Panasonic has released the new DMC-ZR1 with ultra-wide-angle 8x optical zoom and Power OIS (optical image stabilization) to its line of Lumix cameras. The camera has 12.1-megapixel resolution.

The 25mm ultra-wide-angle Leica DC Vario-Elmar zoom lens, is useful for landscapes, wide indoor shots and...

Ricoh has released its latest GR Digital III camera equipped with a faster image processing engine, a CCD sensor and a 28mm, f/1.9 GR lens. The camera also has a 3-inch VGA LCD monitor with a wide-viewing angle and can display up to 81 thumbnail images on a single screen.

The new large-aperture lens is designed to have a faster shutter speed to allow for high-quality macro images. Using enhanced noise reduction technology and...

Canon has launched three EF and EF-S lenses: the extreme-wide-angle EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM; the wide-angle, image-stabilized EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM lens; and the EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS lens, the first of Canon's SLR lenses to feature the new hybrid image stabilization (IS) technology.

The new EF macro IS lens is the first camera lens able to compensate for both rotational-angle camera shake and linear-shift camera shake. This new lens dexterity works...

Pentax has released the K-x, a 12.4-megapixel, entry-level camera with high-end features such as HD Video, Live View functions and two new compatible zoom lenses. The wide-screen HD video mode also captures images in 720-pixel resolution at 24 frames per second (fps).

Images can be viewed quickly on the 2.7-inch LCD screen by using the Live View function. While in this mode, users can manipulate contrast, detect phase difference and...

Fujifilm's FinePix Real 3D System imaging technology is the first to let users watch three-dimensional images – without wearing 3-D glasses. The FinePix Real 3D system includes a 3-D digital camera, a 3-D picture viewer and 3-D prints.

The FinePix Real 3D W1 camera, featuring a new 10-megapixel 3-D lens system, captures images with up to 3x optical zoom and up to...

Nikon has released four new Coolpix compact cameras. The S70 is equipped with an organic LED touch screen display, and the S1000pj contains the first built-in camera projector. For a more economical option, the S640 and S570 are now available with improved in-camera features.

The S70, with its 3.5-inch clear color display, has 12.1-megapixel resolution and a film speed range of ISO 60 to ISO 6400. Touch-screen enhancements for this camera include the touch shutter feature, brightness adjustment and scene effect manipulation. HD video can be recorded...

Kevin Schafer, a Seattle-based nature photographer, was featured in the July 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine for his photographs of Amazon River dolphins. One of Schafer's unpublished dolphin portraits also won the top prize in the mammal behavior category at the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. His work has been published in Smithsonian, Natural History and National Wildlife...

Through new distribution platforms, multimedia formats and teamwork, today's photojournalists are trying to resurrect a moribund industry.

BREAKING NEWS — Photojournalism, the use of images to tell stories and convey information about topical events, from the Crimean War to this year's health-care reform debate, has died following a long and gradual illness.

The profession was approximately 150 years old...

The Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., has selected five portraits by renowned photographer Al Satterwhite to become part of its permanent collection.

The collection is made up of portraits of individuals who throughout history have made an impression on American culture. Satterwhite's selected portraits are of baseball legend...

Canon has released the PowerShot G11, the latest in the line of PowerShot cameras, with 10-megapixel resolution, DIGIC 4 image processing and a 2.8-inch vari-angle LCD screen.

For handheld photography, the G11 is equipped with a 5x wide-angle (28mm) zoom lens and an optical image stabilizer that allows lower shutter speed than non-IS cameras. Low-light mode allows shots to be taken up to ISO 12800 in reduced 2.5-megapixel resolution.

To improve image quality, the G11 is equipped with a...