Canon has formally announced the 50D–to be released for sale in October–and specs posted on the official Canon USA sight confirm many of the rumors that had been circulating about the prosumer upgrade to the 40D.

It looks as though Canon has teamed up with tennis great/pinup gal Maria Sharapova to market the Canon SD1100 IS, which was already a great camera but is now perhaps slightly cooler in some cases …

Microsoft announced Wednesday night the release of a free online service called Photosynth, an innovative application that automatically crunches and then stitches together up to 300 photos at a time to create “synths” of an …

A UK insurance company has released a report about the most common ways photographers generally break their cameras, Amateur Photographer reports.

It seems as though Canon’s 12.1-megapixel Powershot G9 has been discontinued over at B&H Photography–does this mean a new G series camera on the near horizon?

The French photo equipment dealer Muller Photo has listed both the Nikon D3x and the D90— unannounced cameras that have been the subject of much speculation—as for sale, with price tags sitting at 4,990 Euros …

FujiFilm announced yesterday the FinePix S2000HD, a 10 megapixel point-and-shoot with full HD video capability – one of six new FinePix cameras the company released this week.

Nikon has announced the release of the P6000, a 13.5-megapixel point-and-shoot that takes the helm as the new flagship model in the Coolpix series, as well as five other Coolpix cameras that include new features …

Photographer and camera reviewer Rob Galbraith has been all over the Canon EOS 1D-Mark III autofocus situatione like white on rice, and now he’s gotten more thorough than ever: Galbraith released a 17,000-word report detailing …

Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton recently brushed off efforts by celebs and the city council to place more control on the aggressive paparazzi since, as he told KNBC-TV, “If you notice, since Britney started …

As traditional film photography wobbles on its last, already flimsy legs, the last professional film processing company in Vermont shut down this week and held a funeral for film to commemorate the event, complete with …

J.D. Power and Associates has released their 2008 Digital Camera Usage Satisfaction Study, which examines picture quality, performance, ease of operation, and appearance and styling. The report gave healthy props to DSLRS by Canon and …

Nikon announced this week an optional buffer memory improvement for the D3 that’ll pretty much double the number of shots you can fire off continuously on most settings (from 17 to 35 on TIFF, from …

Israel-based Leaf Photography, a member of Kodak’s Graphic Imaging Group, has rolled out a 56-megapixel medium format digital back, just out-pixeling the recently released, 50mp Hasselblad H3DII-50 – a camera that uses a Kodak sensor.

Developers at Tamron announced this week the upcoming release of the world’s first 15x zoom lens compatible with both Canon and Nikon digital SLRs, a product the company claims will allow shooters to “enjoy the …

Imaging Resource has posted an in-depth review of the new Fujifilm Finepix S100FS, an 11.1-megapixel hybrid with a 28-400mm zoom lens that Fujifilm is billing as the “Genesis of Nature Photography Digital Camera.”

Pentax on Monday announced the Optio E60, a 10.1 megapixel point-and-shoot the company says will retail for less than $140, and on Tuesday released the slightly more powerful Optio M60—a $180 camera Engadget.com termed “another …

Adobe Systems announced today the release of Lightroom 2, a much-beefed up version of its popular workflow and non-destructive editing software, touting new features such as dual monitor and 64-bit support.

Canon Rumors posted today that a new source is “claiming great knowledge” that the 40D will be replaced with a 14-megapixel, 1.6x camera—the 50D. That posting comes on the heels of an announcement on a British …

The tireless web scourers over at Dealnews.com posted a seriously sweet deal on the Canon Powershot G9—a juggernaut 12.1 megapixel point-and-shoot with 6x optical zoom and the DIGIC III image processer.

Dpreview has just posted a complete review of the recently released Canon1000D, with an overall rating of 8.25 out of 10.

Hasselblad has just announced it will feature a 50MP sensor in its new H3DII-50 digital back made by our good friends at Kodak. The sensor will feature a four-channel read out where the 39MP chip was …

 
Looks like Canon US has finally announced the Rebel XS for the United States market. (They announced the camera in Europe on June 10th) 
This Camera is supposed to be the bridge that will help people …

Looks like our friends over at Dpreview got their hands on a pre-production version of the new gun in Nikons arsenal the Nikon D700. A 12mp 5 fps (8 fps with optional battery grip) full …

The designer who famously documented layoffs at his paper through a series of bleak photos was axed in the paper’s most recent round of cuts.