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Two massively popular photography-related apps for the iPhone have just been updated. Both Camera+ and 500px have been given new features and new looks, just in time for the new year.

Taptaptap has released Camera+ 5, which has added a remarkably complete sounding set of editing tools to the iOS app. Dubbed "The...

 

 

It's time for another deals roundup, and we slowly inch our way towards Christmas. We've found a boat-load of amazing Canon deals for all sorta of cameras and lenses, from pro-level DSLRs to portable PowerShots and lenses, too! A little birdy has told me that these deals won't last long and could expire at anytime,...

 

 

We've just posted our Sigma 24-105mm f/4 DG OS HSM "A" lens review, and by most accounts, its...

 

 

There are big changes afoot today at the helm of Sony Electronics Inc., the company behind the Cyber-shot and Alpha / Alpha NEX camera lines. Current President and Chief Operating Officer Phil Molyneux, a 26-year veteran of Sony who came up through the ranks from the company's UK semiconductor and component...

 

 

The SwatchMate Color Capturing Cube is a Kickstarter for a small gadget that will not only let you capture the color of anything in the world around you, but will then share that color information with your smartphone, as well as Photoshop. And if the crowdfunding attempt hits a certain goal, the Cube will gain...

 

 

HoverZoom is a popular plugin for Google Chrome that enlarges thumbnails on mouseover, so you can see large images on Flickr or Tumblr without having to click through to each. But the plugin was just updated, and according to a post on Reddit, it's now infected with malware.

Reddit user Kruithne spotted the...

 

 

Modern luxury car advertisements have reached an almost platonic ideal through their sameness. So many of them seem to take exactly the same route: a stately voiceover, classical music, and panning shots beautifully observing the vehicle's lines. But what happens when you take those exact techniques, and use them...

 

 

The Sony A7R is here, and it looks set to change the camera market forever. No longer do you need a bulky DSLR if you want absolutely top-notch image quality: The 36-megapixel Alpha 7R will turn out razor-sharp images that give even medium format a run for its money, and yet it'll fit in a coat pocket with a...

 

 

For that scant handful of users that have a Google Glass to play with, Google has just released a significant update in the form of software version XE12. This update brings a number of new features, including the ability to join a Google Hangout from your Glass, but the most interesting — and controversial —...

It's official: Christmas is one-week away. Fear not, though, as more camera and photo gear deals keep rolling in. B&H is aware this tight dealine until the big day with a big holiday promo for free two-day shipping on a select cameras, lenses and other photo gear (~750 items, to be more exact). There's also a couple nice deals on Canon...

 

 

Fujifilm today announced the latest addition to its lineup of X-mount lenses, the Fujinon XF 10-24mm f/4 R OIS wide-angle zoom lens. With an equivalent focal length range of 15-36mm, the lens covers anything from ultra wide-angle to the classic 35mm angle-of-view. The maximum aperture of f/4 is constant throughout...

 

 

Christmas is just over a week away, but it's still not too late to grab some fantastic deals on cameras, lenses and other photo gear. Up today are a few excellent deals on Canon and Nikon DSLRs, as well as a compact Canon PowerShot camera. There's also a great one-day deals on the Pentax K-500. In the lens...

 

 

Samsung calls their new Galaxy NX camera "The most connected compact system camera in the world." This is certainly fitting considering it's the first interchangeable lens camera that's also a smart device. In fact, the possibilities embedded in this camera are...

 

 

The Thai website 2how.com recently conducted an interview with one of Fujifilm's managers, Hiroshi Kawahara. During the interview, one of the questions that came up was whether or not the company was going to introduce a full frame X-mount camera at some point. The answer was, quite clearly, a no. As a reason,...

 

 

FLTR is a new publication from the esteemed team of the British Journal of Photography, but with a very different slant from their other publication. For one, it focuses purely on smartphone photography. And for another, it's only available on the iPhone, where it will be delivered once a week in digital form.

 

 

Artificially applying a tilt-shift effect to a photo is a quick and dirty way of creating an intimate sense of scale — of making a scene feel like it's been shot in miniature with a very shallow depth of field. Its popularity with aerial photography and cityscapes has lead to it being a widespread digital tool, and...

 

 

Earlier this year we covered photographer Matthew Cetta's Photogenic Alchemy project, where he exposed 35mm film to bizarre chemicals in order to create unique and unconventional effects. Now he's teamed up with an app maker to bring some of the same interesting editing to the iPhone, with a new free app called...

 

 

In October, Samyang announced that a handful of its lenses would be tweaked for full-frame on Sony E-mount. Now Samyang has officially introduced the five newly mounted lenses, though they don't appear to be available to purchase just yet.

The lenses that will now be available are:

• Samyang 14mm f/2.8 ED AS...

 

 

The origins of the tripod are lost in the mists of time, but according to Homer, the Ancient Greeks gave them as gifts. Of course, photography wasn’t all that popular back in 450 B.C.E. and the tripods he was referring to supported ceremonial cauldrons, not cameras. And here’s a fascinating factoid: The oldest...