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Flickr recently gathered up photo and camera data to review the past year, and now the company is doing some number crunching to reveal major... more

Here’s a short behind-the-scenes video showing how fashion photographer Yu Tsai recently photographed tennis superstar Serena Williams for Sports Illustrated magazine. Williams was featured in the cover story after being selected as... more

The braniacs at MIT have created an algorithm to determine the memorability of a photograph. The deep learning-based technology learned what makes a photo memorable by evaluating the rankings from 5,000 human volunteers, and even indicates which portions of an image it considers to be memorable with a heatmap depiction. The algorithm is allegedly as good as a human in determining what makes... more

Before anything else, lets address the elephant in the room: for my Gear of the Year Ive just selected a camera whose future appears a bit dark. As in 'Luke, I am your father' kind of dark. The Samsung NX1 was the camera that some photographers saw as A New Hope for the future, but theres a disturbance in The Force with signs that the Dark Side might prevail when it comes to Samsungs camera business. 

Some might find my lack of faith disturbing, but I have a... more

Whether you're traveling the world or the next town over, having the right camera at your side makes all the difference. We've picked out our best picks for the photographer who wants to keep things simple by carrying a compact camera rather than one with interchangeable lenses. If you fall into that category, we've got great news for you - there are more high quality cameras with attached lenses than ever before, brimming with features tailored to your needs. 

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Whether you're traveling the world or the next town over, having the right camera at your side makes all the difference. We've picked out our best picks for the photographer who wants to keep things simple by carrying a compact camera rather than one with interchangeable lenses. If you fall into that category, we've got great news for you - there are more high quality cameras with attached lenses than ever before, brimming with features tailored to your needs. 

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Chinese lens manufacturer Kipon has announced that next year it will make available a reducing adapter thats designed to allow medium format lenses to fit on full frame cameras. The adapter will have a magnification factor of 0.7x which it says will both widen the effective focal length of the lens in use and widen its effective aperture. 

The first adapter will be designed to mount Hasselblad lenses on Sony E-mount cameras, but the company says it is working on other mounts for a... more

When the first Nikon D5 photos leaked out earlier this week, sharp-eyed commenters noticed that the viewfinder appears to have little release buttons on the side, suggesting that the camera will have a larger interchangeable viewfinder piece.

Those observations were spot on: newly leaked photos show that the upcoming Nikon D5 does have a large eyepiece that can be easily removed by... more

Preview based on pre-production Canon EOS 5D S & SR

Canon has added to its EOS 5D range with the launch of two 50MP cameras, the 5DS and the 5DS R. Both cameras are high resolution full frame models, primarily aimed at stills photographers. The only difference between the models is that the 'S' has an optical low-pass filter, while... more

Photographer Karl Taylor just released this humorous video titled: “... more

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