Pentax has gone large with the new 645D medium-format DSLR. The 40MP monster has a 33  Read More →

This blind camera will snap a picture for you, capturing a moment in time. It does this with no lens, no sensor and no viewfinder. In fact, the black box consists of little more than a red button and a screen. Point it where you like, press the “shutter” and the time of your exposure is captured. The box, named Buttons , gets to work trawling the web for a photo taken at the exact moment you pressed your button and when it finds... 

This lens-shaped coffee-cup might look like some dodgy back-street knock-off waiting to be sold to some short-sighted sap for big money, but it is in fact official Canon merchandise. The cups were being handed out to reporters in the press pen at the Vancouver Olympics. The cup/thermos is modeled on Canon’s 70-200mm L-Series lens, which normally goes for around $700. This picture was snapped by one of the lucky owners – Microsoft’s... 

Shipping next month, Apple’s iPad won’t include a camera, but a growing number of clues hint at future versions of the tablet gaining a webcam. MacRumors received a tip regarding lines of code referring to camera characteristics in the iPad’s software development kit (screegrabbed to the right). The snippets of code allude to zoom, flash, and “front camera.” Added together, that sounds similar to the iSight webcams... 

Above you see a Samsung NX10 with an adapter that lets you put almost any lens on the front, from Nikon, Minolta, Canon, Leica and others. It could also be the most disruptive widget in the camera market. There’s one thread running through the PMA photography trade show this year: mirror-less, interchangeable lens format cameras. These cameras, pioneered by Olympus and Panasonic with …  Read More →

Until recently, you couldn’t see a live view of your picture as you frame it up on a digital SLR — the only way to see the image was through an optical viewfinder. Now, most of those fancy cameras let you see that image on a viewscreen using Live View, but this Pixel LD-W1 wireless remote control takes that a step  Read More →

Harry Benson, the legendary Scottish photographer, sat down with NYT’s Gadgetwise blog and shared some tips on taking photos in low-light situations. Benson’s photographs include celebrities such as Michael Jackon, every president since Eisenhower , and the legendary photo of Ethel Kennedy going straight for him right after Bobby was shot. Here’s what he recommends for good low-light shots. For the record, Benson uses a Canon 1D... 

Apple on Tuesday released a major upgrade of its photo-editing software Aperture, which includes 200 new features to improve workflow on the Mac. Aperture 3’s major new features include Faces, Places and Brushes. Faces is a tool that uses face detection to find and organize photos by the people in them. Places organizes photos based on where you took them. And Brushes is a feature that applies professional touches to photos by “painting”... 

Want to impress your Super Bowl visitors this weekend with more than 7-layer dip and mini-sandwiches? Have some extra time on your hands? Happen to have 66 feet of salvaged particle board sitting around? Well, even if you don’t meet all of those requirements, this is still a pretty neat project. Roommates Jandra, Priya, and Ruella cobbled together their very own apartment photo booth for pretty cheap, though they got a little help and  Read More →

Ricoh has announced the new CX3 compact camera, and with it has proved that the next hot thing in cameras is the back-illuminated CMOS sensor. As we said yesterday, these sensors are not backlit — instead they shift the circuitry of the chip to the back, and the actual sensor sites now sit directly behind the micro-lenses and filters of the CMOS chip, increasing light sensitivity. Backlit is, almost literally, the new black. That new…  Read More →

Panasonic ’s just announced quite a handful of Lumix compact cameras, featuring both the new Venus Engine VI and Venus Engine HD II that claim to perform quicker with better noise reduction. What’s more exciting is that these are all compatible with the forthcoming SDXC cards too, but check out their “Happy Mode” — it makes photos “more vivid and true to the color of the scene you memorized.” Yeah, as... 

Still searching for the perfect camera bag? Of course you are. Now Photojojo has lent its hand to the insoluble problem, and the result – the SLR Sloop – actually looks pretty good. There are a zillion good camera bags out there for photographers or amateurs actually going out on a photo-shoot. But for those of us who want to tote a camera along with our everyday cary-around junk, and to throw it all in the same bag, the options... 

Brando’s LED ring-light for SLR cameras is a genuinely clever take on the ring flash. And at just $58, it is also just about the cheapest solution we have ever seen. The Circular Macro Half/Full LED Light Source fits onto the front of most lenses (adapters for common filter-thread sized are supplied) and offers the on-axis, shadowless lighting of a ring flash. But because it uses LEDs, the lighting is continuos instead of coming in a…  Read More →

If you take photos with anything other than a little point and shoot, you will have, once in your life, lost a lens cap. Shortly afterwards, you would have found out that a simple plastic disk can be sold for almost $20 ( or even $40 ). This stung, you will be particularly pleased with this little hack from Benny Johansson…  Read More →

There’s a new camera category in town. It’s EVIL, and it’s going to kick your DSLR’s ass. EVIL stands for Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens, and is our favorite acronym for cameras like the Olympus Pen, the Lumix GF1 and the Samsung NX10. These small, mirrorless, finderless cameras can fit in a pocket and outperform bulky DSLRs. Here’s why your next camera will probably be EVIL. They’re Small DSLRs...