Waterproof, the Samsung W350 can dive as deep as 5m and is tough : it does not fear dust nor sand and is at ease on any outdoor playground, beach, lagoon, river, kayaking, snorkeling… Samsung has designed a protective rubber armor that is also floating. The W350 will not drawn like a stone of it [...]
The Instagram devlopment team still works on the iapp and Instagram, which has been taken over by Facebook recently, is now available in version 2.5, an update that brings a few new stuff and improvements. Instagram 2.5 can be seen as a new step in Facebook / Instagram integration allowing users to share the likes [...]
I just received Fujifilm’s XF lenses roadmap update from Fujifim France. Aside 5 new lenses in 2013, they confirm the launch of two new lenses for the X-Pro1 later this year after the summer. We’ll probably be able to get our hands on  them at the Photokina 2012 that is held in September. These new [...]
As of today, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 is now included in Adobe Creative Cloud software bundle aside the CS6 creative suite. Adobe also say they will make new creative softwares available through Creative Cloud within the following months like the single publishing suite that is aimed at publishing content for ipad. Lightroom 4 is now [...]
Lensrental.com, the online lens renting company, has received a dozen copies of the newly announced pancake lens, the Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM. Roger Cicala seized this opportunity to put Canon’s compact lens to the test on its imatest benchmark. He noticed that the lens was pretty well built and offers rounder aperture blades than [...]
The yearly photography contest organized by Leica each year since 1980, the Oskar Barnack Award, has now a winner. The Oskar Barnack Award 2012 goes to American photographer Frank Hallam Day for his photo serie called Alumascapes. He receives a Leica M9-P, the latest Leica Full Frame digital rangefinder camera with a lens. The second Grand [...]
Oddly, the new Samsung WB100 was official in Germany only. I asked other EU PR teams about this camera and today, Friday June 22nd, the French Samsung press officer confirmed it was also going to be launched in France. Oddly, again, this camera has the same name as a 12MP compact camera launched in 2009… [...]
Last month, in Paris, Adobe held an event called the “Adobe Creative Week” (conferences, workshops, webinars…). Among the creative industry and imaging world VIPs, Adobe invited Vincent Laforet, a French born videographer and photographer now settled in New-York City. Here is an interesting video of his keynote. It is about 15mn long, and it is [...]
Canon released a firmware update for its star HDSLR, the EOS 5D Mark III which now comes in version 1.1.3. Above all bug fixes this new firmware will allow 5D MKIII users to use it with the EF 40mm F2.8 STM pancake lens, that little tiny lens that was unveiled with the Rebel T4i / [...]
If you lik eInstagram, you are going to like this. The online T-shirt customization store relevantly named Instapparel.com offers you to get your Instagrams printed on a T-shirt. You can get one or more photos, retouched or not, layed out as you wish, on a shirt that you may choose the color of. The website [...]
last update (V7.5) of DxO Optics Pro 7 brought the support of the Nikon D800 RAW files (in addition to native 64-bit). Today, DxO comes with a new software update (V7.5.1) that will be able to process the Nikon D800E RAW files with an improved moiré correction algorithm, designed for the D800E as this camera [...]
A Pentax Full Frame DSLR, that is something Pentax fans have been waiting for ages. Here and there, we often hearthat they are about to launch it. Now, the rumor gets insistent and pentaxforum comes with images of what should be the Pentax K-3, a full frame DSLR that could be unveiled at the Photokina [...]
Meet Aviary, a new photo retouching application available, free of charge, for iOS, Android and WP7 smartphones and tablets. To grab a market share on the photography mobile apps, Aviary counts on a very well designed user interface that takes benefit of today’s smartphones touch screens. I also liked Aviary tools which can be both [...]
Ahead of the full review of the Nikon D3200 DSLR that I am planning to publish tomorrow, here is an image gallery of images from the camera review shooting session. Clicking on each thumbnail will lead you to my Flickr D3200 album where you can download the full resolution JPEG images straight from the camera. [...]
It has a 170° angle of view, a fisheye lens, a fixed aperture of f/8 – 1/100s and bulb, and works with 110 analog films : meet the Lomo Fisheye Baby 110. Launched by Lomography.com where you can buy it, the Fisheye baby 110 is available in two versions : Basic, sold $39 and metal, [...]
Simple as everything should be, Easy Macro for smartphones is a brillant lens addition to your iphone or smartphone. It is only made of a rubber band that you attach around your iphone while paying attention to locate the macro lens above your camera module. You are then ready to go. Used on an iphone [...]
Last Friday, Sigma unveiled a new travel lens, compact with macro capabilities, the Sigma 18-250mm F3.5-6.3 DC Macro OS HSM, an interesting light and compact versatile 13x zoom lens for APS-C DSLRs. What to expect from such a lens ? The answer is on Sigma’s official website with an interesting sample images gallery of photographs [...]
2012 London Olympics are about to start and their official photo agency is Getty Images. The giant photo agency that is also one of the biggest actor in the field of sports photogaphy. Getty is going to capture the 2012 Olympic games with the very latest technologies of today’s digital imaging and I think that [...]
Schneider-Kreuznach, the German lens manufacturer, announced it is about to launch a new range of lenses for mirrorless cameras and shows an image of the first Schneider-Kreuznach lens for M43 cameras : the Super Angulon 2.0/14mm, a wide-nagle lens that will give an equivalent to a 28mm once mounted on an Olympus Pen and OM-D [...]
Most of this new Sigma travel lens is in its name. The Sigma 18-250mm F3.5-5.6 DC Macro OS HSM : offers a 13x zoom range is for APS-C DSLRs will give an equivalent to a 27-375mm lens on a Nikon, Pentax, Sigma and Sony APS-C Digital SLR will give an equivalent to a 29-400mm on a [...]
