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The latest salvo in the battle of the United States federal government versus public use of unmanned aerial vehicles has just been fired -- but for a change, it's not the Federal Aviation Administration pulling the trigger. Instead, it's the National Park Service that's entered the fray, making clear that it...

 

 

We've seen some cool time-lapses in our time, but this one has to be among the most visually stunning. Earlier this year, German photographer and cinematographer Martin Heck of Timestorm Films took a four-month road trip in New Zealand. (Better known to most of the world as "The place where they shot Lord of the...

 

 

They might vary in shape, size, and the way they function, but almost every true photographer's camera has one thing in common: a plethora of little chips, scratches and dents. These aren't defects, we tell ourselves. They add to our much-loved cameras' character. These are no shelf queens: We got out there, and we...

 

 

Mother's Day is quickly approaching, and if you have a photographer mom or looking to get your mother into the camera hobby, the deals are piling up. Today, there's a big Mother's Day promo over at B&H with a variety of cameras, lenses and all sorts of other electronics. Adorama is following suit with camera and...

 

 

Here at IR we're in a season of launching new features and redesigning our appearance for you. With that in mind, we thought we'd start offering up a quick recap of the past week's events, if you haven't been able to keep pace through your busy work week, or for you weekend readers who'd rather digest the important...

 

 

As we head into the weekend, it's been another big week for camera firmware. Our Firmware Friday roundup this week includes no less than four cameras from Fujifilm, Panasonic and Sigma, as well as one Leica-branded lens from Panasonic, a cordless monolight from Profoto, and five Canon camcorders.

We'll...

 

 

Done and done. Not only is our third and final Shooter's Report installment published, going in-depth with this camera's HD video recording and wireless connectivity features, our full Olympus E-M10 review is complete as well, with our full list of pros and cons and, of course, our final conclusion. 

Olympus...

 

 

Nikon's D3300 outdoes the competition in ways that will please beginning photographers, such as a better-than-average kit lens and a great sensor. Nikon also brought the groundbreaking carbon fiber monocoque construction technique found on the more expensive D5300 to this entry-level model, which allows for a...

 

Photo: Darrell Staggs, 3rd place

Just in time for camping season, the National Park Foundation has announced the winners of its Share the Experience photo contest.

The Share the Experience photo contest is an annual photography competition encouraging all nature lovers and amateur shutterbugs to capture their...

 

 

Think that your cloud backup, off-site hard copies, and RAID setup will keep your photo collection safe? Well, probably. But some folks go to more extreme measures to preserve their archives.

Underground, a 16-minute documentary by the Carnegie Museum of Art, takes a look at the Bettman Archive, owned by Corbis...

 

 

The Micro Four Thirds lens lineup is pretty excellent as it is. If it could use anything, though, it’d be some high-quality reach.

A new patent granted by the US Patent Office earlier this month reveals that Panasonic has designed something to fit that bill: A 100mm f/2 lens, possibly a macro optic. There are...

 

 

Even high-profile portrait photographers need to start somewhere. For Peter Hurley, it was in a racing sailboat, then a Ralph Lauren catalog, then a bar, then a sailboat again, and finally in his own studio apartment, with camera in-hand.

Hurley sat down for a 12-minute interview in the #BehindtheGlass series,...

 

 

No free lunch?
Aspheric lenses meant onion-ring bokeh... until now.

Aspheric lens technology is part of the reason many modern photographic lenses are better in so many respects to models from 50 years ago. Lenses with aspheric elements inside have less...

 

 

I fell in love with the Fujifilm X100S shortly after we received it last year. It has such a solid feel, and I'm enamored with Fuji's dynamic range options and film simulation modes (they're more than just digital filters, as they change a range of things about the camera's color rendering). And then there's the...

 

Photo: Sara Naomi Lewkowicz.

The winners of the Sony World Photography awards were announced yesterday, including three winners from the US. The contest covers 14 professional categories, ranging from architecture to travel, and three categories for open submissions, students, and youth photographers.

Contemporary...

 

 

Fact: A camera can’t make a product look amazing. Even an amazing lens can't make a perfume bottle look worthy of a magazine ad. Lighting, though—that can make a huge difference, and doesn't need to cost very much, either.

This 8-minute tutorial from the Nikonian Academy in Malaysia shows off the tricks of the...

 

 

When we announced a new logo and incremental homepage refresh last week, we told you more was on the way. Today we're happy to reveal a feature we've been working on for a while. We've always gone deep in reviewing and testing individual cameras, but have never provided an easy way for readers to answer the...

 

 

It's time for another camera deals roundup as new spring bargains keep rolling in! Up today are some cool refurbishd Canon DSLR deals, as well as a excellent low price on an enthusiast PowerShot camera. For Micro Four Thirds fans, there's a big chunk of change off a couple Olympus E-M5 kits. There are also deals on...

 

Photo: Tim Tadder

Under the big-top, lights are low and the aerial stunts are fast. So when commercial photographer Tim Tadder shot an advertisement featuring trapeze artists, he brought along 15 lights, and rigged them up 42 feet in the air.

Tadder’s team made a behind-the-scenes video of that shoot, offering a...