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It hardly seems fair but Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times photographer Damon Winter beat out nearly 2000 entries from amateur and professional photographers alike to win the Leica-sponsored 2013 i-shot-it.com black-and-white photo competition. The 38-year-old Winter, who is based in Brooklyn, wins the US...

 

 

It's a brand new day full of brand new deals on all sorts of camera and photo gear! Today we've found deals on everything from DSLRs and lenses to a compact system camera and a camera bag. We've also found a cool bundle deal on a robotic panorama equipment bundle for making gigapixel photos! Be sure to check...

 

 

Photographer James Friedman is not a golfer, but he knows a lot about golf balls simply from slicing them in half and photographing their inner beauty. Titled "Interior Design," Friedman's delightful photo series shows how each sliced golf ball's core has a distinctive, colorful texture hidden inside. Some balls...

 

 

Watching this video of a drone camera flying around the famed Paris Grand Palais, you're struck almost immediately by just how unreal the footage looks. The beautifully smooth shots seem more like a computer rendered flyby than real video recorded in a real place. But then you start to notice small details, like...

Could your next Fujifilm lens come from the Philippines? If it's manufactured from today onwards, the answer to that question could well be yes. Fuji may be a Japanese company, but like most major corporations these days, much of its manufacturing capability is to be found outside of its home country, and it's just inaugurated a new...

 

 

Macro shots have tremendous photographic appeal as they get us up-close-and-personal with a wide variety of subjects, be they insects or flowers or intricate details of much larger objects. But what if there was a way of using non-macro, non-telephoto lenses to accomplish this task? What if you could capture...

 

 

First there was that hilarious wedding photo of a bridal party being chased by a Tyrannosaurus Rex back in May. Then came this Star Wars-themed wedding photo, showing a wedding party under attack by a trio of Imperial AT-AT Walkers.

And, since then, who knows how many of these (mostly) funny, attack-themed...

 

 

Photographer Vince Laforet's announcement of the MoVI earlier this year immediately sent huge ripples through the world of photography. Since MoVI's announcement, we've seen intriguing demo videos of this new camera stabilizer and clones, but now Laforet has surprised us by announcing not just his own gear company...

If you want to get the most out of your enthusiast or pro-grade interchangeable-lens camera, investing in a really fast flash card is a good idea. The faster your camera can offload data to the flash card, the sooner you can rattle off another burst of images after your buffer has been filled. (And if you're lucky, you might even get...

 

 

Well, since it was pretty much all Canon yesterday, fear not Nikon users because Tuesday's evidently your day. We've found deals on FX and DX Nikon DSLRs, as well as a Nikon compact digital camera. We also discovered bargains on a rugged hiking camera backpack and a large capacity SD memory card. Be sure to...

Everybody loves to root for an underdog. In the action camera world, mainstream brands like JVC and Sony are in a titanic battle with the well-entrenched GoPro brand, which for years has had the market pretty-much to itself. For auto racing fans, no less epic a battle has just commenced: the Mongol Rally, a thrilling 10,000 mile race...

The folks at DxO Labs have just pushed an update for their flagship Optics Pro imaging application, and it's a pretty interesting one. DxO Optics Pro v8.3 adds support for the famous GoPro action camera line, as well as recent Apple and Samsung smartphones, not to mention a variety of Samsung's mirrorless and fixed-lens cameras.

We...

 

 

The new MoVI camera stabilizer has ended up in the hands of a growing group of cinematographers who have come away impressed with the extremely steady results it can produce. The latest videographer to be blown away by MoVI is Alex Buono, who serves as director of photography for Saturday Night Live. Buono, who I...

 

 

Photo gear theft is a very real problem. Ask any photographer who's had their gear stolen from a parked car, or who wants a camera bag that doesn't "look like a camera bag" so it doesn't get pulled off their shoulders. A Google engineer has set his sites on preventing this problem by creating a new, easy-to-use...

 

 

This is one of the funniest (and meanest) things we've seen in a while. The folks at BlackBoxTV have earned a reputation for creating hilarious video pranks but they may have outdone themselves with this latest stunt.

Titled simply, "The Photo Booth Prank," the below clip shows what happens when you scare the...

 

 

It's a great day if you're a Canon user, or would like to become one, because it just so happens that most of the camera deals we found are for Canon DSLR cameras and lenses. We also discovered a great discount on canvas prints, which can obviously look great regardless of your camera brand! As always, please...

Improving upon its popular predecessor with several key upgrades, the Olympus XZ-2 boasts a brand new 12-megapixel 1/1.7-inch CMOS sensor but thankfully keeps the fast, bright f/1.8-2.5 iZUIKO zoom lens which made the XZ-1 stand out against other enthusiast compact cameras. The XZ-2's 4x zoom lens maintains a wide maximum aperture across...

 

 

English photographer Jim Naughten spent four months driving across Namibia in southwest Africa to document the costumes and cultural traditions of the indigenous Herero people. His book "Conflict and Costume" tells the story of both the brutality of colonialism and the resilience of the Hereros to overcome it. I...

 

 

We've heard of classic photos being auctioned off -- such as this signed Alfred Eisenstaedt print of the famous "Kiss in Times Square" photo -- but this is the first time we've heard of the copyright to the images being sold as well. That's what's happening with 3,700 unpublished color and black-and-white negatives...