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The Father's Day holiday in the US and many other countries around the world is coming up this Sunday. Perhaps you think dear ol' Dad will want to take up a hobby in photography, or maybe he's an already consummate professional? Or perhaps he's somewhere in between? Whatever the skill level, if you're looking for a...

Yesterday, LensProToGo, a camera gear rental company, had its Concord, Massachusetts headquarters broken into and over half a million dollars in gear stolen.

At roughly 8am on Monday, June 15th, the LensProToGo team showed up at work to find a window smashed, a wall broken through and almost all of their inventory stolen. Since first posting...

Facebook has unveiled Moments, a new standalone mobile app that’s meant to simplify the process of building and sharing collaborative photo albums.

Available for both iOS and Android, the app groups together photographs from your smartphone using time, people and location. Using Facebook’s facial recognition technology, the app can...

 

 

Sony unleashed a trio of new cameras last week, with some pretty extraordinary specs ranging from a 42 megapixel backside-illuminated, 100K ISO, phase-detect-AF full-frame monster (albeit a very svelte monster!) to a pair of new RX-series models based on a blazingly fast 1-inch sensor. (How does 1,000...

 

 

A couple of months ago, Adobe updated its photographer-friendly Photoshop Lightroom image editing app with new features including support for multi-shot panoramas and high dynamic range imagery. Today, it follows up with another Creative Cloud update that sees not just Lightroom, but also Photoshop and...

 

 

Offering the basic equivalent of the classic sports and wildlife telephoto zoom lenses in the 70-200mm eq. class, the Fujinon XF50-140mm f/2.8 LM OIS WR lens was recently made available to us for review at SLRGear.com. I was the lucky one who got to sneak it out of the lab for a few days of gallery shooting with...

Hasselblad receives plenty of criticism for its luxury Sony rebrands. But it appears the Swedish camera manufacturer is unfazed by the peanut gallery.

This week, photos of a new luxury camera, the Hasselblad Lusso, have been released. From a quick look at the specs, it’s safe to say this is very likely a Hasselblad rebrand of Sony’s a7R,...

An intriguing new patent from Canon shows off the optical formula for a non-fisheye EF 10mm f/2.8 lens.

Filed back in November of 2013, Patent Publication No. 2015–102620 (translated) shows off what could very well become the widest non-fisheye lens Canon has ever produced. From the illustration, it appears the lens will consist of 15...

Cameras are often viewed as a tool for capturing memories. But a camera itself can also be filled with memories and sentimental value. Whether it was your first SLR or the camera you captured your favorite image with, cameras can hold just as many memories as the medium you capture the images on.

It’s for that reason Amateur Photographer...

Many photo editing applications now have a built-in function for locating your geotagged images on a map. However, if your post-processing software doesn’t do it and you’re still wondering where the image was taken, Pic2Map is your one-stop shot for figuring where exactly it was captured.

In its own words, Pic2Map ‘is an online EXIF data...

MeFOTO, a compact tripod manufacturer, has launched the world’s first customized color-based tripod design, the BYOT (Build Your Own Tripod) service for its popular RoadTrip model.

MeFOTO’s new BYOT service allows photographers to choose between 12 different colors for the head, brackets and center column of its RoadTrip Travel Tripod. This...

We don’t usually cover strictly local events, but since Publisher Dave Etchells attended an invite-only viewing of the winning photos the day before, he thought it would be nice to share with our readers.

If you’re in the NYC area, Canon is hosting a free gallery exhibition called ‘From Light to Ink.’ Winners of the Canon’s ‘From Unknown to...

 

 

Last February, Japanese camera and optics manufacturer Sigma launched a new dp Quattro-series camera, the Sigma dp0 Quattro. At the time, the company hadn't revealed pricing and availability for its new model, but now it has done so as it prepares to ship the camera imminently.

The Sigma dp0 Quattro is the fourth...

 

 

After a brief hiatus last week, Firmware Friday returns today with news of two updates. One, for the Nikon D3200 DSLR, actually landed last week. The other, for Canon's GP-E2 GPS receiver accessory, arrived yesterday.

We'll start with the D3200, since our main focus here is on cameras. Nikon D3200 firmware...

Earlier this week Reuters shared a report wherein Sony’s Tomoyuki Suzuki, head of device solutions business, shared this year’s estimated sensor sales numbers, which are expected to grow 20% year-over-year. This would put Sony at half of last year’s 40% year-over-year growth. But, according to Suzuki, it’s due to too much of a good thing --...

A new patent from Nikon details the schematics for a Nikkor 70–300mm f/4.5–6 VR CX lens for its Nikon 1 series mirrorless cameras that utilizes Nikon’s Phase Fresnel (PF) technology, first seen in its 300mm f/4 that was announced this past January.

Originally filed back in October of 2014, the patent lays out a mirrorless telephoto zoom...

Sigma’s 50mm f/1.4 Art lens is one of the best buys any photographers can make. The ‘nifty fifty’ cranks out incredible images, providing one of the best performance-to-dollar ratios of any glass out there. And from now through the end of June, that ratio is about to get sweeter.

Starting today, and going through June 30th, Sigma has dropped...

In an effort to show off the video capabilities of its NX1 mirrorless camera, Samsung America has teamed up with four filmmakers from around the United States to create short films in 4K.

Yvonne, the first of the four short films, premiered yesterday as part of Social Media Week in Los Angeles. The short film, shot exclusively in 4K with...

Today, Leica announced the Leica Q (Typ 116), a fixed lens compact camera that packs a 24-megapixel full-frame sensor and 28mm f/1.7 lens into a compact frame.

Despite its small size and much more wallet-friendly price, the Leica Q (Typ 116) still dons the German manufacturer’s signature red dot and rigorous build quality, brought over from...