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The Nikon 300mm F4E PF ED VR is one heck of a compact telephoto lens. Since we posted our first samples from the lens last May, we've shot quite a lot with it including concerts, motocross, sprint boat racing, rugby and tennis (some of the images previously appeared in our... more

Accurately colorizing a photo usually takes hours upon hours of research followed by the same in Photoshop. But now, thanks to fancy new neural network technology, you can do an amazing job in no time.

The demo above was put together by photographer... more

In addition to capturing all kinds of photographs, traveling press photographers also have a nice advantage when it comes to finding new Pokemon in the wildly popular game Pokemon Go. This 1-minute video shows a sports photographer who was recently spotted dividing his time between capturing photos and capturing Pokemon.

“During the first half of New York Cosmos versus Jacksonville Armada there was a stoppage in play allowing the snapper to play the hit mobile game,... more

For his project Ornithographies, Spanish photographer Xavi Bou wanted to capture images of birds in flight that the human eye simply could never see on its own. That’s how he struck on the... more

Being a man [street photographer] is way harder. People will think that you are a creep if you take photos of children and women.reader comment on my last article on public privacy

Im 5 feet tall on a good day. People always ask me for directions and children look me in the eye. Im low-profile and not threatening and, with my black... more

Japan's NHK has started broadcasting the world's first 8K television content on a new 'Super Hi-Vision' satellite channel. NHK will air a mix of 4K and 7680 x 4320 8K content from 10AM to 5PM, with programming that includes concerts and highlights from the 2012 Olympics. There's just one problem nobody actually owns an 8K TV, so NHK has set up six viewing stations in Japan ... more

Augmented reality is in the news plenty lately, but some researchers from MIT have put an interesting twist on the popular technology. Using new algorithms and as little as a few seconds of video created by a traditional camera, they've been able to create Interactive Dynamic Video, or IDV. The objects... more

Digital cameras are notoriously difficult to design and get right. Where do you start? Who is the customer? What features do you include on the camera? There are uncountable ways to approach a camera development and design program.

For example, you can create a spreadsheet listing current and near-future ‘must-have’ specifications and cross them out one-by-one to please the techno-consumer. Or you can specialize and excel in specific areasa more... more

What if Instagram had launched over 20 years ago, and instead of being an iPhone app it had been a Windows 95 .exe program? Russian designer Misha Petrick decided to find out.

Petrick created... more

Instagram has taken inspiration from Snapchat and launched a new feature called Stories. With Instagram Stories, users can capture numerous videos and photos, alter them with stickers, drawing tools, and by adding text, then post them to a single 'story' slideshow that won't clutter up followers' feeds. Once 24 hours pass, these story posts will disappear.

Instagram Stories are only visible to followers when the account is set to private; likewise, users can block specific followers... more

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