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Lensbaby introduced a fisheye optic and soft focus optic to its optic swap system of creative effect lenses at PhotoPlus Expo in New York City last week. Each of the new optics can be used with the Lensbaby Composer and Lensbaby Muse. The soft focus optic is also compatible with Lensbaby’s Control Freak. Fisheye Optic The new fisheye optic lets you turn the Lensbaby Composer or Muse into a fisheye lens by swapping out the optic and dropping the new optic into the lens. You will get an ultra-wide 12mm focal length capable of capturing a 160-degree fisheye angle of view from...

The just released Canon EOS-1D Mark IV digital SLR is the most rugged and durable professional Canon camera body to date with a magnesium alloy, weather-resistant body, and features 1080p Full HD (high-definition) video capture at selectable frame rates. Whew. This camera is really cool. It boasts a 16.1 megapixel Canon CMOS sensor, dual Digic 4 imaging processors and 14-bit A/D data conversion—all at 10 frames per second (fps), with the widest ISO range Canon has produced. So much quality and power packed into a DSLR. There is a Canon EOS-1D Mark IV digital SLR review of the features and specs here...

Best Buy's Scary Technology Contest sounds like the perfect Halloween treat. From now until October 26 you can submit a photo of the most terrifying technology in your home, along with a 140-character caption to help bring the photo to life, for your chance to win a free home theater makeover. All entries will be judged on your creativity, originality and readability so get your thinking caps on. Not only do you have to have some scary technology, but you have to be able to tell them what makes it so scary. Here's what you can get... One lucky Grand Prize Winner...

I have posted interesting animal photos before, check out Photos of the Cutest Exotic Baby Animals and Photos of the Strangest Animals on Earth, and these exotic albino animal photos are once again a sight not to miss. They are beautiful and although most are commonplace, their white color and pinkish eyes make them unique. The power of photography brings some of the rarest animals into our homes through the Internet. My kids have loved Gorillas for years and when we read in a book about Snowflake the white gorilla, they just had to learn more. We researched in books...

Hungarian luck has struck the police force, but not the town of Budaörs. Their entire police force in the town of Budaörs, Hungary, quit after winning more than $16 million in the lottery. The 15 officers presented their lottery ticket and quit on the spot. Each of the lucky winning officers will receive more than $1.1 million. Police chiefs are scrambling to pull together back-up units to serve the area until more full-time officers can be recruited. Hungary's lottery requires the winner to pick five out of 90 numbers on the ticket correctly, and each ticket costs the equivalent of $.50....

It's right around the corner, Halloween that is. With that comes a lot of Halloween pictures. Are you ready? Here are some tips for taking the best Halloween pictures that will hopefully help you capture your goblins, ghosts, and princesses in all their glory. Learn how to take great pictures of a jack-o-lantern at night and tips to get yourself into the family Halloween pictures this year.

This might be one of the cooler things I have seen done with photography. The site is Nikon MicroscopyU. The premise is photography under a microscope. The result... amazing and beautiful microscopy photographs you could never see without the use of a microscope. The pictures here are actual images of specimens that were photographed under a microscope. These are from the 2009 Nikon International Small World Competition and include microorganisms, plant tissues, fish scales, fibers, chemical crystals, soap bubbles, integrated circuits, liquid crystals, animal cells in culture, insects, and snowflakes. The Small World contest is celebrating over 35 years of...

I have been on the web the past few days, as any good mom is doing this time of year, looking for fun and cool Halloween stuff to do with the kids. Parenting.com/Halloween has some great Halloween ideas that will make you very popular with your kids. There are over 100 Halloween costume ideas along with snacks and treats that are really easy to make. You will find fun craft ideas, and even tips on keeping your family safe this Halloween. They have some good ideas for discussing possible dangers with your children. Throwing a Halloween party this year? Parenting has some...

With the death of Irving Penn happening just one day before Christie's in New York was to auction off a selection of his photos, the prices for the photographs doubled what the estimate originally was. The photographs were breathtaking, as you would expect from Irving Penn, but they were not among his most iconic images. Even still, the photographs brought in a total of $492,850, more than double the auction house's total estimate of $235,000. Irving Penn who was one of the 20th century’s most profound and influential photographers of fashion, famous people and the ordinary scenes from life. Penn died on...