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If this tutorial from earlier this week sparked a desire in you to get into timelapse photography, one of the things that may be on your shopping list is a variable speed motorized slider. These allow you to add motion in your timelapse—which is sometimes called a hyperlapse—by very slowly moving the camera while...

 

 

Photographer and videographer extraordinaire Chase Jarvis has a lot of gear. He needs it—while he's most famous for his action shots, he also does landscape work, tons of video, and plenty more.

But some equipment is essential to just about any kind of shoot. In a new blog post and behind the scenes video,...

 

 

Currently on Reddit, there's a fantastic thread titled "What's your go-to, number one, single sentence tip for yourself and other photographers?" And it got us thinking, what's the one piece of single sentence advice we'd offer other photographers? And even more interestingly, what's yours?

The thread itself is...

 

 

When it was time to leave for a two-week vacation in my one-time home of Hong Kong, I wanted to take a camera that was at once compact and yet fully-featured. I'm traveling light, so I didn't want to be weighed down with an SLR, but I knew there would be plenty of good photo opps that would demand more than a...

 

Nature and Wildlife winner, "The Cold Pony", by Gert van den Bosch

Following up from the official shortlist in February, the Sony World Photography Awards today announced the winners for the Open, Youth, and National Award divisions. Each of these incredible images nets its photographer a camera from Sony, and those...

 

 

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! To celebrate the holiday, Adorama's unveiled a big selection of sales and promotions on a variety of gear including camera deals for Canon, Nikon, and many other brands, including Olympus, Pentax and Fujifilm. Plus, there's some cool Canon, Nikon and Sigma camera and lens deals...

 

 

Aerial photography is growing fast, and it’s starting to catch mainstream attention.

Last night, 60 Minutes broadcast a segment about the present and future of small, affordable drones in America—with an emphasis on photography and videography. Portions of the report were shot from DJI Phantom II quadcopters,...

 

 

Usually, when you think of gigapixel photography, you think of incredibly detailed landscapes, rendered down to insane detail. But Swiss artist Daniel Boschung has taken that same technology, and repurposed it for a series of portraits that he's called Face Cartography.

Rather than taking the 600 images that are...

Ever since Hungary's current government was elected back in 2010, the country has seen a strong move to the political right, and a slow but noticeable drift away from the common values of the European Union. The country's latest step towards becoming politically and socially isolated was the creation of a new law that requires photographers to...

 

 

When Flickr completely overhauled its design last May, the results were contentious, and it was then tweaked even further last October. Now, according to Kara Swisher of ReCode, yet another redesign is in the works, and it's one that'll put an even deeper emphasis on images over everything else.

Swisher reports...

 

 

If you've ever watched an incredible timelapse video, and asked yourself how they do that, this is your chance to learn the basics, and give it a try. Acclaimed timelapse artist Dustin Farrell has just released a 20 minute tutorial video, taking you through how he makes his incredible videos, from top to bottom.

 

 

If you're a professional photographer, showing clients images on an iPad can save you from having to lug a laptop around with you. But one of the problems of a tablet for pro-level use is that they're not calibrated, so image color and range may not be accurate. But now X-Rite is planning to change that, and with...

 

 

You may never have to use measuring tape again. More details have emerged about Google’s Project Tango, a 3D mapping tool in the body of a smartphone, including some interesting imaging modules.

Project Tango is designed to create an accurate 3D map of any environment, using just cameras and gyroscopes built into...

 

 

It’s a thankless job, but as long as the money keeps flowing, the paparazzi will keep shoving their cameras into celebrities’ faces.

There are real people behind the lenses, though, and this short documentary from the You Hate My Job series at Marketplace.org shows off a more personal, human side of the...

 

 

The confusion caused by Sony's dropping of the "NEX" branding from their popular mirrorless APS-C lineup has apparently done little to quell the photo community's enthusiasm about the line itself, as the Sony A6000 has been one of the most read-about cameras on our site since it was announced last month.

Those of...

 

 

iPhones already take a huge percentage of the world’s photos, but Apple looks ready to dive even deeper into camera development—and it might be quite the step forward.

Apple Insider found about two dozen new positions available in the company’s camera division, mostly calling for hardware and software engineers....

 

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Ricoh Imaging Company, LTD. 

During the CP+ photography tradeshow in Japan, Imaging Resource publisher and editor-in-chief Dave Etchells met for interviews with executives from some of the best-known brands...

 

 

Generally speaking, Leica isn't the first name you think of when you think skate photography. The punk and grunge ethos that infused skating from its early days seems hard to reconcile with the precision engineering and incredibly steep pricetags of Leica gear. Yet Leica has helped put together a short film series...

 

 

We've just published our review for the Fujinon XF 56mm f/1.2 R, the hot new ultra-fast portrait prime from Fujifilm. Just now hitting the store shelves, this f/1.2 lens is absolutely stunning with excellent sharpness, even wide-open and corner-to-corner, as well as shockingly low CA, vignetting and practically...