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Sigma's new 105mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM macro lens is a redesign of an older design, with a few extra features. HSM focusing replaces an older (and slightly confusing) focusing system, and optical stabilization has been added in case you didn't want to lug a tripod into the field. We've put this lens through its paces in our test lab - click here to see our full review of this...

The best worst thing happened today: a nearly new Canon 5D Mk III came back from rental with a loose screw rattling around inside. We had to decide if it went back to Canon or if we should go looking for the screw ourselves. That’s a tough decision. So we thought about it for a while. Until Tyler and Drew went to lunch. Then we decided it had to be handled in-house. Since...

The recently published “Photographs Not Taken: A Collection of Photographers' Essays” (Daylight, 2012) is a remarkable collection of words about photography that contains not a single photograph. In their own words, the sixty photographers who contributed the essays in this book tell the stories of the images they never took. The overall effect is powerful and thought...

GoPro's Hero-series cameras have proven very popular with fans of the great outdoors, and for good reason. They're simple to operate, relatively compact and light, and pretty rugged. GoPros have shot video of everything from wingflying to wakeboarding, and they've even been up to the stratosphere. Wherever they go, though, it's usually pretty easy to recognize the footage...

Now that just about every digital SLR on the market shoots HD video -- and some even 4K video such as the recently announced Canon EOS-1D C -- is there any way to make zooming with these cameras any smoother? VizTools thinks its new HandiZoom handgrip and control unit is just the answer.

HandiZoom is designed to turn your DSLR into an ENG (Electronic News Gathering)-style...

Clik Elite camera bags are known for their modern take on rugged cameras bags for the adventurous outdoor photographer. But with Clik Elite's new Classic Line, the company is going for a more stylish, retro approach with these photo backpacks and bags.

The Clik Classic photo line is made up of three new photography bags designed for outdoor landscape photographers or...

Canon USA today made quite a range of announcements revolving around the National Association of Broadcasters tradeshow, which is about to kick off next week in Las Vegas. The list includes a new video-oriented EOS-series professional DSLR and a Cinema EOS-series video camera, both with 4K resolution. There are also four new EF Cinema zoom lenses, a 30-inch 4K industrial...

Color science company X-Rite Inc. has interesting news on a couple of fronts today, launching several new products and announcing its acquisition by Danaher Corp.

Of the four new products, three are based around an updated spectrophotometer, the i1Pro 2. Compared to the earlier i1Pro, the new version has a dual-illuminant design that allows tungsten, D50 and UV cut...

Erik Johansson is a Swedish photographer and master image retoucher who lives and works in Berlin. A few years ago, he began to create a portfolio of personal photography to demonstrate his Photoshop skills. This collection of “impossible images” both tricks the eye and fools the mind because of Johansson’s attention to detail.

Starting out as a professional photographer...

A couple of days ago, we reported on news that Facebook has agreed to purchase photo sharing app-maker Instagram for the staggering sum of one billion dollars. While the news has been welcomed by many--not least of them being Instagram's dozen-or-so employees, we'd imagine--a not-insignificant section of the community has reacted with alarm. With Facebook having become so...

DxO Labs has today announced an update to its flagship image processing application, DxO Optics Pro. The latest release marks a milestone for the company, taking the total number of optics modules for the program to an impressive six thousand, less than four months after it past the five thousand point. According to the company, it has shipped no less than 500 new camera...

There seems to be no end to the number of smart products to give you fast yet secure access to your camera. The latest one to catch our eye is Capture Camera Clip ($80), which fastens to any belt or strap and lets you attach your camera so it's always close at hand.

Created by Peak Design and begun as a Kickstarter project -- the company raised a whopping $364,698! --...

Everyone seemed to enjoy my destruction of an NEX camera a couple of weeks ago. I made the statement in that post that it was amazing how simple and clean the camera was compared to even a small SLR. So, of course, a number of people then wanted me to open up an SLR so they could see the difference. Having matured only marginally since 3rd grade, I had no choice except to...

Pasting a 100-year-old folding camera on a 24-megapixel Digital SLR may seem the height of strangeness. Don’t bet on it. You'll find it's just the tiniest tip of an iceberg of photographic oddity if you check out this photo gallery of "The World's Strangest Cameras."

Here are a few from the list we found interesting (to say the least). 

There's the artist Wafaa Bilal,...

Arriving at the Celebrity Camera Club Tumblr blog full of anticipation of seeing Flavor Flav or the Octomom with a Canon 5D Mark II, I was badly let down. The celebrities in this gallery of the would-be and the almost famous and their cameras are for the most part folks from the past. The talented and not so talented, holding film cameras, all supposedly caught in the act...

Just two weeks after Sony announced major changes to its upper management and a restructuring that refocuses its businesses on digital imaging, gaming, and mobile technologies, reports are surfacing that the company plans to shed some 10,000 jobs over the next year or two.

Japanese newspaper Nikkei broke the story, which has subsequently been reported by a variety of...

As a digital camera made expressly for enthusiasts, the Panasonic GX1 is a little larger than the smallest compact system cameras, but is still small enough to bring along easily. While the GX1 is in some ways a return to an older design, it still includes improvements in resolution and image quality. Its new touchscreen interface also manages to add a bit of utility as...

Popular social networking site Facebook just hit the corporate 'like' button on Instagram in a big way, agreeing to buy the photo sharing app-maker for a whopping one billion dollars. The purchase is said to be Facebook's largest purchase to date, and comes hot on the heels of Instagram's debut on Google's Android platform last week. The photo app already claims an...

We've seen lots of miniaturized digital SLRs in our day but most of them are for looks only. This mini Canon 5D Mark III clone can actually shoot images and HD video.

Made in Japan by Thanko and available via GeekStuff4U for $185.88, the shrunken Canon 5D III look-a-like can shoot 5MP still images (2560x1920 resolution) and 720p HD video at 30p.

(We're not sure about...