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...
Lens Review: Pentax 40mm f/2.8 XS SMC DA
Pentax released its new 40mm f/2.8 XS SMC DA "pancake" lens with the K-01 mirrorless camera, making for a very small and portable camera-lens combination. With its K-mount, the lens is compatible with other Pentax cameras, so we took the o...
The Camera Bag: A Tilt-Shift Lens You Can Print Out and Make Yourself
Tilt-shift lenses are great for giving your images that miniaturized or shallow depth-of-field look but they can be expensive, very expensive. If you're a photographer on a low budget -- and who isn't short of cash these days? -- y...
Robot takeover imminent: Canon aims for human-free production by 2015
Imaging giant Canon is working to fully automate its camera production, according to an article from Associated Press journalist Yuri Kageyama, published today on Yahoo News. The move could see humans completely removed from Canon'...
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...
The World’s Most Expensive Camera? Vintage Leica Sells for Nearly $3M
And the winner for the title of "world's most expensive camera" goes to…Leica. A 1923 Leica Series-0 camera was sold for a record 2,160,000 euros (nearly $2.79 million dollars) at an auction in Vienna, Austria this past Saturday...
The Nearly Forgotten Mother of Modern American Photography, Gertrude Käsebier.
American photography has many fathers, like Mathew Brady and Alfred Stieglitz, but there was just one woman who was its mother, Gertrude Käsebier. Not only was she one of the first American women to have a successful career as a photo...
Photoshop Touch 1.2 Released
We've just updated our review of Photoshop Touchwith new screen shots
and sample images to reflect the changes introduced yesterday.
Adobe released Photoshop Touch version 1.2 yesterday afternoon with the following enhanc...
The “Instant” Wooden Box Cameras from the Cuban Polaroid to the Afghan “Kamra-E-Faoree”
One day while taking pictures in Florence’s Piazza della Signoria, I came upon a strange sight. There was an old man standing beside a huge wooden box camera on an old wooden tripod. I watched with curiosity as an elderly woman come ...
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 &...
