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After spending years as an underdog to the CCD sensor in the early days of digital photography, CMOS image sensors have now become the dominant format. Almost across the board, they've replaced CCD chips in compact and interchangeable-lens cameras. There's one place in which the CCD sensor still reigns...

 

 

Rhode Island School of Design professor Dennis Hlynsky's Small Brains on Mass is an ongoing project looking at the way small brained animals flock in groups. While primarily focused on birds, Hlynsky has also tracked ants, flies, and fish. And while studying mass movements may not stand out too much in itself,...

 

 

It's that time again: camera deals of the day! If you're a DSLR shooter, then today's set of deals will be of interest to you. There's DSLR deals from both Nikon and Pentax, as well as DSLR lens deals from Canon, Nikon and Sigma. To store all your new photos, there's a nice Lexar Professional CF memory card 2-pack...

Update: In a previous version of this article, we stated that all four patents show concepts for 'pancake' type lenses. However, only the standard zoom lenses are pancake designs. We apologize for the mistake.

Canon Watch has posted a couple of patents unearthed by Egami, which show design concepts for four more zoom lenses for the EOS M...

 

 

Last summer, Canadian astronaut Col. Chris Hadfield shot to worldwide fame as the man who out-Bowied David Bowie. Hadfield's recording of Bowie's classic Space Oddity, recorded on the International Space Station (and shown below), was an overnight YouTube hit. It's gone on to pull in a fifth more views in...

 

 

Say what you like about it, but the Nikon DF is definitely a camera that gets people talking. Nikon's smallest full-frame DSLR to date, the DF sports the exact same 16.2-megapixel, FX-format CMOS image sensor as seen previously in the impressive Nikon D4, and it's paired with the same EXPEED 3 image processor...

 

 

Storehouse is a new, free iPad app, that'll let you easily take your photos and videos from a number of different image services (and your own camera roll), and turn them into gorgeous, image driven narratives that you can easily share.

With Storehouse, you can pull images from the iPad's camera, Dropbox, Flickr,...

 

 

If you've spent any time in a darkroom at all, you know the actual business of developing film can be extremely tedious. Swapping out chemicals, agitating, and rinsing, waiting for a timer to go off to let you know you've been doing it for the right amount of time. But Dutch photographer Jan van den Broek has...

 

 

Fujifilm has put up a teaser site for a new X-series camera, which will be unveiled in full on January 28, just more than a week away. While not showing off the new model in all its glory, it certainly has enough to whet our appetites, and revealed a handful of features about the camera.

The obvious changes worth...

 

 

Happy Monday, everyone! Let's get this week off to an awesome start with a batch of excellent camera deals! We've put together a very nice variety of deals from lightweight mirrorless cameras all the way up to big, professional DSLRs. There's also some other photo gear deals on such as an excellent ultra-wide zoom...

 

 

Adobe's website recently briefly held mention of a mobile version of Lightroom, and while what little information that was has now been scrubbed, we do know that the company is planning on charging $99/year for the subscription service to go alongside the app.

9to5Mac spotted the information on Adobe's site,...

 

 

Photo festivals are a must-see for anyone who loves photography. They provide a chance to see the work of celebrated photographers as well as the portfolios of new, up-and-coming talent. Below is a schedule of photo festivals for 2014 compiled by Graziano Ferri the founder and editor of "Fotografia Magazine."

My...

 

 

In the wee hours of yesterday morning, Adobe announced the debut of an updated version of its flagship photography-and-more app, Adobe Photoshop. The new release, available only to Adobe Creative Cloud subscribers, focuses mainly on 3D printing, text, color sampler, and layers capabilities, but there are some...

 

 

There's nothing more fascinating and relaxing than watching a true craftsman patiently perform his or her work. This is especially true when it comes to the craftsmanship involved with old-fashioned analog photography, both the...

 

 

It's Firmware Friday once more, and this week we have but a single update on which to report. This week, it's all about the communication -- Canon has just shipped an update for its Rebel T5i digital SLR which improves STM lens-to-body communication, as well as correcting some translation errors in the user...

 

 

Last November we profiled a video by photographer and videographer Joe Fellows, where he walked through making one of his signature parallax/2.5D animations out of a still image. Now Fellows is back with a follow-up video, this time answering some of the questions that people put his way after the success of his...

 

 

The ethics of photography is something that we've talked about a lot here at the Imaging Resource, specifically amongst accusations that award winning photos were overly photoshopped. But a recent article on National Geographic has raised very different questions about photography ethics — specifically about the...

 

 

Fujifilm has something of a reputation for pushing boundaries when it comes to sensor technology, and it looks set to continue that tradition, with a new patent from Japan. Taking into account the fact that the human eye is more sensitive to luminance noise than color noise, Fujifilm's patent specifically has...

 

 

Photo retouching is exacting work, regardless if it's a person, a landscape, or in the case of this timelapse, a product. Created by Andreas Jörg, it squeezes two hours of editing, photoshoppery, and retouching down to a frantic nine minutes of high-speed editing in order to get this final image of a Rolex watch.