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Watch the new One World Trade Center get its dizzying spire from a precariously-mounted GoPro camera (VIDEO)

 
 

Earlier this week, the One World Trade Center gained its spire, making it the tallest building in the western hemisphere. The precarious task of attaching this spire, giving it a total height of 1,776 feet, was recorded not only by cameras from below, but also by a GoPro action cam strapped to the spire as it was...

Nokia announces photography-loaded Lumia 925, brings camera features to other handsets

 
 

Nokia's newest smartphone announcement is the Windows 8-powered Nokia Lumia 925, and once again the company is pushing photography to the forefront of a major new product. Featuring an 8.7-megapixel sensor and Carl Zeiss optics, Nokia is placing a heavy emphasis on the image quality that the smartphone will...

Check out this rare, old color film footage showing life in London during the Roaring Twenties

 
 

Thanks to the Internet, more and more rare, early color photos of Paris, Russia, Ireland and other places are being shared and admired. Add to that treasure trove of turn-of-the-century color photography, this fantastic, old, color film footage of London captured by photographer Claude Friese-Greene in 1927. Using...

Lightning strikes thrice: How one man turned two different photos into a 3D model of a lightning bolt

 
 

The internet is a big place, and sometimes crazy coincidences manage to occur. Like two Redditors in Denver who both managed to snap a photo of the same lightning bolt at the same time -- and then a third one using those pictures to extrapolate a 3D rendering of the lightning.

As explained in his blog post...

Was winning photo faked with Photoshop? World Press Photo launches probe (UPDATED)

 
 

World Press Photo announced this morning it has asked two independent experts to "carry out a forensic investigation" of the winning image in its 2012 World Press Photo of the Year contest. The image, a shot by Swedish photographer Paul Hansen of a Palestinian funeral procession, has come under fire for being...

Canon launches powerful 200-400mm f/4 lens with built-in 1.4x extender


Canon shooters: Would you like a constant-aperture, L-series zoom lens that can see clean into next week* for your full-frame or cropped Canon digital SLR? If so, you may find a new model announced today by the company rather interesting -- but the price tag will likely keep it out of your hands unless you're a pro or a very...

Camera Deals of the Day: Canon 1D X for $5,940, Nikon D3X + free lens bundle for $6,700, Canon 6D kit for $2,385, and much more! (UPDATED)


 
 

It's time for a terrific Tuesday full of fresh, new bargains on cameras, lenses and more. Today seems like it's the battle of the big bodies -- we've found deals on the Canon 1D X and Nikon D3X cameras! Also, save some dough on a Canon 6D kit and more!

  • Canon 1D X with 32GB CompactFlash Memory Cards and...

Olympus E-PL5 review: For the price, is this PEN mightier than the OM-D E-M5?


We've been very pleased with the image quality and overall speedy performance of the Olympus PEN compact system camera line over the past couple of years, and the E-PL5 stands out as a significant evolution on almost every front.

First off, the Olympus E-PL5 inherits the exceptional 16-megapixel sensor from the groundbreaking OM-D...

Beautiful time-lapse video captures the surprising nuances of the Antarctic


We're all familiar with time-lapse video, to the point that it's become something of a cliché. Readily-available dedicated cameras with time-lapse or interval modes and a panoply of smartphone time-lapse apps have made the effect one with which we can easily experiment. A new 2K, time-lapse video shot in the Ross Sea by marine scientist...

Magic Lantern hack pulls 24fps Raw video from Canon 5D Mark III

 
 

Third-party firmware hack Magic Lantern has managed to do something absolutely incredible: pull full 24fps Raw video from the Canon 5D Mark III. While the tweak isn't ready for a wide release yet, it looks like it has the potential to come to other Canon cameras, too.

Magic Lantern is a firmware tweak that can be...

Q&A with Beth Galton, the photographer behind a delectable photo series featuring food cut in half

 
 

Beth Galton is a studio photographer whose latest photo series, Cut Food, has drawn praise and attention from photo blogs in the past few days. The images in the series feature food that's been, literally, sawed in half and photographed with results that are often surprising. What struck us most about the shots was...

Astronaut Chris Hadfield rocks the Internet with cover of “Space Oddity” on board space station

 
 

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has had one of the more social-media-savvy tenures as commander of the International Space Station (ISS). Photography lovers, such as ourselves, have enjoyed the awesome images of earth he's been tweeting from space via his Twitter account.

We also liked the tips he shared on...

Camera Deals of the Day: Canon Rebel T4i bundle ($688), Refurbished Nikon D800 ($2,350) and more!


 
 

Good morning, folks! It's a new week, and that means a whole new round of camera deals. We've wrangled up a nice selection of discounts, including hot deals on a Canon Rebel T4i kit, a refurb Nikon D800, a Panasonic compact system camera and more. Be sure to check our site regularly for new bargains.

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This month in digicam history: The swivel debuts, Minolta wows us, and the face of camera testing hands over the baton


Last month, we celebrated our 15th birthday here at Imaging Resource, and in reflecting back on all those years of covering the camera market, we were struck by just how far it's come. It's pretty thrilling when you stop to think about it: we could scarcely have imagined the capabilities of some of today's cameras when this site started...

Storm chasing photographer captures stunning images of extreme weather

 
 

Photographer Camille Seaman has been chasing storms since 2008 and, in the process, has captured some breathtaking images of extreme weather. But tracking "supercells," which are towering cloud formations that produce the powerful thunderstorms Seaman photographs, is a laborious and time-consuming process that...

These spectacular composite images show the Sun’s corona in all its glory

 
 

Photographing stellar objects from the ground is never an easy task — but when it works, the results can be astonishing and dramatic. Miloslav Druckmüller of the Institute of Mathematics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic took a series of photos of a solar eclipse in...

Connected cameras are the future, suggests market research firm InfoTrends


 
 

If you've been watching the many camera announcements so far this year very closely, there's an incontrovertible fact you can't help but to have noticed: This is the year of the connected camera. A new report from market research firm InfoTrends takes a look at the state of play, and makes predictions for the...

The Camera Bag: Think Tank Photo unveils new bag collection for mirrorless cameras

 
 

Think Tank Photo's timing couldn't be better for the launch of its latest camera bag collection. The California-based company just unveiled its new Mirrorless Mover line of bags, designed specifically for small, mirrorless-style digital cameras. The announcement comes on the same day as Olympus took the wraps off...

Camera Deals of the Day: Tons of Canon bargains (5D Mark III for $2,870!), plus Amazon Lightning Deals on Panasonic CSCs


 
 

TGIF everyone! In celebration of the coming weekend, we've compiled a big selection of camera bargains. We've got a nice handful of Canon deals on cameras and lenses -- including the 5D Mark III and the EF 800mm f/5.6L IS lens. Also on the docket is a bunch of Amazon Lightning Deals on Panasonic compact...

How one photographer captures electricity: by zapping instant film with 15,000 volts

 
 

Phillip Stearns has taken a very different route to capturing the high-speed brilliance of an arc of electricity. Rather than try to photograph the dramatic power of a lightning bolt, or the instantaneous brilliance of an arc of Tesla coil, he's taken a straighter route: by zapping the film directly.

Stearns...