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Tech blog CNET Crave have published an interesting article taking readers behind the scenes at DxO Labs, the French software company behind the DxO Optics Pro image processing application, and the DxOMark camera / lens testing website.

DxO recently put the Canon EOS 5D Mark III digital SLR through its paces, and offered up their verdict: the best score for a Canon DSLR to...

We'll be bringing you coverage live from the de Young museum, where Adobe plans to launch the hotly anticipated Creative Suite 6 and Creative Cloud. 

Check back here at 10:00 AM Pacific Time to follow the event in real-time on the liveblog window below. 

While we've been assured that we'll have WiFi access on the floor, we don't tend to trust WiFi signals at events with...

Someone at Olympus has simply seen John Waters’ “Hairspray” too many times. Who else could have thought up the very pink, very retro Olympus Happy Vanity Kit for Mother’s Day 2012?
 
According to its press release, Olympus saw a study that said that in the demographic of under 25 year old married couples, nearly 56% of respondents said that it is Mom, not Dad, who is now...

This is, admittedly, pretty bizarre (and a bit gruesome) but it's a weird Friday and that's just the kind of mood we're in.

This 4x5 camera you see on the right was made from aluminum, titanium, brass, silver, gemstones and, yes, the 150-year-old skull of a 13-year-old girl.

Basically, it's a pinhole camera that performs not unlike the pinhole camera made from a pine...

With Pentax now firmly established as a part of Ricoh, the company's US branch has taken on responsibility for marketing and distribution of its new parent's camera lineup in the US market. In an announcement yesterday, Pentax Ricoh Imaging Americas Corp. detailed the move, which applies to all Ricoh consumer cameras but excludes Ricoh's business-to-business image solutions...

Every day, there is a long queue snaking around the block of the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) in central Paris. Looking like a line for rock concert tickets or the latest Harry Potter book, it is actually the people waiting to see a show of photographs, "Doisneau, Paris les Halles."

This exhibition of over 200 images by photographer Robert Doisneau has been packed since its...

Get a load of this flying monster. It's an eight-rotor mini helicopter drone called the Turbo Ace X88-J and it just may be the ideal device for shooting aerial imaging with a digital SLR.

Unmanned radio-controlled (RC) helicopters have been all the rage in recent years for photographers and videographers seeking to capture aerial video and stills without having to pay an...

I am built like Bob Carey, a bit on the chunky side, but I do not think I have his nerve. After all, Bob put on a bright pink tutu and created a series of photos of him in all sorts of crazy settings and postures. If that wasn’t enough, now he is using these images to help fight breast cancer.

 
The project started as a lark in 2003, when he and his wife Linda relocated...

Demonstrating its faith in the future of the compact system camera market, and in mirrorless cameras' ability to triumph over the SLR, Samsung has today launched three new models for its NX series. There's much shared between the flagship Samsung NX20, and its two siblings, the mid-range Samsung NX210 and entry-level Samsung NX1000. All three also share DNA with the...

Nikon has today announced its latest consumer digital SLR, the Nikon D3200. As the name would suggest, it's a followup to the D3100, which launched back in late 2010. The new model boosts resolution significantly, but simultaneously brings a step forward in terms of speed.

The D3200's new DX-format image sensor has a resolution of 24.2 megapixels. That's almost double the...

Quality prime lenses and a tack-sharp sensor come together with a unique hybrid optical viewfinder to form the Fujfilm X-Pro1, a digital camera built exclusively for enthusiast photographers. The X-Pro1 really hits the nail on the head, driving deep into high-ISO territory with tack-sharp images. Its controls and feature set are also ideal for the target market, and its...

AMIENS, FRANCE — Literary scholars announced that they have unearthed a 33-page handwritten manuscript of "Le Telephon-Photographique," ("The Camera-Phone") an unpublished short story by the father of science fiction, Jules Verne.

Written in 1874, this story of a hand-held communications and picture-taking device that leads to social upheaval in 21st-century France...

Earlier this week Columbia University announced the winners of its 96th annual Pulitzer Prizes, including Massoud Hassaini for Breaking News Photography and Craig F. Walker for Feature Photography.

Breaking News Photography

Agence France-Presse Photographer Massoud Hossaini was honored for his image of a 12 year old girl "cyring in fear after a suicide bomber's attack"...

We have camera bags up the wazoo but the ones we grab when we're in a hurry tend to have two things in common: they're relatively small and they're inconspicuous. Think Tank Photo, one of our favorite bag companies, just announced it will be releasing a new bag in May called the Retrospective 7 and it seems to fit those discrete characteristics.

Available in three...

Hasselblad has today released new versions of its Phocus tethered shooting software for MacOS, as well as the Phocus Mobile app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The updates are particularly interesting because they aim to solve a common problem on larger photo shoots: the huddle around the monitor to review images as they're captured.

With Phocus 2.6.6 and Phocus Mobile...

We thought we were being cheeky when we referenced now-ancient Sony Mavica cameras in this piece on cocktail coasters shaped like floppy disks. It turns out you can get one of those classic Mavica cameras in what looks like an unopened box right now at Wal-Mart for a cool $269.

The camera model is the Sony MVC-FD200 FD Mavica from 2002 -- it debuted at CES! -- and it...

Blackmagic Design made one of the surprise announcements at NAB 2012 by unveiling its small but powerful new Cinema Camera, which can record 2.5K raw video but costs just $2,995.

According to Blackmagic, the Cinema Camera's 2.5K sensor offers 13 stops of dynamic range which, if true, should make it extremely versatile, especially since it's capturing uncompressed raw...

A blog post from Image Sensors World brings our attention to an interesting slideshow from Dr. Joachim Linkemann, Senior Product Manager at Basler AG. Basler produces industrial and network cameras for everything from food inspection to casino video surveillance, and so Dr. Linkemann has more than a passing acquaintance with image sensor technology. The slideshow was...

As it prepares for the launch of a significant update to its flagship PhotoKey green screening application in just a few days, Norwich, UK-based FXhome Ltd. is teasing the new release with a number of videos showing off its new features.

PhotoKey v5 ships from April 19th, and customers purchasing version 4 now will receive free updates once version 5 is available. Among...