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New York Public Library releases over 187K digitized works into the Public Domain

January 8, 2016Gannon Burgett

If historic images are your cup of tea, The New York Public Library (NYPL) has brewed you up enough to make the Sons of Liberty proud. Earlier this week, the NYPL announced it’s digitized, organized and released over 187,000 digital items into the public domain, many of them historic photographs from around the world. Part […]

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Nikon Introduces the new Flagship D5 and D500 Cameras at CES

January 7, 2016Nick Minore

Nikon had a big day earlier this week at CES 2016 in Las Vegas. In addition to launching a totally-new 360 camera, Nikon also launched a new flagship D5 FX camera, as well as a D500 DX camera. D5 The D5 has a long list of impressive specs: 20.83mp CMOS full-frame sensor Unprecedented native ISO range, […]

Federal Judge Rules Famous Monkey Can’t Own Copyright on Selfies

January 7, 2016Liron Samuels

An Indonesian monkey, a British photographer and a U.S. federal judge meet in San Francisco. It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but that’s almost what happened this week when a federal court reviewed PETA’s demand to award Naruto the copyright over the famous selfies he captured in 2011. Unfortunately for the macaque, who […]

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Olympus unveils 300mm f/1.4, the world’s most compact telephoto lens

January 6, 2016Jeff Meyer

Olympus has announced the M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 300mm 1:4.0 IS PRO, which it claims is the world’s most compact and lightweight telephoto lens.

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KeyMission 360: Nikon’s first action camera records 360° video in 4K UHD

January 5, 2016Jeff Meyer

Nikon has marked its entry into the action camera market announcing the Nikon KeyMission 360, a wearable camera that records true 360° video in 4K UHD.

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Nikon D500: this new flagship DX-format camera promises D5 performance

January 5, 2016Jeff Meyer

Nikon has announced the launch of its new flagship DX-format camera, the Nikon D500 (price tag unknown at the time of writing), promising many of the powerful features of Nikon’s new flagship FX-format camera, the Nikon D5, announced shortly before.

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Nikon D5: price, specs, release date confirmed

January 5, 2016Jeff Meyer

Nikon has announced the Nikon D5 – price tag £5,199.99/€6,989.00 and a March release date – which boasts a new 20.82-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor and offers 4K video recording.

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Fuji X-Pro2 specs leaked: 273-point AF, Lossless RAW and 24.3MP X-Trans sensor

January 5, 2016Gannon Burgett

After months of speculation, it appears a final list of detailed specs have leaked for Fujifilm’s upcoming successor to its X-Pro1 camera, the X-Pro2. And from the looks of it, the X-Pro2 is going to be one heck of a camera for Fujifilm users to add to their arsenal. Lining up with almost every spec […]

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Richard Prince Finally Sued for Ripping Off an Instagram Photo

January 5, 2016Liron Samuels

Back in May artist (and I use that term lightly in this case) Richard Prince enraged photographers worldwide when he took photos from Instagram, added a comment on the photos and sold them in a New York gallery for up to $100,000 a piece. All this was …

How a perfectly composed and chaotic New Year’s photo went viral

January 4, 2016Gannon Burgett

What do you do when you’re the one responsible for making a photo go viral across the globe? Well, if you’re Roland Hughes, Senior Producer for BBC’s website, you document every facet of the experience and share how a single image hidden in a gallery of a local newspaper skyrocketed into popularity with the help […]

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