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.
There are no real images of a black hole, only artist renderings like the one above and that really cool CGI version in the movie Interstellar. But that may change in the coming years thanks to an algorithm recently developed at MIT.
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.
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.
In 2002, a renegade science photographer, Martin Waugh, was playing with high-speed photography and discovered he could image two drips of water hitting each other.
A report published in the famed journal Science is giving us, perhaps, our first look at the future of optical technology. And that future comes bearing camera lenses that are thinner than a human hair.
"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event." — Henri Cartier Bresson
In 2014, filmmaker Tom Leveritt used an ultraviolet camera to show people their skin like they'd never seen it before. Now, you can do the same thing with the Sunscreenr: a tiny, waterproof UV camera that is meant to keep you slathering on sunscreen by showing you when you've used enough and where it's worn off.
Okay Google, eject the camera.
Five little words followed by a small 'pop' from the prototype phone sitting on the table in front of him, and Google's Rafa Camargo made the the crowd at the Google I/O developer conference go wild.
Sony’s Xperia X smartphone features a 23-megapixel camera and the company’s SteadyShot image …
In the not-so-distant future, finding the photo you're looking for online may not require you to describe it or know the location or even the photographer... just as long as you can doodle something that looks like it on a scrap of paper.
We've shared a number of do-it-yourself camera projects involving Raspberry Pi in the past. If you're interested in trying your hand at one, it's now even cheaper: the ultra affordable $5 Raspberry Pi Zero now has a camera connector.
Researchers at Stanford University want to give your drone superpowers. Okay maybe not superpowers, but they have developed a drone that can land on walls and ceilings, clinging there like a robotic insect.
How many photos did you come home with from your last professional shoot? Whether that number is several hundred or several thousand, that's a lot of photos to cull through, and a new Artificial Intelligence software called Picturesqe thinks it can help.
Want to see the world's most advanced selfie stick? Check out the video above, which shows the Automated Selfie Stick.
No brush stroke, no accidental blotch of paint, no hidden nuance of a great painting by van Gogh or Monet can hide from the ultra-high resolution Google Art Camera.
Over the past couple of decades, CMOS sensors have come to dominate the digital photography landscape thanks to their increasing quality and falling costs. If you're unfamiliar with the differences between CMOS and CCD sensors, CEI-Europe has created a helpful infographic that compares the two technologies.
As video games become more and more realistic, some artists have made names for themselves by shooting artistic in-game photographs (AKA screenshots). Now NVIDIA wants to bring in-game photography to the masses: the graphics company just announced "Ansel," a new virtual photography tool that's ready to appear in many future games.
Two of the most influential gadgets of all time, as declared a few days ago by TIME magazine, are cameras—two gadgets that "changed the course of technology for good." One of them even made the top 10.
Photographers are slaves to their batteries—batteries for cameras, batteries for flashes, even the battery inside your smartphone with all its useful photography-related apps. That's why this new, rechargeable battery breakthrough from some researchers at UC Irvine has us so excited.
The future of wearable camera technology is a contact lens. At least, that's what Google, Samsung, and now Sony seem to think. All three have patented their own contact lens cams in the last 2 years.
Apple's iPhone 7 has long been rumored to sport dual cameras, but the smartphone might have another interesting photographic trick up its sleeve when it arrives: optical zoom. A new patent from Apple shows how they could make this happen without making the phone bulkier.
There are plenty of products out there promising to turn your smartphone camera into the portable DSLR you wish existed—we've covered smartphone lenses, grips, lenscams, and more. The Miggo Pictar falls into the second category, grips, but it does something very different: it communicates with your iPhone using ultrasound.
We won't waste time hemming and hawing: this is just plain cool. Using a patented technology, Satellite Lab can move a light source around an object at 10,000 feet per second while capturing that same object in super slow motion, creating an effect we'll call "bullet time 2.0".
In the latest installment of "crazy photography innovation to cross our desks," let us introduce you to the "sheet camera" by the engineers at Columbia University. This flexible camera array lets you change field of view by simply bending it.
Lytro has ditched the world of consumer cameras, and if the Lytro Immerge wasn't proof enough of this decision, their latest announcement should seal it. Yesterday, Lytro debuted "the world’s first Light Field solution for film and television," a 755MP cinema camera monster.
Getting a different perspective from your smartphone camera might soon be a much easier task thanks to the "Drone-in-a-Phone" case—a concept that comes with, you guessed it, a tiny drone tucked away inside.
Memory card full? Just pull out some DNA storage and keep shooting. Scientists have figured out how to store digital photos in DNA and then perfectly retrieve them afterward.
Optical stabilization has slowly but surely continued to improve in recent years, but a new patent from Canon hints at a major change in the tech that may arrive in future lenses: instead of one image stabilized lens group, the patent describes a lens that uses two.
GoPro may have just introduced their own 360° video solution, but they're not the only dog in this fight. The tiny little Orah 4i camera by VideoStitch is a more portable, easier to use 4K 360° solution that does something more: it can live-stream the VR quality footage it's capturing.
Re-saving an image over and over and over again in a lossy format (a format like JPEG that tosses some data each time you save/compress the file) slowly but surely degrades the image. This is called generation loss, and it's demonstrated beautifully in these almost painful-to-watch YouTube videos.
We're getting closer to being able to take pictures with cameras built directly into contact lenses. Samsung has been granted a patent in South Korea for a smart contact lens that projects images directly into the wearer's eyeball... and which has a built-in camera that's controlled by blinking.
It's been a little over a month since Leica promised to "reinvent" mobile photography in partnership with Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei, and today they're following up on that promise. The long-awaited, much-rumored, and much-leaked Huawei P9 has arrived.
For us sighted folk, it's difficult to imagine an image-less Facebook News Feed, where a screen reader tells you that your friend uploaded a photo... and nothing more. But thanks to Facebook's new "automatic alternate text" tool and the power of artificial intelligence, that reality is no more.
It's a few days late for outlandish April Fools' jokes, but that won't stop us from taking this next rumor with a big grain of salt. The Sony a7RII's successor may, it seems, come to market toting a 70-80MP sensor... take that Canon!
There's a new action cam on its way to market, and when it arrives it may give GoPro, Sony, and all the rest a serious run for their money. Why? Because this camera, the new Revl Arc, is the world's first action cam with built-in image stabilization.
Colorizing old black-and-white photos with Photoshop has been a popular subject on the Internet over the past few years, as skilled retouchers use their time and skills to offer a new view of vintage images. In the future, though, software may be able colorize B&W photos with the click of a button.
Video games are becoming more and more realistic, and the quality is getting so good that some screenshots and clips may trick you into thinking you're looking at a photo or video of the real world.
Here's an interesting idea: the Japanese company Cosina has released a new augmented reality app that shows you what various lenses look like on your camera.
Face swap camera apps are all the rage these days, and Facebook even acquired one this month to get into the game. But the technology is getting more and more creepy: you can now hijack someone else's face in real-time video.
The Canon 35mm f/1.4L II lens announced back in August 2015 was the first Canon lens to feature the company's new Blue Spectrum Refractive (BR) lens technology, a special lens element that corrects for color fringing.
The Chinese company Venus Optics has announced its new Laowa 105mm f/2 Smooth Trans Focus (STF) lens, which it nicknamed "The Bokeh Dreamer."
The upcoming iPhone 7 is rumored to feature Apple's first dual-rear-camera system. If you want to see what using those dual cameras might be like, check out the 3-minute concept video above.
When the darkest material on Earth was announced back in 2014, photographers suggested that it could be used for everything from the ultimate non-reflective black backdrop to an art gallery in which the photos "pop." Well, that darkest material just got even darker.
It looks like the future is going to be full of scary-looking weapons that are designed to take down rogue drones. The latest one: a shoulder-mounted anti-drone bazooka.
Geotagging is usually done using a built-in GPS system, but in the future it might be possible to figure out where a photo was shot just by showing the picture to an artificial intelligence program.
The SD Association has announced its latest SD memory card specification. SD 5.0 features the fastest speed class so far, known as Video Speed Class. The cards will be able to support 4K, 8K, 3D, and 360-degree video recording (in addition to blazing-fast photo shooting speeds).
Skier Nicolas Vuignier recently shared a viral video in which he created "bullet time" footage of himself skiing by swinging an iPhone 6 around his head using a special contraption he built himself.
The original 3-minute video can be seen above, in case you haven't watched it yet. It amassed well over 3.5 million views in just a couple of weeks.
Cameras are one of the key features consumers look for in smartphones, so phone makers are constantly working to break new ground in smartphone camera features, specs, and quality. Dual camera systems are starting to appear, OPPO just unveiled the first sensor-baser image stabilizer for smartphones.
The Chinese company Xiaomi has a few tricks of its own. Its new Mi 5 smartphone features a new 4-axis optical image stabilization system that appears to outperform the latest and greatest Apple stabilization system in the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus.
Want the benefits of cloud photo storage combined with the simplicity and security of having possession of the physical hard drive? A new gadget called Monument aims to deliver just that. It's the world's first desktop device that uses artificial intelligence to provide a "personal cloud" that you can use to backup your photos and access them from anywhere.