Photography News

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

One photographer received quite a shock recently when he found out that one of his clients had been arrested for murdering her daughter. He had been hired by the “grieving” woman to create Photoshopped “ghost girl” photos at the grave site.

Pennsylvania photographer... more

I see this sight with increasing frequency: people holding up their phone in front of their face, recording a cool event or situation, like a concert or speech, watching the three-dimensional live event through a tiny screen.

Its a conscious decision, choosing to record the moment rather than experiencing the purity and reality of that moment. Its a choice photographers know something about.

Its true, a photographer walks and balances on a thin line... more

Peacock feathers are designed to dazzle and attract a mate, but they’re equally amazing when viewed from up close. Canadian photographer Waldo Nell photographed one through a microscope, and... more

Polarr has just launched version 2.0 of its popular iOS photo editing app. The new version features a list of new features and an upgraded user interface.

There are now customizable toolbars on both sides of the screen, and portrait and landscape orientation are both... more

Here’s the story of how I recently proposed to my girlfriend using the back of my film camera.

It was date night and our first date of the year. I had been overseas for a few weeks and before that we had both gone back to our respective parents places during the Christmas break. I used this as an excuse to dress up a little.

In the morning, while she was at uni, I bought flowers and put post-it notes throughout her room detailing what to wear and... more

IKEA has announced its new “Art Photography” collection, a new series of 11 limited-edition fine art photos that will soon go on sale in IKEA stores in the United States.

This is the second year IKEA is holding a special “Art Event” series, which is geared towards making fine art available to the masses.

“Spanning from the highly abstract to the figurative, the Art Photography collection reflects the rich and inspiring... more

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