Photography News

Adobe has announced a number of updates to its Creative Cloud suite, including some feature enhancements and additions to Photoshop CC and Lightroom CC. A previously demonstrated de-haze tool has been added to CC versions of Photoshop and Lightroom, and the effects of Photoshop's popular healing brush will now be displayed in real time as the tool is used.... more (link is external)

Earlier this year, Panasonic announced that its hybrid smartphone/compact would be coming to the US sometime this summer. That time is now - the Panasonic Lumix DMC-CM1 is currently on sale in the US to the tune of $1000 unlocked for GSM networks. Read more (link is external)

Facebook today launched (link is external) a new standalone app called Moments that’s designed to help friends build collaborative photo albums for easy sharing of memories.

From big events like weddings to smaller ones like a kayaking trip or a night out, the app... more (link is external)

Camera gear rental company LensProToGo (link is external) just had its headquarters broken into, and as much as $500,000 in equipment may have been stolen by robbers.

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Promote Systems has introduced its new Meta35 dongle and software, which together allow certain compatible film cameras to be connected to a laptop for metadata transfer. Supported film cameras include the Canon EOS 1V, Nikon F5, F6, F100, N90 and N90s, and the Minolta Maxxum 7 and 9. Read more (link is external)

Canon may be planning to create one of the world’s widest non-fisheye prime lenses. A new patent shows the internal design of a 10mm f/2.8 lens for full frame sensors.

The Japanese website Egami spotted the patent (link is external) (#2015-102620), which was published earlier this... more (link is external)

Remember that photo of a weasel riding on a woodpeckers back (link is external) that went viral earlier this year? A similarly strange wildlife shot has emerged, and this one is making the rounds on the Web as well. It’s a bizarre photo of a raccoon riding on the back of an alligator in a river.

The... more (link is external)

It’s always neat when photographers and film directors opt for creative and ambitious physical sets and effects (link is external) rather than relying primarily on computer generated imagery. One interesting recent example is the mind-bending tesseract scene in the... more (link is external)

Photography enthusiast Jason Dorn (link is external) of Calgary, Alberta, has been creating a series of illustrations of well-known vintage film cameras. The artworks show the forms of iconic cameras in front of simple, colored backgrounds.

“I basically started doing these graphics up after purchasing a... more (link is external)

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