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Nashville-based portrait photographer Giles Clement specializes in tintype and film portraits. He often utilizes older gear to give his images a timeless, classic appearance, but he recently built his own 16" x 20" camera.

Giles thought of the idea for this 16" x 20" camera while sitting in a coffee shop only...

 

 

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

We once again pay homage to the most popular digital camera in the enthusiast lands.

And while we don't give out an award for the most popular camera of the year, if we did there would be no close second to the Sony A6000 for two years running! It's...

 

 

For all of you wildlife photographers looking for a portable blind, LensCoat has something you might be interested in. Their new LensHide covers you and your gear in a camouflage pattern (available in "tree" and "snow" patterns), perfect for stealthily capturing wildlife images out in the field.

The LensHide is...

 

 

Photographer Benjamin Von Wong recently went to Fiji to photograph sharks in such a way that would "promote their beauty while advocating for their protection."

Sharks are often portrayed as dangerous, vicious animals, and Von Wong wanted to flip the script by creating a series of images that showed sharks and a...

 

 

Canon entered the mirrorless fray a few years ago with the compact, simplistic EOS M. Sadly, it wasn't a humongous success, at least in the US market, and remained overshadowed by a number of better-performing competitors. Not to be outdone, however, Canon debuted the beefed-up, improved EOS M3 back in early 2015...

 

 

In a video for Adorama, photographer Daniel Norton covers the basics of using a handheld light meter. While camera's are always improving their metering capabilities, they're still unable to meter studio flash set-ups.

Using a Sekonic L-758DR, Norton covers the features of the light meter and how to use it. This...

 

 

The photojournalism industry just took another hard hit as Sports Illustrated has laid off three of its top photo employees.

Director of Photography Brad Smith, Photo Editor Claire Bourgeois, and Photo Director John Blackmar have all been laid off. Perhaps the writing was on the wall last year when the final six...

 

 

Last week, the New York Public Library added 180,000 digitized items to its Digital Collections.

These out-of-copyright materials are all available in high-resolution downloads for any use. Alongside these new materials, the Digital Collections site itself has seen improvements, including more prominent download...

 

 

Despite being produced from 1976 through 1998, the Nikon Nikkor 13mm f/5.6 AIS lens is one of the rarest Nikon lenses in the world. If you have $33,000 USD to spend on a lens, you can grab one of these immensely rare lenses on eBay right now. You might need more than the $33,000 if you live outside the US, though,...

 

 

Welsh photographer Andy Lee recently travelled to the Patagonian region of Chile in South America and returned home with many brilliant images, as highlighted by My Modern Met here. 

In Lee's Patagonia Dreaming series, he put a distinct twist on the rough, rural landscape and made images that highlight just how...

 

 

Nikon has just announced two new compact Coolpix cameras, the A10 and A100.

The Coolpix A100 uses a 20.1-megapixel sensor and has a built-in 5x optical zoom Nikkor lens, providing an equivalent focal length of 26-130mm. For more reach, the A100 also offers Dynamic Fine Zoom digital zoom which provides up to a...

 

 

Manny the cat is not your typical cat. Once a stray, Manny was taken in and his artistic talents began to flourish. He's a big fan of self-portraits, or "selfies" as they are often referred.

Manny, a tabby cat, can often be found roaming the great outdoors in Arizona with numerous animal friends, including most...

 

 

Earlier this week, we posted about DIY Photography's "How good are you with curves?" quiz. If you didn't do so well, you weren't alone. DIY Photography has now published explanations for each of the ten quiz questions and we wanted to share them here.

The article essentially serves as a "curves 101" course....

 

 

Leica has introduced three new M-mount lenses: the Leica Summicron-M 28mm f/2 ASPH, Leica Summicron 35mm f/2 ASPH, and Leica Elmarit-M 28mm f/2.8 ASPH.

Per Leica’s press release, these updated versions of three "classic M lenses" each deliver “enhanced image performance and quality, thanks to their new optical...

If you're a longtime Imaging Resource reader, you're probably familiar with the separation between our lens and user reviews, which appear on SLR Gear, and the rest of our content on Imaging Resource. Today we've started serving all of our 500+ lens reviews on Imaging Resource!

A cleaner, brighter design

You'll notice a layout that fits with the Imaging Resource you...

 

 

Due to less than expected sales and price protection related charges, GoPro has cut its fourth-quarter revenue projection to $435 million USD (according to Bloomberg, expected revenue was $511 million). Projected revenue for 2015 has also been reduced to $1.6 billion overall.

Indicative of their struggles to sell...

 

 

The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) has named Think Tank Photo as the winner of the 2016 J. Winton Lemen Fellowship Award. The award is named for charter NPAA member J. Winton Lemen, who had a distinguished photojournalist career at the Rocky Mountain News, Pittsburgh Press, and Buffalo times before...

The XUME Quick Release Adapters provide easy and quick changing for your tradtional screw-on lens filters: simply pull one off and pop another on your lens. How's it done? Magnets!

Call me old school, but I've always added a Daylight Filter to my lenses. The theory then as now is that it's better to inadvertently smash a $40 filter than a $1000 lens. There's no going back...

 

 

For years, you've waited patiently for another brush with greatness; now that wait is over, Fuji fans! The venerable X-Pro1 -- the camera which firmly stamped Fujifilm's legendary name on the compact system camera market -- now has a successor, and the new Fuji X-Pro2 looks to be a very worthy upgrade indeed!