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Tilt-shift lenses aren't cheap, so when the official announcement of the $1000 Rokinon 24mm f/3.5 tilt-shift lens came about, many photogphers were very excited. We got one of the first ones to roll off the assembly line and took it for some testing in NYC and Florida.

The Creative Commons licensing scheme is a tool that allows you to control just how your content is released into the wild. If you're okay with people using your images as long as you're credited, it's the way to go. But with six different licenses, how do you choose which one fits with what you want? This flow chart from Creative Commons Australia takes you through the steps to do just that.

The text for an advertisement promoting a new housing development asked, “What would life be like if everything was the same?” Lincoln Barbour, a Portland, OR-based commercial shooter, took on the creative challenge of answering that question visually in a series of images that included this shot of an all-Souzaphone high-school band.

In 2011, Sony ventured into the world of digital binoculars with the DEV-5 and DEV-3. The newly announced DEV-50 improves on just about everything from the older models, but will still set you back around $2,000. The DEV-50 combines traditional optics with digital imaging sensors and technology to marry many of the features seen in digital cameras to a pair of binoculars.