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Want to be blown away by the size and beauty of the Milky Way? daveachuk of Vancouver, Canada, created this 8-minute-long flythrough of our galaxy in 3D. It may look like a CGI rendering, but it’s not: it’s actually the result of combining over 400,000 photos captured by the... more

GoPro has introduced the HERO4 Session, a cube-shaped waterproof camera that is half the size of and 40% lighter than its other HERO4 cameras. The HERO4 Session is waterproof to a depth of 33ft/10m without requiring a separate housing and features one-button operation. Read more

Kaleta Bartosz was on a boat with his girlfriend off the coast of Croatia last week when they spotted the... more

Having failed woodworking at school, probably the worst thing I could have done is venture into the world of wet plate photography.

Back in 2012, I learned the dark art of the silver stuff, just around the time the wave of interest was starting to build worldwide. However, as I live in New Zealand, an island nation, it has taken a while (and is still taking a while) to reach us. As a result, getting anything wet plate-related is quite a task. One does not simply walk into a... more

After its recent app update it seems Instagram has further improvements up its sleeve - the mobile image sharing platform has started storing higher resolution images on its servers. In the app and on the web interface images are still displayed at the smaller 640 x 640 pixel size, but a look at the website source code reveals that images are now actually stored at 1080 x 1080 pixels. Read more

Back in April, Zeiss announced its new Batis series of lenses — a lineup that featured the world’s first-ever OLED distance display rather than a physical distance indicator window. The new OLED screens can be easily read by photographers even in low (or no) light situations.

If you’re wondering what the screens look like at night... more

Here’s a fantastic piece of visual storytelling: the New York-based production company Variable recently traveled to the small Greek island of Chios to document an annual tradition that involves Orthodox churches firing 100,000 homemade rockets at each other in a mock war. The resulting short... more

If youre an Instagram fan, there is a good chance that your experience is about to get quite a bit better. In the past, Instagram has uploaded and stored user images at a meager resolution of 640×640. In a world in which smartphonesare beginning to include quad HD displays, a non-HD resolution seems subpar. Luckily, it appears that 1080×1080 Instagram uploads are on the way.

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Hey, Amazon Prime members: if you’ve been eyeing a particular piece of camera equipment, you might want to hold off on purchasing it until next Wednesday. On July 15th, to celebrate its 20th birthday, Amazon is holding a ginormous shopping event called “... more

Patience can lead to great things in photography. For photographer Johan Georget, it’s what allowed him to capture this shot-of-a-lifetime of a rhinoceros in Africa.

In November 2014, Georget embarked on a 6-month journey through a number of African countries, from Johannesburg, South Africa... more

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