Prime Day has arrived, which means deals on nearly every product under the Sun. For photographers, the big question is: What are the best deals on cameras? There are a fair number of pretty compelling ones, from instant film cameras all the way up to professional-grade digital cameras.
GoPro needs a win right now. Competition from DJI and Insta360 has never been stronger, its profits are down, and it has not released a flagship Hero Black camera in nearly two years. The GoPro Mission 1 Pro ($699) is its best chance to turn things around.
Amazon Prime Day has arrived, and there are many excellent deals on memory cards, portable storage, and NAS systems. The discounts help ease the pain of rising memory prices that photographers have been feeling all year.
Alongside Studio Pro, its new photo editing platform designed for high-volume working photographers, VSCO announced VSCO One, and it's getting a lot of attention, and not only for good reasons.
Over 10 years ago, photographer Dustin Snipes revealed how he captured an iconic shot of NBA star Anthony Davis dunking the Sun. But fast-forward 11 years, and Red Bull once again commissioned Snipes to do a near-identical shoot. Only this time with AJ Dybantsa, who is projected to be the number one pick at today's NBA Draft.
A man in Singapore has been left utterly dumbfounded after discovering an ex-schoolmate was using his photos to AI-generate a fairytale family life on social media.
Last month, authorities in Moscow banned the city's population from sharing photos and videos of what it calls "terrorist attacks." But that's being tested after Ukrainian drones blew up part of the city's oil refinery last week.
Cycling is all about getting outside, zooming through beautiful vistas, and just generally being in touch with reality. So it was a bizarre choice for outdoor retailer REI to use a ridiculous AI image on Instagram this past week.
Scientists have captured incredible footage of a spider building an ingenious snare trap to catapult its prey into its web.
Supergirl actor David Corenswet was seen confronting a photographer who touched his co-star Milly Alcock’s back while asking for a photo of her at the film’s premiere.
A photographer used his drone to warn a surfer who had no idea that a large shark was circling beneath him in the Californian coast.
ObscuraFlex, the system designed to function as both a digital viewfinder and a full-frame digital back for large format cameras such as 4x5 systems and adapted vintage platforms, is expanding beyond its original smartphone-first workflow.
Pelican has announced the Next Generation Protector Series, an update on its most well-known hard cases that most photographers simply refer to as a "Pelican case."
A new iPhone camera app, M-Kamera, attempts to bring the rangefinder camera experience to mobile, including rangefinder-style focusing and a virtual film winder.
Looking to upgrade your content creation kit for less? SmallRig's Prime Day sale includes major discounts across tripods, lighting, batteries, smartphone filmmaking accessories, camera support gear, action camera accessories, and creator-focused tools, with savings available on many of the brand's most popular products.
NiSi has announced the 16mm f/2.8 ultra-wide prime lens for Fujifilm GFX and Hasselblad XCD mounts. With a 35mm equivalent focal length of 12.6mm, the lens is not only extremely wide, but it is also the fastest such prime lens available for medium format systems.
Sony's first LOFIC image sensor, the Lytia L910, is arriving in flagship smartphones later this year. The upcoming 50-megapixel sensor promises significantly improved image quality with expanded dynamic range compared to traditional image sensors.
Is it a DJI Osmo? Is it an Insta360 Luna? Nope, it's a Goojodoq GFS025, and it, for whatever reason, is a handheld camera fan.
Japan introduced laws in 2023 criminalizing "photo voyeurism," which prohibits acts like upskirting. But despite the new legislation, it remains one of the country's most common sex offenses.
Fujifilm has opened applications for the 2026 GFX Challenge Grant Program, offering photographers and filmmakers worldwide the opportunity to receive funding, mentorship, and access to Fujifilm's medium-format camera system to help bring ambitious creative projects to life.
FIFA has agreed to move photographers during pre-match national anthems at the 2026 World Cup after complaints from England head coach Thomas Tuchel.
England national team coach Thomas Tuchel made headlines last week for two reasons. One, his team sailed to an easy 4-1 victory over European rival Croatia. And two, Tuchel complained about how the gaggle of photographers positioned between Tuchel and his players ruined a really important pre-game moment during England's national anthem. Another coach, German manager Julian Nagelsmann, is 100% on Tuchel's side.
Getty Images and OpenAI announced a multi-year display partnership to bring Getty Images' licensed content into OpenAI search and discovery experiences inside ChatGPT. The news sent Getty's stocks temporarily soaring more than 200% during premarket trading.
As digital technology has become ever more ingrained in modern life, a paradox has emerged alongside it: analog pursuits have experienced a remarkable resurgence.
The 2026 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year has unveiled its shortlist -- and there are some real bangers on there.
In an era where we are obsessed with megapixels, AI-driven autofocus, and high-ISO performance, I find myself regularly putting down my Leica M10-R and my Leica M11-P to pick up a tool that, on paper, has no business competing in 2026: the Leica M9 Monochrom.
Japanese photo retailer Shoten Kobo is now selling the Wahei Optical 'Peace' 35mm f/1.4, a classic-looking, clearly Leica-inspired 35mm f/1.4 lens for M mount.
For the past several months, the photography community has been subjected to the strangest series of product launches that we've ever seen. I use the word "launches" very loosely, because two-thirds of those products have yet to actually "launch."
OM System Cameras have an enormous range of unique and uncommon features. Getting to know what they do can open up whole new photographic opportunities.
Travel and nature photographer Jake Guzman has spent the past two years creating Otherworldly America, a new 256-page photography book that features hundreds of photos Guzman has captured all across America, from Alaska and Hawai'i all the way to New England. It is a beautiful look at what makes the United States such a special place for landscape photographers, and a rich well of photo opportunities that can never truly be exhausted.
"I was scared to hire a photographer for my wedding," says the sister of Reagan Simmons Hancock in the harrowing Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct. It's not surprising. Her sister was murdered by her wedding photographer.
A new exhibition explores how photography became central to the making of the famed fashion house Yves Saint Laurent over four decades.
The winning photos from the third annual Nature and Humans Photo Competition reveal two very different but equally important aspects of non-human animals.
The World Cup, probably the biggest and most captivating sporting event on Earth, is laden with photographers on the pitch but what about getting closer to the action as a fan? A smartphone with a teleconverter lens attached lands as a worthwhile alternative -- provided you have the right combination.
Looking for a Father's Day gift for the dad-slash-photographer in your life, or maybe that's you? This week's Father's Day deals include substantial savings on cameras, lenses, and tripods from Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic, OM System, Manfrotto, Gitzo, Falcam, Fotopro, and Zeiss, with discounts of hundreds to thousands of dollars on select items.
Last fall, TourBox released the Dynamic Panel for Lightroom, a new plugin for Adobe Lightroom Classic and Lightroom that enabled full-screen, clutter-free photo editing inside Lightroom when used alongside the TourBox Elite creative editing console. Dynamic Panel V2 has arrived with several new panels that photographers demanded.
Often, videographers and video editors are forced to use two separate headphones: one for production and one for personal use. Fender's new Mix headphones are somewhat unique in that they seem designed to adapt to whatever you might need in a given moment with minimal complexity to get there.
Pattern Recognition Company (PRC) has announced that Excire Foto 2027 is now available, promising improved search, organization, and workflow tools for photographers.
Camera traps have captured wolves hunting a herd of European bison in an ancient forest in Poland for the first time.
7Artisans has introduced its new Dream Cine Lens Series, a full-frame manual-focus lens lineup designed for creators stepping into filmmaking. Built around a unified cine workflow, the series aims to bring professional cinematic control into an accessible, lightweight system for independent filmmakers, content creators, and film students.
DZOFilm has announced the Octopus II, a new lightweight lens adapter that enables filmmakers to use Arri PL-mount lenses on Sony E-, Nikon Z-, Canon RF-, and L-Mount cameras.
This week, Lee Morris at Fstoppers published a video titled "Your Memory Cards Are Probably Fake." In it, he asserts that scam companies are so prevalent and so good at faking their products that it's likely nearly every photographer is a victim.
Midjourney has been largely surpassed in the AI image world by tech behemoths Google and OpenAI. But today it’s made a surprise announcement: it’s getting into health.
England national football team coach Thomas Tuchel is begging FIFA to move photographers during the 2026 World Cup after they blocked Tuchel's view of his team during England's anthem, "God Save the King."
A wedding photographer who has the same name as a heinous criminal and subject of the true crime Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct says that people are mistaking her for the murderer and leaving her one-star reviews on her business.
Few cameras can claim to have the impact of the DJI Osmo Pocket 3, which delivered a compact, affordable gimbal camera that proved enormously popular. So popular, in fact, that DJI’s closest rival Insta360 has decided to get in on the compact gimbal cam action with the new Insta360 Luna Ultra.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) loosened restrictions on some Chinese-made drones this week, although only those that count as "toy drones" and only those that exist within a preposterously narrow definition of what counts as a "toy drone."
Xtra has revealed a host of specifications and a pricing window for its impending Muse 2 Pro, a DJI Osmo Pocket 4P look-alike that will be the only challenger to Insta360's Luna Ultra in the United States.
After axing thousands of jobs and monitoring employees as they train the AI that could ultimately replace them, it's perhaps unsurprising that morale at Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is at a low ebb.
Novelty popcorn buckets are typically characters from Hollywood blockbusters. For example, there was a Grogu bucket for the recent Star Wars movie.
