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Earlier this week, Sony excited fans of low-light photography and 4K video with the debut of its latest full-frame mirrorless camera, the Sony A7S. Helping ensure a big splash, the company played its cards very close to its chest, tightly controlling information until the camera's debut at the National Association...

 

 

We already know that drones can carry more than just cameras. Amazon, for instance, thinks it’ll be delivering your cat food via quadcopter within the next five years. So it’s not really a big surprise to see aerial videographers sending their lighting rigs up into the sky—but it’s still really cool.

Aerial video...

 

 

A series of photobooth portraits of the same man taken over a time span of three decades is currently puzzling historians. The pictures, which were taken between the 1930s and 1960s, all show the same person first as a middle-aged man and later visibly aged, presumably in his sixties. Besides the fact that nobody...

 

 

Hot on the heels of our Sigma 50mm f/1.4 Art review comes its intended competition, the $4,000 Zeiss 55mm f/1.4 Otus Distagon T*. This stupendously large, all-metal, normal focal length prime lens is aimed squarely at professional photographers who demand the utmost in sharpness, resolution and contrast for...

 

 

Check out a nice selection of camera, lens and accessorie deals below. Up today, we've got a big discount on a 4K-capable Canon HD-DSLR and couple bundle deals for Sony gear, including the hot Sony A7 and A7R cameras. There's also a deal on a slim, powerful Canon PowerShot camera. For lenses, there's a deal on...

 

 

Dating back to the Panasonic GH1, the GH line of cameras has been targeted at videographers while sporting rich feature sets generally found on more expensive professional video rigs. The Panasonic GH4 is the latest in this popular line and has just completed the first pass through our test lab.

We'll be bringing...

 

 

Sigma Corporation's image sensor subsidiary, Foveon Inc., takes a very different approach to sensor design than any other company out there. With a technology that captures red, green, and blue light simultaneously at all pixel locations across the entire sensor surface, they've long claimed that their chips...

 

 

Who said that you can only upload unaltered photos from your smartphone camera to Instagram? This series of Instagram pictures showing death-defying stunts and other vertigo-inducing scenes were actually cleverly manipulated. Or did you really think there was a rollercoaster hundreds of feet above Manhattan? The...

 

 

Pixel peeping is an honored pastime around these parts. But when identical photos from six popular cameras are randomized and shrunk down to typical viewing sizes, would you be able to tell which shots came from which cameras?

If you’re up for the challenge, head over to The Slanted Lens. While filming a lighting...

 

 

Sony has been on an absolute tear these past few years with imaging tech, and they’ve earned yet another feather in their collective cap—this time, for a smartphone camera.

DxO Labs just published the results of their Sony Xperia Z2 test, and it’s the best smartphone camera out there. Built around a...

 

 

The Sony A6000 compact system camera is far and away the most popular camera on our site this year, and this is all without having barely scratched the surface on our review itself. With this in mind, we wanted to get you some sample gallery images in short order, so that you could begin your own analysis along...

 

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The National Association of Broadcasters show (NAB) is in full swing, bringing heaps of new 4K camera and accessory announcements. Even if you're mainly a stills photographer, there's plenty of cool gear to check out, and some of these fresh ideas that might someday, in some form, trickle down to cheaper...

 

 

It's a great day to be an Apple user: Adobe has just debuted an impressively well-considered mobile variant of its photographer-friendly Lightroom imaging app, and for the time being, it's an iOS exclusive. Specifically, it's available only on Apple's iPad tablet series, with an iPhone variant due later this year....

 

Leica R8 film SLR. Photo: Ashley Pomeroy / Wikimedia Commons

If you only started following the photo industry in the past few years, you probably never realized that Leica once made SLR cameras. The Washington Post, of all places, wrote up a brief retrospective of the events that led to Leica abandoning its R-series...

 

 

It was just a few months ago that DJI announced the Phantom 2 Vision quadcopter, the company’s first aerial vehicle with a built-in camera—and they’ve already released an update.

Unveiled at NAB 2014 over the weekend, the DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ adds better stabilization, a longer WiFi range, and faster flight...

 

Photo: Dan Smith / FOX

As photographers, we think about light every time we pick up a camera. But the last time that most of us thought about the science behind light may well have been in a high-school physics lecture.

For those of us who could use a refresher, the latest episode of the Fox mini-series Cosmos,...

 

 

Just half a day before the National Association of Broadcasters kick off their annual tradeshow in Las Vegas, Sony has announced its latest -- and arguably, most exciting -- full-frame mirrorless camera to date, the Sony A7S. (The 'S' standing for "sensitivity", the key goal of this model.) The company has played...

It's that time again, folks, when we have the honor of honoring you, our best photographers.

Below are our distinguished winners from March in our Photo of the Day contest. Thanks to everyone who entered, as your awesome photographs make our jobs all the more enjoyable, and give your fellow readers the pleasure of enjoying the fruits of your craft.

The top three winners...

 

 

When we sat down for a chat with Sigma at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, we got some hands-on time with the company's brand-new 50mm f/1.4 Art lens, a ground-up redesign that replaces its previous "fast fifty" with a model blessed with the new 'Art' designation. We're now thrilled to publish our review of...