Pentax K-3 review: Shooter’s Report Part II Time for some more exciting lenses!
It’s been a little while coming, between all the holidays, tradeshows, and announcements, but we just published the second installment in our Pentax K-3 review’s ongoing Shooter’s Report. This time around, we took off the kit lens and shot with some more interesting glass — two Limited primes, an older…
Nikon Sends Invites For 11th February Event
If you’re looking forward to new camera announcements from Nikon, you might not have to wait too long. It seems that the Japanese camera manufacturer has recently started to send out invites to an event that they will be holding on the 11th of February 2014, which is next Tuesday. It…
Ricoh has new rear converter for Pentax lenses, plus products in development
In addition to the new rugged models announced today, Ricoh also unveiled a rear converter for K-mount lenses in its Pentax series. The HD Pentax DA AF 1.4X AW extends the focal length of telephoto lenses by 40 percent (1.4x), yet it’s compact and measures less than an inch (22 "The rear…
Jason Dunford signs with FINIS through Rio 2016
FINIS, a world leader in technical swimming products announces the sponsorship of former Olympic record-holder, Jason Dunford of Kenya. Dunford swam collegiately for Stanford University, where he was a 14-time NCAA All-American and a 10-time Pac-10 Champion. He made his first trip to the Olympic Games in 2008 and set "I…
Big little lighthouse: Flickr photo of the day
Once we dispense with all cliches about size, we are left with relative importance. Built in 1890, Castle Hill Lighthouse, in Newport, R.I., is an example of the Rule of Inverse Proportion: it’s a small lighthouse, but it keeps boats and ships from hitting a huge rock. Photographed at daybreak…
Flickr Flips Its ‘About’ Page Upside Down, Revealing Fossilized Job Ad in the …
Back in the aughts, when Google wanted to recruit developers, it famously put up a billboard with a complex math problem that led to a website with an even more complex math problem. Last year, when Flickr, owned by Yahoo, wanted to recruit developers, it less famously hid a link…
Fresh Details About the Nikon D4s Surface on the Rumor Mill
Nikon already revealed that the D4s is in the works the company even had one on display in a ‘so-close-and-yet-so-far’ glass case at CES but so far, we’ve had very little info about the camera itself. Officially, we know that the new flagship will feature a new image processor and…
Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, And Flickr Hit With Temporary Service Interruption
Yahoo appears to be experiencing technical difficulties across its network of sites, with outages occurring on the Yahoo homepage, Yahoo Weather, Yahoo Mail and Flickr. DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com confirms that Yahoo is experiencing difficulties, and Twitter is also in an uproar over the outage. According to Twitter complaints, the outage seems…
Photoshop whizz Patrick Thorendahl continues to amuse fans with celebrity shots
Judging by Patrick Thorendahl’s Instagram account he’s one of the most popular men in Hollywood, getting up close and personal with everyone from Jay-Z to Miley Cyrus. But the 26-year-old’s A-list-heavy album is in fact the result of some clever Photoshop wizardry. He told MailOnline that he spends around 30minutes…
Think full-frame DSLRs are too expensive? Check out Hasselblad’s $11500 HV …
You know how there are cars, and then there are cars? You could technically argue that Toyota and Ferrari make the same thing, from a functionality standpoint, but we all know that they aren’t equal. The same could be said about cameras. All cameras, ultimately, take pictures, but there are…
