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Photographer and astronomer Juan Carlos Munoz was browsing a flea market in Santiago, Chile, a few days ago when he stumbled across some crystal balls. He bought one for a few dollars and then decided to use it for astro...

Lomography is crowdfunding its latest film camera, the Diana Instant Square. According to the company, this is the first Instax-compatible camera with a hot-shoe mount and support for interchangeable lenses. Lomography d...

It's becoming harder to get the entire image sharp with the constantly wider lenses and more extreme foregrounds that are used in today's photography. Even optimal apertures aren't enough to get both the foreground and b...

Microsoft today announced a new AI-powered Visual Search function for its Bing search engine that will pretty much directly compete with Google Lens. Visual Search will let users search the web and shop online through pi...

Decades before the word “selfie” exploded into popular culture, NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin shot the first space selfie while on a spacewalk during the Gemini 12 mission on November 12, 1966. The 88-year-old Aldrin hi...

Irving Penn is either the best or second best portrait photographer of all time. Depending on the day, he's either ahead of or behind Richard Avedon. At least that's what I think. Mr. Penn's resume is stacked, to say the...

I did it. The photo I have had in my mind for almost two years was finally taken, and I'm proud of the result. Liv Johanne and Rune became (what I believe to be) the first couple to get their wedding photos taken at Hima...

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One of the most talked about photos in the ongoing immigration debate has been Getty Images photographer John Moore’s iconic photo of a 2-year-old Honduran girl crying at the feet of her mother and a border patrol agen...

A few years ago, the Intrepid 4x5 camera went to Kickstarter to get crowd funded. Now, the camera is in its third version and the company is still preaching the idea of high quality at a fraction of the price of other ca...

Camera gear is about to get more expensive for most online shoppers in the United States. The Supreme Court just ruled that states may force online retailers to collect sales tax on their behalf. While Amazon already doe...

With the recent launch of IGTV, Instagram is gearing itself up to be more than just a platform for sharing and checking out visual content. While IGTV is a separate app that you can watch -- as its name suggests -- like ...

Want more Useful Photography Tips? Click here. You’re in a bind; you’re in a dark place and you’re trying to find the ISO button on your camera. What do you do? Some folks end up pressing buttons until they get to ...

Film photographers, especially those who develop their own films at home, know all too well the struggles of digitizing their negatives without a film scanner. That's why when Hamish Gill announced that he's developing a...