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Here’s an interesting little factoid: did you know that the iPhone’s shutter sound was originally recorded from a Canon camera?

Whenever you snap an iPhone photo (with your volume on) or capture a screenshot on a Mac, that shutter sound you hear is actually a Canon AE-1 film SLR camera manufactured in the 1970s and 1980s.

It’s thanks to a man named Jim Reekes, who worked as a sound engineer at Apple in the late 1980s. Reekes is actually behind a number... more

Here’s a strange photography hack that may sound stupid and unbelievable… but it can actually work: if you have a filter that’s hopelessly stuck to the front of your camera lens, try lightly tapping it with your finger. The... more

A major leak earlier today confirmed what rumors have been claiming for over a week: GoPro is preparing to release an entry-level version of its HERO action cam. The new cameraostensibly just called the GoPro HEROwill feature the same styling as its high-... more

If you’ve been itching to try your hand at daytime long exposure photography but aren’t sure how to jump in, here’s a great simple and straightforward 12-minute tutorial on the subject by photographer Adam Karnacz of... more

An Atlanta photographer was shot and nearly killed last month after entering the home he was assigned to shoot and surprising the homeowner inside. It turns out there was a miscommunication, and now the photographer is suing.

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Want to see what it looks like to stare through the viewfinder of the new Sony a7 III? Photographer Manny Ortiz made this 5-minute video that shows viewfinder views of an urban photo shoot he did.

Ortiz is impressed by the camera’s Eye AF feature, which can track your subject’s eyes even in AF-C continuous autofocus mode that... more

GoPro hasn’t been good for its investors as of late, but the company is stepping in a new direction in its search for profits. The company... more

Struggling with stylistic consistency, or wanting to transpose the style of your best picture onto the rest of your Instagram feed? Thanks to a group of scientists at Cornell University, you can now do just that with surprisingly accurate and realistic results.

The team created an algorithm for graphics card company NVIDIA that lifts the stylistic characteristics of one picture and drops them onto a... more

Apple latest “Welcome Home” advertisement for the HomePod shows a woman dancing through an apartment that endlessly stretches in various directions. It may look like a project done with CGI, but it was actually painstakingly created through practical effects.

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Trying to choose between a full frame camera and a crop sensor one? Here’s a 10-minute video by photographer Sheldon Evans, who talks about the differences between the two and shares why he... more

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