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The Answers to the “Cameras in the Movies Quiz”

It's been over a week since our "Cameras in the Movies" quiz was posted and now here are the answers. How did you do?   1. In Roman Polanski’s Chinatown, what camera did Jack Nicholson’s Jake Gittes use in his survei...

Photoshop Touch 1.2 relaxes image size limits, but with a catch

Adobe has recently issued updates for its Photoshop Touch app on both the Android and iOS platforms, bringing a number of updates and new features, and taking the version number up to v1.2. Key among these is a change that answers critic...

Fuji unveils wide conversion lens, new firmware for X100 (with samples!)

Fujifilm has today announced a new conversion lens specific to its FinePix X100 digital camera, offering X100 shooters an alternative to the 23mm fixed focal length of their camera. The company has also simultaneously announced updated fir...

Sigma updates SD1 firmware

At the end of last week, Sigma Corp. of America announced firmware updates for both variants of its flagship digital SLR, the Sigma SD1. Based around a Foveon X3 CMOS image sensor that outputs 15.4 megapixel images with full color inform...

GoPro’s new dive housing lets you focus on your underwater imagery

A few months ago, the first rumors appeared of a new underwater housing for the iconic GoPro HD Hero action camera line, with availability expected from winter 2012. Today, GoPro creator Woodman Labs Inc. has made the AFLTH-001 Dive H...

Portable event photo kit promises to reinvent the guestbook

A New York-based startup will soon unveil an open air, portable event studio setup that it claims will couple "the fun of a photobooth with the quality of a professional studio". Detailed information isn't available yet, but the mobile...

Big day for Leica: Three new cameras, six lenses, and more…

Germany's Leica Camera AG is making quite the splash today, with a surprisingly large collection of new announcements. (Well, surprising unless you've been paying attention to all the rumors and leaks in the run-up to today's &...

Mirrorless is the future, suggests Samsung imaging head

An article published today by the Wall Street Journal offers an interesting insight into the future of the camera market, as Samsung sees it. WSJ correspondent Jung-Ah Lee interviewed Myoung Sup Han, Senior Vice President an...

Lightroom for Mac: Buying it just got easier

If you're a Mac owner running OS X 10.6.6 (Snow Leopard) or later, chances are pretty good that you've used the Mac App Store, Apple's one-stop-shop for app downloads. It's a pretty convenient way to find and purchase ...

Apple iPhone 4S review posted!

Apple's iPhone 4S is an impressive computing and communication tool, and one of its strengths is a better camera than you can find in most dumb phones, to be sure. Enhanced by downloadable apps, Apple also souped up the iPhone 4S camer...

Olympus E-M5 shooter’s report posted!

As product reviewers, we're faced with a bit of a problem. The cameras we most want to tell you about are the ones we find really enjoyable to shoot. Since we're having fun with them, though, it can be difficult to extract these ge...

Pentax Q review posted!

The Pentax Q is a camera that instantly polarizes opinion more than most. Some love it for its incredibly compact design: there is truly no other interchangeable-lens camera that comes close to the size and weight of the Q, especially wh...