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Vicon Helps You Capture Your Life Without Lifting a Finger

We're a pretty snap-happy society when it comes to documenting our lives--we take photos wherever we go, even using our phones to post images online while we're on the move. Thanks to U.K.-based firm Vicon, capturing these memories is ...READ»

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Brand Yourself and 4 Other Tips for Success From The Sartorialist

Scott Schuman is The Sartorialist, a fashion blogger with a lot more up his tailored coat sleeves than street shots of pretty people. This August, he released a compilation book of his photos aptly titled, "The Sartorialist." In honor of Fashion Week, we share with you his nuggets of wisdom and a few peeks at his book.READ»

Friday Fun: Does This Count as Animal Cruelty?

Ren Netherland documents the crazy hair-dos that poodle owners inflict upon their pets.READ»

Nikon's S1000pj Digicam With Picoprojector: Convergence Gone Mad?

Nikon's just pulled the official wrapper off its S1000pj Coolpix digital camera, and it's a real mutant hybrid: A standard point-and-shooter, but with a picoprojector riding shotgun. Is this device convergence gone mad? The ...READ»

Well, That's the End of Flip: iPods to Get Cameras

There's no hard news on the actual devices themselves yet, but a bunch of Chinese protective cases for the next-gen iPod Touch and Nano reveal they're both getting digital camera units. And that, basically, is the end of the line for ...READ»

Fujifilm Wants to Take Your Family Pics Into 3-D, Expensively

3-D imagery was so much a disappointing tech--heralded on sci-fi movies for decades, and never really popping into reality--until now. Because Fuji is releasing both a camera and digital picture frame that work in 3-D.The FinePix Real ...READ»

A Tribute to Architecture's Best Photographer, Julius Shulman

The photos by the late architectural photographer Julius Shulman traced the evolution of the built environment since 1936, giving insight into construction techniques, urban development, the advent of tourism in the jet age, and the history of Los Angeles. We bring you 17 of Shulman's architectural images narrated by L.A. architects, designers, artists, writers, filmmakers, and curators.READ»

"Invisible Flash" Takes Photos in the Dark

Using a combination of infrared and ultraviolet light, a "dark flash" camera eliminates the garish effects of a regular flash.READ»

Archives of the Planet

'The Dawn of the Color Photograph' is a wonderful book I recently had the pleasure of discovering. It's a treasure trove of color images from the early 1900's.READ»

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see”

When I first read Walden Pond, it influenced me deeply to seek peace in nature and to become mindful of the most minute detail.READ»

Sony's Alpha DSLRs: New Outside, Old Inside

Sony's entry into the DLSR market with the Alpha camera range has been pretty well accepted. So the tech maker went back to the lab to tweak its lineup with new units--though, perhaps, this should be called an along-grade ...READ»

Shepard Fairey Strikes Back! The Artist Breaks His Silence on the AP, Obama, and Warhol

We don't have to remind you of chapters 1 through 15 of the Saga of Shepard Fairey, in which the artist saw a photo, made a poster, got famous, got sued by the AP for seeing that photo, and subsequently suffered scathing criticism ...READ»

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Long time FC Fan finally joins the community.READ»

Why You'll Buy-Not Download-U2's "No Line On The Horizon"

Plenty of people have already written eulogies for the compact disc now that iTunes is the number one U.S. music retailer, and CD sales are in a death spiral. But U2 is making an excellent case for old-fashioned physical, ...READ»

Casio Squeezes Ultra-High-Speed Shooting into Compact Cameras

Casio's Exilim EX-F1 caused a huge stir when it launched last year--the prosumer camera was the first to bring ultra-high-speed photography, the kind you see used in beautiful slo-mos in nature documentaries and the like, to the ...READ»

Best Photo Schools

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Samsung Memoir: 8MP Camera, Touchscreen Smartphone Mashup

Although the megapixel war continues, stupidly, in cameraphones, Samsung's Memoir gets a pass. It's a sweet mashup of an 8-megapixel camera married to a cellphone with a huge touchscreen. The camera module behaves much like a ...READ»

Panasonic's New Lumix Cameras Herald Orwellian Photo Future

Panasonic's adding four new compact cameras to its already extensive Lumix digital camera range. But these are no ordinary point-and-shoots, because they sneer at mere face recognition technology, and instead offer face ...READ»

Snapture Gizmo Adds Proper Xenon Flash To iPhone

One of the iPhone's few weak spots is its camera: fixed-focus, just 2-megapixels and no flash. But that's where the Snapture gizmo comes in.It's a case-like sleeve for the iPhone 3G that incorporates a real--if slightly ...READ»

Tech Gear of the Year

Smartphones, flat-screens, robots, green tech: We wade through it all to ID the coolest innovations, including Sony's absurdly svelte, impressively vibrant XEL01 TV screen and the newly customizable Flip Mino video camera.READ»

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Photrade: Sharing, Selling and Protecting Your Photographs

Fledgling site Phototrade aims to be a one-stop shop for photographers and bloggers to fulfill all their photo related needs.READ»

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New Canon 5D Specs Leaked

Canon [NYSE:CAJ] is reportedly refreshing their 5D digital SLR with a new version called the 5D Mk II, which may arrive as soon as September at the Photokina show. CanonRumors is spreading word that they've gotten leaked specs for ...READ»