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Pro photographer offers helpful tips on how to pick the right camera lens (VIDEO)

 
 

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...

The Camera Bag: Spice up your photo life with this lens-shaped pepper mill grinder

 
 

What lens-shaped product will they think of next? Recently, we told you about a small, USB powered humidifier shaped like a Canon lens and before that there was this portable speaker designed like a Nikon zoom.

Add to that faux lens arsenal this Camera Lens Pepper Mill Grinder, available via Amazon.com for $18.99....

Canon preps for even faster 4K video capture with EOS-1D C


Canon's impressive, video-oriented EOS-1D C professional digital SLR has been shipping for a couple of months now, and as early adopters are finding out, it's capable of some mighty impressive 4K movie capture. This summer, though, its video performance could be kicked up another notch.

A product advisory issued by Canon today notes that it...

Lone protester takes on the camera companies at CES

 
 

We must've missed this during the hubbub of CES but camera repairman Kelly Chong was out pounding the pavement in front of the Las Vegas Convention Center during the show last month to protest what he says is unfair treatment by imaging manufacturers against small camera shops.

Chong claims manufacturers, including...

Lens Review: Canon 24-70mm f/4L IS USM

 
 

Canon announced the 24-70mm f/4L IS USM  in November of 2012 as a lighter, less expensive alternative to the 24-70mm f/2.8. The lens is also equipped with image stabilization, and a specific macro mode. We've put the lens through its paces in our test lab: Click here to read our full review of the Canon 24-70mm f/4L IS...

Canon scores with a hat trick of three new PowerShot pocket cameras

 
 

In advance of the CP+ Camera & Imaging Show in Japan this week, Canon unveiled three new PowerShot pocket digital cameras -- two ELPHs and one A-series entry-level model. The Canon PowerShot ELPH 330 HS replaces the popular ELPH 320 HS, adding advanced WiFi connectivity and functionality, as well as doubling the optical...

The Camera Bag: This lens-shaped humidifier moisturizes during the dry, winter months

 
 

We don't know about you but the radiator in our office keeps it crazy dry during the long winter months. Not only is it unpleasant -- cracked skin, anyone? -- the dry air can cause the nozzles in an inkjet photo printer to clog up.

Here's a fun solution with a photography theme: the USB Camera Lens Humidifier (also...

Does the Canon 5D Mark III belong in the DSLR Hall of Fame? We’ve cast our final vote.

 
 

No one was voted into Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame this year, mainly due to the taint of performance enhancing drugs. But when it came to adding another model to the pantheon of legendary DSLRs, the Canon 5D Mark III -- introduced last spring -- earned IR's full support in just its first year of eligibility. And,...

Ingenious flatbed scanner hack helps create greater depth of field in macro photos

 
 

One of the most challenging things with macro photography is getting a broad depth of field around your subject. Focus too closely on the foreground and the background is out of focus and vice versa.

A typical solution is to capture several images while moving the camera closer with each shot. You then combine all the...

DxO doubles lens module selection, updates Optics Pro with Canon 6D support


French software company DxO Labs has unveiled a new release of its flagship Optics Pro workflow software for photographers, and announced an important milestone in its production of the modules that let Optics Pro automatically correct common lens-derived image quality problems such as vignetting, aberrations and distortion. 

DxO Optics Pro...

White House unveils new official presidential portrait of Barack Obama photographed by Pete Souza

The White House has released a new presidential portrait for Barack Obama and it has once again been shot by his official photographer, Pete Souza. Compared to Souza's much more dour first official portrait of Obama back in 2009, this new one shows the president smiling.

 
 

You can download the original image here. If you...

Canon opens interactive “Image Square” showroom in Canada. Will the US be next?

 
 

The rumors are true: Canon opened its first Canon Image Square location in Calgary, Alberta, Canada yesterday. The location, however, is not a retail store at all, but more of an interactive showroom, where potential customers can touch and try Canon's latest imaging technology.

No cameras, camcorders, or printers can...

Fresh 4K footage shot with Canon EOS-1D C shows impressive resolution and sharpness (VIDEO)

 
 

The 4K-shooting Canon EOS-1D C has been slowly making its way to photographers and videographers who have been showing off its mind-blowing video results at online sharing sites. The latest Canon 1D C clip to hit the Internet is the short film below, shot by videographer Ben Silberfarb, which he has posted on Vimeo.
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A look at the Canon PowerShot N’s unique controls and Creative Shot mode (hands-on video)

 
 

Canon so far has made one of the biggest digital imaging splashes at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with its new PowerShot N, a small, square-ish digicam that's so simple that it does away with the traditional shutter button and zoom controls. We got our hands on one at the show, and we found it to be a...

Got burning questions for camera companies? We’ll get you answers at the Consumer Electronics Show


If you could ask your favorite camera company any question you wanted, what would it be?

We landed today in Las Vegas, Nevada, for what's shaping up to be a very interesting 2013 Consumer Electronics Show. Things are heating up in the enthusiast compact camera market, hybrid phase detect autofocus makes a return to fixed-lens cameras,...

Four new Canon cameras, including one that does away with the shutter button


Canon has today announced four new digital camera models for the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada: the Canon PowerShot N, ELPH 130 IS, PowerShot A2600, and PowerShot A1400.

Of the quartet, the most eyecatching is the PowerShot N, which takes a long, hard look at the humble shutter button, and subjects it to some out-of-the-box...

Hold your horses: Canon not ready to put 5D Mark II out to pasture just yet

 
 

It's been called one of the most influential digital SLRs of all time, and Canon isn't ready to officially declare it dead just yet.

While all signs point to the four-year-old Canon EOS 5D Mark II being finally put out to pasture, including what appears to be a discontinued notice (in Japanese) for the camera on Canon...

Canon 6D firmware solves YouTube compatibility problem


Canon's EOS 6D digital SLR lowers the barrier to entry to the company's full-frame digital SLR lineup, with a pricetag well below that of the EOS 5D Mark III, and even a little less than the now rather long-in-the-tooth 5D Mark II. That's made the 6D pretty popular with photographers and videographers on a tight budget, but early adopters have...

Imaging Resource 2012 Holiday Photo Gift Guide: Cameras and optics

 
 

The holidays are fast approaching, and time's running out to get your gift-buying finished! Are you still struggling to locate the perfect gift for the photographer-friend in your life? (Or perhaps it's time to upgrade your own camera gear, ready for those once-in-a-lifetime holiday snaps?)

Either way, there are a lot...

Canon 530 HS review: Small 12x zoom camera adds touchscreen and WiFi

Canon PowerShot ELPH 530 HS digital camera. Copyright © 2012, The Imaging Resource. All rights reserved.

All the charm of an ELPH accompanies the Canon 530HS, with its box and circle design, but the surprise is the 12x zoom this diminutive digital camera conceals. Canon did a little sensor trick to make this possible, one that unfortunately affects image quality. Closely related to the 520HS, the 530HS adds a touchscreen and WiFi capability. Click here...