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It looks like Light isn’t the only mobile-oriented camera company that wants to make use of folded optics. According to a pair of patents published last month, Apple is also looking to utilize the dimension-saving technique to make more impressive cameras without adding bulk to its devices.

In the text and illustrations within the patent...

 

Adobe MAX

This year's Adobe MAX conference was the largest of the four I've been to in my time. Some 7000 people attended hundreds of sessions with speakers and leaders from the every corner of the creative community

Adobe MAX originated with Macromedia, the company that gave us FreeHand, Dreamweaver and...

 

 

DJI is traditionally viewed as a drone company, but today they’ve unveiled a new product that proves the sky is most definitely not the limit; it’s just the beginning.

It’s called the Osmo and it’s the world’s first fully integrated, stabilized handheld 4K camera.

To develop Osmo, DJI took its knowledge...

Long before the days of the internet, let alone Amazon, one of the most effective ways to shop without leaving your home was through mail order catalogs, an idea thrusted into mailboxes across the globe by two men, by Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck. Together, these two men created the most successful and ubiquitous mail order catalog to ever...

Over the past six months we’ve taken an inside look at and shared in-depth interviews with the brilliant minds behind Light, a photography startup looking to ‘reimagine photography’ with a unique multi-module point-and-shoot camera its founders call an ‘SLR-killer’.

Today, Light has announced the L16, its first real-world product that was...

The FAA isn’t playing games when it comes to the reckless and illegal flight of drones. Yesterday, the FAA announced it was hitting SkyPan, a Chicago-based real estate aerial video company, with a whopping $1.9-million fine for illegally flying its drones in both Chicago and New York.

According to the FAA, ‘SkyPan conducted 65 unauthorized...

Tenba has announced an update to its Messenger DNA lineup with a slightly new look, more color options and a single standout feature that sets this bag apart from the hundreds of others on the market.

Now available in four earth-inspired colors (Graphite, Olive, Cobalt and Copper), the updated Messenger DNA lineup features a unique velcro...

It seems as though each new day brings a new drone to the market. As a result, companies are looking to become more and more innovative and advanced than the previous days’ products.

One such company is Vantage Robotics, whose Snap drone packs a lot of power and a clever design into a device that can fit inside your backpack.

Built with...

 

 

Announced back in March 2015, the newest addition to the Nikon 1-series of compact mirrorless cameras, the Nikon 1 J5, brings about a number of upgrades and improvements over J4 in terms of image quality and performance, as well as a few design quirks like the lack of a PASM mode dial in the predecessor. Inside,...

Earlier this week, The Project Apollo Archive, in collaboration with NASA, released over 8,400 high-resolution images from the historic Apollo missions. All of the photos, which have been left unprocessed, are available for public consumption on Flickr, where they are licensed under Public Domain. As such, the photos can be shared, altered and...

 

 

The original Ricoh GR from 2013 saw the cult-favorite GR line of advanced compact cameras move in a new direction with a fixed lens and a big jump to an APS-C sized sensor. Now, with the updated Ricoh GR II, the company has included a laundry list of various improvements and enhancements, such as built-in Wi-Fi,...

If you think liquid crystal is only for displays, think again. Photography startup LensVector has announced its liquid crystal autofocus lens is officially out on the market via a partnership with Vital Mobile and Sunny Opotech.

The lens, which goes by the name LV4522, uses patented technology to rid mobile cameras of the need for...

 

 

Along the same lines as Canon's handful of Diffractive Optics lenses, Nikon's new "Phase Fresnel"-based 300mm f/4 lens uses one of these namesake lens elements to drastically reduce its size and weight. In fact, Nikon's new 300mm f/4E PF ED VR AF-S is currently the world's lightest full-frame 300mm lens -- and it...

Alongside a plethora of new and updated apps, Adobe has announced a new update for Lightroom CC that brings along updated ‘Dehaze’ capabilities, a revamped import feature, support for four new cameras, dozens of new lenses and, naturally, a plethora of bug fixes throughout the app.

Adobe introduced its impressive Dehaze tool to Lightroom...

 

 

Today Adobe has released an updated version of Photoshop Fix, their mobile software used to combine multiple images into one image and Photoshop Fix, a new application that pulls together several different mobile applications into one with greater abilities and a more simple interface.

Adobe is releasing both...

A new patent from Canon details the optical formula for two new lenses that may very well fight it out to become the replacement for Canon’s mid-range 50mm lens.

Patent Publication No. 2015–172611, originally filed in March 2014, lays out the architecture for both a 50mm f/1.4 lens as well as a 58mm f/1.4 lens.

The former is made up of ten...

 

 

It's been awhile since Part I, but I've now had an opportunity to take the Canon 5DS R out for some more field testing, and this time around I put the camera in a less-than-favorable scenario: high ISOs. Indeed, this high-res 50-megapixel sensor, despite being a full-frame sensor, has extremely tiny individual...

As an owner of an ADD Pibble mix, I know all too well how difficult it can be to capture a photo of an attentive dog staring at the camera. Between squirrels and the attention of quite literally anyone else in the general vicinity, there’s usually a .5 second gap to work with when trying to take a photo of my not-quite-puppy Quincy.

A new...

Two years ago, Samsung started its #DitchTheDSLR movement, a campaign that gave photographers the chance to swap out their old, clunky DSLR for a more modern Samsung mirrorless camera.

Since then, two #DitchTheDSLR events have taken place, one in New York City in June of 2013 and one in Hollywood in October of 2014. Now, photographers in the...