When Evan Griffin (link is external)‘s dad visited Las Vegas recently, he borrowed his son’s GoPro camera to capture memories of the things he saw there.
The camera market has been struggling in recent years, with Canon, Nikon, and Sony all recently reporting (link is external) drops in camera demand from a year ago. But there may be a sliver of positive news for camera makers:... more (link is external)
Want to get a taste of what it’s like to climb Mount Everest without the risk of dying in the process? High-res photography and virtual reality will soon make it possible.
If you’ve ever photographed spinning airplane propeller or helicopter rotor blades with your smartphone, you may have found that the spinning blades were turned into bizarre shapes in the resulting photo. What you’re seeing is distortion caused by a rolling shutter, when a CMOS sensor captures a scene by scanning across it very quickly (link is external) rather than... more (link is external)
Selfless acts of kindness are sometimes rewarded in a big way, and that’s what photographer Dana Gruszynski (link is external) has been learning lately.
Last month, we shared how Gruszynski came to the rescue when a wedding photographer didn’t show up at a couple’s wedding. Gruszynski, who heard... more (link is external)
Laurent Baheux began in photography as a sports writer and photojournalist before a safari to Tanzania in 2002 changed his life. There he fell in love with photographing the exotic animals of Africa, preferring a fine art approach that gives his wildlife images a portrait-like quality. Read more (link is external)
Here’s another story that illustrates why the US government is racing to create a national drone registry (link is external) that attaches each drone to a name: on Wednesday, someone apparently tried to fly their DJI Phantom drone through the Seattle Great Wheel and failed, causing the drone to plummet to the ground and smash a basketball-sized hole in a plastic dining... more (link is external)
Ansel Adams is best known for his breathtaking landscape photos, but he photographed much more than nature during his decades-long career. In 1943, already the best-known American photographer, Adams visited the Manzanar (link is external) War Relocation Center in California, one of the concentration (or... more (link is external)
California-based startup LucidVR recently showcased its consumer-level camera for creating virtual reality content, LucidCam. The camera, which is nearing mass production, is one of the first to enable anyone to create VR content, something that has thus far been limited to those with expensive VR camera rigs. Read more (link is external)
