Photographer Jordan Matter helps out as a PDN product tester from time to time so we were pleased as punch to see his new book of photographs, Dancers Among Us: A Celebration of Joy in the Everyday, debut on The New York Times‘ best seller list recently. Matter’s images, which feature professional dancers performing in [...]

Canon has unveiled two new lenses tonight: the Canon EF 24-70mm f/4L IS USM lens and the Canon EF 35mm f/2 IS USM lens. Official announcements of the two lenses — which PDN was not given NDA (non-disclosure agreement) information on ahead of the official launch — occurred at 11pm EST. (Editor’s note: Canon just officially [...]

The full-frame 20.2-megapixel Canon EOS 6D digital SLR won’t go on sale until November but we got a look at a very handy new free app that will let you connect the camera wirelessly to smartphones. Canon’s Chuck Westfall demoed the app for us, which is called Canon EOS Remote, at PhotoPlus Expo this week. [...]

Fresh off the success of his popular CineSkates HD-DSLR dolly system from last year, inventor Justin Jensen of Cinetics was at PhotoPlus Expo this week showing off his latest product: CineMoco, which is a compact, motorized dolly and slider for shooting video and time-lapse photography. Think of it as CineSkates with a brain. Like CineSkates, [...]

Here’s an interesting new app for your iPhone launched at PhotoPlus Expo by none other than Kodak. Called the Kodak Professional Film app and available now for free from the iTunes store, the app helps photographers locate where they can buy their favorite (remaining) Kodak films and where they can get them developed. The app [...]

This might look like an blimp-sized underwater housing for your digital SLR but it’s designed to be used strictly above water. It is a type of “blimp” though. Called a Sound Blimp and available from AquaTech, it’s designed to make your DSLR a quieter shooter. Custom-cut from sound-dampening foam, the Sound Blimp fits snuggly over [...]

Talk about head-turners! Check out this crazy rig we saw on display at the Pentax table at the PhotoPlus Expo Test Drive press preview event last night: it’s the massive HD PENTAX DA 560mm F5.6ED AW lens attached to the teeny tiny Pentax Q10 mirrorless compact system camera. The K-mount-based HD PENTAX DA 560mm F5.6ED [...]

The PhotoPlus Expo kicked off in New York City today and while most of the major camera announcements were made at the photokina show in Germany in September, there’s lots of smaller but no less important photo products debuting here at PPE 2012. One product that caught our eye last night at the “Test Drive” [...]

Nikon unveiled the new AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/4G ED VR lens this morning. The lens, which Nikon says is the company’s first with up to five stops of image stabilization, goes on sale in November for $1,399.95. The new AF-S 70-200mm f/4G is the first NIKKOR lens to feature the third generation of Nikon’s Vibration [...]

Nikon has officially taken the wraps off the new 14.2-megapixel Nikon 1 V2, the latest top-of-the-line model in its compact system camera line. The redesigned Nikon V2 looks almost completely different from its predecessor, the V1, resembling a stripped down DSLR except without, of course, the mirror box inside the camera, allowing it to be [...]