Here’s the latest innovation from Pentax: a puppet body for your lens cap! The “Cameraman” is a handmade puppet body that comes with a 52mm lens cap showing a smiley face. It costs

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SONY INTRODUCES WORLDS SMALLEST AND LIGHTEST INTERCHANGEABLE LENS DIGITAL CAMERAS
Models Provide DSLR Performance, Full HD Video, Sweep Panorama, APS-C sensor and Low-Light Capability in an Unprecedented Compact Design
SAN DIEGO, May 10, 2010 Sony …

Our recent post showing vinyl records at 1000x magnification was pretty popular, and many of you had ideas for things you’d like seen under a scanning electron microscope.
ASPEX, a company that manufactures scanning electron microscopes …

17-year old Jamie Russell from Cheektowaga N.Y. was selected as the this year’s recipient of Sigma’s first ever scholarship contest. She won for her collection of gritty black & white images depicting poverty and urban …

Photographer Jon Beard has a terrific set of photos called “Burning Bulbs” in which he breaks lightbulbs and photographs them with the filaments exposed.
The set includes the following photograph, titled “1UP Mushroom“:
This photograph recently became …

Because someone has to hold the record, photographer Gerald Donovan has created the worlds largest image (for now) out of 4,250 individual frames taken with a Canon 7D over 3.5 hrs using the GigaPan Epic …

Well, that was fast.
Just a day after removing Version 2.0.3 of the 5D Mark II firmware due to a bug, Canon has released firmware Version 2.0.4, which simply fixes the bug in Version 2.0.3.
We apologize …

  
As far as I am concerned, there are few things that merge physics, chemistry, mechanics and magic better than Polaroid instant film. When Edwin Land the inventor of instant photography, passed away in 1991 he …

Just days after releasing a firmware update that brought 24 fps video to the 5D Mark II, Canon has pulled the update due to a malfunction that occurred.
Photographers who used the new firmware discovered that …

For those of you that have been following my posts, you’ll know I was helping Bruce Ely cover the NBA Playoffs. He’s posted a really interesting article about his approach to covering the season on …

Danish-Norwegian artist Nina Maria Kleivan has come under fire for a series of photographs in which she dresses up her year-old daughter Faustina as some of history’s most evil figures. The series, titled “Potency“, has …

Two weeks ago we picked up our evaluation 17" Intel i7-powered MacBook Pro from Apple and have been banging away on this machine ever since. The 17", combined with our recently received 3G iPad is …

Fashion label LeSportsac will be joining with Canon in its release of a case designed exclusively for the PowerShot camera, the companies announced today.
No big surprise here; the fashion industry has always worked hand-in-hand with …

Bruce Dale is one of my favorite photographers. He has done many crazy things over the course of his career, like letting a bear stand on his back, attach cameras to the rudder of commercial …

This past week we ran a poll asking our readers what operating system they mainly use. Here are the results:
481 votes were for a Windows OS compared to 606 for a Mac OS. This means …

As a life long Mac user, I couldn’t resist sharing today’s Dilbert
Check out the original source here.

For this week’s poll, we’re wondering how loyal you are to whatever camera brand you currently use. Brand loyalty often plays out in funny ways in our post comments.
Also, why do you use what you …

Apple has released the 3rd update to Aperture 3 since it began shipping a couple months ago. From the list of changes below, this looks like it is a major update that is recommended for …

Ever wonder what a vinyl record looks like under an electron microscope? Okay, probably not. Luckily, there’s people who do, including Chris Supranowitz, who created a number of electron microscope images for a course at …

Adobe announced last Friday that it had begun shipping Creative Suite 5, the package will be available in four different configurations/collections ranging in price from $1299 to $2599 which in today’s economy will likely require …