A new Australian online comedy aired yesterday dealing with the story of an obsessive group of young photographers. MegaPixel.co.il had a talk with the director to learn more about what's behind the first ever online comedy about photographers. How far will you be willing to go to take the perfect shot? Some photographers will do everything and stop at nothing. …

MegaPixel.co.il – Israel's largest photography website, is proud to announce the largest photography related Jewish new year project ever created. For our project we collected new year video greetings from over photography 15 companies as well as famous photographers from around the world. All the videos could be found on our special Shana Tova page. Background The idea for the …

SanDisk announced today several new products including a new fast Extreme Pro SDXC card, a new Memory Vault device for storing pictures and videos for a very long  time and the first SanDisk Eye-Fi Wireless card with a built in WIFI. Not all the information has been disclosed at this stage but we have some interesting info on the new …

We are proud to publish today a unique summery of IFA 2011 – the largest consumer electronics show in Europe. Bringing together all the major electronics manufacturers IFA this year was also a hotspot for new cameras and photo gear announced just prior to the show and letting us a chance to bring you exclusive images live from the floor. …

An Israeli company recently unveiled what might be the next generation of image compression technology. Based on the JPEG format, the new JPEGmini is compatible with existing JPEG but capable of reducing the file size of an image by up to 5X without any visible loss of image quality. A revolution on its way? MegaPixel.co.il set out to test it …

Despite many developments in camera technology in recent years, very little emphasis was given by manufacturers to kids as potential users. Even when manufacturers rarely do choose to market kids cameras they are typically fully automatic point and shoot devices. A young industrial designer with a passion for photography decided to try and change that by creating a model of …

At a press conference held last week in Tel Aviv, Samsung Imaging unveiled its 2011 line for the Israeli market. After the formal talk was over the MegaPixel team had a chance for some exclusive talk with Samsung Regional product manager discussing Samsung's views on the photography market and some of its future plans. Last week we sat down for …

Earlier today Pentax has announced the new Pentax O-GPS1 unit designed for PENTAX digital SLR cameras. The unit does not only track Global positioning satellites but Pentax also claims it tracks  celestial body location data for both earthbound and astrophotography purposes. The Pentax O-GPS1 is mounted on the hot shoe of either the K-5, K-r or 645D (after the appropriate …

Your precious camera got stolen? you left it on the park bench and came back to find that someone already picked it up? a new web service promises to help you track it down…as long as the perpetrator decided to use it and post some pictures online. We check it out. The website with the somewhat long (but appropriate) name …

We received the Epson R3000 in late December 2010 – almost an entire month before it was announced. The new Epson Photo printer is designed for advanced amateur and professional photographers, it allows for A3+ prints and includes many of the most recent print technologies introduced by Epson. Today we present to you Dr. Boris Oicherman's review of the R3000. …