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A new breakthrough from Bell Labs has created a lensless photography system based on off-the-shelf parts, that can assemble an image out of far less data than most cameras. While it's not going to unseat traditional photography, this lensless camera opens up some intriguing possibilities for the future of imaging.

 

 

Happy Tuesday, everybody! We found a bunch of deals this morning, including big price drops on Fujifilm X-Series cameras, a new round of rebates on Nikon DSLRs, lenses and flashes, plus big savings on Canon, Sony and Pentax DSLRs. Be sure to check back on IR regularly for new deals every day.

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Leica took the wraps off its soon-to-launch Mini M a bit more today, showing a partial image of the black camera emerging from a box on its Facebook page. In the Facebook posting, the company said photographers will be able to get "a hands-on experience" with the new camera at Leica Authorized Dealers on June 11.
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Connected memory company Eye-Fi has today announced a new addition to its eponymous, Wi-Fi capable memory card lineup. The brand-new Eye-Fi Mobi cards are aimed at consumers looking to improve their social networking experience, and the existing Pro X2 card line will remain the flagship product for enthusiasts. According to the company,...

 

 

Sigma's second lens in its new Contemporary series, the Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4 DC Macro OS HSM "C" was announced at the 2012 Photokina and hit the store shelves earlier this year. Its sleek new design also incorporates a complete makeover, inside and outside: it's smaller, lighter, and definitely nicer to look at....

With a 50x optical zoom that delivers an amazing 35mm-equivalent range of 24-1200mm, the Canon SX50 brings distant subjects up close and personal -- and it does so with intelligence and grace. Hand-held shots at full zoom and in good light are relatively easy to take, thanks to the SX50's improved image stabilization and Zoom Framing...

 

 

Liquid lenses have been used in other fields for years but they never quite made the transition to cameras. So while you'll find them used in medicine and even some eyeglasses, you're unlikely to use one in your shooting rig. However, Canon is still involved in the field, and has been awarded a new patent in Japan...

 

 

When time-lapse videos are done well, they can really capture the beauty of a place or event. We've featured the gorgeous videos of Enrique Pacheco before -- including this movie tour of Morocco --  and he outdoes himself with a brand new time-lapse of Rome, Italy, which is downright glorious.

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Many higher-end DSLRs feature multiple memory card slots, so that you can record files to both cards in case anything happens to one or the other. Now a new CompactFlash (CF) card from Wise is going to attempt to offer that same protection in a single card, but we don't know how exactly it'll work.

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Converting a digital camera to shooting infrared is no easy task. You can do it yourself, or send it off to professionals to get it modified. But once you have the converted camera, what's it actually like to shoot with the thing? That's what photographer Don Libby has been...

 

 

Old color film footage of city life never fails to fascinate because it's like stepping into a time machine. Last month, we shared a fantastic color film of London in 1927, and now we can travel forward in our time machine to New York City in 1939.

The below clip from the Romano Archives was captured in the...

 

 

It's a marvelous Monday, and to start your week off right, we've found loads of great deals on all sorts of camera gear -- and apparently today they are all from Canon. The discounts include refurb gear direct from the Canon Store, deals on a couple of lenses, a camera bundle and even a bargain on a professional...

How tall would you guess the world's loftiest tripod to be? If you guessed a little over a thousand feet, you're certainly in the ballpark -- read on to see if you hit the nail on the head! (And if not, better luck next time.)

A little over a year ago, a record-breaking new tower dubbed the Tokyo Skytree was officially opened in the Japanese...

It's a bit of an open secret: printer manufacturers and online photofinishers love scrapbookers. In an age where many of us print few if any of our photos, simply viewing them on our high-def TVs, computers, tablets, and smartphones, the scrapbooking community is still out there printing away, and creating very tactile ways to share...

It's been a few years now since the Photo Marketing Association called curtains on its once-mighty annual PMA Spring trade show, later resurrected as a subset of the heavyweight Consumer Electronics Show. Today, news reaches us of another annual trade show that is no more, and this time it's Europe's largest annual photo show....

Consumer photographers looking for a new tool to organize, edit, and share their photos have a new option today, with the release of an updated version of Canadian software company ACD Systems' popular ACDSee photo app on the Windows platform. ACDSee 16 builds on its predecessor  with helpful new tools across the board, from import to...

In the last few days, new firmware has been released for no less than nine digital camera models, and with manufacturers working hard to provide reasons to shoot with a dedicated camera instead of your smartphone, the flood of updates -- both fixing bugs and in some cases adding new features -- isn't likely to let up any time soon.

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Over the last few months, Fujifilm has been putting an impressive effort into ensuring third-party developers' algorithms were optimized for its X-Trans sensor format, answering the concerns of its users that third-party apps offered inadequate image quality with X-Trans raw data. Today, Fuji adds another developer to the list, after...

 

 

A breakthrough in sensor technology could radically alter the way our cameras perform in low light -- but like any just published scientific research, there's a long and bumpy road before it reaches the consumer.

Researchers at the Nanyang Technological University have developed a new type of graphene light...