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We've just posted our Nikon 80-400 AF-S review over at Imaging Resource sister site SLRgear.com. The Nikon 80-400mm ƒ/4.5-5.6G ED VR AF-S Nikkor is an upgrade to Nikon's previous full-frame, medium-to-supertelephoto zoom lens, the 80-400mm ƒ/4.5-5.6D ED VR AF Nikkor. The new version features several...

If you've ever been to San Francisco, you're doubtless familiar with its famous fog. Chances are that's still true even if you've never visited the City by the Bay: perhaps the city's most iconic image is that of the Golden Gate bridge surrounded by swirling fog, which even merits its own entry in Wikipedia. Videographer Simon Christen...

 

 

While digital cameras may only have replaced film cameras in the last decade or so, it turns out there's a much longer history of digital images that stretches back almost a century. In fact, it was thanks to an early form of digitization that newspapers were able to transmit photos across the entire Atlantic Ocean...

 

 

Don't panic, Pentax fans. The venerable camera brand is not going away anytime soon. Earlier today, the Pentax Ricoh Imaging Company, LTD issued a press release announcing a name change to the Ricoh Imaging Company, Ltd., effective August 1, 2013. Some have assumed, wrongly, that this could mean the death of the...

 

 

Happy Tuesday everyone! We've rounded up a nice little selection of camera and photo gear deals for you to peruse today. On the docket today are a couple deals on Canon cameras, savings on a refurb Samsung mirrorless camera, a big Woot sale on Sony digital cameras and a nice discount on a carbon fiber tripod....

 

 

Earlier this year, the Magic Lantern firmware hack brought Raw video to some Canon DSLRs, and it looks like Nikon cameras might have something similar hiding away in their midst, too. A new release of a Nikon toolkit shows that the D7100 is capable of outputting its Live View as Raw.

Vitaliy Kiselev is best known...

 

 

Have a 4K monitor and feel like having your mind blown? Check out this trailer for an upcoming IMAX film titled "In Saturn's Rings." The film is comprised of hundreds of thousands of high-resolution photos captured during two dozen missions of the Cassini-Huygens space probe over the years.

We've shared some...

Most camera announcements these days are largely evolutionary, but every now and then one crops up that's clearly a revolution in the making. That's definitely true of Canon's latest, as you'll find out when you read our Canon 70D review for our first impressions on the most exciting announcement in quite some time. The Canon 70D is a...

 

 

When we think about World War II, our interpretation of history is invariably altered by the fact that almost all the images we have from that time are black and white. Without the vibrancy of color, history feels that much further away from the world as we know it. But there was color photography from this time...

 

 

If you're trying to sell someone on a mirrorless camera, a big chunk of the battle is proving to them that such a small body can give you image quality on par with a larger DSLR — especially when you're talking about a Samsung NX or Sony NEX with an APS-C sized sensor. This ad from Samsung Australia shows just how...

 

 

We've just posted our Canon 55-250mm IS II lens review, the updated telephoto zoom kit lens for Canon APS-C cameras. Released in June 2011, the EF-S 55-250mm ƒ/4-5.6 IS II is functionally the same as its predecessor, but cosmetically it has been updated. It was designed specifically to fit on the EF-S mount...

 

 

We've written about the dueling documentaries on street photographer Vivian Meir and her lost images previously and now here's your chance to watch one of these movies via YouTube.

The BBC documentary, titled "Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?," originally aired on BBC One's "imagine…" series last week...

 

 

Happy Monday and happy Canada Day to our neighbors up north! It's time to start a whole new week of fantastic camera and photography gear deals. We've rounded up a great selection of bargains and discounts on a wide variety of gear such as Canon and Pentax DSLR lenses, brand new rebates for Olympus Micro Four...

The Fuji XF1 is the James Bond of enthusiast pocket cameras -- sleek, retro-styled (but somehow still eminently modern) and even a little dangerous looking. Like the classic Walther PPK, it's not a bad little shooter either, providing a bright f/1.8 max aperture at wide angle, overall speedy performance, tons of advanced features and...

At the sprightly age of 196 years, the founder of famed optics manufacturer Carl Zeiss AG has today hung up his hat and stepped into retirement. Not literally, of course -- Mr. Zeiss left this mortal coil almost 125 years ago -- but metaphorically speaking, because the company he brought into being has today announced a change in the way...

You've seen it from the air, and now your chance to tour the legendary, post-apocalyptic Battleship Island on foot has arrived. But wait! Put your suitcase down, because you'll be visiting from the comfort of your own living room, courtesy of the ever-inquisitive folks at Google.

Battleship Island -- also known by the Japanese nickname...

 

 

Now that Hasselblad has launched its controversial (and pricey) Lunar compact system camera, the venerable medium-format camera manufacturer appears to be going ahead with plans to release a digital SLR and, possibly, two compact models this year.

At the Photokina show last year in Germany, Hasselblad Chairman...

 

 

At first glance, the world in Pelle Cass' mesmerizing photo series called "Selected People" seems so familiar. Linger on his street photography-style images for a few seconds more though, and you'll see something a bit more surreal. The apparently random movements of people in the photographer's images reveal what...

 

 

Ahhh, happy Friday folks! After a business trip yesterday (hence no Deals post), I'm back at full steam with a big selection of deals on cameras, lenses and accessories. Also, there's a slew in instant rebates from Nikon, Fujifilm and Sony are set to expire tomorrow, June 29th so see below for all the deals...