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Nikon released the 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 ED VR AF-S in June, updating a pre-existing lens with VR, rounded aperture blades, some better glass elements and Super Integrated Coating. It's one of Nikon's most economically priced lenses for full-frame: will it find a home in your camera bag? Click here to read our full review of the Nikon 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5G ED VR AF-S!

Curiosity got the better of us. Sure, we thought, putting an image on an aluminum panel would be nifty. But would that dye sub novelty fade away in a few years? And how much is this going to cost? And how do you hang a metal print anyway?

There was only one way to find out. We had one made. And when it arrived, we answered almost all of those questions. See our review for...

A couple of days ago, we shared a video of AP photographer Greg Bull discussing how he captured his iconic shot of U.S. Gymnast Gabby Douglas leaping over the balance beam on the way to winning the gold medal. Now, here are a few more informative videos featuring professional photographers talking about how they've covered the 2012 London Olympics.

The one major takeaway:...

An interesting blog post today from Roger Cicala at LensRentals details a problem uncovered with certain combinations of Sigma lenses and Canon SLR bodies. It appears to be caused by the cameras' Illumination Correction feature, but the manner in which this happens is rather odd.

In JPEG photos shot with the Sigma APO Macro 150mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM or Sigma APO Macro 180mm...

Nikon may have just announced a brand-new 1-series camera model, the Nikon J2, but it hasn't forgotten about owners of its first-gen 1-series cameras. The Japanese camera giant just released updated firmware for both 1-series models announced a little under a year ago. The updates for the Nikon J1 and Nikon V1 are very closely-related, with much the same list of changes....

Impressed with the speed with which ACD Systems' ACDSee 14 and ACDSee Pro 5 display images on your Windows PC, but don't want to pay the $80-140 list price for either version? Perhaps you do all your image processing in-camera, or have another app that takes care of your editing and cataloging needs.

If so, ACD Systems has something for you: it's just released a...

Iconic and capable at the same time, the PowerShot 520 HS represents quite an evolution in Canon's classic ELPH design. Duplicating the same diminutive shape and size as its spiritual predecessors, the Canon 520 offers a 12x zoom ranging from 28-336mm with optical image stabilization. Its 3-inch LCD has a higher resolution of 461K-dots, and its simple control set and...

Earlier this week, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory probe completed a 253-day trip to Mars. On arrival, it successfully deployed the Curiosity rover, which will spend the next couple of years analyzing the Martian surface. The mission has several goals: to determine whether Mars could have supported life at any point in its history; to characterize the climate and geology;...

Last September, Nikon unveiled its first-ever mirrorless digital camera lineup, the Nikon 1 series. A year later, it will debut a new Nikon 1 model, closely based on the previous J1. The new Nikon J2 is now made from metal, like last year's viewfinder-equipped V2. (There's no viewfinder in this model, though; it retains a very similar body to the J1, but with very minor...

Alongside its newest mirrorless camera, Nikon has today unveiled the Nikon L610, which takes much of the feature set of the existing Coolpix S8200, and places it in a larger, curvier, but more affordable body that accepts AA batteries.

Like the S8200, the Nikon Coolpix L610 is based around a sixteen megapixel, backside-illuminated CMOS image sensor, and offers...

At IR, overload is practically a constant of life: There always seem to be more worthy cameras than we can possibly get to, no matter how many hours we put in. You can thus imagine just how happy I am to expand our editorial staff and welcome Roger Slavens to the team as our new managing editor.

Roger brings to the team more than 20 years of experience as a top editor at...

Bruce Davidson is one of my photographic heroes and watching “Bruce Davidson, A Lifetime With Leica” (see video posted below) is a quiet joy. It is only a few minutes long but it is worth viewing for both his insights into photojournalism, and his powerful photographs.
 
In the video, Davidson begins by explaining that what is most important for good photojournalism is...

Olympus released its 12-50mm EZ M.Zuiko Digital ED lens alongside the OM-D EM-5 as that camera's kit lens, and a capable companion it proves to be: featuring an interesting three-position zoom lens that enables both power-zoom and dedicated macro modes, the lens offers a 24-100mm equivalent zoom range. We've put the lens through its paces in our test lab: click here to read...

It's one of the most iconic images of the 2012 London Olympic Games, so far: a shot of U.S. gymnast Gabby Douglas leaping high above the balance beam, on her way to winning the all-around gold medal for Women's Gymnastics.

The image was shot by AP Photographer Gregory Bull and it's turned up on thousands of newspaper front pages and millions of websites around the world.

Canon USA has today issued product advisories noting new or upcoming firmware for several of its products. Key among these is an updated firmware release for the Canon 7D digital SLR that--as promised last June--makes extensive changes throughout, with numerous new features seen in more recent models.

Key among the changes in EOS 7D firmware version 2.0.0 is an...

The puzzle of what to do with the rest of the summer has just been solved by Carolina Road Software with its Jigsaw Explorer Web app. Good thing it's already August, because we've already spent the morning selecting images, exploding them into online jigsaw puzzles and meticulously putting them back together again.

But it isn't all just fun and games. It's a nice way to...

Updated firmware for LPA Design's PocketWizard MiniTT1 and FlexTT5 radios today adds support for several new camera bodies and flash accessories from Canon and Nikon, as well as certain Sekonic light meters. The updates also bring improvements in quite a number of other areas.

Newly-supported camera bodies include the Nikon D4, Nikon D800, and Nikon D800E.  The expanded...

When "max x" buys a new camera in the oddly endearing video below, and then takes it to the beach to see how it works, the results are surprising (to say the least). Immediately it's clear things in max x’s strange world never go as expected.
 
Think of this bizarre place as Mr. Bean meets Max Headroom.
 
It's a quizzical look at technology and a world that sometimes...

Two and a half years ago, Canadian software company Athentech Imaging ported its Perfectly Clear technology to Apple's popular iPhone smartphone. The new app took image correction capabilities that had been available for a while both as a Photoshop plugin, and an API for manufacturers to integrate into their own products, and placed these in a mobile device for the first...