Canon has released the EOS Rebel T1i Digital SLR camera, the first in the Rebel camera line to offer full HD video capture abilities. The T1i is also equipped with a Digic 4 Imagine Processor and 15.1-megapixel resolution.

The T1i offers three video recording settings. In full HD mode, the camera records at 1080p and 20 frames per second (fps). Also in HD, but at 720p, the T1i records with 30 fps. In SD mode, the camera films at 4:3 standard...

Olympus has debuted the E-450, a portable DSLR with a 10-megapixel resolution, a large, 2.7-inch LCD screen, several new art filters and a faster 3.5-frame-per-second sequential shooting mode.

The three new art filters include a color-enhancing "Pop Art" filter, a peripheral light-reducing "Pin Hole" filter and a delicately blurring "Soft Focus" filter.

On-Screen Autofocus allows users to ensure subject focus on the LCD screen before taking any pictures, while...

Few images better evoke the idea of summer than sun, water and happy kids. Ric Peterson's image of children in mid-leap toward a seemingly limitless lakeside horizon is the perfect way to close our summer issue.

The image came about after Peterson had photographed an ad campaign for Guidance Medical, depicting two boys running along a sun-soaked beach using towels as capes. "I thought, 'This has potential,' Peterson says, so he decided to shoot some more images involving children, water and movement for his stock collection.

A dedicated family man, Peterson included his own family members in this particular scene, which was shot on Mille Lacs Lake in Minnesota during a summer vacation...

In March, New York-based Omnicom Group began enforcing the sequential liability clause in advertising contracts, asserting that ad agencies will no longer be responsible for paying production fees until the client has paid for the services.

Reportedly, these new company guidelines are the result of the requests for longer payment times from major advertisers, such as General Motors, which has asked for 75 days to pay invoices, and beverage giant InBev, which has requested at least 120 days to settle its accounts...

Despite increasing unemployment rates in the arts industry, the number of photographers in the United States has increased by 32,000 since 2007, according to a report released by the National Endowment for the Arts in March.

According to the release, 193,000 photographers were employed in the United States in the fourth quarter of 2008, compared to 167,000 employed the year before; at the same time, the total photography workforce hit an all-time high of 205,000 members. With this growth, however, the number of unemployed photographers also increased, doubling from 6,000 in 2007 to 12,000 in 2008...

Home and office location: Greenport, N.Y., on Long Island, but he‚ not there for very long stretches. "Home is where you store stuff," Moffett says. 

Most memorable assignment: Photographing Phyllobates terribilis, the world‚ deadliest poison dart frog, in a remote valley in Colombia when the frog decided to leap at him. A single frog, which is lethal to the touch, could kill 400 to 500 people.

Advice for nature photographers: "Know the science behind what is being photographed," he says. "Look for the new and be a storyteller. The fact is, I believe life is all about telling stories."

Website: MarkMoffett.com