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In 2012, 35 years after its launch in 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe left the Solar System and became the first human-man object to enter interstellar space. On board is a Golden Record with sounds and images that show life on... more

Ricoh has announced a new wide-angle prime for its Pentax 645D/645Z medium format digital bodies. This lens' name is a mouthful: HD PENTAX-D FA645 35mm F3.5 AL [IF]. The top-line specs are that it acts as a 27.5mm (in 35mm terms) on a digital 645 body, has a minimum focus distance of 0.3m, giving a maximum magnification ratio of 0.25x. Read more

“How do you give a second life to an old film camera?,” asks the French ad agency Maison Carnot. They had an old and non-functional Fujica ST 705 camera on their hands, so they decided to create a stop-motion video and a piece of art with it. It took the team a day to disassemble the... more

Rumors have been swirling around in the photo industry the past couple of months about Samsung pulling out of the camera industry. Samsung hasn’t announced anything new in recent times, and its camera division has reportedly been... more

Back in 2011, photographers Kevin Burg and Jamie Beck helped coin and popularize the “cinemagraph,” an animated GIF showing a mostly static photo with certain elements moving and looping.

Now, as the world of virtual reality is... more

It's not easy shopping for a photographer. We're notoriously picky, our gear is confusingly named and the difference between something we like and something we don't can come down to what seem like trivial details. But before you give up and just get a gift card, take a look through our carefully selected holiday gift suggestions, grouped by price range, for the photographer in your life. Read more... more

Photographer Antoine Geiger has put together a strange photo series titled SUR-FAKE.... more

Want to set a new Guinness world record with a stunt explosion in your next photo or video shoot? You’re going to have to beat the explosion in the video above.

The new James Bond movie Spectre has been awarded the Guinness World Record for “Largest Film Stunt Explosion.” Rather than use CGI for the scene, the team opted for 8,418 liters of fuel and 33 kilograms of explosives.

Chris Corbould, the Special Effects supervisor for the film, accepted... more

My name is Louis Amore, and I’m a 42-year-old photographer based in London, England. I have been a professional photographer for the past 6 years, but I have studied photography since a young age… since the days of film and developing in my bedroom.

Last year, I was watching the Remembrance Day parade at The Cenotaph in London on TV. The parade really got to me — the faces of the men and women who had gone through so much made me question what I had done in my... more

Want to see what Photoshop’s adjustment layers are actually doing to your photos in terms of curves? There’s an easy new way to do so.

Los Angeles-based photographer and retoucher Edmon Amiraghyan has created a special PSD file called Live Curves. It’s simply a... more

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