Photography News

Hasselblad has just announced the 10 winning photographers of its prestigious Masters Awards 2016 contest. The winners were selected from thousands of images by a combination of a vote that was open to the public and votes from a professional jury composed of some... more

French travelers and filmmakers Claire & Max have created this new experimental short film titled “Apparences.” They shot 4K imagery of Paris using a... more

Google’s Street View cameras have gone to the ends of the Earth, from under the sea to desolate deserts, in order to document the world in photos. The project is grand, but its latest effort is on a much smaller scale —... more

Given the utter ubiquity of photography in the USA, most Americans probably dont view photography as special. But in impoverished areas around the world, personal photos can be rare. On visits to her birthplace of Kolkata, India, Bipasha Shom frequently took portraits of people she met, and she was struck by how many people lacked access to a camera and had no family photos of her own.

Shom hatched an idea to use instant film to bring photography to these people, and she... more

Here’s a look at how photographer Jaanus Ree recently captured some beautiful photos of windsurfers using off-camera lighting. By placing powerful flashes on the shoreline nearby, Ree was able to freeze the action and capture some remarkable shots.

“Stormy conditions aren’t cut... more

Be careful when mounting cameras to the insides of cars — a badly-placed mount could be hazardous to your head’s health. Here’s a humorous blooper reel video from a few years ago in which Top Gear co-presenters Richard Hammond and James May keep forgetting that the mount is there. They receive multiple painful reminders after leaning forward and banging their noggins on the sharp corner.

They’re lucky they didn’t get into a fender bender…

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Olympus is rumored to have a new Micro Four Thirds mirrorless camera called the PEN-F up its sleeve, and today we just got our first look at the upcoming camera. The leaked photo above shows what the black version of the camera looks like with... more

Best of CES 2016

CES 2016 just wrapped up in Las Vegas and during the course of the week-long trade show, in between meetings and demos, we had the chance to roam the floor and check out a lot of cool new products; from big releases like the Nikon D500... more

Chinese lens maker Zhongyi Optics has added M42, Canon FD and Minolta MD lens adapters to its second-generation Lens Turbo lineup for Micro Four Thirds cameras. Like Metabones' Speedboosters, the adapters shorten the effective focal length, increasing the F-number by one stop and partially negating the crop factor. The 0.726x focal length reduction combines to give a net 1.45x focal length crop, rather than the 2x crop that you'd usually experience on a Micro Four Thirds camera.

These... more

The Blackberry Priv combines Google's Android operating system with BlackBerry's security features and a slider form factor with hardware qwerty-keyboard. In the camera module an 18MP sensor works together with a Schneider Kreuznach designed lens and optical image stabilization. The camera is capable of recording 4K video and there is also a dual-tone LED flash. DxOMark recently published its test results, placing the BlackBerry Priv into a joint eleventh place in its smartphone rankings, on... more

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