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Loyal Tamron users who own four or more lenses made by the third party lens maker might qualify to be a part of the company's new VIP Club in 2018. Announced yesterday, the program creates three "membership" tiers that offer a variety of perks like free T-shirts, lens rebates, non-warranty repair discounts, an invitation to participate in a VIP-exclusive contest, and much more.

Anybody who has... more

This may not be your favorite photo from August, 2017, but it's mine. A scene in which five Richard Butlers debate the merits of five Fujifilm X100's in a conference room.

We were really busy in August. Not only were there important announcements, but it was also nearing the end of the sunny season in Seattle - and even that late into the summer, we were out taking photos all the time, from sunup (around 6am) to sundown (around 9pm).

Without a doubt, the announcement of the... more

Shattered glass from the break-in. Photo: The Camera Store

You could look at the story of the recent robbery at beloved Calgary camera shop The Camera Store as a play in three acts. Act 1: the store is robbed of over $27,000 USD worth of high-end camera equipment. Act 2... more

An Instagram husband is being celebrated as a shining example of true love this week thanks to a set of viral photos showing him photographing his wife over the Christmas holidays.

Taylor Burkhalter of... more

A new video from YouTuber and former host of DigitalRevTV Kaiman Wong compares the Sony RX0 and the GoPro Hero6, putting Sony's miniature camera up against... more

A few days ago, for the first time ever in my experience with wet plate photography, I mixed up collodion from scratch. I thought I’d share about the experience.

First of all, plain USP (U.S. Pharmacopeia) Collodion is a mixture of ether, alcohol, and nitrocellulose (also known as nitrated or guncotton). It is the nitrocellulose that acts as a binder and carrier for photo-sensitive salts of silver while making wet collodion images.

The vast majority of the... more

Great news for fans of the Nik Collection of photo editing plugins: two months after DxO acquired the collection from Google, the company has publicly announced plans to release a brand new version of the Nik Collection in 2018.

The statement went out over Google Plus (go figure), where the DxO team... more

Image: Google

We have seen several attempts at automated image assessment from both technical and aesthetic points of view in the past. For example, Google researchers have previously used convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to assess image quality of specific image categories, such as... more

On December 22nd, I received an email from 500px saying that I sold a photo for $600. Obviously, I was thrilled — it’s nice to get something like this right... more

Last Friday, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Airforce Base on the California coast. But the light show it created in the evening sky looked less like a rocket launch and more like an alien light show, stopping traffic on the highways as people pulled over to take cell phone pictures and video of what they thought might just be the beginning of an alien takeover.

Fortunately for all of us, it wasn't just bystanders with smartphones who pointed their cameras skyward on... more

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