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Leica is apparently entering the smartphone market in some capacity, having recently announced that it is pairing up with the Chinese company Huawei. In 2015 Huawei sold over 100 million mobile phones, becoming the first Chinese company to achieve this milestone. This past fall, Huawei partnered up with Google to develop the Nexus 6P...

Sigma continues to announce new products during this week's CP+ show in Japan. In addition to a pair of new lenses and new mirrorless cameras earlier this week, Sigma has also announced a new EF-630 electronic flash.

The new, more powerful flash includes numerous reported performance improvements over the Sigma EF-610 flash, including rear...

While many instances of photographing in public are protected by First Amendment rights in the United States, a federal judge ruled last week that photographing or recording video of police officers is not always protected.

Federal District Court Judge Mark Kearney ruled in the cases Fields v. City of Philadelphia and Geraci v. City of...

Manfrotto produces a wide array of aluminum tripods. In the video below from the Science Channel television series How It's Made, you can see workers assembling one of their tripods.

After the tubes are anodized and cut to their correct lengths, some of them are laser engraved with Manfrotto's name and the tripod's model information. Next...

 

 

It's been a while since we had a camera deals round-up, but we've now gathered up a nice handful of discounts and rebates on a variety of cameras and lenses for you to browse through. For starters, we have a bunch of instant rebates on a wide variety of Fujifilm X-series cameras, including the X100T, X-T10 and X-T1...

B&H has uploaded an excellent video showcasing bird photography and tips and tricks from professional photographers Arthur Morris and Denise Ippolito. This is a must-watch video for any photographers out there who enjoy capturing images of birds.

The full talk is nearly 100 minutes long and available here, but B&H has conveniently also...

For photographers that need constant power when working and can't afford to have even a slight delay, Tether Tools has released the Case Relay Camera Power System, the world's first power system that provides uninterrupted power to your camera via USB 5V or wall power. The technology allows for a hot swappable, consistent power source for most...

An iconic shipwreck, the Point Reyes, in Tomales Bay, California has been damaged by a fire that was allegedly caused by a photographer. An unnamed Instagram user shared an image (since removed) of ignited steel wool being spun and projecting sparks from the back of the boat, and it's that image that caused speculation that the fire was indeed...

Sigma announced today their first-ever mirrorless camera...well, two mirrorless cameras, actually. The pair, named sd Quattro and sd Quattro H, share an identical design but utilize two different-sized sensors, with the former utilizing an APS-C sensor and the latter featuring a new, larger APS-H sensor.

These cameras utilize layered Foveon...

Panasonic has announced this evening a new zoom lens for their Lumix G line of Micro Four Thirds cameras. The Panasonic Lumix G Vario 12-60mm f/3.5-5.6 ASPH. Power O.I.S. lens provides a 5x zoom range and is targeted for shooting a wide variety of situations, such as wide-angle landscape shots and portraits. While featuring the same aperture...

 

 

The party continues at Ricoh this week: Just seven days after launching its limited-edition Ricoh GR II Silver Edition camera in celebration of the company's 80th anniversary, it has followed up with yet another limited-edition model and a new action camera, for good measure.

This time around, though, it's...

Started in 2007 and organized by the World Photography Organization, the Sony World Photography Awards have grown immensely and have become the world's largest photography competition. The shortlist for this year's awards has been revealed, with nearly 60 countries represented by over 270 photographers.

This year's competition attracted a...

 

 

The engineers and designers over at Sigma have once again pulled out all the stops to create some truly unique lens products, including a brand new Art-series lens, the 50-100mm f/1.8 DC HSM Art. Yes, an f/1.8 telephoto zoom! Also on the docket is a brand new 30mm f/1.4 Contemporary lens, not for DSLR cameras...

 

 

With the simultaneous launch of its J1 and V1 interchangeable-lens cameras back in late 2011, Nikon became the first company to use a 1"-type sensor -- dubbed the "CX-format" in Nikon parlance -- in a mass-market camera. Although the Nikon 1-series has struggled to compete against larger-sensored mirrorless rivals,...

Nikon has announced three new additions to their Coolpix camera line, the Nikon B700 superzoom, the Nikon B500 superzoom, and the Nikon A900 compact travel zoom. All three cameras include Nikon's new SnapBridge wireless connectivity, which was recently announced in conjunction with the Nikon D500 DSLR at CES last month. 

Nikon SnapBridge...

Android users with mobile devices capable of capturing DNG raw format images will now be able to capture and process them in Lightroom 2.0 for Android, which Adobe has announced is now available.

Lightroom 2.0 includes numerous new features including the aforementioned in-app camera which can capture images in DNG raw format, such as...

Tamron has announced two new lenses for full-frame cameras, the SP 85mm f/1.8 Di VC USD and the SP 90mm f/2.8 Di VC USD 1:1 Macro. In addition to these two lenses, Tamron has also announced the TAP-in Console accessory that allows users to update the firmware and customize setups for selected Tamron lenses. 

Tamron SP 85mm f/1.8 Di VC USD

Michael Zelbel of Good Light! Mag has a variety of tips for using flash when shooting portraits with a wide angle lens. Using artificial light for wide angle portraiture can be difficult, but with Michael's tips you'll very likely improve your results.

With fellow professional photographer Carla Victorio, Michael photographed pre-wedding...