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If you're shooting with the tiny Pentax Q10 mirrorless camera, you'll want to install a new firmware update released by the company yesterday, as it will likely bring a noticeable improvement in your photos.
That's because the new update, firmware version 1.01, offers improved autofocus performance. Faster focusing means you're less likely...
If you've just started using a digital SLR or compact system camera and want to learn more about how to pick out the right lens to pair it with, the following how-to video tutorial is a good starting place. It's led by professional travel photographer Kerrick James and focuses on Pentax lenses but the information could...
Over the last couple of days, several Japanese media organizations including Sports Nippon, an affiliate of the famous Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, have published stories suggesting that Olympus might be preparing to further dial back its participation in the DSLR market, or perhaps even withdraw entirely. Today, the company has been quick to...
Several key camera firmware and software updates recently issued by Nikon fix a variety of bugs and should bring an improved user experience for photographers. In all, the updates cover the Nikon V1 mirrorless camera, the professional Nikon D4 digital SLR, and the Capture NX 2 application that's available to accompany the company's various...
The 16.3-megapixel Fujifilm X100S isn't due to ship until next month, but photographer Brandon Remler has just posted three new videos showing off the stealthy attributes of this rangefinder-style camera. Remler, who is regional sales director at Fujifilm North America, highlights the quiet shutter sound of the Fuji...
Sony had a big year in digital cameras last year, especially when you consider that the company launched four cameras -- the RX100, NEX-6, A99 and RX1 -- that could all be considered blockbusters. So what does Mark Weir, senior technology manager at Sony Digital Imaging, have to say about their success? That's what...
It's a massive, one-of-a-kind camera but, until recently, it was thought to be too big to move. That may change if a project to create a more mobile version of the IMAGO1to1 life-size self-portrait camera gets the funding it's looking for.
The original IMAGO1to1 walk-in camera was built in Munich in 1970 by inventor...
If you own one of Sony's Alpha SLT or NEX-series camera bodies and lenses made in the last couple of years, there's a pretty good chance new firmware awaits you on the company's support website. (Links to all the updates are at the end of this article.)
In one of the more comprehensive firmware releases in recent memory, the company has...
At the CP+ Camera and Photo Imaging Show in Japan last week, consumer electronics giant Ricoh teased a new product concept that will be rather exciting for fans of immersive photography -- and it might just bring immersive video capture to the table, as well. Although relatively little information is so far available, Japanese tech blog...
Low-cost computer maker Raspberry Pi announced yesterday it will be releasing a bare-bones camera module that will sell for $25.
Like Raspberry Pi's $35 computer, which is essentially a souped-up circuit board the size of a credit card, the stripped down camera is designed for educational purposes and to let digital...
To my surprise and amazement, the other day, I glimpsed a familiar magazine logo at my local newsstand that I had not seen in more than 30 years. Peeking out of the photography section were the chunky logo letters that spelled out the title of a long-defunct magazine: Camera.
In disbelief, I picked it up. But the miracle was...
Valentine's Day is almost here: are you looking for a surprise gift for that special person in your life? Or perhaps you want to show your camera bag a little love! Either way, a few deals crossed our inbox today from IR affiliates Adorama and Amazon that seem too good to pass up.
Just a few days ago we completed our Panasonic G5 review, and...
Over time, I've often been struck by how much goes on behind the scenes at IR that never makes it out to our readers. We sometimes spend dozens of hours in the test lab and weeks of calendar time tracking down and characterizing problems that we've found with cameras, only to have the result reduced to just a line...
The new Panasonic G5 takes the best features of the earlier G3, steps them all up a notch and tosses in much-improved ergonomics as icing on the cake. We immediately fell in love with the G3 when we first saw and shot with it back in May of 2011, feeling it was a real watershed product in the Micro Four Thirds space. In...
Feast your eyes on this Steampunk-like 1886 Victorian Lancaster Pocket Watch Camera, which could be one of the first camera watches ever made. (Incidentally, camera watches are a now rare gadget subgenre that seems to have gone out of fashion with Dick Tracy.)
The Victorian Lancaster Pocket Watch Camera, which is one...
If you're shooting with a Pentax interchangeable-lens camera made in the last few years, there's a good chance the company has released new firmware for you, among a raft of updates today.
The new firmware covers no less than five different K-mount digital SLRs, as well as the K-01 compact system camera. In all cases, there's only one change...
What, precisely, defines a premium compact camera? For many photographers, it's the presence of a larger image sensor than is typical of most compacts, the better with which to grab as much light as possible. It's an understandable point of view -- photography is all about capturing light, after all -- but it's perhaps a rather narrow...
Tired of aiming your camera, pressing the shutter button, and then finding out that your subject has already left the building before you got their photo? That's the problem Fuji aims to tackle with its latest compact travel zoom, the Fuji F900EXR. Thanks to the pairing of an EXR-CMOS II image sensor and an EXR Processor II CPU, the Fuji F900...
We here at IR thought Fujifilm's X-Trans sensor was one of the top camera tech innovations of 2012. Now, in the figurative blink of an eye, the company has turned around and launched the X-Trans II sensor plus two new, exciting X-series cameras at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show. IR founder and editor-in-chief Dave...
Our review for the Sony A77 has languished in an almost-finished status for months now, but we've finally tied it off. Or at least we have until we hear back from Sony on a significant video AF issue we encountered.
You can check the video page of our Sony A77 review for the details, but the gist of it is that the...
