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One of Canon's many Photokina announcements was the introduction of a super compact, super lightweight and super affordable wide-angle pancake prime lens for APS-C shooters -- the EF-S 24mm f/2.8 STM. A couple years ago, Canon introduced the 40mm f/2.8 pancake lens. This thin, lightweight, and budget-friendly optic...

 

 

Photographer Garry Waller has long had a fascination with shooting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Juxtaposing the pieces of art with the visitors who come to admire them, his images capture a broad range of emotions, from absolute awe to profound boredom.

Beyond the people and art, the stark lighting and...

 

 

Nikon Europe has issued an official statement in regards to fraudulently modified D800 cameras. According to the notice, the Nikon camera company has come across a handful of cases in which D800E cameras sent in for repair were actually D800 cameras in disguise.

The statement further elaborates that these cameras...

 

Mad Hatter, self portrait of Mortensen

Ansel Adams was a communicator who made no attempt to hide what was on his mind. But one photographer in particular drew out the worst in Adams, with him going so far as to refer to his contemporary as ‘the anti-Christ.’ 

This photographer was William Mortensen, an American...

 

 

Since its inception in 1992, the JPEG file format has been the go-to means for sharing photographs. While many have tried to replace it, its compression capabilities and ubiquitous support has greatly accounted for its success.

Now, there’s a new image format looking to take over. It’s called Better Portable...

 

 

It appears Olympus is paving the way for some exciting applications of the hack & make Open Platform Camera (OPC) project it revealed earlier this year. One such application would be the world's first Micro Four Thirds lens camera drone. 

The project's home page features a graphic with a single rotor atop the...

 

 

Over the past five years, photographer Ryann Ford has been traveling across America, documenting the humble rest area for her project The Last Stop. From small, covered benches to more elaborate architecture, her medium format photographs seem to encapsulate the character of each stop and the environment that...

We've been working on a piece recently involving portrait shooting and bokeh, in which the Sony A6000 was involved. We got some really good shots with it, as expected based on our earlier test results with the camera. And seeing how crazy-popular it is on our site we thought readers might appreciate seeing them sooner rather than later.

Below is a sampling of the results,...

 

 

Earlier this week, Lytro announced version 4.1 of its desktop editing program. Included in the update was an interesting new feature called 'Focus Spread,' which allows you to choose precisely where the focus begins and where it ends.

Since I had some Lytro files laying around, I figured I’d toss them into...

We love peaceful images as much as we love the more adventurous shots, and perhaps more so during this reflective time of the year. This month's winners begin with two wonderful images that fall in that category, followed by a terrific motocross shot and finally two wonderfully playful bird shots.

The battle between Canon and Nikon also continues. For any of you who...

 

 

We've finally wrapped up our Sony A7S review, the unique 12-megapixel, 4K-shooting, high ISO monster! After spending a lot of time shooting with camera and running it through our testing lab, the A7S is undoubtedly a very impressive camera. The A7S has excellent dynamic range and the ability to shoot photos and...

 

 

Nigel Barker is a man known for being in front of the camera as much as he is behind it. Host of The Face and judge on America’s Next Top Model, his work takes him to incredible places and sends him on some crazy shoots.

Of all the shoots he’s been on though; one has stood out in particular as the craziest. It...

 

 

Adobe has released Adobe Camera Raw 8.7.1 and DNG Converter 8.7.1 into the wild, adding support for a new camera, additional lens profiles and a splattering of bugs from the previous iteration.

The single camera to receive full RAW support in this update...

 

 

Wildlife photographer Jeff Cremer has been working in the Peruvian Amazon jungle for the past four years. During his time there, his work has appeared on Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Wired, Animal Planet and more.

To help share his story, he participated in a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) thread, where...

 

 

It's not surprising that the Panasonic LX100 currently sits firmly on the list of the most popular cameras on our site: This is one very interesting photographic tool. A competitor for large-sensor, fixed-zoom enthusiast compacts like Canon's G7X and G1X-series, and of course for the Sony RX100-series that...

 

 

NASA photographer Don Pettit has captured gigabytes upon gigabytes of photographs that are literally out of this world. In orbit around the Earth aboard the International Space Station, he’s quickly become one of the most prominent resources of space exploration photography.

Here to share his experiences and...

 

 

Leica has officially announced and made clear that there is a sensor corrosion issue that is affecting a number of users of its M-series digital rangefinder lineup. The issue appears as small, white spots on the sensor and is caused by the glass above the CCD sensor of the Leica M9, M9-P, M Monochrom and...

 

 

The saying goes, ‘the best camera is the one you have with you.’ In the case of photographer Paul Wolfe, this played out to perfection on Thanksgiving Day when he was hiking along the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon.

As he was trekking away, he came across a mountaintop proposal, which he quickly snapped...

 

 

Wescott has unveiled its 10-in–1 Omega Reflector, a piece of lighting gear with a little trick up its sleeve. Designed with a removable panel in the middle, the Omega Reflector can act as a ring-light of sorts, letting you shoot straight through it, rather than around the perimeter.

The 10-in–1 offering is...