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In late October, we shared a horrifying frame grab (right) from a surveillance camera showing a PATH train station in Hoboken, N.J., deluged with water during the height of Hurricane Sandy.

Yesterday, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey finally released the actual surveillance camera footage of that...

Employees at Nikon have reason to be proud today: they've just surpassed a pretty impressive milestone. Just over a half-century since the company debuted its Nikkor lens line for SLR cameras, it has announced the production of its 75 millionth Nikkor-branded lens.

What's particularly impressive is that the company only manufactured...

 

 

Anyone who's ever tried to photograph an easily distracted child knows how hard it can be to get them to look at the camera for a portrait. Here's an accessory that offers a solution to that problem: Shutter Hugger.

As you can tell by looking at the product...

 

 

It was a big day in the IR Lab: Our Sony RX1 review sample arrived! We managed to keep it from the clutches of the bevy of begging editors, and hustled it into the lab for a quick set of First Shots. 

You can see the first RX1 sample images from our lab here, and can compare the RX1's performance side by side...

The recent double-whammy of Hurricane Sandy and the Nor'easter that followed just days later has left parts of the northeastern United States reeling. More than 100 people have died, and entire communities were wiped from the map by the combination of powerful winds, heavy rainfall, storm surge flooding, and fires that raged out of...

Back at the Photokina tradeshow this September, Fujifilm launched two new X-series cameras jam-packed with retro cool: the Fuji X-E1 mirrorless and the fixed-lens Fuji XF1. The X-E1 is reminiscent of the earlier X-Pro1 and X100 compact system cameras, but manages to hit a much more affordable price tag by dropping those cameras' unusual...

 

 

The antique process of tintype photography is over 150 years old, but photographer Harry Taylor says it offers him something that shooting digital does not.

"I think the perfection that you get with digital is so easy, you just can't help but take it for granted," Taylor says in this poignant short film by...

Alongside last September's announcement of the new Olympus PL5 mirrorless camera, the company revealed that it was developing a new lens model: the M.Zuiko Digital 17mm f1.8. At the time, few details were available, but today Olympus has made its newest prime lens official, and given it a launch date.

Available from December 2012, the...

 

 

Photographer Michael Muller's images of celebrities have appeared in just about every magazine on the newsstand from Vanity Fair to Time to Entertainment Weekly but what Muller really likes to shoot are giant, killer sharks.

And he likes to photograph them...

 

 

Like lots of other kids, I spent Saturdays in our local, somewhat faded movie theater, my eyes glued to the screen as cowboys and Indians wildly rode across a vast, empty landscape. While all of us kids wanted to be cowboys, none of us ever thought about playing one of the Wild West photographers. After all, in the...

 

 

Photographers waiting for the highly anticipated 16.3-megapixel Fujifilm X-E1 to go on sale in the United States can officially break out their credit cards. The retro-style compact system camera is now on sale at several U.S.-based retailers, including Adorama and Amazon for $1,000, body only.

The Fuji X-E1,...

Last August, Nikon unveiled the Coolpix S800c, the first mainstream digital camera in over a decade to feature a full-blown operating system exposed to the user. Based on Google's Android OS, which has proven extremely popular in the world of smartphones and tablets, the Nikon S800c lets you install and run your own applications from the...

 

 

You've heard of Macro photography but how about über-Macro photography? That's one way, perhaps, to describe the work of San Francisco commercial and fine art photographer Caren Alpert who uses an electron microscope to capture striking extreme close-ups of food.

Who would have thought a shrimp tail at 230x...

 

 

The Rokinon 35mm f/1.4 UMC Aspherical is the kind of lens you might wonder whether it is worth buying when you consider it is in some cases a third the price of comparable lenses produced by the major brands. A manual focus lens, it is also marketed under the Bower, Pro Optic and Samyang brands. We've been curious...

 

 

A recent series of humorous viral videos titled "DSLR Gear No Idea" from Sony Australia are making fun of a certain breed of overly enthusiastic DSLR owners. At the same time, the spots implicitly make a case for buying a Sony NEX series compact system camera -- or at least it appears that's what the company...

Superzooms like the Sony HX200V are the veritable Swiss Army knives of the camera world. Where some cameras seem aimed for a specific task, this superzoom camera takes the "jack of all trades" approach, bolting on a versatile lens that tries to cover every possible shooting situation you might encounter.

But the superzoom's design is...

The future of digital cameras, it seems, is wireless: more and more camera models are shipping with built-in wireless connectivity that lets you share photos straight from the camera via a smartphone, tablet, or convenient Wi-Fi network. Social networks like Facebook and their ilk are where many of us do our photo sharing these days, and...

They say that timing is everything and that's certainly the case with the seven photos on this page, all of which were captured at just the right moment for maximum impact. (In the case of the photo of the cyclist, we mean that quite literally.)

The below images were culled from nearly 70 perfectly timed shots posted on Bored Panda here and here.

(Thanks Phil!)

In September we covered the announcement of Perfect Photo Suite 7, the latest major update to onOne Software's flagship image editing plugin package. At the time, the update was still a couple of months away from public availability. It's here now, and as promised it brings changes aplenty. We've spent a little time with the latest...