Photography

Smartphone camera shootout: Galaxy S7 Edge takes on the iPhone 6S Plus

Sean O'Kane March 18, 2016 09:10 am03.18.2016 216

Samsung released the Galaxy S6 and the S6 Edge at the beginning of 2015, and spent much of the year garnering praise for finally catching up to the quality iPhone's camera. In fact, when we put the S6's...

Samsung pulls ahead

Nikon brags about its rich heritage using Fujifilm camera

James Vincent March 16, 2016 07:56 am03.16.2016 18

Nikon might want to take a closer look at the cameras that appear in its ads. Photographer David McDonald spotted the poster above in a shop in Northern Ireland, pointing out that the retro-looking camera...

The perils of stock photography

In the future, all of our selfies will be perfect

Amar Toor March 17, 2016 07:30 am03.17.2016 8

People in China are paying $1,000 for a selfie camera that captures their “true beauty." Quartz ran an article about it this week, and it’s pretty fascinating. The camera is officially known as the Casio...

I went drone-shopping at DJI's new flagship store

Sam Byford March 14, 2016 06:26 am03.14.2016 3

I've been in Seoul, South Korea for the past week covering the gripping Go face-off between human champion Lee Se-dol and DeepMind AI AlphaGo, and it's been endlessly fascinating. There wasn't a game...

The Seoul store is DJI's first outside China

Olympus Pen-F review: a marvelous marriage of old and new

Sean O'Kane March 10, 2016 01:26 pm03.10.2016 16

Humans have a hard time letting go of the past. Sometimes it's a good thing — nostalgia helps people fight loneliness and can even make them more tolerant. Other times it feels like a weakness, mostly...

Nostalgia incarnate

TomTom’s Bandit camera beats GoPro with software

Thomas Ricker March 9, 2016 07:30 am03.09.2016 4

I’ve just returned from a weeklong snow holiday in the Austrian Alps where I performed a casual survey of action cameras. It didn’t require much scientific rigor because the mountain was absolutely...

One cubic foot of coral reef has a cast the size of Game of Thrones

Ashley Carman March 3, 2016 03:07 pm03.03.2016

Smithsonian researchers and a photographer placed "biocubes" in a bunch of different locations around the world to document what creatures and general life passed through them in a typical day. They took...

A creature cube

Smartphone camera shootout: Galaxy S7 Edge takes on the iPhone 6S Plus

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Mumbai creates no-selfie zones to prevent people from killing themselves

Amar Toor February 26, 2016 06:51 am02.26.2016

The Indian city of Mumbai has established 16 no-selfie zones in an effort to curb a spike in selfie-related incidents. As the Associated Press reports, the ban applies to areas that police consider...

"This is a new problem for us." Dhananjay Kulkarni, Mumbai police spokesman

See the future of photography in fake black-and-white film

Sam Byford February 25, 2016 05:21 am02.25.2016 18

Last year I tried to counterbalance the lack of news at CP+ by shooting film to cover it. This year I had a little less time at Japan's biggest photo show, but I thought I'd try to do something different...

CP+ 2016 shot on Fujifilm 'Acros'

Huawei and Leica strike phone camera partnership

Sam Byford February 25, 2016 04:07 am02.25.2016 12

It's day one of CP+, Japan's biggest camera show, but there's some unusual photography news from two companies outside the country: Chinese telecoms titan Huawei has announced a partnership with Leica, the...

"A powerhouse in the reinvention of smartphone photography." Huawei

The new Sigma Quattro is the oddest camera since the last Sigma Quattro

Sam Byford February 25, 2016 01:58 am02.25.2016 9

Two years ago at CP+, Sigma unveiled the DP Quattro, a series of cameras with fixed lenses, APS-C sensors and a truly unique body design. This year, the company is using Japan's biggest camera show to...

At least one company is trying

Ricoh's new action camera has an absurdly wide 204-degree field of view

Sean O'Kane February 23, 2016 04:55 am02.23.2016 2

Ricoh is updating its rugged action camera line with the new WG-M2. It's 40 percent lighter and smaller than the WG-M1, and it shoots 4K video at an absurdly wide 204-degree field of view. You can drop it,...

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