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Celebrity fashion photographer Annie Leibovitz is no stranger to controversy but she may have outdone herself with her new Hurricane Sandy-themed fashion shoot for Vogue magazine. The six page shoot -- which you can see in slideshow form here -- includes an image of models in haute couture walking through the wet...

For several generations now, there's been a clear pattern to Sigma's DP-series of fixed-lens, large-sensor cameras. Each generation has had just two models, closely related and differing mostly in their choice of lens. For the first time in a half decade, the pattern has changed with the introduction of a third DP-series camera, the...

 

 

Here's a cool freebie if you're a fan of Adobe's Lightroom and you have an iPad: it's called Lightroom Magazine and it's filled with tips and tricks for Adobe's popular image management program.

Put together by Lightroom guru Scott Kelby and the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, the first issue of...

 

 

The rumors are true: Canon opened its first Canon Image Square location in Calgary, Alberta, Canada yesterday. The location, however, is not a retail store at all, but more of an interactive showroom, where potential customers can touch and try Canon's latest imaging technology.

No cameras, camcorders, or...

 

 

Sigma announced the 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM "A" lens during the 2012 Photokina, the inaugural lens to its new "Art" series of lenses. Designed for an enthusiast market, the lens is also one of the first to be compatible with Sigma's new USB lens dock, allowing users to make fine-tuned adjustments to the performance of...

 

 

From more than 100,000 entries, Imaging Resource randomly selected Randy Licht of California to win a brand new Sony RX1 digital, full-frame compact camera valued at US$2,800 -- a prize graciously provided by our trusted affiliate partner and sweepstakes sponsor, Adorama.

Randy is a professional family portrait,...

Hot on the heels of the Pentax MX-1 announcement, Imaging Resource publisher Dave Etchells, managing editor Roger Slavens and director of development Arthur Etchells sat down with John Carlson, senior marketing manager at Pentax Ricoh Imaging to discuss the thinking behind the company's first enthusiast compact, why its latest-generation image...

Photographers shooting in raw format with digital cameras based on the Fujifilm X-Trans image sensor now have a new option for processing their images, thanks to an updated release of Phase One's Capture One utility. The update also brings new raw and tethered shooting support for several other cameras from Canon, Fuji, Olympus, and...

 

 

The fallout from Instagram's terms of service controversy last month could be worse than expected, a new report contends. According to AppStats, a statistics tool for Facebook applications, Facebook's Instagram has lost nearly half its daily users since an uproar over a proposed revised terms of use statement swept...

 

 

The 4K-shooting Canon EOS-1D C has been slowly making its way to photographers and videographers who have been showing off its mind-blowing video results at online sharing sites. The latest Canon 1D C clip to hit the Internet is the short film below, shot by videographer Ben Silberfarb, which he has posted on...

 

 

At the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Imaging Resource publisher Dave Etchells, managing editor Roger Slavens and director of development Arthur Etchells sat down with Darin Pepple, senior marketing manager at Panasonic to discuss mirrorless camera technology, the success of the GH2 and GH3...

 

 

Twenty-one minutes and 33 seconds into the video "National Geographic: The Last Roll of Kodachrome" (embedded below), pro photographer Steve McCurry sums it up for a lot of us. After looking at the slides he shot on the very last roll of Kodachrome film, he says: “I just decided I think I’m going to give up digital...

 

 

Last November, we shared with you a treasure trove of rare, color images of life in Paris in the 1920s. And now here are some extraordinary color photographs captured during an even earlier time period -- pre-revolutionary Russia on the eve of World War I.

The images, 10 of which are shown below, were shot by...

Korea's Samsung brought no less than seven new camera models to the Consumer Electronics Show this year. The consumer electronics heavyweight updated two of its existing long-zoom Smart-branded cameras with new versions, and added a third model to the line that's smaller and lighter than past efforts.

Other additions to the line...

 

 

We've written about drone quadrocopters and octocopters for capturing amazing aerial footage before but those unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are really designed to be piloted from the ground by experts. Now here's a fully automated glider-like drone made for amateurs to easily shoot aerial images or video.
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How often have you wished you could pan, tilt, and control your camera remotely, without spending a small fortune to do it? A solution is on the way from Satarii, creator of the Swivl.

The original Swivl is a clever, puck-shaped device that holds a smartphone or other device weighing less than six ounces, and acts as a "robotic...

 

 

“Camera Chain Jessops Collapses into Administration” read the crawl below the BBC-TV news presenters. Jessops, the largest camera retailer in the UK with 187 stores and 1,370 employees, had gone into administration, the British equivalent of filing for bankruptcy protection.

(UPDATE: Administrators have just...

Consumer electronics giant Sony announced five new fixed-lens camera models for the Consumer Electronics Show: one each in the long-zoom, Wi-Fi connected, and rugged lifestyle camera segments, plus two affordable and approachable entry-level models.

The long-zoom Sony H200 looks rather like a digital SLR, and that's no accident -- its...

 

 

Have you ever been so engrossed with the blips of information scrolling across your smartphone you've accidentally walked into a tree or a signpost? Have you ever accidentally walked into another person?

If you have serious texting "issues" like these, you might want to check out a tumblr blog called "We Never...