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If you're trapped beneath one, a supercell -- sometimes known as a rotating thunderstorm -- can be a terrifying thing. Beneath the ominously swirling cloud you'll often findyourself facing torrential rain or hail, strong winds, lightning, and floods, not to mention the risk of tornadoes. Seen from the safety  of your living room, though,...

 

 

The week's just half way over, and we're back with a great haul of awesome deals on camera gear. First up we've got refurbs, refurbs and more refurbs! Great bargains abound on a refurb Nikon D600 and a Nikon lens, as well as a refurb Canon 100-400 L lens and other select refurb Canon DSLRs and lens combos....

 

 

Samsung continued to blur the lines between cameras and smartphones today by announcing the Galaxy S4 Zoom, which features a built-in, 16-megapixel camera with 10x optical zoom and an optical image stabilizer. Other photo-centric features in the S4 Zoom include a Xenon flash and, for previewing and playing back...

Earlier today, German camera icon Leica announced its new Leica X Vario large-sensor compact camera, an interesting model which is already dividing opinions.

On the one hand, the Leica X Vario is rare-to-unique (depending on how you look at its nearest rivals, anyway) in including a zoom lens paired with a large sensor, all housed in a...

 

 

We recently put the perfectly portable Sony 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 PZ OSS -- an E-mount lens designed for Sony NEX cameras -- through its paces in the IR Test Lab and have just published our in-depth review. Commonly paired in a kit with cameras such as the Sony NEX-6 and Sony NEX-3N, this lens is equipped with a...

 

 

There's something universally appealing about an undiscovered artist finally getting their place in the sun. In the case of Vivian Maier, a virtually unknown street photographer whose stirring, black-and-white work was discovered in a storage locker only a few years before her death in 2009, her story has inspired...

 

 

Alien Skin Software has unveiled the newest entry into its line of popular image editing filters: Alien Skin Exposure 5. The updated version of the software features a new design to bring the focus more towards your images, as well as a wider array of controls.

Exposure 5's updated user interface (UI) is darker...

 

 

Samsung has released a new lens for its NX cameras, which it is billing as the smallest AF fisheye on the market. Weighing just 2.5oz, the Samsung 10mm F3.5 Fisheye Lens brings a full 180° field of view to the rather limited glass selection on the NX family of cameras.

While we don't know yet how much the lens...

 

 

Leica's been saying for weeks that it would release a new camera on June 11 and today it did just that. The Solms, Germany-based company officially took the wraps off the compact camera this morning, which is called the Leica X Vario, and it's very similar in specs to what many photo rumor sites had been...

 

 

Good morning everyone, and welcome to another roundup of the latest savings on cameras and accesories. On the docket today is a great deal on an Olympus E-PL5 bundle, a nice discount on the Panasonic LX7 and a refurb Canon Rebel T3i 2-lens bundle. (All three cameras are resounding Dave's Picks!) We also have...

 

 

Love it or hate it, the Hasselblad Lunar camera has finally gone on sale and, no, it isn't cheap. In fact, the Lunar is priced at about $500 more than we expected, retailing for US$6,995(!) on Amazon for the copper bronze version of the camera with a mahogany grip.

Other versions of the Hasselblad Lunar are also...

Ever had a feeling somebody was watching you? If you were in Solna, Sweden recently, you may not have just been channeling 1980s one-hit wonder Rockwell. It's possible you were part of a quirky guerilla art project by Swedish photographer and retouching artist Erik Johansson, in cooperation with Adobe. (But in true Candid Camera fashion...

 

Built-in photo filters in iOS 7

Today at Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC), the company unveiled a huge amount of overhauled hardware and software. While new versions of Mac OS X, iOS 7, MacBook Air, and the Mac Pro were big news for Apple fans, beyond the massive cosmetic changes, which of these new...

 

 

It's hard to imagine a more painstaking process than making a stop-motion movie, especially if you're doing it with analog film and not digital. And it's hard to imagine an analog process more exacting and slow than tintype photography. It's a difficult process that requires some rather potent chemicals, and a...

 

 

Another day, another dollar as they say. It's Monday, and that means the start of whole new week full of great camera deals. So, while you're hard at work earning those dollars, let us suggest ways to spend some of them -- though, not all of them of course, these are deals after all. On the list for today are new...

Two months ago, Adobe released a new public beta of its upcoming overhaul for photographer-centric imaging app Lightroom. Today, the covers come off the final release version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5, with a raft of bug fixes and some new or tweaked features beyond those in the release candidate, which expires on June 30. At the...

We're a little late with Firmware Friday this week, but we'll stick with the name nonetheless -- it's still Friday on the West coast, after all. We've got news of two updates this week, both from imaging heavyweight Canon, but only one is available immediately.

The Canon SX280, announced last March, has only been shipping for a couple...

 

 

We've written about cameras made of cardboard before but Etsy and Ikea have nothing on the elaborate and beautiful creations by Los Angeles-based painter and sculptor Kiel Johnson. Johnson's cardboard cameras, which include intricate recreations of SLRs, point-and-shoots, rangefinders, Polaroids, twin-lens reflex...

Until now, life for owners of Canon's first compact system camera, the EOS M mirrorless, has been uncomplicated -- or depending on your point of view, perhaps limited. Almost a year after the EOS M first launched, the system has but two native lens options: an 18-55mm zoom lens, and a 22mm prime whose focal length is already covered by...