Robert Doisneau was a French photographer who is considered a pioneer of photojournalism. In 1950, he captured the iconic image Le baiser de l’hôtel de ville (Kiss by the Town Hall), a photograph of a couple...
Archive - December 2012
Watch The World Usher In The New Year 2013 on EarthCam
EarthCam is a site that features different webcams around the world ready to stream live images of the New Year on Dec 31. A special Times Square broadcast is scheduled to start at 10PM ET. Visit EarthCam. Click to...
Toshiba Challenges Lytro Camera
The Lytro Camera has not been quite the success it thought it would be. After all, being able to have a picture that is always in focus, no matter where you want that focus to be on the picture — after that...
A World Without Photographers
Can you picture a world without photographers? Not gonna happen, I hear you say. Quite the contrary, everyone will be taking too many pictures on their smart phones, tablets and digital cameras. But as a careful reading...
Lauren, Your 2009 Wedding Photos Have Been Found!
If your name is Lauren and you got married in 2009 at Spencer Smith Park, Burlington — or photo could have been taken at Harbourfront, Toronto — your photos saved on a USB key have been found by Carole Mann...
Meet Ms. Mac 2012
She’s cute. She has freckles, wears T-shirt and jeans, and sports a ponytail. She, according to research from BlueStacks, was the most likely Mac user in 2012, and therefore the group that is fueling Apple’s...
Download A Free Copy of NASA’s Best Space Images Calendar 2013
The 2013 APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) calendar is now available for download in PDF format (1.6 Mb). It features some of the best space images of 2012 that amazed and astounded us. Click to share on Bluesky...
Foxconn Buys 9% of GoPro, Slowly Morphs From Contracted Manufacturer Into Owner
Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturing giant famous for its production of Apple products (and an estimated 40% of the world’s consumer electronics gadgets), announced Thursday that it has bought a 9% stake ($200...
SIGMA Aizu, Japan
Wow, this is probably the prettiest video ever made of a camera manufacturing plant. Reminds me of the cooks in one of my favorite restaurant, where you see them concentrating on cooking up the best dish ever, every...
Leica Announces Two New 2013 Photography Calendars: M Monochrom (Music) & S-System (Fashion)
New Leica M Monochrom Calendar 2013: “Musically and Monochrome” Leica Camera served as the official photography partner of Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival 2012 Using the M Monochrom, photographer...
New Leica Store New York SoHo: Just Opened & Official Grand Opening in February 2013
PRESS RELEASE LEICA CAMERA ANNOUNCES LEICA STORE NEW YORK SOHO OPENING Allendale, NJ (December 20, 2012) – Leica Camera, the legendary German camera and sport optics brand, announces the opening of the Leica Store New...
9:30am Moment of Silence
Just a heads-up that at 9:30 AM today, Photoxels will go into virtual silence for approximately 5 minutes. Please join us (and millions of other web sites) to observe a moment of silence for the victims of the Sandy...
LPA Design Announces a New Update to PocketWizard ControlTL® Firmware: Version 6.200 for Canon 5D Mark III
PocketWizard® Photo Products Announces ControlTL® Firmware Update for Canon 5D Mark III Update provides compatibility for Canon version MiniTT1® and FlexTT5® radios with the Canon 5D Mark III digital SLR camera So...
YouTube Rewind 2012, Gangnam Style
YouTube mashup of the most viewed videos of 2012. The picture on the left just nails the whole year for me. Plus, view the top 10 videos everyone was talking about in 2012 (i.e. if you happened to have missed one)...
Nikon Goes Retro, Sort Of
Retro is all the rage, maybe. Nikon has patented a digital back that can turn your 35mm film Nikon SLRs into DSLRs! See, shutter speed dial, aperture ring, all the manual controls that you love are all there. But I say...
Giant Jack Fish Tornado
Here is the Behind the scenes video of the David and Goliath image which was taken at Cabo Pulmo National Park and submitted to the National Geographic Photo Contest 2012. The video was captured by marine biologist...
Mount Everest in Gigapixel Glory
David Breashears has climbed Mount Everest five times already. Combining old and new pictures of the Khumbu glacier, he created this gigapixel image of the highest mountain in the world. The image is part of a project...
B&H Photography Deals for the Week of 12/17/2012
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What’s Yours Is Mine, As Instagram Lays Claim To Your Pictures, Then Quickly Backtracks
On January 16, 2013, all your pictures posted on Instagram will be theirs to sell without payment or notification to you. Buyers can then use your photos for ads, positive or negative ones, without any say on your part...
McAfee’s Tips on How to Secure New Devices This Holiday Season
This video presents “McAfee Identity Protection, 12 Scams of Christmas www.CounterIdentityTheft.com”: “Identity Thieves and Cybercriminals Take Advantage of the Holiday Season, Aiming to Steal...
Human Form in Motion @ 2000FPS
Photographer Shinichi Maruyama and choreographer Jessica Lang paired up dancers with picture-perfect movements, which Maruyama then captured at the blazing speed of 2,000 frames per second. He then created each image by...