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Aerial photographers looking for an affordable 4K drone will be pleased to know that DJI has announced their new Phantom 3 4K drone.

This new ultra-high resolution video drone offers users intuitive controls and automatic safety and stability features. Capable of shooting 4K video at up to 30 frames-per-second...

 

 

ExoLens, a company that makes lenses to attach to Apple iPhones, has announced a partnership with Zeiss to release a new series of three high-quality add-on lenses that utilize Zeiss optics.

The ExoLens with optics by Zeiss series of lenses will include wide-angle, telephoto, and macro lenses. The wide-angle and...

 

 

Hot on the heels of Nikon’s exciting D5 announcement (relive the excitement with our live blog here), Nikon has published their Inspired promotional video for the new camera.

The video goes behind-the-scenes with Nikon photographers Matthias Hangst, Ole Jørgen Liodden, Bill Frakes, Mirco Lazzari, and Dixie Dixon...

 

 

Nikon's newest telephoto zoom lens, the AF-S Nikkor 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR delivers great performance for a reasonably low cost of just under $1400 USD.

The 200-500mm lens is neither small nor light, but for its focal length it is a manageable size. It weighs in at 81.2 ounces (2,300 grams) and is 10.5 inches...

 

 

PetaPixel has compiled a list of 11 Ted Talks on Photography Worth Watching to help start your new year off with a creative bang.

They're all fascinating talks worth the view that cover a wide variety of subjects from around the world. I am sure that everyone will have different reactions to the varying subjects,...

 

 

The Consumer Electronics Show isn't typically an event where you'd expect to hear about the launch of a high-end DSLR, let alone two of them, but this year Nikon went even further, surprising us with several very interesting products -- including not one but two pro-friendly DSLRs, and their revelatory entry into...

 

 

One way to improve your photography skills is to take on a challenge. For 2016, photographer Dale Foshe has put together a 52 week photography challenge that will help any photographer improve their skills and expand their portfolio.

Dale has broken down the challenge into three categories: portrait, landscape,...

 

 

For the third year running, the new Olympus TG-870 offers up a rather rare feature for compact cameras that are designed to be dunked, dropped, and dinged: a full 180-degree tilting LCD screen. Keeping the same basic shape and overall design as its TG-860 predecessor, the new model's tilting screen remains just a...

 

 

For all of you Micro Four Thirds photographers waiting for a long, fast prime lens for sports and wildlife shooting, that wait is now over with the official announcement of the Olympus 300mm f/4 M.Zuiko Pro lens. Our friends at Olympus were kind enough to send us an early sample unit for testing in both lab and...

 

 

(Update, 4pm ET: The Nikon press event is now over. Thanks for joining us. Scroll through the story here to re-live the excitement!)

Camera company PR agencies of course always try to hype press conferences as much as possible, to get as many press as they can to attend. Even allowing for that, though, we think...

 

 

CES 2016 announcements continue, this time with a trio of Panasonic news. In addition to full product information on the upcoming Panasonic Leica 100-400mm supertelephoto zoom lens, Panasonic is also debuting two new compact cameras: an updated Panasonic ZS60 30x travel zoom and an all-new premium compact, dubbed...

 

 

Although camera technology has continuously improved since the first camera was designed, the main components of a lens, aperture, dark box, and light recording material has remained constant. However, as discussed in arecent  New York Times article, computational photography may alter this basic setup in numerous...

 

 

Canon has announced new PowerShot cameras, a new SELPHY printer, and new VIXIA camcorders ahead of this year's CES expo in Las Vegas. 

Firstly, two updated SX-series cameras and three new compact ELPH models were announced today. The new super zoom SX-series cameras are making high-end optics and build-quality...

 

 

On New Year’s Eve, while many of us were celebrating the beginning of a new year, photojournalist Dennis Mallari was instead about to rappel down a skyscraper in Dubai as flames were consuming the building.

Mallari had been planning on photographing a fireworks display from a 48th floor balcony of The Address...

 

 

Just before CES 2016 kicks off in Las Vegas, Phase One has announced the result of a collaborative development effort with Sony, a 100-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor back for Phase One’s medium-format XF camera system.

Unlike some digital medium-format camera sensors, such as the IQ250 sensor, this new IQ3...

 

 

Wake up with IR! Here's your Sunday cup of Caffeine Priority

Anyone can write a song, even someone not knowing much about music, but writing a good one is hard. Photography is the same.... pretty much anyone can snap a photo, but to get a really good one that moves people in some way usually requires some...

 

 

By IR Reader Karen Celella

Inspired by a recent IR POTD, I set up the acoustic guitar to do some light painting. It takes some time to get things just right and learn how much light is needed exactly in the right spots. So after a few days of shooting and processing it was time to choose one to submit for a black...

 

 

In the digital age, there continue to be better ways coming out frequently to sharpen images and enhance detail. There are some things that hold true, however, such as the advantages of viewing files at 100% when sharpening and over sharpening can make an image look even worse than one that hasn't been sharpened...

 

 

Amazon has released their sales results from the holidays.

While there are some staggering results, such as Amazon shipping more than 200 million items via free Prime shipping this holiday season and over three million people joining Amazon's Prime service during the third week of December, perhaps the most...