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Trying to get everyone looking their best in a group photo is a tricky proposition, as someone is always bound to sneeze, blink, cough, or otherwise ruin the shot. The folks at Scalado have an idea they think might be able to help you eschew all those throw away shots. Thanks to the recent boost in processing power on multicore cellphones, they are able to handle much more difficult operations, like stitching together a series of photos in order to take one perfect one.

David Myrick was doing a photoshoot of electronic group the Glitch Mob (who recently provided the opening track on the album Tron Legacy Reconfigured), and rather than your standard shots of the members, he decided to photograph them twice, projecting the first shot over the musicians for the second.

To accompany the release of its brand-new GF3 ILC, Panasonic announced the addition of an impressive new prime to its lineup in the form of the Leica Summilux DG 25mm f/1.4 lens. The lens features Panasonic’s Nano Surface Coating to help cut down on lens flare. It's built from 9 elements arranged in 7 different groups, two of which are aspherical, while a third is an Ultra High Refractive index element.

As part of the Project Imagin8ion campaign, Canon tapped director Ron Howard to be its official judge. The eight winning images he picks will be used as the inspiration for a short film directed by his daughter, Bryce Howard. We got a chance to talk to the Apollo 13 directer (and Arrested Development narrator) about his involvement and his long-standing relationship with images of all kinds.