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Professional photographers have a lot to complain about these days, particularly with the CEOs of some well-known photo services suggesting that pros are an endangered species now that everyone takes photos all the time.

But don't tell that to legendary pro Annie Leibovitz, who had a very optimistic take on the...

 

 

Film's not dead yet, but there's no denying that it's ailing. Every couple of months we hear of film manufacturers cutting back on their productions slightly, killing off more film types, and Kodak has even stopped making the acetate plastic that forms the base of the company's film.

So while plenty of us still...

 

 

G-Star Raw is an extremely fashionable (and more than a little expensive) brand of designer denim, that's made a bit of a reputation for itself with crossovers and collaborations outside of the world of fashion. The company's newest team-up is with Leica, and while it gives the Leica D-Lux 6 a rather nice new look,...

There are quite a few lens mounts these days offering users a choice either of a still camera with video capture capability, or a dedicated video camera body. For Canon's EF-mount, there's the Cinema EOS line of cameras. Sony's mirrorless E-mount offerings include more than a few NEX-branded video cameras. The Micro Four Thirds mount,...

 

 

Though it won't be available for sale until at least the end of the month, the Panasonic LF1 enthusiast compact digital camera has already been put through its initial paces in the IR Lab. For your pixel-peeping pleasure, we've posted First Shots taken with this younger sibling of the exceptional Panasonic LX7 --...

 

 

Happy Hump Day! We've found a whole bunch of bargains on all sorts of great camera and photographic equipment, including DSLRs from Nikon and Canon, as well as some lenses. Also, if you're in need of large capacity SD memory cards -- or a large capacity camera bag -- we've found savings on those as well. As...

 

 

The Samsung NX300 compact system camera appears to be a very promising entry in the mirrorless market. In fact, with this model, Samsung is serving notice to the old-school camera makers that they're in the market to stay, and a force to be reckoned with.

The extensive testing, vetting and double-checking that...

 

 

Check out the below image of the International Space Station (ISS) going past the moon. Look a bit familiar? As Star Trek's George Takei pointed out on his popular Facebook account, the ISS resembles the (fictional) USS Enterprise in this shot.

"My goodness, from this angle it looks like a certain starship I...

 

 

BuzzFeed is something of an unstoppable juggernaut of viral media, encouraging users to share the site's posts all across social media. But one photographer is not only taking issue with BuzzFeed using his work without permission, but also for encouraging it to be shared, and is suing the website for $3.6 million.

 

 

If you've ever done any sports or nature photography, you know that tracking a fast-moving object as it flies across the sky is incredibly hard. It doesn't matter if it's a baseball or a seagull, trying to keep your subject in frame is major challenge. But a lab at the University of Tokyo is developing an...

Pro photographers, videographers and deep-pocketed enthusiasts shooting with the Canon EOS-1D X and EOS-1D C digital SLRs will want to pay attention to a product advisory issued yesterday by Canon USA. The company has discovered an issue affecting some shipments of both models, and while it's not using the word recall to describe its...

 

 

The photographer Arthur Fellig had a reputation for getting to crime scenes before the cops. Finding him standing over a dead body, camera raised to get a shot, they'd say he must have used a Ouija board to know where to go. And so they nicknamed him "Weegee." He liked that and began stamping his photographs...

 

 

Happy Tuesday, everyone! We've rounded up a nice selection of camera deals for you this morning, including great savings on an entry-level Nikon DSLR 2-lens bundle and a Nikon point-and-shoot, as well as serious savings on nice handful of DSLR lenses. As always, be sure to check back on IR every weekday for more...

 

 

A little more than a month after unveiling its new subscription-based Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud) to much fanfare (and much controversy), Adobe has announced that users can now download the software.

While Adobe's latest image editing app contains several key upgrades -- including Camera Shake Reduction,...

 

 

We've just posted First Shots -- IR Lab's initial test images -- taken with the new Olympus E-P5, the company's latest flagship offering in its popular and historically excellent PEN Micro Four Thirds camera series. (We recently reviewed the PEN entry- and mid-level models, the Olympus E-PM2 and Olympus E-PL5, and...

 

 

We've seen some wild footage shot with GoPro cameras in crazy locations -- such as in the mouth of a bear, in the mouth of a lion, or alongside a great white shark -- but this clip might take the cake.

First off, don't try this yourself! Please, please, please, don't even think about it. What James Kingston does...

 

 

Tilt-shift photography is pretty popular right now, mostly because it's very easy to fake with some artful blurring through Instagram (or just about any other app). If you want the real deal, however, you'll generally have to buy an expensive tilt-shift lens. Now there's a swell alternative. The Bonzart Ample...

 

 

Last month we showed a brief video of London shot in 1927, marking an extremely early use of color film footage. But it turns out that this snippet is part of a much larger collection of early color films titled The Open Road. Shot by Claude Friese-Greene using the Biocolor film technique created by his father,...

 

 

Anyone who's lived in New York City in, oh, say the last 90 years, has probably heard a tale (or two) about the Second Avenue Subway. The project, which will be the first new subway line built in NYC since 1932, was proposed back in the late 1920s but didn't begin its first phase of construction under Manhattan's...