Sigma Corporation CEO, Kazuto Yamaki, made an announcemt to loyal customers this week via a personal letter. Starting next month, Sigma’s 46-megapixel SD1 DSLR will be renamed the SD1 Merrill in honor of Richard “Dick” Merrill, the late co-creator of the Foveon X3 Direct Image...

By Christina Fong “Copyright” has become a dark word that we speak of in hushed tones these days but luckily for our visual generation that we have stock photography available. Sites such as iStockphoto and GettyImages have been making it easier for artists and photographers to...

By Amelia Riley Swan Do your videos have the unfortunate side effect of making your audience feel like they’re traveling the high seas during a storm? Jumping on a trampoline? Trapped inside a snow globe that’s being shaken vigorously? This piece of equipment can help smooth things...

By Amelia Riley Swan Social media has at last proven itself to be more than just a passing trend. Sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are integrated into most people’s daily lives, and they aren’t just for personal use anymore. Social media sites are key to building business...

By Amelia Riley Swan Those last few holdouts clinging to the classic Facebook profile will soon be forced to convert.  Facebook Timeline is about to be the only option for users, so prepare yourselves to say goodbye to your precious wall in the upcoming weeks. Users will have a seven-day...

Put old and new in a blender and what do you get? The best of both worlds, of course! Polaroid Z340 Instant Digital Camera: A “Blend” of Old and New In this video you can see Chase Jarvis putting both old and new cameras in a blender, giving birth to the new era of Polaroid. And...

Printing photos on metal has been around for a long time, but it wasn’t really an option for non-professionals. Now anyone can make their photographs shine! A company called Alyminyze.com, now allows anyone to upload any photo and have it printed onto specialized aluminized metal!...

The world of social media continues to expand.  We already have Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Not long ago Google introduced Google+ and the Google+ pages. But, Lots of businesses are asking themselves, do we need this? Do we need to create a Google+ page or is it just a waste of time?...

The fight is on! Samsung just released this ad for their new Samsung Galaxy SII phone. In the ad, Samsung pokes fun at people (clad mostly in plaid shirts, hoodies, and thick plastic-rim glasses) waiting in line for hours outside Apple stores across the country to get the new iPhone while...

By Adam Sherwin I’m sorry, did you say; “de-blurring tool?”  While some might say Adobe is on its way to creating another great tool to save that almost successful shot from the depths of our endless “outs” archive of digital images, we say it’s another...

by Nathan Lee Bush on October 18, 2011 on ARC BLOG Canon has announced a new full-frame flagship to arrive in March 2012 to replace both the 1D and 1DS lines, consolidating its studio and sports flagships into one package: the 1D X. The Camera sports a new 18MP sensor (thank God they are...

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  By Joe Sutton I Images courtesy of Blurb Blurb founder Eileen Gittins has always had an interest in documenting life around her through photography—and is advocating the world at large to follow suit. An early Internet pioneer, Eileen Gittins began her company, Blurb, to enable...

By Rory Aledort Not only are cameras mandatory instruments for photographers, but they have become so for the world at large. People find pleasure in capturing special moments and sharing memories. Since not everyone can draw or paint, photography is a much easier (and quicker) way to do...

By Mike Wilcox I Photos by Adam Sherwin   Say you’re a photographer. Say you’re waiting to board a plane in an airport for a flight to New York at the end of a long day of shooting. You have another long day of shooting ahead of you in the Big Apple. You’re exhausted… It’s 11...

  By Mike Wilcox | Photo by John Engstrom Alec Bova didn’t intend to follow in his father’s footsteps, yet he could not deny the electricity in his blood. Alec’s father is an electrician who covered Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, while two of his uncles work in sound system...

By Joshua Steen, Dir. of Digital Services of ROOT Capture By now, we are all well aware of the convergence of still and motion capture. Advances in sensor technology have finally made it possible for photographers to create in a medium that was only a few years ago both foreign and out of...

By Jodie Steen As a color management consultant, the most common question I get is, “How do I make sure I’m getting accurate color?” Image creators and editors want to know that the image they are seeing on screen is representative of the file, that the display matches what comes out of...

By Jeff Siti I Illustration by Horatio Baltz Way back in the Middle Ages, when reasonable people were running around Europe lopping off heads and burning infidels because their god was totally better than other gods, they knew a good hot bath when they saw one. Sure did. In fact, one of the...