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Hands-on: Leica S3 medium format camera

With all the excitement surrounding full-frame system announcements at Photokina recently, it's easy to forget the new arrivals in the medium format digital arena. While Fujifilm announced... more

Each year, photographers from around the world look forward to a bundle filled with tools and resources contributed by top names in photography, in a concerted effort to raise money for incredible causes, while providing photographers exclusive digital products discounted as much as 97%.

Full disclosure: This article was sponsored by 5DayDeal.

Lindsay Adler, David DuChemin, Joel Grimes, and Trey Ratcliff are amongst current and past renowned... more

Art is something we all enjoy in one way or another. We assume it is a subjective subject, but there may be an objective angle that we can observe art from. Perhaps art isnt subjective at all? Neuroaesthetics is a scientific approach to art in the way it is both produced and consumed, and this gives us a basis for figuring out what makes art art!

The description is in the name. The beginning Neuro- is Greek for the nervous system which finds its roots in our brain. Aesthetics is... more

John Kraus is an 18-year-old photographer living on Florida’s Space Coast who has captured dazzling photos of major rocket launches over the past few years. VICE News followed Kraus to a recently... more

Maternity photo shoots are usually tender moments showing expectant parents lovingly anticipating the birth of a child. But one couple decided to go a different route: their maternity shoot pays homage to Alien. Yes, the classic 1979 science fiction horror film.

Warning: This article contains humorously gory photos that some may find disturbing.

It all started after... more

Good photos have become commonplace. Smartphones have demystified camera technicalities in the past decade, and its pervasive adoption has democratized photography for mass consumers. Since the first known photograph was made in 1820, camera functions evolved significantly to compensate for human error.

Features like image stabilization, white-balance detection, and low-light capabilities became baseline features. Rapidly improved smartphone cameras challenge conventional... more

TourBox is a new photo editing controller designed for Photoshop and Lightroom. Designed to be compact, it looks more like a video game controller than a keyboard-style console.

The palm-sized device features a fully-customizable UI with a knob, wheels, and buttons. The idea is that photographers can take 90% of their most repetitive tasks and move them from mouse and keyboard into simple twists, scrolls, and clicks.

TourBox isn’t designed to completely... more

Luna Display, the little hardware dongle that turns your iPad into a second display, is now available to consumers. Luna Display was developed by the makers of the Astropad, an iOS app that turns your iPad into a graphics tablet for the Mac... more

As a photographer in 2018, I cant help but think of my photos as drops in an ocean of imagery. Here are a few quick stats: There are over 60 million photos uploaded to Instagram every day (not to mention Instagram stories). Then there are the photos posted to Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook (some people still use it, right?), blogs, etc, etc.

Then you have the printed image, with over 1,300 daily newspapers and 7,000 magazines currently in publication, in the U.S. alone. Then youve... more

Recently, Science Editor Rishi Sanyal had the chance to sit down with two of Google's most prominent imaging engineers and pick their brains about the software advances in the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL. Isaac Reynolds is the Product Manager for Camera on Pixel and Marc Levoy1 is Distinguished Engineer and Computational Photography Lead at Google. From computational Raw to learning-based auto white balance, they gave us an overview of some key new camera features and an explanation of the tech... more

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