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You have your standard advertising campaigns on TV, the web and in print, and then there's Samsung's marketing campaigns, which can sometimes be on the more unique side. In the past, Samsung's gone all out to market their products, particularly their mobile devices, with everything from a flash mob in Times Square...

 

 

I was excited to hold the Samsung NX Mini for the first, as it just has this "engineering marvel" feel about it. It's quite compact, yes, but it also feels solid and potent. Naturally, I couldn't wait to sneak it out of the lab for some real world shooting fun.

The trouble is, they only sent us the 9mm (24mm eq.)...

 

 

It's a good day to be a Canon and Nikon photographer if you're looking for a deal or two. We've rounded up a nice selection of DSLR deals including a Canon 70D kit bundled with new printer and a neat bundle with the SL1 and the 40mm pancake lens. On the Nikon, if you want to up your game in the megapixel...

 

 

Many of our readers these days are yearning for more zoom reach in an all-in-one package, or at least it seems so based on your interest in both the compact long zoom and the all-in-one super-zoom categories.

Today we're unveiling First Shots from four of the competitors in the super-zoom heat: the Fujifilm S1...

 

 

Over the years, we've heard some pretty amazing stories of cameras lost and then reunited with their owners here at the Imaging Resource news desk. Probably our favorite until now was the Nikon Coolpix L18 which survived 18 months afloat on a thousand-mile voyage from Aruba to Florida -- complete with an accidental...

 

 

You've doubtless heard the idiom about a watched pot never boiling, but for photographers, a more apt metaphor might be that "a lustworthy camera never ships." Once you settle on preordering that just-announced camera, the wait for it to arrive on your doorstep can feel unbearable -- at least, until it finally...

 

 

Anyone who's ever tried photographing children knows it can be an epic challenge. One of the greatest trophies is an amazing image that captures the personality and magic that each child possesses. Trying to keep the little squirmers in one place may seem impossible, though, and at times it actually might be!

 

 

Selfie fans, put down your camera and back away slowly! We don't care how cool that shot you were about take of yourself with your favorite celeb or performing an extreme sporting maneuver is, it's officially just become redundant. US space agency NASA has taken the not-so-humble selfie and turned it up to 11...

 

 

2014 is a big year for German camera legend Leica. The company reached its 100th year as a manufacturer of lustworthy photographic tools last March, as its very first camera -- the Lilliput, or Ur-Leica -- was completed by Oskar Barnack in March 1914. Not surprisingly, the company is doing plenty to celebrate...

 

 

Last week's Firmware Friday roundup was uncharacteristically large, as Canon, Nikon, Ricoh and Olympus together updated no less than 16 cameras. Although this week isn't huge to quite the same degree, it's still decidedly above average, with another nine cameras receiving updates. Nikon and Olympus are again...

 

 

From the desk of Eamon Hickey:

"The headline news on the Sony A6000 is its claimed improvements in continuous AF (AF-C) on moving subjects. To test those claims, I've shot almost 2,500 photos in more than 150 burst sequences of flying birds, dogs at play, soccer, flag football, sprinters, joggers, and bicyclists...

 

 

This year you've watched us update the overall look of our site, bringing onboard a new logo and generally sprucing the place up a bit. Now, we're rolling out a whole new review layout to go along with our new look.

Once upon a time, we decided to pull content from the various tabs and subtabs of our reviews back...

 

 

Are you a Samsung NX camera owner in need of a fast, well-built, professional-level portrait prime? We've just published our review on the Samsung 85mm ƒ/1.4 ED SSA lens, which is part of Samsung's premium, professional line of lenses and is the "crème de la crème" of portrait lenses for NX users. Regardless of its...

 

 

Earlier this week, Microsoft unveiled its latest attempt at gaining traction in the competitive tablet market. Like its predecessor, Surface Pro 3 aims to bridge the divide between Android and iOS tablets and notebook PCs. It runs a Windows 8 operating system and your desktop apps -- including the full-fledged...

 

 

Ever wondered what it is that makes some of your photos popular? You're not alone: MIT student Aditya Khosla wondered the same thing, as did his fellow researchers, Atish Das Sarma of eBay, and Raffay Hamid of DigitalGlobe. Where you likely differ from these three gentlemen, though, is that you probably only...

 

 

One of the best ways to improve your smartphone photos is to introduce some apps to your workflow that expand your phone's photographic capabilities. In a recent video for The Guardian, Dan Rubin, Instagram early adopter and editor-at-large for The Photographic Journal, showed off some of his favorite mobile...

 

 

Ah, Memorial Day weekend! The official start of the summer season, at least to us folks here in the States. As such, B&H has started running a series of Memorial Day specials on a wide variety of cameras, from compact, waterproof digicams to DSLRs. We also have a variety of individual camera and lens deals,...

 

 

For the last seven years, there's been a battle underway for the hearts and minds of photographers. Two of the best-known photography-centric desktop apps in the business -- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and DxO Optics Pro -- have waged war. Today, DxO Labs makes friends with its long-time rival, announcing a new...

 

 

Here's a riddle to while away a little of your Tuesday afternoon: What talks to your smartphone or tablet, knows precisely where it is at all times, and is just as at home underwater or in a light-bulb socket as it is in the palm of your hand?

Need another hint? It also shoots 360-degree spherical video and...