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Back in September, Adobe announced its Photoshop Photography Program, a $10 bundle of its subscription-only Photoshop Creative Cloud product with the photographer-centric Photoshop Lightroom, 20GB of cloud storage, and a Behance ProSite. The program offers a pretty significant savings over the US$50/month...

 

 

Find editing your photos and home movies to be tedious, but don't want to leave them languishing unseen on your computer? The solution could be to feed them into an app which automatically creates an edited slideshow clip from your stills and videos, all with a minimum of fuss. That's what muvee Reveal is...

 

 

Did you score a new Panasonic GM1 compact system camera this holiday season? If so, congratulations -- we're thoroughly impressed with this tiny little interchangeable-lens powerhouse, and we've a recommendation for a must-have purchase to accompany it.

The GM1's trim size and smooth front deck makes an...

 

 

The final Friday of 2013 is here, and as we all get ready to celebrate the last weekend of the year, there's understandably little to report on the firmware front. It makes perfect sense: We've all far too much celebrating to do to be worrying about mere firmware. That's not to say that nobody's been hard at...

 

 

Today must be the day for cool space imaging news. No sooner had we covered the awesome almost-selfie of NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins with planet Earth peeking over his shoulder than another space story hit the newsdesk. This time around, it's not a still photo -- instead it's high definition video of our...

 

 

Photographers looking for the ultimate in image quality might avoid zoom lenses like the plague, but the popularity of increasingly long-zoom cameras suggests that some people just can't get enough telephoto reach. If you're in their number, you may find the promise of a recent patent filing by Canon Japan to...

 

 

Selfie fans, the gauntlet has just been well and truly laid down. Wherever you are and whatever you do -- be it dangling your feet from the top of a skyscraper, snapping your photo with the world's largest self-portrait camera, or taking the artistic route as Hungarian photographer Noell S. Oszvald so...

 

 

About a week ago, we profiled an incredibly cool Sony ad, featuring a set of skydivers using the Sony A7 and A7r while in free-fall. One of our commenters pointed out there's actually a behind the scenes video (thanks stuntquest!) which shows something of the process of what went into making the ad.

The shoot...

 

 

Conservators restoring an Antarctic exploration hut recently made a remarkable discovery: a small box of 22 exposed but unprocessed photographic negatives, frozen in a solid block of ice for nearly one hundred years.

These negatives were meticulously processed and restored by a Wellington photography conservator....

 

 

Sightsmap is a global heatmap showing the most popular places that people have uploaded images to Google's Panoramio website. While obviously not tracking every photo ever taken, it's a huge sample, and one that manages to paint the globe to show off the corners of the world that have the most images snapped.

As...

 

 

With the iPhone being one of the most popular picture-taking devices, we see a lot of accessories being made for it with the goal of boosting its usability. One such item is the Pocket Tripod, which is a foldable iPhone stand that actually fits in your wallet's credit card compartment.

Thanks to its clever...

 

 

Keeping track of a mass of photos is a mess, especially on mobile devices. Sure, on your desktop you can use Lightroom's (or another app's) powerful tagging tools to keep your thousands of images straight, but it's not that easy on your smartphone. But a newly awarded patent from Apple would make it much easier, by...

 

 

Thanks to Google Earth and its ilk, we have become spoiled for high-quality satellite images of the world around us. But what if you want to take a stab at it yourself — to record your neighborhood from a high-up view? Or what if you want to use open data from those sorts of photos, without being beholden to Google...

 

 

In BuzzFeed user Henry Goldman's short video for children, “Film Photography Explained to Modern Kids”, the narrator says, “The way you shared a photo of someone back then was you put it in their hands and they looked at it.” This wonderful sentiment permeates the whole video, which is designed to teach...

 

 

Remember that exciting Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 DI VC USD lens we told you about a couple of weeks ago? Well, it's continuing to inch its way closer to market, with US availability expected in three weeks.

The folks over at NikonRumors just pointed out that the Tamron SP 150-600mm is now available for...

 

 

Just in case Google's work on Glass, its wearable multimedia glasses project, doesn't have privacy advocates reacting with sufficient alarm, it's now come to light that the company is involved in another wearable computing device. This time, it's a camera aimed specifically at Google's Helpouts service, which...

 

 

I've just published the first installment of my Shooter's Report for the Pentax K-3, one of the most technically interesting cameras of 2013, and a Camera of Distinction in our 2013 Enthusiast DSLR of the Year awards. I've been a Pentax shooter myself for about four years now, first with the K-7, and then the...

 

 

'Twas the day after Christmas and new deals are here! Have some holiday cash and want to convert it to the hardware you crave? We'll help you find the best ways to spend it.

• Target has the Canon SL1 bundled with the 18-55mm and 75-300mm lenses, memory card, camera bag and DVD, along with a $150 gift card...

 

 

If you've ever wanted to take high-resolution, raw, video recordings from under the sea, this may be your chance. Popular underwater housing manufacturer Nauticam has unveiled two houses for Blackmagic cameras: the NA-BMPCC for the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera, and the NA-BMCC for the Blackmagic 4k and 2.5K...