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School portraits aren’t usually the result of creative photo concepts, but photographer Krijn Westerburgen was recently able to flex his creative muscles for an elementary school class photo in the Netherlands. He photographed the students in the style of a Rembrandt painting.

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Photographer Christian Vieler of Waltrop, Germany, has been attracting a great deal of attention in recent weeks for his project titled “Fotos Frei Schnauze.” It’s a series of portraits of dogs frozen in time, captured mid-lunge as they go after treats thrown toward them.

Vieler says his goal is to capture emotion on the faces of man’s best friend — feelings such as happiness, desperation, and frustration. He also aims to create heartwarming photos... more

Fujifilm helped kick off the mirrorless camera revolution back in 2012 by announcing the powerful retro-styled X-Pro1 camera. Now it appears that a follow-up will soon be upon us: the first official photos of the new Fujifilm X-Pro2 have leaked.

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Over the summer I took part in a great American tradition called 'tubing' with some friends. Dont be fooled by the semi-rugged sounding name of this activity. It's basically an opportunity to sit outside surrounded by nature and friends, consuming alcoholic beverages (in a responsible manner) while floating lazily down a river. In short, it's everything summer should be.

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Germany is known to have some of the strictest privacy laws in Europe, and sometimes the policies trump photography rights and copyright. The country’s highest court just ruled that a photographer must delete “intimate” photos of his ex-lover — pictures that were consented to when they were created and which the man had no intention of sharing.

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If you have a lens of one mount and a camera with another, there’s a good chance that there’s an adapter out there that can help you pair the two. This is called shooting with an adapted lens (versus shooting with a native one). Photographer Mark Ryan Sallee of ... more

You may not recognize the name, face, and photos of Douglas Miller, but many people living in Laguna Beach, California, do. He’s a street photographer who has been shooting a roll of film per day for 44 years, creating a remarkable photo archive of 350,000+ spontaneous snapshots that tell the story of his town.

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The Galaxy Note 5 is the latest model in Samsung's line of Note large-format smartphones. In terms of camera specifications the Note 5 offers very similar hardware to what we've seen on the Galaxy S6, S6 Edge and S6 Edge+. A 1/2.6-inch 16MP CMOS sensor is combined with a fast F1.9 aperture and an optical image stabilization system. DxOMark has just completed its Mobile report on the Note 5's camera, and we've published the findings over at... more

DxOMark has completed its full mobile report into the Samsung Galaxy S6 smartphone's camera. With a DxOMark Mobile score of 87 the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ just snatches the smartphone camera crown from the Sony Xperia Z5 and places itself on top of the DxOMark smartphone rankings.

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Adapted Lens Talk

With the ever-growing popularity of using mirrorless cameras with lens adapters, we are pleased to announce the opening of a new forum: Adapted Lens Talk. Thanks to the proposal and volunteer work of its moderator, Tom Caldwell, the forum has taken off dramatically and is full of vintage lens deliciousness.

The forum also features discussions on experiences... more

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