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A few weeks ago, I walked outside of my house and nearly stumbled over a package. It was flat, rectangular, and large. Excitedly I read my name on the postage. This is it, I told myself. Quickly, I ran inside and removed the scissors from a drawer in my kitchen (the one that for some reason refuses to stay on the rails, no matter how many times I fix it) and sliced the package open.

What I saw was a book I had been waiting on for weeks. It was a recent release from the... more

It’s not every day that you hear about a classic film line being brought back from the dead, but that’s what’s being announced today. Kodak Ektachrome film is coming back for film photographers.

The announcement was made today at CES in Las Vegas by Kodak Alaris, the separate company owned by the Kodak Pension Plan in the UK that runs Kodak’s old Personalized Imaging division.

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Often when scoping out digitization projects, devising complementary conservation treatments that assist in digital photo capture are challenging aspects of overall workflow design. And so it has been the case with our recent efforts at... more

I feel like there’s a real shortage of quality female heroes these days throughout our entertainment media. They always seem to be flawed in one way or another by the system that produces them. They’re either a distressed, incapable damsel, or an obnoxious, loud-and-proud feminist who deems it necessary to remind the audience that she’s a woman every five seconds (just in case we didn’t notice).

Rarely do I watch a movie where the writers and filmmakers... more

Back in November 2015, the Chinese camera drone company DJI announced that it had acquired a minority stake in the legendary Swedish camera brand Hasselblad. The following July, the two companies teamed up to launch a monster $4,599 medium format... more

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Meet the Polaroid Pop, a new instant camera that produces classic Polaroid-sized 3 x 4" prints. Like the Polaroid Snap and... more

Readers' Choice Awards 2016: The Winners

At the end of last year we asked you to vote for the best cameras and lenses of 2016. Across two rounds of voting DPReview readers did just that, selecting the top overall photography products of the year. With more than 40,000 votes in multiple categories, the final poll closed at midnight on New Years' eve. So without further... more

CES 2007 was much like the CES' of its day: plenty of compact cameras were announced, Wi-Fi photo frames were all the rage and memory cards grew faster with higher capacities (Class 6 cards of 16GB were on the way!) Digital technologies also continued to converge, as evidenced by a camera Samsung announced that year: the i70. 

The i70 was Samsung's latest attempt to combine a camera and a portable media player it could play MP3s and videos, and included a text viewer. The... more

Looking for a moment of zen? We suggest spending a couple of minutes playing with Land Lines, a game that draws on Google's satellite images of Earth.

So maybe it's not quite a 'game.' Its creators Zach Lieberman and Matt Felsen call it an experiment, one that analyzes basic scribbles (zig zags and curves, nothing fancy) and finds a satellite image of Earth with matching features. It runs on either a mobile or desktop web browser.

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Episode 139 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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