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Timelapse videos, we've seen plenty of them in the past. That's not to say we've gotten tired of them, quite to the contrary. A well-made timelapse video is often a beautifully crafted piece of art. Timelapse videos of the night sky, however, all have one particular trait in common: the stars "travel" across the sky as time passes and the...

Only a couple days ago, we reported about a special offer from Sigma, who let you test drive their new dp2 Quattro camera ahead of its release, basically for free. (While being billed for the camera's list price of $999, participants will be reimbursed when they send it back.) Here comes another great offer, this time from Lytro, who are keen...

When shooting video with your DSLR, you have to either set the focus manually, or you can use autofocus. If you choose the latter, many cameras will resort to contrast detection autofocus for the simple reason that video is being shot in live-view mode, and no light can be directed to the phase detection sensor.

Not all lenses are equally...

 

 

Happy 4th of July, America! This week's Firmware Friday roundup falls on the fourth, and brings with it some treats for Leica M ((Typ 240) owners, as well as fixes for frustration if you own a Panasonic GH4 mirrorless camera or certain Canon PIXMA printers.

We'll start with the Leica M, given that we're big...

 

 

Earlier this year, Nikon's 1-series mirrorless camera line received a new flagship model, the Nikon V3. Although the 1-series cameras had smaller sensors than most compact system cameras, they've made the best of that fact, with unusually compact bodies and lenses, not to mention swift performance and some...

 

 

If you've ever found yourself frustrated by the document management capabilities -- or lack thereof -- in Adobe Photoshop, a new plug-in from Israeli software company Creative Do might well be the solution you've been looking for.

Photoshop has grown into a behemoth over the years, packed with tools, features and...

 

 

Happy "Almost 4th of July" to all of our US readers (and a belated Happy Canada Day to our readers up north). Summer is in full swing for the northern hemisphere, and with that plus the big holiday tomorrow, there's a lot of camera deals going around! We've rounded up some of the hottest deals out there for your...

 

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Back in the days of analog photography, we were used to seeing all kinds of artifacts in our images: dust specs, scratches, finger prints, cigarette burns, traces of the developing chemicals, etc. etc. The possibilities were endless. Then, there were all those crazy things you could do to film...

 

 

If you're looking for a new shoe-mount flash strobe for your Sony Alpha or Micro Four Thirds camera, your options have just expanded thanks to some new third-party offerings. 

For Sony Alpha shooters, we hear from the folks at Sony Alpha Rumors that German flash maker Metz is now offering updated versions...

 

 

In the not-too-distant past, we shared a couple of beautiful time lapse videos that showed great landscapes, starry skies, aurorae and more. Watching these videos is often a mesmerizing experience, but most of us truly have little to no idea about how they're properly made. Lucky for us, there are educational...

 

 

Sony won us over with the RX10 in 2013, a camera with a unique mix of features unmatched by competitors: a fast, constant aperture lens with healthy zoom reach paired with a 1-inch sensor. It was an easy decision to award the RX10 our enthusiast zoom of the year in 2013: we had a ton of fun with this camera, and...

Could Sony be working on a Lytro-like light field camera of its own? That's what a newly released patent suggests. The patent, originally filed in mid-2012, describes a light field sensor with a unique pixel and microlens setup that promises to deliver much better resolution than Lytro's sensor.

For those unfamiliar with the technology, a...

The clear trend over the past few years in premium compact cameras is larger sensors with brighter aperture lenses that still retain the small and light form factor and convenience of a true "compact". Last year's Nikon P330 marked Nikon's first foray into the 1/1.7" sensor for an ultra-compact, which is somewhat larger than the 1/2.3" sensor found in traditional compacts,...

 

 

Aiming to take on the Sony RX10 in the big-sensor, long-zoom category, the recently announced Panasonic FZ1000 turns up the heat not only with a significantly longer 16x zoom range, but a noticeably-faster 12 frames-per-second burst capture rate and 4K video support. The FZ1000 has been through our test lab, and...

If you're a gearhead like us, then you'll surely fancy Sigma's unique, three-layere Foveon sensor, which received a big update earlier this year with the dp2 Quattro being the first in a trio of new 'dp' cameras. Besides the updated sensor, the three cameras come with a very unique new design that make them stand out from the crowd of...

 

 

Back in the day, film scanners used to be something we covered pretty frequently here at Imaging Resource. As photographers transitioned to digital, there was a significant demand to bring their archive of film photos along with them -- and big-name brands answered that demand with products like Canon's CanoScan...

 

Last week, UPS (a.k.a. "Brown Santa") dropped off a huge package from Imaging Resource headquarters. It contained Sony's second-generation top-of-the-line crop-sensor DSLR, the 24-megapixel Alpha A77 II. Sony has been very aggressive with their DSLR features, specs and pricing and the A77 II is no exception. In many ways, it...

 

Image courtesy of Japan Camera Hunter.

To the Leica aficionados among our readers, the name MS Optical is sure to ring a bell. It's the one-man company run by a certain Mr. Miyazaki from Honcho, Japan, which previously brought us such M-mount gems as the Sonnetar 50mm f/1.1 as well as the Perar-series of ultra...

Ansel Adams was without doubt one of the most influential America landscape photographers of all time. Besides being regarded as one of the inventors of the Zone System that allows to determine proper exposure all the way from capturing a photograph to its print, his meticulous eye for tonal nuances helped shape the face of black-and-white...