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Care to start off your week with a heart attack? This video, captured earlier this year at a track in Canada, may only be three seconds long… but it’ll make your heart stop nonetheless.

Canadian drag racer Shawn Mcfalls’ right rear 4 link bar bent right as he hit the gas on his souped up Camaro back in February at the Grand Bend Motorplex in Ontario. This sent him and his car flying into and over the protective wall on the right side of the track, and right at... more

Here at DPReview, we love dogs. They're great. But they're notoriously hard to photograph. Even the best-trained are unpredictable and fast-moving, and when they're not running around they're unable to sit still.

In this video, DPReview's Sam Spencer takes one of our favorite cameras - the Sony a6300 - to shoot some of our favorite pups. During a busy day of shooting, we gave both the animals and the a6300 a good workout, culminating in a studio portrait session for the lucky dogs at... more

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The Sony RX100 V is the world's most advanced pocketable camera with a 1"-type sensor, and it's also the most expensive. With a spec sheet that is unmatched in its segment (and in some cases, in the entire market), the RX100 V is going to be looked at by a great many folks, and is indeed going to be a great camera for a wide variety of photographers. But there are also photographers for whom the RX100 V is probably not your best choice - so we've put together some reasons... more

Episode 128 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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VLC’s free and open source media player is a popular option for people who want a lightweight program that can handle pretty much any video format on any platform. The project just took another big leap in compatibility: it can now play back 360-degree photos and videos.

The company behind VLC, VideoLan, teamed up with 360-degree camera company... more

Controversial British photographer David Hamilton was found dead at his home in Paris yesterday. He was 83.

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Adobe has launched Photoshop Elements 15 in the Windows Store, marking the first time the more powerful program has been offered... more

UK couple Dave and Sarah love both films and felines, so they’ve launched an Instagram project that combines the two. Called @moviecats, each photo they shoot is a scene from a... more

In previous articles I've discussed the advantages of aerial photography and shooting from a helicopter as opposed to shooting from a light plane. But are there any special considerations with regard to equipment when shooting from the air?

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The Chronos 1.4 affordable high-speed camera that created some buzz on the internet about a month ago has now made it onto Kickstarter and reached its funding goal of approximately $48,000 in only 5 hours. The Chronos 1.4 can shoot high-speed video with 1,957 fps at its full resolution of 1280 1024 pixels, and up to 21,600 fps at lower resolutions. 

The Chronos... more

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