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Here's another case of possible censorship -- or is it just common courtesy? Actress Zooey Deschanel has become the latest performer to post a sign at her concerts asking fans not take pictures or video during a show.

The sign, which you can see below, was posted outside a performance of Deschanel's band She &...

 

 

We saw so many dull fireworks photos from Fourth of July festivities last week, it's nice to see something that's truly unique. Photographer Jason Smith captured this perfectly timed (lucky?) shot of fireworks exploding over Rio Rancho, New Mexico just as a bolt of lightning flashed across the sky.

Smith then...

On Saturday, July 7, a Boeing 777 passenger jet operated by South Korea's Asiana Airlines crashed on arrival at San Francisco International Airport. Unless you've been off the grid since the weekend, you've doubtless already heard of the accident of Flight 214. News channels have spoken of little else, with coverage of the crash and its...

Of all the cameras we've seen over the last few years, few have been quite as divisive as the Marc Newson-designed Pentax K-01. On the one hand, it had a solid, premium build quality and excellent image quality coupled with a pricetag that quickly fell to bargain basement levels, making it pretty popular with a section of the Pentaxian...

Ever wondered just what went into creating the physical and user interface design for your camera, and how many iterations it went through before the final product emerged? If so, you may find a new video from Nikon to be rather enlightening. In the six-minute clip, Hiroshi Kobayashi, general manager of Nikon's Industrial Design...

 

 

It's a new week, with new camera deals. We've found a nice selection of hot sales on new interchangeable lens cameras from Canon and Panasonic, including the Canon T5i and the Panasonic GH3. We've also uncovered big savings on a refurbished Nikon D800 from Adorama, as well as a selection of refurb DSLRs...

 

 

You've probably seen those chintzy little digital photo frames all over the place. With a 1.5-inch screen, you use it as a keychain to show off a handful of photos of your kids, and you can pick them up cheap from your local drugstore or online retailer (something like this). But one photographer did something very...

 

 

Nikon president Makoto Kimura spent his Fourth of July dishing out tantalizing tidbits on what new imaging products the company is working on in an interview with Bloomberg.com. For starters, Kimura acknowledged that the venerable Japanese camera company was feeling increased competition from smartphone cameras,...

Nikon's Coolpix compact camera line finally has its first large-sensor model, and with our Nikon Coolpix A review we've taken an in-depth look at this interesting camera. It's the company's first entry into the burgeoning large-sensor, fixed prime lens market, and the category's first offering from a mainstream brand.

As of its...

 

 

Even if you're sick of photos of fireworks at this point -- and after yesterday's Fourth of July festivities, we are -- you might dig this unique take on one of America's favorite past-times. Jeremiah Warren created the below Matrix-style, "bullet time" footage of fireworks being launched in his backyard by...

 

 

While many film types in their more common 35mm and 120 forms might be here for the foreseeable future, if you shoot less common film formats, you might not be able to buy some very large formats of film for much longer. In fact, one photographer bought out the entire final run of Velvia 50 Large Format 8x10 sheet...

 

 

Today, most of us in the USA are probably sitting at our computers or desks in a post-barbecue and explosions induced torpor — but this parkour video from Cambridge in the UK should do an awful lot to get your heartbeat up and pumping again.

This video was shot by the parkour video group Ampisound using a...

 

 

Chris Hughes over at A Nerd's World made an incredible find recently. While attending an estate sale in the Niagara Falls area of Ontario, Canada, Hughes purchased a rare, Jules Richard Verascope stereoscopic camera from World War I that can produce 3D images.

The camera, which had once been owned by the French...

 

 

Back to work, even it's only for one day. We hope all of our U.S. readers had a fun and safe Independence Day yesterday. We've gathered up a great selection of camera, lens, accessories and software deals for you fine folks to sift through. A per usual, we'll be back on Monday with more deals, bargains and...

Now that the dust has largely settled on the Olympus accounting scandal, and the company's stock price has returned to normalcy, the story has largely dropped out of the headlines. That changed today, though, with the sentencing of several key (and now ex-)executives -- including Olympus' disgraced former chairman.

When the scandal...

 

 

Camera straps are as important for me for good photography as lens hoods, spare batteries and a camera bag. A good camera strap doesn't get in my way when I am shooting and it makes my work more comfortable. But I don't like the wide black nylon straps that come with most cameras and I'm always on the lookout for...

 

 

It's a wet and stormy day here at IR HQ, and it appears to be anything but a dry spell for great new camera deals. We've rounded up a nice handful of awesome camera bargains including a huge price drop on Canon EOS M kits, a nice discount on a Canon 6D body and big savings on a refurb Nikon D600. We also...

 

 

Hyungwon Kang was the only Korean-speaking member of the Los Angeles Times' photo staff when rioting broke out in L.A. in 1992 following the Rodney King verdict. Naturally, he was sent to cover the Koreatown section of L.A., where he photographed harrowing scenes of death and destruction as the looting began.
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Ever since the MoVI was announced, we've seen an explosion of DIY alternatives, all offering similar concepts at much lower prices. While they might not provide three-axis stabilization, and probably can't take the full weight of a DSLR, these alternatives show that once a concept gets out there, it doesn't take...