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• Hands on with Facebook Camera for iPhone

  By Lex Friedman | 24 May, 2012 19:08

  Facebook on Thursday launched Camera, a new standalone iPhone app for browsing your friends' photos and sharing new ones of your own. Were Instagram owned by anyone else, it might be sweating bullets right now.

• Move over Instagram, here comes Facebook Camera

  By Ed Oswald | 24 May, 2012 19:47

  Facebook might have acquired Instagram, but that's not stopping the site from releasing a social photo-sharing app of its own.

• Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS20: 20X pocket megazoom loaded with options

  By Tim Moynihan | 18 May, 2012 07:49

  For a pocketable camera, the 14-megapixel Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS20 ($350 as of May 15, 2012) is about as loaded as they come. The trait that will jump out at you--literally, if you're facing the camera--is the Lumix ZS20's 20X-optical-zoom lens (24mm to 480mm). Like that zoom lens, the Lumix ZS20's laundry list of features keeps on going and going.

• APP OF THE DAY: Flickr

  By Patrick Budmar | 05 April, 2012 10:50

  The Flickr Web service has become invaluable to budding photographers to share their photos online.

• iPhoto for iOS arrives on the App Store

  By Philip Michaels | 08 March, 2012 06:56

  Apple's mobile suite of iLife apps is now complete. The company has rolled out iPhoto for iOS, which joins mobile versions of GarageBand and iMovie in the App Store.

• iOS app makers turn to third parties for new revenue sources

  By Lex Friedman | 24 February, 2012 07:12

  There's more than one way for developers to make a buck off the App Store. Third-party services are springing up that give app makers another source of revenue beyond downloads and in-app purchases.

• Nikon refreshes entire Coolpix line with nine new cameras

  By Tim Moynihan | 02 February, 2012 02:20

  Nikon flipped over its whole lineup of Coolpix point-and-shoots today, introducing nine new models to replace and augment the company's 2011 offerings. Leading the charge in features (and price) are the 42X-optical-zoom Nikon Coolpix P510 and the low-light-friendly Nikon Coolpix P310, the latter of which offers a maximum aperture of F1.8.

• Panasonic announces 20X-zoom pocket camera, full-featured rugged camera

  By Tim Moynihan | 31 January, 2012 21:50

  Panasonic's latest camera models are extreme in a couple of ways: extreme in terms of optical-zoom range, and extreme in the "chugging a carafe of Mountain Dew while pogo-sticking down Mount Everest" sense. The company announced four new Lumix point-and-shoots that will be available in the first quarter of the year, headlined by the 20X-optical-zoom Lumix ZS20 and the rugged but robust Lumix TS4.

• iPhoto vs. Photoshop Touch on the new iPad: Consume or create?

  By Michelle Mastin | 23 March, 2012 00:41

  The Retina display on the new iPad is one of the tablet's defining features, and it makes the device ideally suited for multimedia work, including image editing. Apple’s new iPhoto app and Adobe’s Photoshop Touch are taking advantage of that opportunity by bringing powerful photo editing and sharing tools to the iPad.

• USERS GUIDE: 11 tips to ensure great smartphone photos

  By Dave Johnson | 01 August, 2011 23:55

  You probably don't carry your fancy-pants DSLR camera with you all the time, but your smartphone--along with its built-in camera--is in your pocket everywhere you go. That's why these days the most popular camera used to upload photos to Flickr isn't a camera at all, but the iPhone.

• Tablet cameras: iPad 2 vs. Xoom vs. Galaxy Tab

  By Tim Moynihan and Tony Leung | 15 March, 2011 05:08

  Odds are, if you ask anyone waiting in line for an iPad 2, they'll list plenty of reasons why they're lusting after Apple's latest camera(s)-equipped tablet.

• New cameras come alive at PhotoPlus Expo

  By Tim Moynihan | 01 November, 2010 15:42

  Craving a new camera for the holiday season? The hottest new cameras, camcorders, and accessories of the year were all on display at the 2010 PDN PhotoPlus Expo in New York City.

• 10 great digital photography downloads

  By Preston Gralla | 15 September, 2010 13:33

  Have a digital camera and plenty of photos? Want some help with editing and managing them all? We've rounded up ten downloads that will let you take control of your photos. Whether you're looking for a top-of-the-line photo editor, a great photo manager, or nifty utilities to handle tasks such as finding duplicates, we have just the thing. And every program is free--not only to download but also to use.

• Fujifilm's new 3D camera is fun but pricey

  By Barbara Krasnoff | 19 August, 2010 07:09

  While 3D movies are already experiencing something of a backlash, technology vendors are still pushing forward with 3D content -- trying to persuade us that 3D is to 2D what talkies were to silents.

• The coolest camera features of 2010

  By Tim Moynihan | 05 March, 2010 15:47

  These cameras have innovative extras that may win you over as soon as you try them.

• 20 free ways to manage video, music, and photos

  By Adam Pash and Rick Broida | 02 March, 2010 02:40

  No-cost utilities and services can help you find, organize, and wrangle your media files--or enjoy some great video online.