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Anyone who's ever tried photographing children knows it can be an epic challenge. One of the greatest trophies is an amazing image that captures the personality and magic that each child possesses. Trying to keep the little squirmers in one place may seem impossible, though, and at times it actually might be!

 

 

Selfie fans, put down your camera and back away slowly! We don't care how cool that shot you were about take of yourself with your favorite celeb or performing an extreme sporting maneuver is, it's officially just become redundant. US space agency NASA has taken the not-so-humble selfie and turned it up to 11...

 

 

2014 is a big year for German camera legend Leica. The company reached its 100th year as a manufacturer of lustworthy photographic tools last March, as its very first camera -- the Lilliput, or Ur-Leica -- was completed by Oskar Barnack in March 1914. Not surprisingly, the company is doing plenty to celebrate...

 

 

Last week's Firmware Friday roundup was uncharacteristically large, as Canon, Nikon, Ricoh and Olympus together updated no less than 16 cameras. Although this week isn't huge to quite the same degree, it's still decidedly above average, with another nine cameras receiving updates. Nikon and Olympus are again...

 

 

From the desk of Eamon Hickey:

"The headline news on the Sony A6000 is its claimed improvements in continuous AF (AF-C) on moving subjects. To test those claims, I've shot almost 2,500 photos in more than 150 burst sequences of flying birds, dogs at play, soccer, flag football, sprinters, joggers, and bicyclists...

 

 

This year you've watched us update the overall look of our site, bringing onboard a new logo and generally sprucing the place up a bit. Now, we're rolling out a whole new review layout to go along with our new look.

Once upon a time, we decided to pull content from the various tabs and subtabs of our reviews back...

 

 

Are you a Samsung NX camera owner in need of a fast, well-built, professional-level portrait prime? We've just published our review on the Samsung 85mm ƒ/1.4 ED SSA lens, which is part of Samsung's premium, professional line of lenses and is the "crème de la crème" of portrait lenses for NX users. Regardless of its...

 

 

Earlier this week, Microsoft unveiled its latest attempt at gaining traction in the competitive tablet market. Like its predecessor, Surface Pro 3 aims to bridge the divide between Android and iOS tablets and notebook PCs. It runs a Windows 8 operating system and your desktop apps -- including the full-fledged...

 

 

Ever wondered what it is that makes some of your photos popular? You're not alone: MIT student Aditya Khosla wondered the same thing, as did his fellow researchers, Atish Das Sarma of eBay, and Raffay Hamid of DigitalGlobe. Where you likely differ from these three gentlemen, though, is that you probably only...

 

 

One of the best ways to improve your smartphone photos is to introduce some apps to your workflow that expand your phone's photographic capabilities. In a recent video for The Guardian, Dan Rubin, Instagram early adopter and editor-at-large for The Photographic Journal, showed off some of his favorite mobile...

 

 

Ah, Memorial Day weekend! The official start of the summer season, at least to us folks here in the States. As such, B&H has started running a series of Memorial Day specials on a wide variety of cameras, from compact, waterproof digicams to DSLRs. We also have a variety of individual camera and lens deals,...

 

 

For the last seven years, there's been a battle underway for the hearts and minds of photographers. Two of the best-known photography-centric desktop apps in the business -- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and DxO Optics Pro -- have waged war. Today, DxO Labs makes friends with its long-time rival, announcing a new...

 

 

Here's a riddle to while away a little of your Tuesday afternoon: What talks to your smartphone or tablet, knows precisely where it is at all times, and is just as at home underwater or in a light-bulb socket as it is in the palm of your hand?

Need another hint? It also shoots 360-degree spherical video and...

 

 

Out of the lab and onto the streets! The streets of News Orleans, that is. The Panasonic GH4 review process continues with our first big set of real-world sample photos, as well as some sample 4K videos, one of which is embedded below, with the rest on our YouTube channel. (If you want to see the videos in all...

 

 

Here's to "OTTO" – the world's first Raspberry Pi-based photo-video hybrid GIF camera that is fully hackable, customizable, and connectible!

Using an intuitive shutter-control hand crank, a respectable 35mm f/2.0 lens, and a wifi-connected smartphone app, OTTO meets all of your GIF-recording desires… and more....

 

 

To call the Samsung NX Mini "small" isn't really doing it justice. Plenty of cameras are small these days, even some ILC's like the amazingly compact Panasonic GM1. A more appropriate description for the NX Mini is "svelte" - sporting clean lines and showcasing rather astonishing engineering to achieve this level...

 

 

Last week, we told you about a patent from online shopping behemoth Amazon.com, which has photographers up in arms -- and understandably so.

What Amazon has patented is, essentially, the idea of using photography gear just as it was designed to be used. Sure, a very specific camera and gear setup is described,...

 

 

It's been a long time coming, but the wait is finally just about over for Tokina's constant-aperture 70-200mm f/4 zoom lens, a model first shown under glass at the CP+ tradeshow, way back in February 2012. (Yes, really!) After more than two years in development limbo, the lens is set to start shipping later...

 

 

UPDATE (5/20): We've uploaded a full set of gallery images for the TG-3. Click over to the Olympus TG-3 sample gallery page for a look at this larger set of photos, including full-resolution files.

It's safe to say Olympus is on a roll lately as cameras in their OM-D and PEN lineup are winning rave reviews. But...