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DSLR cameras only have two downsides: price and size. Even if you can afford the car payment size pill that is the cost, they're a pain in the ass to lug around. Sony's new NEX-F3 [...]

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Our iPhones now account for the majority of the pictures we take. Thanks to Instagram and other like-minded apps, good photos take minimal skill. When we actually want to remind ourselves that we worked hard to [...]

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Instead of everyone hovering around a small LCD screen to see how they look in the latest snapshot, there was a day when partygoers waited for the picture-taker to finish shaking out the image on a Polaroid. (Or [...]

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Camo, camo, camo. Camo is everywhere except the forest where it belongs, but that's ok in most situations because it looks good. If you're not the type of guy that would wear camo pants or [...]

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We plan on releasing an app that ends in -gram sometime soon to piggyback off the success of Instagram and hope people think our apps are related. What will our app do?  No clue. We don't [...]

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If you own the type of camera that comes stock with a car payment, you're probably know what we're talking about when we say it's damn near impossible to find a bag that will fit [...]

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If you've dropped a pretty penny on a nice DSLR, odds are the next purchase you made was some sort of bag to tote it around in. While whatever you chose probably can hold a few [...]

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If you don't like ridiculously nerdy camera statistics, you should just stop reading this now because we're about to geek out. First, the design: it's Marc Newson (Dom Perignon, G Star, cars, boats, yachts) to [...]

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While some might be out snapping shots of picturesque sunsets and calm snowfalls, most of our photo ops take place in poorly lit bars and at parties where the cost of rent in the city [...]

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Unless you shoot everything with Instagram and an iPhone (which, honestly, at this point in time we can't even fault you for), you've probably had a camera slung around your neck at some point in [...]

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For a while we were convinced there was one company making all the wrist straps that are included with most point-and-shoot digital cameras. Just one little uninspired-to-get-creative-because-there's-no-competition company out there churning these things out by the [...]

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It's amazing we all didn't die from nausea (possible?) growing up watching videos shot on our dad's or our friend's gigantic camera. Seriously, those videos were like watching The Blair Witch Project only instead of the [...]

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Flashback to when you were between the ages of six and twelve. You remember pretending you were a spy and wearing those sweet sunglasses with the little mirrors inside? We can't possibly be the only [...]

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Seeing as how everything else is going all "vintage" these days, it was only a matter of time before even photography took the plunge. Technically that would have been a more fitting statement to make [...]

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It's not much of a stretch to say that Eleanor is one of the coolest cars in recent memory and she's just a Frankenstein creation of Ford and Shelby. Try as they might, no amount [...]

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