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The British Library has taken an immense volume of digitized images, and released them into the wilds on Flickr for people to use, play with, remix, and just generally do whatever they want to. More than a million images from 17th, 18th and 19th century books have been released in an immense Flickr upload, and the...

 

 

As they did last year, Instagram has taken some time at the end of 2013 to dig up which spots around the world are "the most Instagrammed". For both specific locations, and cities in general, Instagram has pulled together a list of the top 10 of each, showing where all the cool kids are posting images from.

The...

 

 

The holidays are just around the corner, and if you're still looking for a gift for that photographer in the family, we're still compiling the latest and great camera deals. Up today are a couple great Sony bundles and quite a few Canon camera deals from DSLRs to compacts to waterproof cameras. Lastly, there...

 

 

Usually, if you want to shoot timelapses with a GoPro, you're limited to a maximum of 60 seconds between each shot — which is fine for some things, but not exactly long enough for multi-day shots. But a new hack called MegaLapse has just been released into the wild, and it can push the GoPro Hero3 Black and Hero3+...

 

 

If you're a fan of high-end point-and-shoots, but also want to go swimming in the deep, dark, depths, then you'll be happy to hear that four of the most well respected premium compacts have all just had underwater housings announced for them, from a trio of different manufacturers. The Canon S120 and G16, as well...

 

 

Handevision, a German-Chinese co-op between IB/E Optics and Shanghai Transvision, has announced the fastest current production lens for mirrorless cameras: the Ibelux 40mm f/0.85. The lens, which sports 10 elements in 8 groups, will come in early 2014 with a choice of Sony E-mount, Fujifilm X-mount, Canon EF-M...

 

 

A new ring light hails from China, and it's called the Amaran Halo AHL-H100. Made by Aputure, the LED ring light combines a flash and a continuous light in one device. With a CRI (color rendering index) of 95+, its LEDs are color balanced to a temperature of 5500 Kelvin and emit a very high spectrum of colors...

 

 

Does your camera bag include Canon's EOS 7D digital SLR and WFT-E5A wireless file transmitter? If so, the company has a new firmware update that you'll want to install on the camera body.

Canon EOS 7D firmware version 2.0.5 corrects a problem when transferring files via USB with the Wireless File...

Here is a good example why it is so important to work the scene to get the best results from a shoot. We were camped on a 3000m ridge while photographing the majestic peaks of Trishul (7120m) and Nanda Ghunti (6309m) from Brahm Tal in the Garhwal Himalaya. I had just finished a sunrise shoot of the sweeping panorama before us. We spent two night on this ridge. I wrote more...

 

 

Back in early November, we told you about an exciting lens announcement from Tamron, the SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 DI VC USD. At the time, Tamron hadn't released any information on price or availability, but today it has revealed its anticipated ship date -- and although it won't be under your Christmas tree...

 

 

According to listings at some online retailers, Ricoh may have discontinued the Pentax K-5 II and K-30 DSLRs. Neither of the models is particularly old, having debuted last year, and if true, this substantially reduces the number of DSLRs that Ricoh Pentax currently offers.

PhotoRumors first spotted that B&H has...

 

NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE MODIS Rapid Response

China is currently in the midst of battling a rather astonishing bout of air pollution, most notably in Shanghai and Beijing. Not only is this level of pollution extremely dangerous but it's so thick and blanketing that a new image from NASA shows the smog...

 

 

Samsung has been major proponent of bringing together cellphones and photography for some time, perhaps most notably by adding Android to camera its lineup. But now the Korean technology giant has gone a step further, combining its Digital Imaging and Mobile Communications divisions into one.

According to ET News...

 

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Saturn's moon Titan shares a very special characteristic with our own planet — it's the only other body in our solar system with stable liquid on its surface. But -180°C surface temperatures (a nippy -292°F) means that it's not water that's wet on the moon. It's methane and ethane. And NASA...

 

 

When it was announced earlier this year that it's possible to snap a picture with Google Glass merely by blinking, the story would raise concerns about privacy issues (in addition to those that had been raised before by the mere announcement of Google Glass). Despite the fact that the social implications (and...

 

 

Would you believe that there might be gold in those old silver photo prints tucked away in dusty family albums or stashed in half-decayed cartons in junkshops? Might some old photo of your great grandmother as a little girl might pay for that faux-antique Nikon Df you’ve been eyeing?

In the last decade, anonymous...

 

 

News from the world of gadgets that no-one really needs, but everybody wants. A new product has hit the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, and it's an infrared camera that attaches to your smartphone magnetically‒Sony QX-style. The Snooperscope sports an infrared-sensitive camera which is surrounded by infrared...

 

Image by Kenneth Libbrecht

Those astonishing macro images of snowflakes from last month took our breaths away, and reminded us that there's a lot you can do with some pretty basic gear. But have you ever wanted to know a bit more about how snowflakes form, and how to better photograph them? It turns out there's one...

 

 

Japanese newssite DC.Watch has interviewed Panasonic's Ichiro Kitao and Olympus' Sugita Yukihiko, and both of these interviews reveal interesting information about both company's plans for the future.

The Olympus piece revealed that the company appears to be focusing on their high-end flagship models rather than...