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We've covered reviews of some pretty weird lenses in the past, but this latest one from Christopher Frost really takes the cake. Frost reviews a Soviet era MTO 1000A 1,100mm f/10.5 mirror lens, which he has attached to his Canon 6D and 60D cameras.

It can be difficult to wrap your head around just how long 1,100mm is in practice; we're...

 

 

With the NAB Show now behind us, Firmware Friday revisits pro video for a second week running with news of more new firmware on the way (or just arrived) for professional video cameras from Arri and Sony. We'll start off this week with quick news of another update for the Ricoh GR II, following in the...

 

 

Earlier this week, we told you about the case of British Airways Flight 727, which at the time was widely reported as potentially the first case of an errant drone striking a commercial airliner in flight. The story, not surprisingly, has been greeted with widespread alarm from a public increasingly wary of the...

 

 

As an Imaging Resource reader, you're probably pretty knowledgeable and discerning when it comes to your cameras. Be that as it may, you probably won't be too surprised to learn that the most popular camera in the world -- at least according to photo-sharing site Flickr -- is Apple's iPhone, however. In fact,...

For just $350, you can take your photography to the next level with the Pixelstick, a six-foot long stick covered in LEDs. PetaPixel calls this interesting photo gadget "an absolute must-buy for any serious photographer." That's quite a claim, so what's all the buzz about?

The Pixelstick isn't simply a stick with lights on it -- it's...

 

 

Older film cameras might lack the technical wizardry of their modern equivalents, but their attractive styling and ergonomics still exude charm all these decades later, something modern retro-styled gear like the Nikon Df or Fuji X-T1 attempts to replicate. But that's not to say that the vintage gear can't itself...

 

 

The debut of the Canon 70D in 2013 brought with it a big technological development: Dual Pixel CMOS AF. With this on-sensor phase detect autofocus technology, there was finally a Canon DSLR that had truly fast live view autofocusing for still photography as well as smooth, cinematic-looking and overall very capable...

 

 

The recent devastating Kumamoto earthquakes have had far-reaching effects on various industries, including the photo industry. In addition to temporarily closing a pair of Sony image sensor plants, the earthquakes have now affected Nikon's release targets for a variety of upcoming cameras. In addition to the...

 

 

Ever since the advent of digital imaging, there's been an oft-repeated refrain from a significant number of photographers and videographers: "We want a modular camera system!". It's an idea with great appeal, but would it work in the real world? After a few efforts at such a system over the years, none of...

Seeing the Aurora Borealis (or the Aurora Australis) from Earth is already spectacular enough, but seeing it from space? That's a very different experience, and one which NASA provides us with in a new ultra-high definition time-lapse video.

The images used to create the video below were shot from the International Space Station and show...

Roger Cicala, Aaron Closz, and Erick Marquez of LensRentals have put together an in-depth look at electromagnetic focusing, discussing how it's used in modern lenses, what some of its weaknesses might be, and what it might allow lens designers to do in the future.

Autofocus systems come in a variety of forms, including early geared direct...

 

 

You could scour the far corners of the globe and not find a more popular line of digital cameras from the last decade or so than the Canon Rebel series. We're not privy to exact numbers of camera sales for a given line, but the Canon Rebel line has been to the digital camera world what Elvis Presley has been to...

 

 

A couple of weeks ago, we told you about the Huawei P9 and P9 Plus, a very interesting duo of flagship smartphones which feature not just one, but two Leica-branded lenses on their rear faces. Today, we learn another interesting fact about the pair: The identity of the company behind manufacture of these...

 

 

The age of immersive video is finally upon us, with cameras like the Ricoh Theta S and Nikon KeyMission 360 offering extremely affordable spherical panoramic video at the entry-level end of the market, while more sophisticated devices like the Orah 4i provide even greater video quality for professional use....

Canadian photographer and visual artist Eric Paré is known for his light painting photography, which has been covered by a wide variety of media outlets in the past. (We pointed readers towards his LightSpin documentary a couple of years ago.)

Of his latest project, Signs of Light, Paré says "When comes the night, it's time to animate the...

Breaking news: The winners for the 2016 Pulitzer Prizes have just been announced, including three awards for photography!

Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks, and Daniel Etter of The New York Times have been awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for their work in Breaking News Photography. Their winning coverage of the European refugee...

Two earthquakes hit the Kumamoto area in southwestern Japan last week. These deadly quakes have taken the lives of at least 41 people, and have caused extensive damage to the important manufacturing region.

A Sony image sensor factory in Kumamoto was evacuated as a precaution following the first earthquake, but a second quake hit and has...

Last week, we reported on a drone flying through an office window. Yesterday something much more dangerous happened when a drone collided with an airplane at London's Heathrow Airport.

While approaching Heathrow Airport, a British Airways pilot of an Airbus A320 from Geneva to London reported that the plane had collided with a drone....

 

 

Wake up with IR! Here's today's cup of Caffeine Priority...

I made brief mention of the Olympus 7-14mm f/2.8 M.Zuiko Pro in my Field Test for the E-M10 II, and of course we've long since given it a full technical review, but I've been wanting to circle back and shine a more direct spotlight on this lens in its...