Portland, OR—The breathtaking image of Paris that set the record as the world’s largest digital panorama at 26 gigapixels has now been superseded by a record-breaking image taken of Dubai, according to GigaPan. The gigapixel image, which can be viewed at photo-sharing site GigaPan.org, topped out at 45 gigapixels. If printed, the photo would be the size of nearly 1,200 billboards. Photographer Gerald Donovan took the image of a landscape in Dubai, with the tallest building in the world at the center of the image, using a Canon EOS 7D camera coupled with GigaPan’s Epic Pro robotic mount, which is based...

Olympus is holding the Pen Your Story Challenge to find out what consumers would do if they had the new Olympus Pen E-PL1 interchangeable-lens compact camera along with $5,000 to bring their creative vision to life. The “vision” can be anything a photographer can produce with a $5,000 budget and the Pen camera—from a short film, a fashion spread of still images or a photomontage. Consumers can submit their video proposals to youtube.com/getolympus and enter to win the E-PL1, the funds and a chance at the grand prize. After the proposal submissions have been narrowed down to 20 semifinalists selected by the...

Want to test your photo skills? Fujifilm and Ritz are teaming up for a photo contest with $5,000 as the grand prize purse. The details are at MyWayPhotoContest.com and below: From today until June 26, visitors are encouraged to register, submit photos and vote for their favorites in three themed categories: Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and Graduation.... The photographer of the best Mother's Day, Father's Day or Graduation photo will win $5,000, a Fujifilm FinePix HS10 digital camera and $250 worth of photo gifts. Additional first, second and third prizes include Fujifilm FinePix Z700EXR digital cameras, Tim...