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DxO Labs has updated its flagship Optics Pro imaging application to add support for the fixed-lens Canon G1 X, as well as several compact system camera models. 

In addition to the Canon PowerShot G1 X, newly supported cameras in DxO Optics Pro v7.2.1 include the Nikon J1, Nikon V1, Sony NEX-7, and Olympus E-P2. 

Simultaneously, DxO has also released a raft of new optics...

There's an elephant in the room, and it's high time we talked about it. Smartphone imaging has certainly come along in leaps and bounds in the last few years, and chances are that your phone can now capture high-definition video. Unfortunately, it's also likely that it does so in a way that degrades the video quality, or perhaps makes it challenging to get a decent...

Shooting with the Leica M9-P and 50mm f/1.4 Summilux-M lens taught us a lot about why people love Leica cameras. But we also learned why most people don't shoot Leica rangefinders, and it isn't just about the very high price tag. Shooting with any manual focus, aperture-priority camera is a little more challenging than most people are used to. Once we got back into the...

You've doubtless heard that old adage, "true beauty lies within". So, it would seem, has consumer electronics giant Samsung. It's apparently taken the saying to heart, introducing a new series of flash cards to the US market that court the fashion-conscious.

First offered in Asia back in late 2009, followed by a European launch last year, Samsung's SD and microSD cards...

LPA Design's PocketWizard Plus II transceiver has proven pretty popular with photographers wanting to remotely trigger cameras and lights from a significant distance, but the design is now rather long in the tooth, having been introduced in mid-2006. Today, the company has introduced a successor model that brings more features, yet manages to hit an even lower price point.

PK_Tether--the unofficial tethering solution for Pentax SLRs--has just been updated to a new version, we hear today.

Created by Polish programmer Tomasz Kos, and originally known as 'Pentax Kx Periodic Shooting', PK_Tether has been on the scene for a little over a year now.

As its earlier name suggests, PK_Tether was first created specifically with the Pentax K-x in...

Canon USA has today issued a brief statement to provide updated availability information for two super-telephoto lenses that were first announced a little over a year ago.

The Canon EF 500mm f/4L IS II USM and EF 600mm f/4L IS II USM were both unveiled on February 7th, 2011, shortly before the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, causing widespread devastation. To...

New firmware and software just issued by Olympus Japan brings new features for the imaging software bundled with some of the company's cameras, as well as an improvement for one of its ZUIKO DIGITAL lenses.

Olympus Viewer 2 has--perhaps rather confusingly--just been updated to version 1.3 on both the Windows and Macintosh platforms. The list of changes is the same for...

A new update to Nikon's my Picturetown photo sharing service aims to make it easier for users to share their photos with friends and family on popular social network sites.

The latest iteration of my Picturetown now has stronger ties to Facebook. It allows you to post album links to the popular social network, or to automatically send links to your Facebook friends. A new...

2012 is shaping up to be quite a year for photographers. We're only seven weeks in, and we've already had over eighty camera announcements, quite a few of them major. Over the coming days and weeks, many of these cameras will be becoming available. If you want to be among the first to be shooting with the most interesting models, though, you'll likely need to preorder.

The months-long investigation into financial irregularities at Olympus Corp. has finally resulted in its first arrests today, and they come at the very highest levels of the company's former management. Those arrested include the Olympus' former CEO, president and chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, ex-executive vice president Hisashi Mori, and Hideo Yamada, the company's former...

Things are becoming increasingly exciting in Pentax land lately, as new owner Ricoh gets the ball rolling on plans to make its acquisition a major contender.

At the recent CP+ trade show in Japan, the company had no less than seven new optics on display for its various interchangeable-lens cameras, all but one of which are expected to hit retail later this year. The...

There's definitely something to be said for the instant gratification of digital photography, but from time to time, we do find ourselves missing the depth of expression possible with a film camera.

Like many of our readers, we cut our teeth in an analog world. Achieving the look you were after with a film camera was a simple matter. Swap in a different roll of film, and...

Have you ever hit an error message on your Canon digital camera, and been stumped for the meaning? These two-digit codes don't manifest themselves too often, but when they do, the accompanying message can occasionally be rather cryptic.

If you've seen one of the less obvious error messages, chances are you did what most folks would: reseated the battery and lens, swapped...

Nikon got into the mirrorless camera game near the end of 2011, and released three lenses to start off the system: one of them, the Nikon 1 10-100mm f/4.5-5.6 PD-Zoom VR, is heavier than the V1 and J1 cameras it can serve, but offers an image-stabilized 27-270mm equivalent platform, and is the subject of today's lens review on SLRgear.com. Click here to read our full review...

While the new Lensbaby Edge 80 resembles the recently released Sweet 35, it's a completely different optical experience. And we're not just talking about the focal length, which happens to be ideal for portraiture. First, the Edge 80 is a flat field optic. Second, it includes macro focusing as close as 17 inches.

Like the Sweet 35, it features a 12-blade internal...

Regular readers will have noticed a flurry of announcements lately, timed to coincide with the start of Japan's flagship imaging show, CP+. The show closed yesterday, but a post from the folks over at Rob Galbraith Digital Photography Insights tipped us off to a goldmine of interesting info released a few days back by the show's host, the Camera & Imaging Products...

Introduction of the Nikon D4 digital SLR in the US market has been delayed slightly, the company confirmed for us today. Announced at the start of January, the D4 was originally planned for delivery this month. That schedule has now slipped to mid-March due to an unspecified production update.

In related news, an article from the Malaysian National News Agency confirms...

If you're an early adopter of one of Nikon's 1-series compact system cameras, the company has a firmware update lined up for you today.

The new firmware for the Nikon V1 and J1 cameras brings either model up to version A 1.11 and B 1.10. In both cases, a problem with flash overexposure has been addressed, either for the Nikon J1's built-in strobe, or for the Speedlight...