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Photo: Marc Urbano, Road & Track Magazine

Photographing fast-moving skiers, cyclists, and even football players is tough enough. But race cars? Now that’s action.

Road & Track Magazine posted a joint interview with racing photographers Jamey Price and Marc Urbano, fresh off a shoot at the 12 Hours of Sebring...

 

A police body camera.

Video filmed with body cameras worn by San Diego police officers will not be made available to the public for now, according to a report at the Voice of San Diego.

A handful of officers in downtown San Diego and surrounding districts have been wearing cameras clipped to their uniforms as part...

 

 

You’ve got to give them a few points for creativity: Hot on the heels of the new NX Mini announcement, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Samsung recently filed a patent for a camera with a transparent display.

As the diagram below shows, the proposed design would be extra-wide by current point-and-shoot...

 

 

If Canon's Cinema EOS camera series wasn't proof enough for you that the company is taking interchangeable-lens video seriously, perhaps this news will change your mind. Effective immediately, videographers shooting the company's Cinema EOS-branded interchangeable-lens video gear will have access to the Canon...

We awarded the Sony A7R our camera of the year award for 2013 because it's a great camera and a technical triumph to boot. So when word cropped up online of significant light leaks in the A7R and its sibling, the A7 (A7 vs A7R), we immediately looked into it.

In part I of our findings, we found that many cameras leak light at the most extreme exposures, suggesting that...

 

Oppo Find 7

Megapixels are still an easy way to make a camera sound impressive, and smartphone makers keep using it. But thankfully, they’re actually using the powers of the pixel for good.

The latest volley in the resolution arms race comes from Chinese phone manufacturer Oppo with the new Find 7, a big-screen...

 

 

Fujifilm CP+ Interview: Fujifilm's key goals for the X-T1

While at the CP+ show last month, I had a chance to spend some time with engineers and product planners from Fujifilm. Our conversation covered a wide range of topics, many of which I'll write up as separate articles. A fair bit of our time together was...

 

 

In need of some new photo gear? Well we've got you covered. For cameras, up today we've found a very nice Sony mirrorless bundle that includes a Zeiss zoom lens, as well as a cool deal on a Canon DSLR body. There's also a sale on a Panasonic compact camera, plus some deals on memory cards and a Lowepro rolling...

 

 

While most of what we hear about with new sensor developments comes from the world of consumer cameras, there's a whole other world devoted to imaging for scientific purposes. Two new developments have pushed the fields of medical imaging in new directions—one for small, and one for large.

A new imaging device...

Terminal cancer is a terrible diagnosis for anyone, no matter their age. And while a chemotherapy can help slow down the spread of the malignant tumor cells, the crucial part of the diagnosis is the word terminal, which means that ultimately the person cannot be cured – at least not at the current state of medical science. But not everyone...

 

 

Amongst the photographic community, the reaction to Adobe's Creative Cloud iniative has been all but universally negative, with many balking at having to pay a subscription to use the industry standard software. However, from Adobe's perspective, it looks like it may very well have been a success, at least based on...

 

 

Over the last four years, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera has snapped more than 10,000 images of the Moon's northern polar area. Now all of those images have been merged into one incredible gigapan, which clocks in at an astonishing 681 gigapixels.

The panorama is constructed of 10,581 images, and covers...

 

 

One of the few complaints leveled at the Sony A7 and A7r (Sony A7 vs. Sony A7R) was that their AF system left something to be desired, especially for the A7r. But with a new round of firmware patches fresh from Sony, not only have both been given a speed tweaks with the 70-200mm lens, but the pair also received...

 

 

No good deed goes unpunished, or at least un-complained about on the internet.

Last week, Leica gave away one of their M Monochrom digital cameras to a Japanese teenager whose family was displaced after the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown at Fukushima in 2011. The 18-year-old woman recently graduated...

Nikon has just released a service advisory about apparent issues with Lexar CF cards when used with the new D4s. The issue was first reported by Nikon Rumors on Facebook a couple of days ago, after they received an email by a concerned reader who had troubles with some of his Lexar CF cards in his Nikon D4s. While the original report mentions...

 

Photo: Samer Mohdad, Mes Arabies, Libya, 1994

Here in the West, most of the images we see of the Arab world come from news reports or tourist guides. But as we know, photography is universal. Over at the New York Times’s Lens blog, we get an insider’s view of everyday life in the Middle East.

A post profiles the...

 

 

Back in late 2012, Pentax introduced a new multi-layer lens coating dubbed HD, for "High Definition". According to its maker, the HD coating offered a couple of key benefits, but it's not until recently that we've been able to make a real-world comparison to test these claims. We've now done so, and the...

 

 

Samsung must have seen the Pentax Q-series and the Panasonic GM1 and felt the challenge: "If they can do it, we'll do it smaller!" Hence, the Samsung NX Mini, otherwise known as the "world's slimmest and lightest interchangeable lens camera."

Indeed, this little guy is certainly that. Imaging Resource editor...

When the DVD was first introduced, one of the marketing claims was that the new standard would make it possible to change the camera perspective while watching, for example in recordings of concerts or the like. Today, as good as no DVD incorporates that feature, but the idea to be able to freely change camera perspective while watching...