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Nikon Singapore posted anannouncement (link is external) on its Facebook page yesterday, congratulating a photographer named Chay Yu Wei for capturing a perfect shot of an airplane framed by a ladder in Chinatown.

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A new pocket-sized camera called YoCam (link is external), claiming to be the world's smallest waterproof wearable camera, has been successfully funded through crowdfunding site Indiegogo. Available for pre-order now, Molifys YoCam features a versatile design suitable for a variety of situations, including underwater recording.

YoCam is indeed small at 85 x 30 x 21mm / 3.3 x... more (link is external)

If you’ve always dreamed of owning a Leica repair business, now’s your chance to do so. A complete Leica service business has popped up on eBay (link is external). It was previously owned by a Factory Authorized Leica service agent, and his complete set of tools and resources can... more (link is external)

Sony’s image sensor business has seen meteoric growth in recent times, but it seems that things are now cooling down. The company just reported (link is external) its earnings for its latest quarter, and things aren’t looking as rosy as they were before: Sony... more (link is external)

For his master thesis project at Hochschule Mannheim in Germany, photographer and communication designer Andreas Neumann (link is external) decided to create bullet time animations using analog photography. He ended up creating a camera ring composed of 100 individual pinhole cameras for the project, titled... more (link is external)

Nick Brandt. Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery, NY

Lake Natron (link is external) in Northern Tanzania is extremely high in soda and salt content. After animals die in the lake, their carcasses are preserved through calcification as they dry, resulting in petrified... more (link is external)

Official product photos of the soon-to-be-announced Canon 1D X Mark II have leaked onto the Web, giving us a glimpse of what Canon has up its sleeve for the next iteration of its flagship DSLR.

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Over in Europe, Ford has created special ‘Camera Tracking Unit’ cars for photographers to shoot publicity photos from. The cars are standard Ford cars that have been modified — the back has been chopped off and turned into a rear-facing seat specifically for a photographer.

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Nikon has released details of price increases it will implement in the Japanese market from the beginning of March this year. The changes will affect a total of 73 of its DX and FX lenses, as well as three teleconverters. In addition, 21 lenses for the Nikon 1 system will be included, the FT1 mount adapter and six Speedlite flash units along with the systems associated wireless remotes. Newer lenses, such as the recently announced... more (link is external)

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster. On January 28th, 1986, the NASA Space Shuttle orbiter Challenger broke up 73 into its flight into space, killing the 7 astronauts on board.

Orlando Sentinel photojournalist Red Huber was covering the launch that day. In the 4-minute video above, Huber reflects on the event and shares what he remembers from shooting that fateful assignment.

When the vehicle disintegrated, some of the... more (link is external)

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