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Yesterday, Christie's auction house was set to sell a collection of 20 photographic portfolios that make up the monumental work, "The North American Indian," by photographer Edward S. Curtis. Christie's estimates that these photogravure portfolios and the complementary sets of 20 descriptive texts would go for as...

It must be the day for photography-related Kickstarter projects to announce their imminent availability. No sooner had we covered the news that the crowdfunded, wearable Memoto camera is about to reach the market having rebranded as the Narrative Clip than we heard an update from an even more popular Kickstarter project. (At least, if...

 

 

Photographers shooting with the Leica S-system today have a new lens option to choose from, taking the total number of S-mount optics offered to eight. Like all but one of the existing Leica S lenses -- and in keeping with the medium format mount's focus on image quality -- the new lens is a prime.

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Stitching together a series of images into a panorama is a surprisingly tricky business. Some companies, like Sony and Apple, seem to have a really solid grasp on it, and can easily put together a pano from just a sweep of your device. But a new mathematical model could mean that when your photos get combined, you...

 

 

About a year ago, a Kickstarter popped up for a wearable, life-logging camera dubbed the Memoto. Now, that company has announced some big changes. Not only is Memoto getting a name change to "Narrative", but the device will start shipping in November for Kickstarter backers.

As announced in a blog post and a...

 

 

Earlier this year, the selection of Paul Hansen's Gaza Burial as the Photo of the Year for the 2013 World Press Photo Awards lead to a storm of criticism, with accusations of over manipulation of the final image. We delved in-depth into what modifications occurred and the WPPA launched its own probe — and now it...

 

 

A Phantom quadcopter will set you back all of $500, which means it's affordable enough for just about anyone to use. Unfortunately, buying one doesn't seem to automatically confer the smarts on how to fly it, or the wisdom on where to — as evidenced by a drone that crashed and almost hit man in Manhattan earlier...

I think we might have a little something for everyone in our daily camera deals digest today. We've found bargains on Canon and Nikon DSLRs, as well as savings on a handful of compact digital cameras ranging from waterproof models to superzooms. There's also a nice discount on a fast f/2.8 Panasonic zoom lens. Be sure to check back on IR...

DxO Labs has today announced an update to its flagship imaging utility, DxO Optics Pro. The company hasn't yet issued releas notes for the new version, but we do know that it adds support for two new cameras, from Canon and Sony respectively, as well as more lens modules for its increasingly vast selection.

Newly-supported cameras in...

The Three Questions
I get asked several questions every time I publish a graph showing Imatest results for multiple copies of lenses like the one below. Most people understand that some copy-to-copy variation is inevitable in the manufacturing process. Most are surprised, though, at how large the sample variation seems to be. Heck, I...

 

 

Ever wanted to share a large gallery of images, but didn't want to have to login in to, or sign up for anything? Not every photo you need to send around requires a Flickr album, or to be shared to your Tumblr page. A newly launched website called Picsurge could make it that much easier to share large sets of images...

 

 

The problem with backing up your files to the cloud, is what happens if that service goes down? Or is compromised? Or ups their fees? Western Digital is putting that all under your control with the new My Cloud line of hard drives, which will allow you to access your files wherever you go, the world over.

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Nick Brandt, CALCIFIED DOVE, LAKE NATRON, 2010

Photographer Nick Brandt is a man with a history in East Africa, having spent decades directing videos and taking photographs across the region. His newest photobook is titled Across the Ravaged Land, and inside it are not only astonishing images of many animals, but...

 

 

The Diana F+ is one of the more popular toy cameras on the market, but if you wanted to play with instant film on it, you had to fork out $89 for an Instax back. Given that the Diana F+ is only $89 on its own, paying the same again for using instant film was probably more than most people wanted to spend. But now...

 

 

It's a new day, and that means new deals on cameras, lenses and more! We've found a nice mixed selection of bargains today with camera deals on Nikon and Canon interchangeable lens cameras. We've also found some nice discounts on a couple Canon DSLR lenses as well as a Rokinon lens. Lastly, there's a couple...

There is, it seems, almost nowhere on our planet that the mighty GoPro action camera hasn't been, and next-to-nothing it hasn't been attached to. GoPro cameras have hitched a ride to the edge of space, captured a wingwalker's derring-do on a vintage biplane, accompanied daredevil wingsuit-flyers on the thrill ride of a lifetime, gone...

 

 

In September, Samsung announced the Galaxy Gear, a smartwatch capable of snapping photos thanks to a camera system built into the watchstrap itself. Now the first crop of reviews of this device have landed, and it looks like Samsung has a long way to go before it ends up on everybody's wrists.

The initial round...

The 20.3-megapixel Samsung NX300 is the most fully realized mirrorless camera the company has produced yet, and one of the best on the market in its class. Though the NX300 is slightly bigger and heavier than its predecessors, its "retro modern" design looks great, and it's still noticeably more portable than the typical SLR camera kit.

 

 

Levi's recently unveiled a project called Station to Station, part of the larger #makeourmark campaign, which brings together modern and vintage esthetics. As part of that, a number of old gadgets have been converted for the modern age, including taking old cameras, and retrofitting them to be able to post stills...