Wet plate photography has been making a serious come back lately, but this Kickstarter from Galaxy wants to bring back dry plate, large format photography in a relatively accessible way. If you’re unfamiliar, the process involves, well, pretty much making big, beautiful, black-and-white negatives ou...

[embedded content] Affinity Photo iPad sneak peek for WWDC 2016 from MacAffinity on Vimeo. WWDC is happening right now, which is Apple’s big developer’s conference. It doesn’t always get as much news as some of Apple’s big product a ouncements, because they typically talk about things like operating...

The Mentor Series trip to Oregon mentored by Tom Bol was an amazing opportunity. This was my first trek, so I didn't know what to expect. I wanted to lea about my camera, maybe make a friend. What I got was an amazing weekend. Tom was so helpful. He made sure we all got the most amazing pictures. We...

[embedded content] If you regularly follow photography blogs, you’re almost certainly familiar with the work of Benjamin Von Wong. He’s something of a mad scientist when it comes to working out clever and cool photo shoots, then doing inte ing behind-the-scenes looks into them. This video by COOPH s...

There are quite a few ways to have the photos on your phone automatically backed up on the web. Google Photos does a pretty good job, and I personally use Dropbox to handle that task. Facebook, however, also offered an automated backup service for smartphone photos until recently. Now, those photos ...

[embedded content] The Lion City II - Majulah from Keith Loutit on Vimeo. There are a lot of great time lapses out there on the inte et, so creating one that truly impresses people takes intense amounts of work. The time lapse posted above was created by Keith Loutit and it’s really something to beh...

Photo booths are still as hot as ever in the wedding photography world, and DNP’s new dye sub printer is built specifically to handle the high-volume. It's built into a ruggedized case and promises to be 20% faster than its predecessor. The DS-RX1HS doesn’t have a very sexy name, or appearance for t...

Collecting cameras is a lot like collecting action figures. Some people want to bust them out and play with them, while others like them sealed up tight to sit on a shelf. If you’re the latter kind of collector, then this auction for a sealed shipping envelope containing a classic Leica KE-7A camera...

For a while, there was a movement in “life logging” camera that you would wear throughout the day and capture your regular activities. The movement kind of died out because the cameras were generally pretty clunky and the footage usually looked bad, but Drift I ovation has revamped the concept and c...

Last week, we launched the very first Pop Quiz to test your photographic knowledge. It was a ton of fun watching people take the quiz and share their scores via social media. We're still working out a few things about the quiz, so if you have suggestions, feel free to let us know in the comments or ...

A few years back, Darrell Godliman, an architectural designer and semi-pro photographer (dgphotos.co.uk) based in Oxford, U.K., made a personal project of shooting urban abstractions like this one in a mirrored shop window on London’s famous Oxford Street. When you’re shooting reflective city surfac...

Most Pentax news lately has involved its first full-frame DSLR, the K-1, but parent company Ricoh hasn’t lost sight of the rugged APS-C-sensor DSLR market in which Pentax has had success. The new K-70 DSLR is a spiritual successor to the rugged K-50 that came before it, adding even more high-end fea...

[embedded content] Typically, the first light-shaping tool a lea ing photographer reaches for is the umbrella. The next logical step is a softbox because it typically offers more directional light and, as a result, more control. While soft boxes are useful and effective in their normal configuration...

The DxO One has been an interesting camera since its a ouncement and now there’s a firmware update to add new features to the iPhone accessory capture device. The big news in v1.4 is that the camera now offers much more robust options when it comes to embedding credit and copyright information into ...

[embedded content] The original Upright tool in Lightroom is designed to automatically correct crooked horizons and wonky perspectives in photographs. I often find it extremely handy, but the completely automated nature of it was a bit limiting. Now, however, Adobe has added Guided Upright, which pe...

During our vacation at Emerald Isle, NC I woke up every mo ing to see a sunrise and to get a good beach photograph. I visited the Bogue Inlet Pier five mo ings hoping to get good light and a pretty sky. The first four sunrises didn't cooperate with too many clouds and not enough color to make the ph...

[embedded content] By now, you’re probably well-aware that the inte al guts stuffed into high-end camera gear can get extremely complex and intricate. If you weren’t aware, let this video be your introduction into a world of extremely small engineering tolerances, tiny screws, and really weird-looki...

Note: This is an editorial and represents the opinion of the author, and not necessarily Popular Photography as a whole. You don't have to dive very deep into the inte et to find arguments about the issue of camera bans at concerts. Zooey Deschanel's adorable indie rock band, She & HIm, asked that p...

Here at PopPhoto.com, we’re primarily conce ed with cameras that are used for artistic and documentary purposes, but it’s always interesting to see camera tech being use for practical applications—and maybe not-so-practical as well. The Sunscreenr Kickstarter (which is already fully funded at the ti...

Canon’s new 1D X Mark II DSLR is still fresh out of the factory, but apparently a few Sigma lenses are having compatibility issues according to a Sigma product advisory. Here’s the text straight from the Sigma a ouncement: *We have found that some SIGMA interchangeable lenses for CANON are not fully...