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Updating your Fuji X-Pro1 firmware? Stop! Here’s why, and what to do if it’s too late


A couple of days ago, we told readers about updated firmware for the Fuji X-E1 and X-Pro1 digital cameras, promised to bring faster autofocus and a focus peaking function to both models. If you eagerly downloaded the firmware version 3.00 update, but haven't had time to put it on your X-Pro1, then you'll want to stop right there and...

Filmmaker documents hilarious “Awkward Flight” after woman falls asleep on him

 
 

It's happened to all of us: a tired fellow passenger on a cramped flight nods off onto your shoulder. But what do you do? Wait for the person to wake up? Gently nudge them until they wake up? Or just let them go on sleeping as you guzzle rum and cokes until you pass out on them?

When someone conked out on Steve...

Google Chromecast gadget puts your pictures on TV without the cables and fuss


Tired of hunting down cables or fumbling with flash cards every time you want to show off your photos on the biggest picture frame in the house -- your TV? Newer models come with built-in Wi-Fi, but even then getting your pictures on screen can be a lot more awkward than it should be. A new gadget from search giant Google promises to...

Google Doodle honors Rosalind Franklin, the unsung scientist who snapped the first photo of DNA

 
 

What happened to Rosalind Franklin is one of the great crimes of modern science. Franklin was a British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer who was instrumental in discovering the double helix shape of DNA — but was never given the credit she deserved during her life. Today's Google Doodle marks what would have...

Watch an old photo get painstakingly repaired and colorized in minutes in this timelapse video

 
 
 
 

Despite all the useful software tools available these days, photo restoration and colorization is still a painstaking process that can take countless hours to do right. Thankfully, there are services like THS Photo Restoration & Colorization, which not only...

Camera Deals of the Day: Canon 6D $1,589, Fujifilm X100 $900, Sony NEX-3N bundle $390 and much more! UPDATED


 
 

Need a DSLR, mirrorless camera, or how about a large-sensor compact camera? Well, you're in luck as we've found sweet deals on all these types of cameras, plus great DSLR lens savings from Canon, Nikon and Tamron. Be sure to check back every weekday for new deals, rebates and bargains on all sorts of camera...

Lomography announces Kickstarter campaign to resurrect legendary Petzval lens

 
 

The Petzval lens is one of the oldest and most storied photographic lenses ever developed. Invented in 1840, it sparked a revolution in portraiture thanks to its ability to handle wide apertures and short exposure. The lens is now difficult to find and expensive, but the folks at Lomography have just announced they...

Leave your tripod at home: Unified Color’s updated HDR tools support handheld shooting


Want to take your photos beyond the dynamic range limits of your digital camera's sensor? Software company Unified Color Technologies has two products aimed at fans of high dynamic range photography, and today, both received significant updates.

The changes in HDR Expose 3 make themselves known almost immediately that you open the...

Check out these wonderful, early color photos of circus performers from the 1940s and 50s

 
 

We've shared some amazing, early color photography here before but these shots of circus performers from the 1940s and 50s might be the most vivid and gripping images yet. The photos are from "The Circus Book: 1870-1950" by Dominique Jando, which includes approximately 180 of the earliest color images ever captured...

Photographer turns self into a walking lighting rig with the StrobePack

 
 

Getting enough light to capture good portraits while outside of the studio can be tricky. You can use a strobe and be stuck with a harsh, direct light. You can take your softboxes with you but then have to lug them everywhere and deal with power supplies. You can use natural light but be stuck when it gets dark...

Watch 360 spectacular day-long timelapses of the sky — all at once (VIDEO)

 
 

We've seen year-long timelapses before, put together by people who have stashed cameras in remote locations for extremely long periods at a time. But this is the first time that we've seen 360 day-long timelapses, all played at once in an enormous grid.

Shot from famed San Francisco science museum, the...

Camera Deals of the Day: Sony RX100 bundle $552, Canon T3i two lens-and-printer bundle $578, T5i kit for $769 and much more!


 
 

It's Wednesday, and with all these great deals today, it's more like "Winsday," right? Right? Ok, I'll show myself out. Anyway, we've found a great bundle bargain on the highly popular Sony RX100 compact digital camera, as well as a nice discount on a new Canon Rebel T5i kit. There's also a great Buy Together...

This is a photo of the Earth (as seen from the rings of Saturn)

 
 

Some 900 million miles away sits Cassinia spacecraft we launched in 1997 and sent to Saturn. And on July 19th, it took a photo of us. All of us. Cassini shot an incredibly rare, long-distance image of Earth, set against the rings of Saturn.

The images were released by NASA on July 22nd, and were, in fact, not...

Primal scream photo portraits captured with Triggertrap sound trigger app

 
 

It's important to capture emotion in a portrait but how about photographing a good, old-fashioned primal scream? With a free, sound-triggering iOS app and an attached dongle, all you need is a visceral scream to create one of these powerful portraits with your digital SLR.

The folks from Triggertrap, which...

Canon SL1 review: Find out why the world’s smallest DSLR is much more than just a mini Rebel T5i


In many ways, the Canon SL1 DSLR provides the best of both worlds, pairing the compact, lightweight body of a mirrorless camera and the performance and image quality of a DSLR. You could almost call it a miniaturized version of Canon's Rebel T4i and T5i DSLRs. And that's a good thing: Both standard-size interchangeable lens cameras are...

Aaron Siskind Foundation fellowship winners prove that photography as an art form isn’t dead yet

 
 

Despite all the sound and fury that -- thanks to the ubiquity of cell phone cameras -- real photography is dead and cameras are disappearing, more than 1,450 photographers still applied for the 2013 Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer's Fellowships. In fact, the work they submitted was so good that the...

Fujifilm now offering new X-E1 and X-Pro1 firmware with focus peaking; adds lens to roadmap

 
 

About a month ago, Fujifilm announced new firmware for the Fujifilm X-Pro1 and X-E1. Today those free firmware updates became available, bringing faster AF speeds and the much hyped "focus peaking" highlight feature to Fuji's X-mount cameras. Simultaneously, Fujifilm has announced a new lens as part of its XC line...

Guy photo bombs wedding proposal at Disney World; Photoshop parodies ensue

 
 
 
 

Must be the summer heat or the humidity or, likely, both but funny photo memes seem to abound this time of year. The latest meme stems from an accidental photo bombing of a wedding proposal at Disney World. (See to the right and below.)

The guy awkwardly...

Pentax Q7 First Shots: Does the mirrorless camera’s bigger sensor finally deliver the image quality we’ve been waiting for?

 
 

At Imaging Resource, we've always been intrigued about Pentax's Q-series of tiny mirrorless cameras, but unfortunately they've never delivered the image quality we'd expect from an interchangeable lens system. However, about a month ago, we got a sneak peek at the latest model in the series, and published our...

Camera Deals of the Day: Sony NEX-3N bundle $410, Refurb Nikon 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5G lens $740, big Nikon rebates at Amazon and more!


 
 

New day, new deals! Today, we've gathered up a nice selection of savings on Sony and Nikon gear, as well as a couple of Canon DSLR lenses. We also found bargains on a wide variety of photo prints, photo books and more from AdoramaPix. As always, be sure to check back on IR for new deals every weekday.

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