For a long time, Pelican cases have been a go-to solution for photographers who carry lots of expensive gear into awful circumstances. They have always been tough, but that sturdiness also translated into weight. Now, however, Pelican has released the Pelican Air cases which weigh up to 40% less. Th...

Lensbaby has just a ounced its latest creative effect lens called the Twist 60. The lens is based the design of the first commercially available fast portrait lens created by Joseph Petzval in 1840. It creates a curved focal plane which results in a small section of the final image appearing in focu...

[embedded content] Lytro Cinema from Lytro on Vimeo. The road so far has been an interesting one for Lytro. Its original consumer-oriented camera introduced most of the public to light field photography, but ultimately lacked the imaging firepower to be a real success with photographers. Then, the h...

We’re used to interfacing with Facebook on a two-dimensional screen, but Zuck & Co. have made some pretty substantial investments in virtual reality, the most interesting of which is the much-anticipated Oculus headset. Now, at its F8 conference, Facebook has dropped some information about its sauce...

Just a few days ago, the iPad celebrated its 6th birthday. When humans reach this age, they begin an important phase in their long jou ey towards adulthood, entering elementary school. Now that Apple’s tablet has been around the block, it is time for it too, to start a new phase of its development: ...

The past year has been a pretty hectic time for fans of instant photography, with instant film checking in as one of the best-selling holiday gifts of the year, then getting hit with the unfortunate death of the beloved Fujifilm FP-100c instant film. The Impossible Project, however, is now trying to...

Ikea stores are famous for their meat balls, their fu iture, and their stores’ ability to test the strength of a relationship. Recently, however, they started selling high-end art, which includes photography from some well-known artists. In order to promote the collection, Ikea has created a new cam...

One of the cooler things about sharing office space with our Popular Science (we’re also owned by the same company) is that they stay tapped into everything NASA is up to, which pays off for us when they do something like drop nearly 3 million photos of earth taken from space into the public eye. Th...

It’s easy to find wedding photographers preaching doom and gloom, and there’s even some evidence to back it up, but according to a recent survey by venerable purveyors of Pinterest wedding fodder, The Knot, things are looking up across the board for the wedding industry in the USA, and that includes...

Storing large amounts of digital data over a long period of time is a problem many photographers deal with by stacking huge piles hard drives and ever-growing cloud storage accounts. University of Washington researchers, however, have figured out how to store digital data in DNA. The team was able t...

If you’re one of those inte et commenters who loves to complain about medium format digital cameras being overkill, then get your commenting fingers ready. The Hasselblad H6D-100c has a 100-megapixel CMOS sensor and now shoots 4K video as well. This actually isn’t the first 100-megapixel medium form...

Adobe Bridge started simply as an exte al file browser for Photoshop, but over the years it has evolved into a digital asset manager with its own nooks and cra ies worth exploring. And it’s not just the features recently added to Creative Cloud—such as automated cache management, which we cover in t...

Lomography has had some pretty impressive success resurrecting old lenses and now they’re throwing back all the way to the 1830s to recreate the Daguerreotype Achromat 2.9/64 Art Lens. The lens itself uses a design like that of the very first lenses to use optics for Daguerreotype photography in the...

Popular Photography Wedding This massive bag can carry a studio worth of lighting gear The Think Tank Photo Production Manager 50 rolling case holds a ton of lighting gear…

The Panasonic GX8 is a pretty awesome little camera and now it has a sibling that comes with many advanced features, but a smaller price tag. The new Panasonic GX85 comes with a slightly odd name, as well as a 16-megapixel Live MOS, Micro Four-Thirds sensor. There’s no built-in AA filter, which Pana...

Lomography’s recent Jupiter 3+ lens stands out immediately for its mid-century styling, but beneath its metal-clad surface is an optical configuration that delivers images just as handsome, and as nostalgic, as its design implies. Continuing its trend of re-issuing vintage lenses, like it’s Petzval,...

Today's Photo of the Day was captured by Jordi Corbilla during a trip to Dubai. "We arrived early to base camp and I managed to sneak behind where the camels were and I took few pictures with them," Corbilla writes regarding the image. "While they were resting I managed to take few snaps of them. Ve...

We recently got a chance to try out Sony’s new RX10 III on a Sony sponsored outing San Francisco. The 20.1MP superzoom uses the same 1-inch backside illuminated, stacked sensor that’s in Sony’s RX100 IV and has many of the same features that camera introduced. This includes 4K video recording using ...

Let me first get this out of the way: I think “colorizing” a black-and-white photo is a great way to ruin a monochrome photo. That said, I get the appeal, and various research teams have been working on methods for adding natural colors to greyscale photos for quite some time. Now, researchers from ...

Gear This slick-looking drive makes use of USB-C This USB-C powered drive doesn't need a power cord and has 8 GB of storage