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In just a few days, an incredible collection of Leica and Nikon gear will go under the auctioneer's hammer, with a December 8 sale through Tamarkin Rare Camera Auctions. Some 317 lots are up for bid, including some extremely rare pieces, like prototype and misprinted Leicas, anniversary boxed sets, Noctilux glass,...

 

 

Earlier this year, Metabones wowed with its "Speed Booster" adapters, which managed to let you reduce the effective crop factor of a camera, and also increase the maximum aperture. Now the company has announced another wave of Speed Boosters, this time for the Blackmagic Cinema Camera (BMCC) and Blackmagic Pocket...

 

 

This video's an oldie but a goodie, and some of us here at IR hadn't see this before -- and chances are, that goes for our readers as well. Have you ever wondered what YouTube does with your videos once you've uploaded them? You didn't think they'd just leave them alone, did you. And you'd be right not to. Because...

 

 

We've just posted our Nikon 58mm f/1.4G lens review, and confess that this lens has left us stratching our heads a little. The Nikon 58mm ƒ/1.4G AF-S Nikkor lens is Nikon's latest fast prime lens and the spiritual successor to the famed Nikon 58mm ƒ/1.2 Nikkor Noct classic Ai manual focus lens. Boasting a slightly...

 

 

It's previously been rumored, and now it's official: Canon has announced the EOS M2, successor to the EOS M mirrorless camera, in Japan. From what it looks like, though, the camera isn't quite what many have hoped for, keeping the same design philosophy and almost the same body as its predecessor. What's changed is...

 

 

It's often said that photography is the art of painting with light, but have you ever wondered how long your photos would take to create if you had to paint them in a more literal manner?

British visual artist Kyle Lambert recently did just that, recreating a photograph of famous Hollywood actor Morgan...

 

 

One of the main advantages to the GoPro is that it's small and light enough that you can strap it to just about anything, and it won't get in the way. How small and light? Enough so that you can essentially build it an aerodynamic wing, tie in some rope, and create awesome (and vaguely vertigo inducing) footage of...

 

 

Rangers in Western Australia set up a motion sensitive camera to record the local fresh-water crocodiles, but when it went missing, they thought it lost to the waters. But rather than fall to the depths, the camera had actually been snatched away by a young eagle — who managed to deposit it more than 100km (60...

 

 

In July, VSCO announced that it was porting its popular VSCO Cam iPhone app to Android, and started allowing people into the beta for the new version. Now, more than four months later, the app has finally been officially released and is available as a free download for folks with Android 4.0+.

While the camera...

 

 

Hot off the heels of Sigma declaring compatibility problems between the Nikon D5300 and a number of the company's lenses, the same issues have re-appeared, this time for the Nikon Df. Explaining the problem on its website, Sigma explicitly states that its a...

 

 

Last year, Nikon announced its D600 digital SLR, a truly affordable full-frame beauty with an unanticipated Achilles heel: a shutter / mirror mechanism prone to splattering dust and oil on the sensor, early in the camera's operating life. A year later, it followed up with the Nikon D610, a surprisingly modest...

 

 

Ilford Imaging Switzerland -- one of two companies that emerged from the ashes of bankrupt British photo film maker Ilford just ten years ago -- is once more faced by financial difficulties, we hear today.

Named after the town of Ilford, Essex where it was founded in 1879, and originally traded as Britannia...

 

 

Once or twice a year, an inversion layer will push a small amount of fog into the Grand Canyon, slightly obscuring it. But far less frequently, maybe once a decade or so, the conditions will be perfect for the entire canyon to fill to the brim. That's what happened last Friday, as clear skies and perfect conditions...

 

 

In October, LensRentals announced a photography contest of a very different sort, The First Annual Photogeek Geek Photo Contest. Not so much a contest of artistic merit, but rather a competition devoted to all the things that gearheads flip out over — sharp corners, test charts, bokeh, distortion, dynamic range,...

 

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Despite our romantic dreams to the contrary, looking for sunken wrecks is not exactly the easiest thing to do in the world. Human divers are slow, need to return to the surface frequently, and can only go so deep; remote sensing techniques lack...

 

 

If you're shooting with the Nikon D610 digital SLR or Coolpix P7800 premium compact, and you want to tame the distortion and perspective issues in your photos, there's good news from French software company DxO Labs. They've just updated DxO ViewPoint, their tool for correcting various common image defects,...

 

 

For the second year in a row, Fujifilm has made it into the Thomson Reuters list of the top 100 global innovators. Each year, Thomson Reuters recognises the world's top 100 innovators with this list, which is...

 

 

The NikonHacker firmware tweaks have never been as popular or as functional as its Canon Magic Lantern brethreb. However, that doesn't mean that something pretty impressive doesn't come along on occasion — like adding full manual functionality to the D5100 while in Live View mode.

The firmware tweak was released...

 

 

Happy Cyber Monday! If you didn't get all your holiday shopping done on Black Friday for all your photography-inclinded family members and friends, well then you're in luck. Similar to what we did with our big Black Friday Deals post, we're listing the latest and greatest Cyber Monday camera deals all in...