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Today Canon announced two new Rebel DSLRs -- including the EOS Rebel SL1 which the company calls the "the world's smallest and lightest DSLR camera" -- and a new PowerShot 20x travel zoom, and together the trio represents a major upgrade of Canon's consumer-geared offerings. IR was fortunate to get some time with working prototypes of all three models, and you can find out...

 

 

Makeup giant L'Oreal has opted to pull a series of mascara ads from print, broadcast, and in-store after accusations that the images were overly digitally enhanced. The National Advertising Division (NAD), an investigative unit of the advertising industry’s system of self-regulation, has put out a press...

 

 

The Invasion of Normandy in 1944 was one of the most important battlefronts in WWII and made an indelible mark on the history of the United States. The D-Day invasion and the following weeks saw hundreds of thousands of both the Axis and Allied forces killed during the action in what was a crucial military...

 

 

One of the best things about photographers is their sense of humor, which tends to lean to the dark and sarcastic side. And any photographer who's had to explain their job to non-photographers will likely get a kick out of these hilarious, satirical posters from Shoppe Designs.

The posters, which you can see...

 

 

Olympus released the 17mm f/1.8 m.Zuiko Digital in December of 2012, a faster and hardier version of its tiny 17mm f/2.8 prime for micro-four thirds. The new 17mm lens features the same focusing mechanism we first found in the 12mm f/2, which makes it exceptionally easy to get precise results when manually...

 

 

Landscape photographer Joe Cornish is a lucky man. He's one of the first people to test out Phase One's new IQ260 digital back and he got to shoot with it in the beautiful -- but cold -- outdoors of Iceland.

The 60-megapixel IQ260 is one of three new 645-format digital backs introduced by Phase One earlier this...

 

 

It's one of the most widely used photos online when talking about drones. It's scattered in thousands of blogs, discussions, and articles around the internet, and is the number one Google Image result for the word drone (as well as near the top for predator drone and unmanned drone). The only problem? The drone...

Earlier this year, lens mount adapter manufacturer Metabones and Caldwell Photographic announced a product that sounded too good to be true. The Metabones Speed Booster would not only allow you to mount a full frame lens on a smaller sensor, but also reduce the effective crop factor, and add a full stop of light. But the months since the announcement of the original Canon...

Just a couple of weeks after issuing new versions of its ACDSee Pro 6 and ACDSee 15 workflow tools, Canadian software company ACD Systems has another update available. This time, it's not a minor increment, though. Instead, ACD has announced the first major update to the company's ACDSee Photo Editor app in quite a few years.

The...

 

 

No matter our age, we share one attribute: an inner child straining to get out and enjoy life free from the constraints of adulthood. We all know it's there, but what if that child was the face we projected to others?

With a new photo series, Paris-based professional retoucher Cristian Girotto aims to...

 

 

The World Photography Organization just revealed the winners for the Open, Youth and 3D categories of the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards and it's a diverse group of photographers with some very impressive images. (Last month we gave you a sample of some of the photos that made the shortlist for the finals of...

"Take My Picture" (shown below) is a short, 10-minute documentary from Garage Magazine, and it looks at how the popularity of fashion blogs has lead to New York's Fashion Week being overrun by huge crowds of street photographers, attempting to photograph fashionistas. This video chronicles how the industry has moved from a relatively niche business, into the world of...

 

 

If you want a solid digital SLR at a fantastic price, look no further than the Nikon D90 at Adorama. This pioneering, HD-shooting DSLR is now selling for $599.95, body only. The regular price for the 12.3MP DSLR had been $1,199. (You need to add the camera to the cart to see the reduced price.)

Sure, the Nikon...

Artist James Neares' video "Street" takes one of the world's most bustling and fast-paced cities, New York, and slows it down to a crawl. Filmed over a week in September of 2011, Neares recorded 16 hours of footage from the street of the Big Apple, which were cut down to three minutes of real time footage. But since he shot in incredibly high speed, that's 61 minutes of...

 

 

Nikon Rumors has an interesting post about how the team at the Nikon Repair Center in Taiwan fixed a Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8 lens that had been dropped in the sea. To repair the salt water damage, they boiled the lens!

The main problem with the Nikkor lens was that the salt water had thrown the autofocus (AF) motor...

Love a good camera deal? So do we, and we're always on the lookout for them, posting those that particularly catch our eye on our news page. We don't just have one or two deals to report today, though -- there are literally dozens of them. Imaging Resource affiliate partner Adorama is currently offering so many instant rebates on photo...

 

 

What do lens calibration and backup have to do with each other? Generally nothing, but the two topics tragically combined for pro photographer David Liang recently. Earlier this week, we linked to David's tutorial on constructing your own lens focus accuracy calibration target, but a database corruption...

 

 

The gallery for Andreas Franke's latest photo show, "The Sinking World/The Stavronikita Project," is literally a wreck. The photographer's images adorn the SS Stavronikita -- a small Greek freighter which 20 years ago was destroyed by fire and sank into the Caribbean to become an artificial reef -- located some 80...

 

 

The newest version of the popular alternative scanning software VueScan has just been released, and version 9.2.10 adds native support for 339 Brother scanners, bringing the total compatability up to more than 2100 scanners. Of these Brother scanners, some 204 are network capable, allowing them to run with VueScan...