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There's a new kid on the block for photographic filters, with the announcement by a newly-formed Slovakian company that it will soon start selling filters in the standard Type P format.

Piešťany-based G&R spol. s.r.o. will sell its filters under the brand name '84.5mm camera filters', taking the name from the typical width of a Type P filter. Initially, G&R plans to offer...

Taller photographers and tripod manufacturers alike are faced with something of a dilemma: it's relatively easy to make a sturdy tripod that offers comfortable eye-level shooting, or one that offers great opportunities for shooting low to the ground, but making one that can perform equally well in both areas is a challenge, to say the least.

Typically, manufacturers take...

Sitting for your picture in a Daguerreotype photographer’s studio in the middle of the 19th century was a form of torture for both sitter and photographer. An agonizing experience, it required the subject to sit for several minutes, immobile while clamped into neck braces and head supports.

For the portrait photographer, it was a struggle too. There was no question of...

Scandinavian megaretailer Ikea has gained worldwide fame--perhaps verging on notoriety--for product designs that pare things down to their very basics, and use cheap, sustainable materials wherever possible. Now, they've turned their attention to the imaging world, with the help of product designer Jesper Kouthoofd of Teenage Engineering A.B. The result? What Teenage...

For the photographer who has everything, how about a snazzy bracelet made out of an actual recycled camera lens?

The creation of photographer Craig Arnold, the bracelets -- Arnold calls them "cuffs" -- are made from camera lenses he recycles in South Australia and sells under his re:vision brand.

Arnold also makes original sterling silver pieces modeled on real lenses...

Four weeks after it debuted the first release candidate of Photoshop Lightroom 4.1, Adobe has today released a second release candidate version of its popular photographer-centric imaging application. Lightroom 4.1 RC2 adds new defringing controls that help squash chromatic aberration, and adds support for twelve new camera models. It also aims to fix eleven bugs present in...

If you thought the megapixel wars were over, you've probably never heard of the 3.2 billion pixel Large Synoptic Survey Telescope camera.

Comprised of 189 sensors and over three tons of components, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), is designed to capture the entire visible sky every week. In doing so, it will create an unprecedented public archive of data: about...

Portland, Oregon photographer Martin Waugh is obsessed with water. Trained in physics, about 10 years ago he was fascinated by high-speed photography and the balloon popping, smashing light bulb, water splashing images of Harold Edgerton.

Seeing those images, he decided that it was the perfect way to blend his love of science and photography. He set up a rig for taking...

If you're shooting with the Nikon D800, D800E, or D7000 digital SLRs, or the Nikon 1 V1 compact system camera, you'll want to take a careful look at all of your EN-EL15 battery packs. These packs were included in the camera bundles, and =sold separately as Nikon model number 27011. In either instance, they're clearly identified as an EN-EL15 on the pack's label. Nikon has...

Ok, this is pretty clever. It's called The Descriptive Camera and it's the creation of Matt Richardson, an NYU student who says he was fascinated that digital cameras capture "gobs of parsable metadata about photos" including settings, GPS location data, date, time etc. but "they don't output any information about the content of the photo."

The Descriptive Camera, in...

Over the last few years, there's been something of a revolution in the interchangeable-lens camera world. Since the Nikon D90 introduced photographers to the concept of shooting video with a camera primarily designed for still imaging, almost the entire industry has taken the idea onboard, and it's now the rare interchangeable-lens camera indeed that doesn't offer some form...

During the 1920s, a photographer working for the Sydney Police Department in Australia took mug shots of all newly arrested suspects. This anonymous photographer created a series of images that are powerful portraits and also a remarkable historical record.
 
Comparing these vintage images to modern mug shots, the differences between the 1920s and the 2010s are striking....

Canon USA has now published its findings after an investigation into the reported light leak problems with the EOS 5D Mark III digital SLR. While it has confirmed the change of exposure value shown by the camera when the top panel LCD's backlight is activated, it says that its in-house testing has confirmed that this does not cause a noticeable impact on final images.

The...

Last January, Phase One combined its medium format camera brands Mamiya and Leaf, to create a new global entity: Mamiya Leaf. Both companies had already been cooperating for some time, and now the first product line of the combined Mamiya Leaf takes that cooperation a step further.

The Leaf Credo camera back series is designed for use with the Mamiya 645DF camera body....

Underwater photographers looking to get detailed photos of great white sharks, giants squids, and sea monkeys -- ok, maybe not sea monkeys -- can take now take their 36.3-megapixel Nikon D800s for a dive with Nauticam's new NA-D800 underwater housing.

Nauticam is the first company to offer an underwater housing for Nikon's new megapixel champ and considering these...

At simultaneous events in San Francisco, London, and Tokyo, Adobe Systems Inc. has announced the latest iteration of its Creative Suite product line, including a new release of its flagship image editor Photoshop, as well as a new supporting cloud service.

Adobe groups the changes in Creative Suite 6 in four key areas: performance improvements, a more coherent user...

Recently, The Huffington Post ran an article in their Culture section that made me want to call Ms. Huffington herself and give her a piece of my mind. This “report” about the German “Trashcam Project,” I would tell her is, to put it mildly just this short of pure garbage.

However, let me start with the basic facts. The Trashcam Project is made up of six trashmen,...

We've reviewed each of the other zoom lenses in Nikon's initial launch of the 1 series and we round out those with a review of the Nikon 10mm f/2.8 1 Nikkor "pancake" lens. At just 77 grams (under 3 oz) it's one of the smallest and lightest lenses Nikon has ever produced. We've put the lens through its paces in our test lab: click here to read our full review of the Nikon...

We had to check the calendar to make sure it wasn't still April Fool's Day when we saw this one. It's a massive Nikon 6mm f/2.8 fisheye lens and it recently went on sale in London for 100,000 British pounds (about $160,800).

According to Amateur Photographer, the jumbo fisheye lens was created as the "the world's most most extreme wideangle lens to cover the 24x36mm image...