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Japanese Instagrammer Hotkenobi is making quite a name for himself, gaining thousands of followers who appreciate his talent for bringing superhero action figures to (often humorous) life. Hotkenobi is an Osaka-based act...

What’s better for portraits? Is it the versatility of a great 70-200mm f/2.8 zoom lens, or the bright bokeh-tastic performance of a solid 85mm f/1.4 lens? That’s what photographer Manny Ortiz set out to discover this...

Ricoh has released two posters charting the history of Pentax cameras, both in downloadable high-resolution PDF formats. These posters join the company's existing online Pentax History website, serving aslarge visual aid...

Recently a few things came up that makes me ask if or when does the idea of copying someone else's photo go too far, or is it just a form of flattery derived from a source of inspiration via the route of imitation? In th...

14-year-old budding photographer Erin wants to pursue a career in photography and filmmaking, so she asked the always inspirational Ted Forbes to share the most important lesson he’s learned as a photographer. This bri...

A research team at theUniversity of Stuttgart, Germany has proposed utlizinga 3D printer with ultra-short pulse laser-technology to print multi-component microlenses directly onto the surface of a CMOS image sensor. Doin...

In recent years, thanks in part to social media and the ease with which participants can share images, street photography has enjoyed unprecedented popularity. A generation of digital cameras, inspired in part by the cla...

I am often asked how I manage to photograph a celebrity in a few minutes or what is the best way to shoot a good portrait. Here is my list of hints for shooting better portraits. Every year, I teach a few portraiture wor...

Fashion photographers now have a very real reason to claim that robots are taking their jobs. A company called StyleShoots has designed a fully-robotic fashion photography studio that can set up its own lighting and capt...

After doing some testing of the feature earlier this month, Instagram has officially rolled out multiple photo posts. Starting today, you can post up to 10 photos (or videos) in a single post on your Instagram profile, a...

Happy Tuesday everyone! You made it through Monday and there are now only 3 days left in this work week. There was a ton of killer announcements today from Sigma for CP+, but the purpose of this post is to remind you of ...

SD cards still can’t approach the kind of speeds CFast 2.0 and XQD cards boast, but that’s not stopping Sony from upping their SD game in a big way. Earlier today, Sony officially announced the “world’s fastest S...

Opening for entries on 1 March 2017, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award is one of the industry's most prestigious photographic competitions.

For many of us, the news of the Polaroid Land Camera turning 70 years old this year will be one that brings back some nostalgia. But others don't necessarily know what the Polaroid Land Camera was. You need, the Land Cam...

Introduction The Leica SL is a high end24MP full-frame mirrorless camera that has an astonishing 'EyeRes' high-resolution viewfinder, an incredibly high level of build quality and weather sealing, and unconventional thou...

Sony have just announced the World's fastest SD card.

In the film days you could buy one camera and use it for years upon years, in order to change your look you used different films. These days that dynamic has changed, and now photographers are pressured into buying the l...

Going digital, using gimbals, and drones have helped give Planet Earth a cinematic quality, but ultimately it's all about the storytelling

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Hi everyone, We’re in the very last hours of our Kickstarter initiative and we’ve reached our goal. Again, a very big thank you to everyone who is interested in the production of a well done Analog Photography zine. ...

Today we're getting a brand new film in the form of Lomography Color Negative F²/400 Film. Well, at least it's kind of a new film. The company describes the origin of the film as being originally made by an Italian film...

For a really long time, if you wanted very vivid colors in your film photos you needed to go to a slide film--but when Kodak introduced Kodak Ektar 100 things changed. Photographers were able to get punchy, vibrant, satu...