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An illustration of Sigma's three-layer Foveon X3 sensor

A new patent from Sony shows off the underlying framework for a multi-layer sensor, similar to Sigma’s Foveon sensor.

The patent, originally filed back in December of 2011, explains the basic premise behind a three-layer sensor, which uses individual layers to...

 

 

The Cooperative of Photography, affectionately referred to as COOPH, has released a new collection of Leica-inspired graphic t-shirts.

The four new shirts are made of 100% 180gr/m² cotton and are screen-printed using water-based inks. The four designs are titled: Leicography, Camchart, Stitchcam and...

Here’s a neat little product we’ve come across. It’s called WeMontage and its a unique way to quickly and easily display your favorite photographs in your home via a removable wallpaper montage.

The process is relatively straightforward. Head over to WeMontage’s website, click ‘Get Started’ and upload the photos you want in the montage. You...

Friday, May 16th, a 16-year-old Taiwanese girl was gored by a bison in Yellowstone National Park as she was posing for a photo just feet away from the animal.

According to a report from CNN, the teen had stopped alongside a group of other tourists who had gathered to watch bison grazing next to the trail. As the teen had turned her back to...

 

 

From the pondering of aurora to the absolute communion, our April Photo of the Month winners and runner's up all share a certain mystical etheriality. A gorgeous hummingbird preening, a new twist on the pleasure and pain from a rose's thorn and a baby primate in quiet contemplation round out our top five for this...

Visual Supply Co. has released VSCO Film 07 ‘Eclectic Films,’ its seventh collection of analogue inspired presets for Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.

VSCO Film 07 is Visual Supply Co.’s largest release yet, containing ‘a wide range of clean and colorful [presets] that are ideal for portraits, night photography, and architecture.’ Below is a...

It might look like a children’s toy, but what you’re seeing is GekkoPod, a flexible smartphone and camera mount, currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter.

Already, GekkoPod has amassed roughly $50,000, over three times its initial $15,001 goal, with over 30 days left in the campaign. What sets GekkoPod apart from the many other smartphone...

Sony has announced the World Photography Organization is officially accepting entries for the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards, the largest photography competition in the world.

The Sony World Photography Awards is going on its ninth year and continues to hold its place as one of the most coveted competitions a photographer can enter into....

Lego bricks are, quite literally, the building blocks of many young minds. But just because your mind isn’t as young as it once was doesn’t mean you can’t have fun with Lego bricks, especially when the project also involves photography.

Enter Legoizer, a web app that can take any image, turn it into a pixellated piece of art, and list every...

 

 

GoPro has announced its latest camera, the HERO+ LCD, an entry-level action cam that offers a solid feature set at an affordable price point.

The HERO+ LCD’s flagship feature is, as the name suggests, a touchscreen LCD screen for utilizing GoPro’s HiLight feature, which lets you mark certain points of a video for...

For a short time this morning, Sony’s A7r camera was accidentally set to a ridiculously low price of $199.99 across several retailers, roughly 90% off the retail price of $1,898.

Discovered and shared by Reddit user kapziel, the error remained for some time, present both on Sony’s online store and its Amazon store. It wasn’t long before the...

 

 

Firmware Friday returns this week with a followup to an earlier update, as well as a whole raft of firmware and software released by Nikon. We'll get the ball rolling with the followup, though, which resolves an issue in an update we told you about last month.

The version 1.20 update for Ricoh's Pentax K-3...

There are a handful of ways to keep your camera dry in less than ideal circumstances. But few are as robust and portable as AGUA, a new series of camera bag from accessory manufacturer, Miggo.

It’s a bit hard to pinpoint exactly what AGUA is; it can be a handheld bag, a should bag and even a sling bag. But if you look past the categorization...

 

 

For anyone reading this who's ever tried to capture quality sports images in a typical indoor gym, you already know it's a tricky proposition. You need fast shutter speeds to capture the action, and in lower light environments this often means you need to let the ISO climb fairly high for many shooting situations.

 

 

To some, a fisheye lens might seem like just a novelty lens, but it definitely has its time and place, especially for skateboarding, surfing, and other extreme action sports scenes as well as underwater photography. With the recently-announced Olympus 8mm f/1.8 Pro Fisheye lens, the Japanese camera company has...

A new patent from Canon, published yesterday, lays the groundwork for what would be the first tilt-shift lens to offer built-in image stabilization if produced.

Discovered by Egami (translated), the patent was originally filed back in November of 2013. In its text and illustrations, the patent focuses on how image stabilization would be...

 

 

After finalizing all our lab testing, image quality analysis and real-world Shooter's Report, we're ready to bring you the final conclusion to our Samsung NX500 review. The compact rangefinder-esque mirrorless camera comes as an update to the NX300, however, it has in fact more in common -- under the hood -- with...

 

 

A few months ago, we took readers on an in-depth exploration of the multi-shot, high-resolution mode in the Olympus E-M5 II compact system camera, making comparisons to full-frame and even medium-format models. Now, we're pleased to be able to do the same for the Pentax K-3 II, the first mainstream DSLR to...

Just moments ago, on the stage at Google’s annual I/O conference, Google unveiled Google Photos, the long-anticipated separation of the company’s photo platform from its Google+ social network.

Google Photos is an ambitious project from the search tech giant; an attempt to bring together all of your photographs in one place, whether you’ve...