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The Monoculo Design Studio has a knack for creating everyday household objects shaped like giant camera lenses. Back in February, we told you about the studio's ceiling lamp designed like a huge Nikon lens. Now, Monoculo seems to have outdone itself with its newest creation: a comfy stool that looks like a Canon...

If you're a fan of geotagging, and you have a GPS-capable Lumix digital camera from Panasonic, you might want to take a moment to check if there's an update available for your camera. No less than eight closely-related models were updated today, and in each case the new firmware relates to the camera's GPS functionality.

For five...

Being an innovator in sensor technology is a great way to attract customers to your products, giving them the option of something that's genuinely different to your rivals' offerings. As Fujifilm has discovered, though, it can also leave you in a rather difficult situation when it comes to third-party support for your cameras. Cameras...

 

 

Ever wonder how astronaut Chris Hadfield is able to shoot those amazing images from the International Space Station (ISS) that we've featured on Imaging Resource? In the video below shot on board the ISS, Station Commander Hadfield share his secrets on capturing great photos of the earth from space. (That is, in...

After last week's horrific attacks at the Boston Marathon, and the subsequent revelations of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as prime suspects, people scrabbled to gather any and all sources of information about what had happened during the explosions and who these young men were. And because of this, image rights seem to have been widely ignored for the purpose of either...

 

Valery Kubasov and Bertalan Farkas

Humanity's tentative forays into space have given us countless incredible images. Everything from the famed Blue Marble photos to the recent images from the Mars Rover have radically changed the way we see the world. But most of these photos have come from NASA and the English...

In the fall of 2012, headlines trumpeted the debut of the Nikon S800c, the first smart camera to be launched by a mainstream manufacturer. Based around Google's Android operating system, the Nikon S800c is a shot across the bows of smartphone photography. By pairing the soul of a smartphone with the body of a digital camera, the S800c...

 

 

Even if you know something about the history of photography, this clever TEDEducation video is worth a look. Called "Illuminating photography: From camera obscura to camera phone," it's narrated by photographer and educator Eva Timothy and provides a fun and accessible journey from photography's beginnings to the...

 

 

One of the most famous photographs of all time and the camera that captured it could both be yours -- at what is likely to be a considerable price. An original signed print of Alfred Eisenstaedt's famous 1945 V-J Day celebration shot known as "Kiss in Times Square," will go up for auction on May 24th, and the Leica...

Whenever you see movie footage from the early days of film, it always comes across as sped up and extremely jerky, thanks to the hand-cranked cameras that were the technology of the day. With significantly slower frame rates than we're used to, when run through modern cinema equipment, they seem overly fast and jumpy. But with modern...

If you've ever wondered what happens to one of your packages when it gets shipped -- well, here's an inside view of the process. London designer Ruben van der Vleuten decided he wanted to record what a parcel went through when sent, so he rigged up an Arduino controlled system to do just that.

In the box you see below, van der Vleuten cut a...

 

Air Force MSgt Jeremy Lock

Recently, Air Force Master Sergeant Jeremy T. Lock accomplished something incredible -- he was awarded Military Photographer of the Year for the seventh time. In 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011 and most recently for 2012, MSgt Lock has been recognized as the finest photographer the...

Some three weeks ago, Pentax Ricoh Imaging shipped new firmware for its Pentax Q mirrorless camera, the first update to the model since it was officially discontinued late last year. The new update brought improved contrast detection autofocus performance, but unfortunately, this was accompanied by an issue that caused the update to be...

When adding up the pros and cons to the Sony NEX-6, it's pretty clear that there's a lot to love -- and not much to dislike -- about this compact system camera. The NEX-6 truly carves out its own space in Sony's CSC lineup, and even though its resolution has been scaled down to 16 megapixels (compared to the NEX-7's 24 megapixels), it...

 

 

Boston Globe photographer John Tlumacki was one of the first people on the scene after bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon on Monday and he was one of the first to capture the scenes of chaos and horror with his camera.

In a video interview on ABC News (embedded below), Tlumacki discusses the experience, one...

Over the last couple of decades, third-party lens manufacturer Sigma Corp. has built a solid reputation for creating high-quality, enthusiast-friendly optics. Unlike almost all of its competitors, Sigma still manufactures all of its products in Japan, which in itself sets the company apart. Nevertheless, Sigma still actively seeks out other...

 

 

An announcement today from sensor manufacturer Aptina -- supplier of the chips used in Nikon's 1-series mirrorless camera line -- suggests that there could soon be more competition in the market for cameras with 1"-type sensors (or CX-format, in Nikon parlance). Currently, Nikon's mirrorless models and the Sony...

 

 

Following the tragic bombings in Boston on Monday, pinhole photographers might want to back off leaving their homemade box cameras unattended in public spaces for a while. Just yesterday, police mistook a pinhole camera taped to a bike path guardrail in a park in Canada for a bomb.

Police launched a remote...

 

 

Last month, as part of our review of the Fuji X-E1 compact system camera, we looked at the Fujinon XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 OIS, which was the first zoom lens for its X-Series interchangeable lens cameras. Today, the company added to the X-Series lens arsenal by unveiling the new Fujinon XF 55-200mm f/3.5-4.8 LM OIS,...