News entries for May, 2012

Designed to take on the smartphone, the Canon 510 HS includes a blend of features to attract the savvy photographer. First, this digital camera has a 12x zoom lens with an impressive range from 28-336mm equivalent. Next, the Canon 510 employs a touchscreen so users can do just about everything without pressing a single button. Though we had a little trouble with the...

Summer arrives in the northern hermisphere tomorrow. For many of us, that means it's time to cool off with a swim, whether at the seaside, a lake, or maybe just the local swimming pool.

For anybody owning the Fujifilm FinePix XP150, there's now double the reason to get outside for a splash around. A new firmware update for the Fuji XP150 just shipped, and it brings...

More than seven months after the abrupt dismissal of whistleblower Michael Woodford, Japan's Olympus Corp. has reached a settlement with its former president and CEO, reports Associated Press correspondent Yuri Kageyama. The last-minute deal comes right as Woodford's claim of unfair dismissal was to be heard before an employment tribunal in London. The AP article,...

Whether you're strolling around the big city by day or hitting the town by night, ladies might want to consider sliding into this "Little Slide Dress" made out of slide film and illuminated by tiny LED lights.

Designed by New Zealand fashion student Emily Steel, the slide film dress is her modern take on "the classic Little Black Dress."

Steel says the dress is made out...

Last weekend I shot a video with my digital camera of our local wine and arts fair. Despite my best efforts, the resulting video had its share of "is it an earthquake?” panning shots, along with teeth jarring tracking-while-walking shots. Even with my camera's image stabilization technology and the assistance of a few people, getting these shots to flow smoothly was a...

Almost five weeks after Adobe debuted an updated release candidate of its flagship photographer-centric imaging application Photoshop Lightroom, the company has today issued a final version. Alongside the final availability of Photoshop Lightroom 4.1, Adobe has also delivered an update to the Adobe Camera Raw plugin for Photoshop, but only for customers who've purchased the...

Are you excited about the upcoming Summer Olympics in London and do you like photography? If so, you'll love this funny spoof video entitled "The 2012 World Photo Games" where various camera gear is substituted for batons, shot puts and other sports equipment.

Created by Calgary, Canada-based pro photo dealer The Camera Store, the video is a follow-up to the hilarious...

Nikon has today released updated firmware for several of its high-end digital SLRs, bringing similar fixes for several issues found since release.

The Nikon D4 was the company's first SLR announcement of the year, coupling a 16.2-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor and a new EXPEED 3 image processor to achieve sensitivity that can vary from as low as ISO 50 to a whopping ISO...

Hasselblad fans now have a way to show off their love of these classic cameras thanks to a trio of new t-shirts designed by illustrator Yujio Miyamoto. Each shirt comes emblazoned with vectored drawings by Miyamoto of Hasselblad cameras.

The shirts, which are offered in white, grey, and off-white "apple" versions, also have illustrations of Hasselblads on the back and...

The pioneering sci-fi blockbuster movie Star Wars celebrated its 35th Anniversary on Friday (May 25th was the day it premiered in 1977) and fans still can't get enough of product tie-ins from the original trilogy. In that vein, here are two Star Wars-themed digital cameras: a Darth Vader camera and a Storm Trooper camera.

As digital cameras, they aren't much: both have...

When Fujifilm debuted its new Fuji X-Pro1 mirrorless camera last spring, the company promised to offer mount adapters for the new X lens mount, as well as a variety of dedicated X-mount optics. Now, the company has made official the first of the mount adapters, with the launch of its M-mount Adapter.

The new M-mount adapter allows use of a wide variety of third-party...

Warning: tongue in cheek rant coming your way--but not THAT tongue in cheek.

I don’t know if it’s just that I’m getting old, but it sure seems like there are a bunch of whiners out there lately. Here are five things that I constantly hear from photographers that drive me crazy.

1. My new camera is broken. It back focuses.
   No it most likely doesn’t--YOU back...

Underwater photographer Berkley White has posted a gorgeous video of the massive sinkholes in Mexico, known as cenotes, shot with the new Canon EOS 5D Mark III.

To shoot the video, White had to hack an old Aquatica 5D Mark II underwater housing to fit the new camera. (The new housings weren't available yet.)

Though the modified rig was functional, it only allowed him to...

Just six weeks ago Facebook, the world's largest social networking site, announced its planned purchase one of the best-known smartphone camera apps, Instagram. Today, Facebook makes an interesting move with the debut of its own camera app designed specifically for members of its site.

Rather logically dubbed Facebook Camera, the new app doesn't yet include technology...

If you've ever been to one of the large technology trade shows such as CES for consumer electronics, or PMA, for photography, you've probably seen video bloggers trying to shoot HD of themselves testing out the latest digital goodies. A new prototype product called SmartTripod would turn the cinematography and direction over to a robotic drone that follows you as it shoots...

Olympus Corp. has today made official a lens whose development was first revealed back in February, alongside the announcement of the Olympus E-M5 camera body.

The Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 75mm f1.8 prime lens offers a 35mm-equivalent focal length of 150mm on a Micro Four Thirds camera body, with a bright f/1.8 aperture. It's pretty compact given the specifications, at...

If you've bought a new computer recently, chances are pretty good that you've made the leap to the world of 64-bit computing.

After years of lacklustre sales, 64-bit systems have finally taken off in the consumer world, and in the last couple of years have surpassed sales of 32-bit systems by a wide margin. 64-bit operating systems are now commonplace on both Macintosh...

This iPhone case adds a pretty basic but important feature for anyone who likes to shoot stills or video with their phone: horizontal and vertical tripod mounts.

Called, appropriately, the DiffCase iPhone 4/4S Case with Tripod Mounts, it also has two lids that let you shield the screen from the sun when you're composing photos and videos.

The lids will help to keep...

An American landscape photographer bought an entire French village yesterday for what many people pay for a new house.

Ahae Jeong (shown on the right), who goes by his first name, purchased the village of Courbefy, France, for just $663,000, which was actually some $400,000 over the auction starting price.

Ahae, a South Korean born photographer based in the United...