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Many members of Nikon's Coolpix family have undergone a refresh today, with the new Coolpix P610 (P610 vs P600) 60x superzoom and Coolpix S9900 (S9900 vs S9700) 30x travel zoom being two of the stand-out models. As these models are concerned, however, Nikon seems firmly in the "if it isn't broken, don't fix it"...

 

 

The division between consumer and enthusiast cameras is rather black and white, but we live in a world with many shades of grey. Chances are good that your camera is shared between multiple family members with different needs and skills, a fact that Ricoh acknowledges with the new 20-megapixel Pentax K-S2....

 

 

In this day and age, it’s not often we come across an object that was crafted by the hands of men and women. More often than not, our gadgets, toys, furniture and automobiles were fashioned via a computer-programmed machine, with minimal human interaction.

While this means of production isn’t bad by any means,...

 

 

For Apple users, the choices for editing photos has long been Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom and Apple’s own Aperture. Aperture is no longer with us though, leaving only Adobe products as the most viable means to edit images. Software company Serif is looking to change that though, with their impending photo...

All of our core readers will attest to the fact that we at IR love the various technologies lurking inside all those metal and carbon fiber shells that make up the cameras and lenses we use. And since that technology tends to get ever more complex with each passing year, we never grow tired of digging deeper in order to fulfill our (ahem, your) desire for more answers on...

 

 

As enticing as it may be to dive head-first into portraiture, it’s important to know the basics of lighting a subject. Without these basics it's difficult to build a fundamental understanding of lighting for your own style to develop off of.

As part of their ‘Back to Basics’ video series, Brian Wilson of 500px...

 

 

Adobe has pushed out an impressive update to its Lightroom Mobile app for iPhone and iPad. Released under the 1.3 version number, the new and improved application provides a handful of features in addition to squishing a number of bugs from previous versions of Adobe Lightroom Mobile.

Feature-wise, Adobe...

 

 

Canon has officially released their PowerShot SX 410 IS and ELPH 350 HS cameras, both of which make incremental improvements over their predecessors. In addition to the two new cameras, Canon is also hinting at development on the PowerShot G3 X, an upcoming point-and-shoot featuring a 1-inch sensor, similar to the...

For those photographers yearning for oodles and oodles of resolution -- landscape, fine art, and magazine photographers come to mind -- Canon has come up with a solution -- two, in fact. The new Canon 5DS and Canon 5DS R sport an in-house designed and built 50.6-megapixel full-frame image sensor. The "R" model provides even more critical sharpness and detail by cancelling...

 

 

Despite the Rebel family constituting Canon's consumer-line of DSLRs, the just-announced Canon Rebel T6s starts to cross the border into definite enthusiast-level territory. Superseding the "Txi" model name as the flagship Rebel camera, the new T6s introduces and incorporates some technology and features from the...

 

 

Alongside their recently announced 50MP 5DS and 5DS R cameras, Canon has debuted a brand new ultra-wide angle L-series lens. The new EF 11-24mm f/4L lens is the latest member of Canon's 'f/4' family of L-series glass and is now the widest-angle rectilinear lens ever produced for full-frame DSLRs.

This premium,...

 

 

Today, Apple released the developer preview of Photos, their upcoming replacement app for iPhoto and Aperture. Not yet available to the public, this developer beta has been tested by a handful of publications, including The Verge, whose video we've shared below.

The developer preview release of Photos comes just...

 

 

Alongside Olympus’s barrage of new products, they’ve also announced upgraded support for their older products as well. In particular, they’ve announced firmware version 3.0 for their OM-D E-M1 camera.

Set to be released later this month, the focal point of this firmware update is to boost the framerate of the...

 

 

The recently announced Olympus E-M5 Mark II makes a remarkable claim pertaining to high resolution imaging: the ability to capture a 40-megapixel "High-Resolution Shot" while in that mode. (We think it's safe to predict Mr. Spock's reaction to this.... "Indeed.")

We'll go ahead and caveat this news by saying that...

 

 

Alongside the newly announced E-M5 II, Olympus also announced a new and improved, highly versatile 14-150mm lens, as well as a development announcement of a new Zuiko PRO optic -- an 8mm f/1.8 fisheye lens.

The big feature with the new M.Zuiko ED 14-150mm f/4.0-5.6 II is the addition of full dust- and...

 

 

For those tempted by the power and performance of the recently released Samsung NX1, but don't want or need a beefy, weather-sealed, DSLR-like camera body, Samsung now has the solution to your conundrum. 

Along comes the new Samsung NX500, which is essentially an NX1 crammed in the body of an NX300. Yes, even in...

Three years after it launched the popular E-M5 mirrorless camera, Olympus is back with a followup -- the Olympus E-M5 II (E-M5 II vs E-M5). Sporting generous upgrades throughout, the new model incorporates many of the features of the subsequent flagship OM-D model, the E-M1, as well as some interesting firsts (E-M5 II vs E-M1).

Key among the...

 

 

Olympus has officially announced the TG–860. A successor to the company’s ruggedized TG–850, the TG–860 keeps an almost identical design alongside similar specs, but adds a fair share of incremental improvements over its predecessor.

The Olympus TG–860 features the same design of the TG–850, including the...

 

 

Pentax is finally answering the dreams of K-mount consumers who have been anxiously awaiting a larger sensor than their current offerings. The company has officially released a broad overview of an upcoming full-frame, K-mount camera, which comes shortly after announcing two high-end lenses with full-frame image...