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Remember your first time taking photographs? I’m talking about before you joined Reddit or a camera forum, before you started posting pictures to Instagram or sharing them with your friends. The time when you considered yourself a hobbyist. The time when you were considered a tourist in your own neighborhood.

You’d walk around taking pictures of anything, the street lights, trees, the road, family members… People probably hated you at family... more

Have a virtual reality headset and enjoy browsing Instagram photos? Instamuseum is a new app that lets you combine those two things: it turns Instagram accounts into a virtual reality museum that you can “walk around” in.

To get started, simply visit the website... more

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Leica has announced the availability of a pair of adapters for its SL full frame mirrorless camera that will allow users to fit lenses from the S medium format system and to use microphones and headphones when shooting video. The Leica S-Adapter L opens the... more

DJI just released something really interesting. It’s called the DJI Focus, and it lets you manipulate your camera’s focus and aperture wirelessly and from the ground.

The Focus is a tool that was clearly designed with cinematographers in mind, but... more

In March, ex-Stanford student athlete Brock Allen Turner was convicted of three felony counts: assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated woman, sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object and sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object. Last week he was sentenced to six months in jail.

The crime and lenient sentence has... more

Samsung has announced a ruggedized "Active" version of the standard Galaxy S7.  The Active comes with the same IP68 rating for water resistance as the standard device, but adds the MIL STD-810G standard and a shatterproof display to the mix, making the S7 Active resistant to the occasional drop. 

The beefy 4000 mAh... more

The photo community is mourning the loss of one of its best and brightest today. Yesterday evening NPR confirmed that 50-year-old photojournalist David Gilkey and his colleague, 38-... more

If this video doesn’t make you cringe, nothing will. In the middle of what looks to be a presentation at Cine Gear Expo, disaster struck. While testing out a powerful and pricey stabilizing rig, a $70K camera smashed to the ground.

It’s not entirely clear from... more

Canon’s got a fever, and the only prescription is more focal length. A new patent from the Japanese camera giant has surfaced that shows the formula for a monster of an EF lens: a 1000mm f/5.6 IS DO.

The patent was spotted by Canon... more

Canon G7 X Mark II at Sasquatch! Music Festival

The Sasquatch! Music Festival, which takes place at the Gorge Amphitheater in the town of George in eastern Washington State, is loud, expensive, crowded, beautiful and dirty. Leaving behind the 'expensive' part, that about sums up why this is the fourth year I've attended, and why I've brought a camera (or three) with me each time.

The first year I went, I attended chiefly for the music (i.e., for fun). But having seen friends... more

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