As an amateur photographer, I joined the Adobe Lightroom beta primarily to gain access to the latest version of the ACR Raw converter. I hadn't expected it to completely change the way I worked.
I can't remember how I first heard about the public beta of a new photo editing product from Adobe* but, according to Adobe's Lightroom blog, it must have been after July 23, 2006, when the... more
It doesn't matter where you'll be during the August 21st solar eclipse, NASA plans to one-up you and capture a better photoor at least a unique one. The space agency is actually going to chase the eclipse's totality in two highly modified 1950s-vintage WB-57F jets, in order to capture the 'clearest image of the sun's [...] corona to date,' and the... more
At the beginning of last month, cinematic camera manufacturer RED announced that its very first smartphone, the RED Hydrogen One, was in production. In this 6-minute video, tech reviewer... more
Researchers with the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and NVIDIA have detailed a new type of technology called 'computational zoom' that can be used to adjust the focal length and perspective of an image after it has been taken. The technology was detailed in a recently published technical paper, as well as a video (above) that shows the tech in action. With it,... more
Reuters is reporting that investment group Blackstone is "in talks with potential buyers" in an attempt to sell its 45% stake in Leica Camera, possibly to Zeiss. The other 55% of the company is owned by the Kaufmann family, who brought in Blackstone as a co-investor in 2011.
The report cites "people close to the matter," who claim the investor has already... more
I am writing as a longtime Nikon photographer and someone who has been working extensively with your cameras and who has written many reviews in the past years. I have been shooting in... more
The $1,200 RED Hydrogen One smartphone with its holographic display and modular design wowed the world when it was announced last month. And that wow-factor only increased when people stumbled across RED's patents for this intense little... more
