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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...

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...

Toshiba still betting on CompactFlash, launches three ‘record-breaking’ CF cards


The once-dominant CompactFlash card format has been largely pushed aside in modern digital cameras, but there's one form factor in which it's still reasonably common: digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras, particularly higher end models aimed at professional use. It's precisely this market that Japan's Toshiba Corp. is focusing on with the...

The Camera Bag: Shutter Hugger stuffed toy camera accessory for child photography

 
 
 
 

Anyone who's ever tried to photograph an easily distracted child knows how hard it can be to get them to look at the camera for a portrait. Here's an accessory that offers a solution to that problem: Shutter Hugger.

As you can tell by looking at the product images...

Just in: First test shots of the Sony A99 digital SLR

 
 

Last week, we got to test the new Sony Alpha A99 in the field at a special Sony shooting event in San Francisco. And now we have the A99 in our lab, with our first studio test shots posted.

Here are some first impressions from IR founder and publisher Dave Etchells:

"The Sony A99 is really pretty incredible. I found...

U.S. soldier tests Pentax DSLRs’ weather sealing in sand and rain “storm” in Afghanistan (VIDEO)

Solider-pentax-testPentax has built a reputation for creating tough, weatherproof digital SLRs that can stand up to the elements. (For reference, see our preview of the new, all-weather Pentax K-30.) U.S. soldier and photography buff Alex Jansen decided to challenge that reputation recently, when he put the Pentax K-7 and K-5 through a simulated sand and rain storm in Afghanistan.

In the below...