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Japanese camera manufacturer Ricoh Pentax is continuing to set a rather brisk development pace for its simultaneously-launched Pentax K-5 II and K-5 IIs digital SLRs. The company has just released its third firmware update for both cameras, only 52 days after the first update's debut.

What's new in the latest Pentax K-5 II / IIs...

The vastness of space can make you feel really, really small. For some of that perspective, check out this incredible photograph by amateur astronomer Mariano Ribas of the International Space Station (ISS) passing in front of the moon. Yes, the ISS is that little bright, satellite-looking speck on the right.

 

 

 

 

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
-- Jack London

Jack London (1876-1916) is one of the America's best known and most prolific writers. He is famous for novels such as "The Call of the Wild" and "The Sea Wolf," but is hardly known for his work as a photographer. Yet in his...

 

 

Three of the lenses Sigma announced at the CP+ imaging show in Japan earlier this year have been given official prices and availability dates with the trio set to go on sale later this month.

The Sigma 30mm f/2.8 DN and 19mm f/2.8 DN will both be available NEX and Micro Four Thirds mounts at $199 each, and the...

 

 

Point-of-view videos captured with GoPro action cameras never cease to amaze. Last time, we showed you this jaw-dropping GoPro footage of a female diver hitching a ride on a great white shark. Now we present to you an equally harrowing clip.

It's shot by a skier in Vasilitsa, Greece, who had a GoPro attached to...

 

 

Looking at the starkly poetic black-and-white images of Iranian photographer Hossein Zare is like entering another world. It's a minimalist world composed of simple black lines intersecting with quadrants of negative white space.

And it's a loosely populated world, sometimes occupied by a lone person walking...

 

 

Ourspot is a new startup that lets people hire amateur photographers for any sort of photo shoot they chose, and pay whatever they want. Currently only running in San Francisco, but with plans to branch out to LA and New York soon, Ourspot lets users upload a job with any amount of money attached to it (even free),...

 

 

Earlier this year, we covered a development from micro-computer maker Raspberry Pi that a low-cost digital camera module was in the works. Now, the camera board is all but finished, and Raspberry Pi is holding a competition to get some of these bare-bones, imaging modules out into the hands of the community to...

Gulp! That was our reaction when we saw this satellite image from NASA of the huge winter storm that's in the midst of walloping the mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

 

Image Credit: NOAA-NASA

The photo was shot today by NOAA's GOES-13 satellite. The GOES-13 is the same satellite that captured this terrifying...

 

 

A pair of artists have created a life-sized, 10-foot by 10-foot camera obscura installation in a busy New York City park as part of an effort to educate the public about one of the world's oldest photographic devices.

Called "Topsy-Turvy: A Camera Obscura Installation," the art project was created by New York...

 

 

There’s no way around it, shooting digital medium format is prohibitively expensive for the vast majority of photographers. With a modern medium format back costing in the tens of thousands of dollars, it’s well beyond the means of most. But Fotodiox has created an interesting device that will allow you to get...

 

 

Just a day after Nikon announced its new Coolpix A, with APS-C sized sensor and fixed 28mm f/2.8 lens, the company has released a small handful of sample images, giving us a chance to pixel peep at this exciting new camera.

Nikon has uploaded ten images and a video file, all shot by acclaimed documentary...

 

 

"The piece of glass it (the photo) prints on is well named a 'negative' -- a contradiction -- a misrepresentation -- a falsehood. I speak feeling of this matter, because by turns the instrument has represented me to be a lunatic, a Solomon, a missionary, a burglar and an abject idiot, and I am neither."
-- Letter...

 

 

The fluid, chest-high steadicam shot has become so ubiquitous to movies and TV, it's difficult to imagine those art forms existing without them.

For instance, it's hard to think of Martin Scorsese's  classic gangster movie "Goodfellas" without the winding, follow shot through the chaotic kitchen of the dinner...

 

 

Google is continuing its push to ferry users from other services into Google+ by automatically forwarding them away from the venerable Picasa image gallery and into the Google+ social network. As spotted by the Google Operating System blog, if you attempt to head to the Google-owned Picasa image organizer and...

In the fast-paced world of Formula One motor racing, some names command instant respect. Senna, Fangio, Clark, Stewart, Schumacher, Mansell... their names and achievements roll off the tongue of any die-hard fan. Among photographers, though, the racers aren't the only celebrities in Formula One. Names like Bernard Cahier, Rainer...

Nikon today unveiled three brand-new digital camera models for its Coolpix lineup, but for understandable reasons, one of that trio is going to grab the lion's share of the attention. Alongside the Nikon Coolpix A -- the company's first-ever DX-format, fixed-lens camera -- even a brand-new enthusiast compact like the Nikon P330 will...

 

 

We've shared the news on what famed celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz has been up to lately, whether she's selling her sprawling New York City compound or shooting controversial Hurricane Sandy-themed fashion photos for Vogue but here's a look back to her younger days.

The below video, which appears to have...

 

 

Phase One has taken the wraps off of a trio of new high resolution digital medium format backs, as well as a black-and-white, 60-megapixel medium format camera designed specifically for aerial photography.

Phase One's new IQ2 series include three 645 formatted backs, each of which come with a high-speed wireless...