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Happy Friday everyone!

Remember those images of dogs catching balls underwater that everyone went crazy for earlier this year? Well, this is sort of the video version of that.

The slow motion clip was shot at 1000fps to 2500fps using a Photron Fastcam and a Phantom high-speed camera.

The video was directed...

 

 

If you're considering picking up a brand new enthusiast compact camera, we've got good news for you! Three of the latest models from Canon and Nikon--the PowerShot G15, PowerShot S110, and Coolpix P7700--are in our lab for testing as we speak, and we've just posted a raft of their studio samples.

For each...

 

 

Yes, we said we wouldn't post any more time-lapse videos unless they were undeniably great and like yesterday's tilt-shifting tour of San Francisco, this clip of the Grand Canyon is just that.

With time-lapse photography by Lee Kirchner and Kevin Rossi of GOTMfilms, "Grand Canyon: Blink of Time," includes more...

 

 

Jeremy Williams is a man who is so in love with San Francisco he captured 30,000 photos over ten months of everything he likes about the city.

Then Williams spent 750 hours rendering those images to generate 62 tilt-shift style, time-lapse sequences in a beautiful 2-minute journey called, simply, "San...

 

 

Today, The New York Museum of Metropolitan Art opened a new photography exhibition to the public that showcases more than 200 manipulated images created by analog techniques between the 1840s and 1990s. Titled titled Faking It: Photo Manipulation Before Photoshop, the show runs through January 27, 2013, and is a...

 

 

On its Japanese-language website, Pentax Ricoh Imaging has today announced an adjustment to its planned delivery date for the tiny Pentax Q10 compact system camera. Initially slated for availability from mid-October 2012, the Q10 will now ship from October 26th in the Japanese market.

Pentax's statement...

 

 

To paraphrase Mick Jagger, "They're only rock n' roll photos, but we like them!"

A set of never-before-published photos of the Rolling Stones was discovered recently at a flea market in Los Angles. The images, shown to the right and below, feature the Stones looking young and carefree as they lounge around hotel...

 

 

Our Sony shooting experience this week included the new Sony NEX-6 compact system camera. And IR founder and publisher Dave Etchell just posted a new gallery of sample shots to show off what the NEX-6 can do.

Here's what Dave said about his experiences with the Sony NEX-6 so far: "You could say that Sony set out...

New firmware just released for the Pentax K-01 mirrorless camera brings improvements in a number of areas, says its manufacturer.

According to Pentax, the K-01 v1.01 firmware update improves performance of its contrast-detection autofocus system. It also improves support for various Secure Digital flash cards, both SDHC and SDXC types. (The company doesn't identify any...

 

 

Here's an oddly mesmerizing "black & white" video, which is not a black & white video at all. Video artist Eran Amir painted an entire room, including himself, in shades of grey and then shot video of the scene in color.

The real-life color of the scene is cleverly revealed over the length of the two-minute...

 

 

There's a pretty impressive "Wow!" factor to the Lytro light field camera's ability to refocus images after capture. If you've played with an image from a Lytro--the world's first plenoptic cameras aimed at consumers--you'll doubtless agree. Lytro also has a bright fixed-aperture zoom lens, and can create a...

 

 

I'm not a big fan of watermarks on photos: never have been, never will. They are, of course, a necessary evil for protecting your images from being stolen but sometimes I feel the type of watermark a photographer uses on his or her photos can show a surprising lack of taste.

Kip Praslowicz has a hilarious...

 

Photo by Rob Weber

New York photo specialty store Foto Care recently went poking around its basement and dug up the following camera treasures.

Recognize any of these models? The Steam Punk-style tubular device is known as "Baby Bertha," and was primarily used for sports photography in the 1940s. It has preset...

 

 

A new release of Paris, France-based DxO Labs' flagship Optics Pro image processing application today offers something for pros and consumers alike, with support for a variety of new camera bodies and body / lens pairings.

The newly supported cameras in DxO Optics Pro v7.5.5 include the Canon EOS-1D X,...

 

 

Celebrity photographer Mark Seliger dishes with other famous photographers on his new show CAPTURE on YouTube. This is really worth a look if you want to get an insider-y perspective on how some famous celebrity photos were made.

Along with photographers including Martin Schoeller, Albert Watson, and Platon,...

 

 

Update: Added more outdoor shots, some low-light
Dave Etchells is still out in California shooting with Sony's latest cameras, and he just uploaded sample full-resolution images from the Sony Alpha A99. Dave says that the company's new 24.3-megapixel, full-frame DSLR is "another great camera, very responsive, and...

 

 

Have you been putting off buying a film scanner and bringing your analog film into the digital age? Perhaps you've already scanned everything years ago, but your scanner wasn't up to the task of extracting the full image quality from your 35mm slides and film. Either way, Plustek has just started shipping a...

 

 

If you're interested at all in how imaging companies need to stay current to survive, you should check out "No Filter: Inside Hipstamatic’s Lost Year Searching For The Next Killer Social App" on Fast Company today. It's the first of a three-part series on how one of the more popular smart phone apps in the world...

 

 

Here's an interesting video on how to create a simple, motion-sensitive alarm to protect your pricey camera gear from being stolen.

In the how-to video, the folks at Kipkay explain how they bought a $2 "impact alarm" from their neighborhood dollar store, and then hacked it to make it motion activated.

While...