auctions for a staggering €1.32 million (~$1.89 million). Only about 25 0-series cameras were manufactured to test the market before Leica began commercially producing the Leica A. It's the most expensive camera ever sold, but is still only half the price of the most expensive photo that was auctioned earlier this month.

Sigma generated a lot of buzz recently after announcing its SD1 DSLR with a $9,700 MSRP, and that's probably exactly what they were trying to do. As articles all over the Internet questioned why a 14.7MP Sigma DSLR would cost the same price as Pentax's 40MP medium-format DSLR, Sigma was quick to point out that the camera would actually be selling for a slightly more reasonable street price of $6,900.

The P.90 is a limited edition pinhole camera by Kurt Mottweiler, an Oregon-based builder of wooden cameras. It's constructed using Cherry wood and brass, has a tripod adapter on the bottom, and is loaded with 120 roll film.

Cindy Sherman’s “Untitled #96” from 1981 has become the world’s most valuable photograph after selling for a staggering $3.89 …

If you somehow got your hands on a Fujifilm Finepix X100 already but don’t mind waiting a little longer …

If there was an MTV Cribs for photographers, it would probably look something …

With a suggested retail price of £19,800 (currently about $32,000) and only 500 units in existence, Leica's limited edition M9 Titanium probably isn't a camera you're ever going to lay eyes on in real life. When it was announced back in September of last year, we predicted that most of them wouldn't see the light of day and would be placed immediately into collectors' vaults. Luckily for us, someone decided to actually unbox (gasp!) one of these babies (camera #164), allowing us to see what it's like to receive such an absurdly expensive camera.

There's an old beat up Leica MP-36 being sold by a reputable seller on eBay (8533 feedback score with 99.4% positive) for the staggering price of $104,000. What's strange is that the details provided in the listing are quite sparse. The page includes a few photographs and the description,

Peter Lik, a self-taught Australian landscape photographer, has sold one of his photographs …