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Instagram. fStop. Hipstamatic. IknowISO. Camera+. FakeDepthofField. Those applications (the ones that are real, anyway) have mostly replaced your need to lug around a huge DSLR and multiple lenses. They might be convenient, but they're also [...]

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Sometimes we wish we lived in a hexagonal house just so we had more walls to put up prints from The Impossible Cool collection Sonic Editions offers. If you've been a loyal Cool Material reader, the [...]

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We know we took some shots at Instagram in this previous post, but to quote the well-known philosopher, Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog, "We kid, we kid." The truth [...]

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In the first 24 hours of Instagram's Android-based life, the app was downloaded a million times. A freakin' million. If you needed proof that the photo network wasn't just for retro filter loving hipsters, [...]

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Do you frequently find yourself watching the videos you've recorded on your iPhone and wishing you had better, higher quality sound to suck you back into the moment? Do you mind a mildly-obtrusive boom mic [...]

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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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Let's get one thing out of the way right off the bat; if you don't have a camera rig worth more than your first car this probably isn't the bag for you. If you do [...]

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Michael Sean Edwards knows his way around the business end of a film camera. He took a series of photos in NYC between 1978 and 1985 that cover everything from the Garment District to [...]

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Our phones are jam-packed with little pieces of art we created with the help of Instagram. Our favorite camera app has taken us from "weird guy snapping pictures of a crushed beer can" to "artist" (pronounced [...]

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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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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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As much as we love our iPhone camera, part of us is having a really difficult time letting our classic camera go. Yeah, breaking out the Leica still happens, but we can't deny the ease [...]

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The morning after a party, we usually wake up, pop an Advil and review the pics and vids we took the night before. What we usually find are a huge collection of tiny films featuring really [...]

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At this point in time you could carry around a whole separate bag of camera accessories for your phone. SLR mounts, interchangeable lenses and filters are just a few of the things available, but it's [...]

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