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As the weekend fast approaches -- and with it, time to leave the office in search of great photo opportunities -- it's time once more to check your camera gear is up to date and running smoothly. This week's Firmware Friday roundup is pretty epic, with no less than 18 different cameras, one lens and one camcorder...

 

 

With the Olympus TG-4, "tough camera" doesn't mean a specialty camera with subpar image quality. The TG-4 is a tough camera with image quality and features that make it not just one of the best tough cameras on the market, but an all-around good compact camera.

Adventure photographers that require their gear to...

Adobe Lightroom team member Benjamin Warde is back with a new Lightroom Coffee Break video. This 44 second video centers on using the targeted adjustment tool in Lightroom.

Suppose that you want to increase the saturation of an object in your image. You can increase the saturation of a particular color channel, but what if the object is more...

It's not unusual to see Photoshop mistakes in advertising, but the Snickers candy brand has decided to embrace retouching mistakes with their advertisement on the back cover of Sports Illustrated's 2016 Swimsuit Issue.

After advertising on the back cover of last year's issue as well, Snickers remarks that "photo retouchers get confused when...

If you find standard 2D portraits to be a bit boring, you might be interested in 3D portraits, created by capturing multiple still images and stitching them together. But what if even these aren’t multi-dimensional enough for you? Well, by using 53 GoPro cameras, Tim Macmillan, founder of London-based Timeslice Films, has created a 4D...

 

 

The introduction of Dual Pixel CMOS AF in the Canon 70D was a game-changer for DSLR video: no hunting or wobble during focusing; quick and accurate AF with no front- or back-focusing issues; and smooth, adjustable, cinematic focusing for video. This heavily video-focused DSLR was certainly an interesting direction...

Canon has launched two new PowerShot cameras that are designed to provide high performance in compact bodies for both amateur and professional photographers alike. The new Canon G7X Mark II and Canon SX720 HS cameras each bring something new and distinct to the PowerShot line.

The Canon G7X II includes the same 1"-type 20.1-megapixel CMOS...

 

 

Pentaxians, your patience has just paid off in spades! Ricoh Imaging, the company behind the Pentax brand name, has today officially announced its upcoming, full-frame Pentax K-1 DSLR -- and it looks to be a mighty impressive debut.

Based around a 36.4-megapixel full-frame sensor, the Pentax K-1 sports a...

French photographer Serge Ramelli has enlisted the help of his friend Alex Meidany for a tutorial video on how to capture long exposure images.

Meidany specializes in long exposure photography and his average exposure time for an image ranges from 200 to 400 seconds. To shoot with shutter speeds this long during the day, you must use a...

Fstoppers' Lee Morris and Patrick Hall head to Hong Kong with travel photographer Elia Locardi for another installment in Elia's Photographing the World: Cityscape, Astrophotography, and Advanced Post-Processing tutorial. In the behind-the-scenes videos below (episodes 13 and 14 in Fstoppers' Behind The Scenes series), the team provides a...

 

 

Heads-up X100-series fans, the popular fixed-lens APS-C X-series camera from Fuji now has a younger sibling in the X70, and while the sensor size and resolution remain the same, much is certainly different about the Fuji X70.

For starters, it's a wider lens at 28mm eq, and the camera is much smaller and lighter....

 

 

Say hello to Olympus' most premium PEN-series camera yet. The new PEN-F, like its 1960s-era namesake, is a stylish, classically-designed rangefinder-esque camera. Seemingly taking aim at Fujifilm's dominance of the retro-cool camera market, the Olympus PEN-F features a higher-res sensor and a bunch of in-camera...

Fashion and portrait photographer Michael Grecco recently photographed Will Smith for the final Sports Illustrated cover of 2015. Smith recently starred in the critically-acclaimed movie Concussion, which "shines a light on football's darkest corner and the future of America's game."

In the video below you can see Grecco working in a studio...

Yesterday in Shenyang, China, lens manufacturer Zhongyi Optics (ZY Optics) announced the release of their new Zhongyi Mitakon Speedmaster 35mm f/0.95 Mark II mirrorless lens.

This Mark II lens claims a "drastic improvement" with regards to sharpness, reduced chromatic aberrations, and overall form factor. The lens comes in Fuji X, Sony E,...

 

 

Last summer, Ricoh launched a new model for its GR camera series, a cult-favorite since the days of photographic film. The Ricoh GR II has since been issued in two limited-edition kits, both of which have already sold out. If you've been wanting to show off your fashion sense by laying your hands on one of...

Founded in October of 2001 and acquired by Google in 2004, Picasa has allowed users to organize, edit, and share their photos for nearly fifteen years. Since launching Google Photos, users have been wondering what would come of Picasa. That's now officially been aswered, as Google has announced that Picasa is getting the axe this spring.

While software such as Lightroom and Photoshop include built-in methods for reducing chromatic aberrations and color fringing, these methods don't necessarily work well for all instances of aberrations and fringing. Photographer Steve Perry has a neat method for removing aberrations and fringing in Photoshop using layers, Gaussian blur, and...

If you're looking for an online photography course that discusses the photographic discipline as a form of art, the Museum of Modern Art has just the ticket for you... And it's free!

MoMA's Department of Photography Curator, Sarah Meister, uses photographic works from MoMA's collection to inspire a variety of courses in her six-session...

The Cooperative of Photography (also known as COOPH) has published a new video overviewing the history of photography. In just five minutes, COOPH takes you through the history of photography from its camera obscura origins to the modern day digital camera.

Ancient philosophers Mozi, Aristotle, and Alhazen were the first to mention the...