Photography News

Happy April Fools’ Day, everyone! We’ve scoured the Web for the cleverest and funniest photography-related jokes so that you can get your fill of the day’s ridiculousness in one place.

Without further ado, here’s what’s been announced today:

Adobe’s Ansel Adams Lightroom Tutorial

Adobe’s latest “... more

Peak Design’s Everyday Messenger Bag is the... more

There’s a new action cam on its way to market, and when it arrives it may give GoPro, Sony, and all the rest a serious run for their money. Why? Because this camera, the new Revl Arc, is the... more

Want to see how the Nikon D5’s video recording performs under low light and high ISOs? Kenneth Yung over at Photoblog.hk shot this short film — what you see is straight out of camera and lit using a single 50W incandescent light bulb.

There wasn’t any color... more

With Springtime finally kicking in to high gear on the West Coast, we took advantage of the change in weather and brought the Sony FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM lens along with us on a couple of trips. From razor-clamming in Long Beach, WA to pounding the streets (and stairs) of San Francisco, the 24-70 G Master continued to impress us in terms of sharpness, out-of-focus rendering and overall build... more

UK film manufacturer Harman Technologies has announced that orders are being taken for unusual sheet and roll film sizes in its annual program for supplying low volume and custom-sized Ilford Photo materials for vintage and large format camera owners. Rather than making odd sizes on the chance that they will sell, the company uses it Ultra Large Format (ULF) program to collect orders from the public and institutions through specified retailers and sets aside time especially to produce film... more

Canon has applied for a patent for a viewfinder design that combines both optical and electronic displays in a DSLR style system. Via a system of mirrored prism the design allows users to benefit from all the advantages of both EVF and TTL optical systems through the same eye piece. Menus can be overlaid on a normal optical view, or a live view function can be used through the viewfinder which would be of great benefit to video shooters.

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See our Nikon D5 high ISO samples gallery

Nikon's new flagship DSLR, the D5, has landed and it offers some serious high ISO reach. Natively, you can push the camera all the way to ISO 102,400 and in extended settings it goes all the way up to the 3 million mark... more

Brazilian soccer legend Pel, widely considered the best player ever, has filed a $30 million lawsuit against Samsung. He claims that the company used a photo of someone who looks like him for an advertisement.

The 75-year-old Pel says that the Korean company walked away from negotiations in 2013 regarding using Pel to advertise its electronics.

Samsung then proceeded to place a print advertisement in the New York Times that featured a photo of a... more

Colorizing old black-and-white photos with Photoshop has been a popular subject on the Internet over the past few years, as skilled retouchers use their time and skills to offer a new view of vintage images. In the future, though, software may be able colorize B&W photos with the click of a button.

Automatically colorizing black-and-white photos is a problem that computer science researchers are hard at... more

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