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Fujifilm is launching full-force into the supertelephoto space with the debut of its longest lens yet, the XF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR. This high-powered zoom lens offers X-mount owners a 152-609mm-equivalent focal length range, which allows for some serious nature and wildlife photography.

Mirrorless...

Non-infrared Dust & Scratch Removal

LaserSoft Imaging's latest release of SilverFast AI 8.8 and SilverFast HDR 8.8 film scanning and image processing software comes with some very interesting new features. The most impressive one (in this free update to current version 8 owners) is the dust & scratch removal without the need for an infrared-capable scanner. In addition,...

 

 

Wildlife photography, by its very nature, often requires getting somewhat close to wild animals. As Sheen Watkins discusses in a recent article for Light Stalking, this doesn't mean that you should cause stress to your subjects.

Getting a great shot doesn't have to mean damaging the environment or putting animals...

 

 

Update: Since we published this story, the "closeout" tag has been removed from Samsung NX lenses on Adorama. 

Amid rampant speculation over the past few months that Samsung was exiting the camera business, many Samsung NX1 lenses are now labelled as "closeout" by Adorama.

We covered the rumors in September...

 

 

Canon USA has issued a product advisory for certain imagePROGRAF PRO-1000 printers.

Per Canon's statement, "In rare instances, ink may leak from inside the printer to the outside of the printer through an opening on the bottom." The affected PRO-1000 units all have serial numbers that start with the prefix...

 

 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student Adrian Dalca has been taking images of the Boston skyline from his 22nd story apartment for the past five-plus years. In fact, he's taken more than a million images of the storied skyline spanning 69 months. 

Throughout this time Dalca has photographed many...

 

 

Intel set a world record for the most unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) flying simultaneously when they synced up 100 drones with an orchestra. The "Drone 100" show took place in Germany in November, but the footage was shown for the first time by Intel at CES during their keynote presentation.

Just seeing 100...

 

 

Kenko Tokina Co., Ltd. has announced a new wide-angle zoom, the Tokina AT-X 14-20mm f/2.0 PRO DX, which joins up against their widely-popular 11-16mm f/2.8 DX zoom lens.

This APS-C lens offers a fast, constant f/2.0 aperture across its 14-20mm focal length (22.4-32mm equivalent on Canon APS-C senors, 21-30mm...

 

 

Listen up, Fuji X-series fans. Our Publisher Dave Etchells has been invited to ask questions of a group of X-Series engineers in just a couple of days, and would like to share the fun! ;-)

If you have technical questions regarding Fuji's X-series cameras and/or lenses and would like us to take them straight to...

 

 

After being launched in Europe in October, the Kodak PixPro SP360 4K 360-degree action camera is now available worldwide.

Kodak calls the SP360 4K the world’s first 360-degree 4K action camera. Offering a 360-degree field of view in 4K resolution, the SP360 4K can record in multiple directions using its...

 

 

Korean photographer Manchul Kim recently worked with the electronic rock band, Love X Stereo, to capture an image for their second album cover.

Utilizing inexpensive laser pointers, acrylic mirrors, and various studio equipment, Kim was able to create a very psychedelic and surreal image. By creating a triangular...

 

 

DIY Photography has put together a ten-question quiz to help determine just how good you are with curves.

The quiz presents ten questions, each with before and after images, and you have to select the correct curves adjustment that was used to make each “after” image. The test has been designed such that it can...

 

 

French photographer Mathieu Stern is back with yet another video in his "weird lens challenge" series.

If you missed my coverage of his previous weird lens challenge videos, you can see the first one here where he attached a 120mm f/6.3 folding camera lens from 1910 to his Sony A7 II.

In this second video, he's...

 

 

By IR Reader Peggy Jones Pfister

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.   ~ Pablo Picasso

I live in the southern United States where we have marvelously temperate winters, and in fact, November often brings beautiful days. This year, the day after Thanksgiving was one of those...

 

 

Time-lapse photographer Jesse Attanasio has been shooting as much as he possibly could over the last two years. His extensive travels and hard work have been compiled and edited into his new video, Exhale, and you just have to see it to believe it.

His incredible video shows his travels across Nebraska, Wyoming,...

 

 

In one continuous, roughly two-minute long shot, Robert McIntosh expertly flew his drone through Los Angeles.

Flying below and around numerous landmarks and objects, McIntosh's mesmerizing video is remarkably steady and provides a spectacular aerial view of Los Angeles. Speaking to PetaPixel, McIntosh says that...

 

 

Techart has been making FE mount autofocus adapters for a few years, but now they are apparently also in the business of defying the limits of lenses.

This week announcing the creation of the world’s first Leica M-Mount to Sony E-mount autofocus adapter, Techart has managed to convert manual-focus Leica M-mount...

 

 

MindShift Gear has released three new UltraLight backpacks, the UltraLight Sprint 16L, UltraLight Dual 25L, and the UltraLight Dual 36L. These "may be the lightest photo daypacks ever" says MindShift Gear. 

Designed to be lightweight and fast, these three new backpacks all utilize a side-panel design that allows...

 

 

Back in 2011, nature photographer David Slater set up his camera for a female Celebes crested macaque to use (although his story of what exactly transpired has changed over the years). The monkey proceeded to use Slater's camera to capture self-portraits that news media outlets eventually picked up on. Wikimedia...