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Yesterday, we shared a short video with you showing the history of photography in 76 seconds. That brief film included an image of the first ever color photograph, an additive projected image of a tartan ribbon captured in 1861 by Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell.

Flash forward just more than fifty years...

There's a problem with feature-rich, life-proof digital cameras: they typically look like feature-rich, life-proof digital cameras, and are about as pocket-friendly as a brick. With the TX200V, Sony shows it's possible to make a camera jam-packed with worthwhile features, safe to use at the beach, in the pool, or on the slopes, and yet to give...

 

 

Happy Cyber Monday!

To help get you back in the spirit of taking photos rather than just buying camera gear, here's an inspiring video (just over a minute long) titled "A Short History of Photography."

The clip starts with an image of Ibn al-Haytham, the scientist who helped develop the camera obscura --...

 

 

LAST UPDATED: Friday, November 30, 5:13 PM

It's not over till it's over, evidently. Both Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone, and while a lot of great deals have sold out or expired, many are still available and new ones keep cropping up.

We're keeping our eyes open for the best digital camera...

 

 

Shooting with a digital camera like the Nikon D800 is a treat. All the controls are ideally suited for the experienced photographer: Important features have a button or dial, and there are even a few buttons you can program to work just how you want. Built for the rigors of professional photography, the Nikon...

Makers of the Eye-Fi wireless memory cards this week released a fix to an issue that kept their cards from working fully with the Nikon D800 and D800E. The problem, according to an Eye-Fi representative, is caused by noise coming from inside the camera, specifically from the D800's unique new USB 3 connector. Posted on Monday, the update...

 

 

In case you didn't know it, along with being the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton is a budding photographer. Duchess Kate shot images during her and her husband Prince William's trip to Borneo earlier this year and just today had them posted on their official website.

Unfortunately, the royal website has...

 

 

A new time-lapse shot by Toronto-based artist and photographer Kyle Clements shows what appears to be dust accumulation on the full-frame sensor of Nikon's D600 24.3-megapixel digital SLR. Kyle shot a sequence of 1,000 photos of a white sheet of paper with his brand-new D600, without changing lenses in the process....

Among the many cameras announced this year, the Samsung Galaxy Camera stands out as genuinely different. We've been intrigued by the possibilities of a camera with a full-blown Android operating system and built-in cellular data connectivity ever since the Samsung Galaxy Camera was announced, and were keen to put one through our rigorous testing. When our review sample...

 

 

Bryce Bayer, the Eastman Kodak scientist who invented a now ubiquitous color filter for digital photography that bears his name, has passed away. Bayer, 83, died on November 13th in Bath, Maine.

Known as the Bayer Filter, Bayer's invention is still used in nearly every digital camera, video camera and camera...

Are you using Canon's recently-released Pixma Pro-10 or Pro-100 inkjet printers, and having problems with your printer reporting its ink level incorrectly? New firmware for both printers released late last week will fix the problem, says Canon, but you may need to expend a little extra ink to find out if the update's necessary.

The...

 

 

Ottawa, Canada-based photographer Justin Van Leeuwen (right) has found success with a unique type of group photography he calls Extreme Families photo sessions. The technique involves compositing family members together into unique scenarios designed to reflect their true personalities and identities. As you can...

 

 

LAST UPDATED: Saturday, Nov. 24, 11:15 AM

Looking to replace your long-in-the-tooth digital camera with a new one? Getting a little holiday shopping done early, perhaps? The deal hunter's favorite day of the year -- Black Friday -- may have come and gone, but awesome camera deals aplenty are still to be had....

 

 

Our lens review today is our second Rokinon lens, the Rokinon 85mm f/1.4 Aspherical medium telephoto lens. Rokinon is also marketed under the Samyang, Bower, Pro Optic and Vivitar brands, so if you have been looking around in the 85mm range, you have probably seen and wondered about this lens, with its economical...

 

 

The 86th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with be held this Thursday, Nov. 22, with millions of people lining the streets around Central Park in New York City (and tens of millions watching live on TV) to get a glimpse of the colorful gigantic balloons and floats.

While the balloons have changed over time...

 

 

The new e-book "Wide-Angle Macro: The Essential Guide" is dedicated, detailed and delightful -- a far cry from your typical "how-to" photography book. The book is focused, pardon the pun, on just one thing: wide-angle, close-up shooting. Filled with solid technical information and lots of large illustrative...

If you've bought a new SLR or mirrorless camera in the last few years, chances are that you've got more than just a great still imaging tool on your hands. Most interchangeable-lens cameras sold recently are also capable of capturing video, and with their relatively large sensors, their output can be much more appealing than what you'd...

 

 

In terms of wedding photographer disasters, this had the potential to be one of the worst yet. Wedding photographer Jacki Bruniquel was shooting a wedding in South Africa when, just as the bride was walking down the aisle with her father, Bruniquel's hair got too close to a candle and burst into flames.

It was...

We've covered Lytro's unusual light field cameras quite a few times in the past, but we must admit we've found ourselves slightly ambivalent until now. Sure, the ability to refocus your images after capture is a pretty cool trick, but it comes accompanied by some pretty significant limitations. In an age of pocket-friendly cameras...