When Google Street View rolled out in 2007, it became the "world's photographer." Since then, artist Jon Rafman has been collecting moments captured by Google's Street View cars.
This week marks the release of Rolling Stones: At The Max in theaters, a remastered version of the first-ever feature-length IMAX concert movie.
In modern photography, nearly every part of the workflow has evolved at an incredible pace. Sensors are larger, resolutions are higher, and video formats now reach deep into 8K and beyond. Yet one of the smallest pieces of gear in your bag plays one of the biggest roles in whether your camera can take full advantage of that power: the memory card. For professional photographers, choosing the right media is not a convenience. It is a critical decision that affects performance, reliability, data safety, and ultimately the quality of the work you deliver.
Viltrox has been busy so far in December. Alongside wide-angle and telephoto conversion lenses for Fujifilm X100 Series cameras, the Chinese lens maker has also launched a new 2x teleconverter for Sony E-mount cameras. The new teleconverter works with the expected Sony lenses, plus Viltrox's 135mm f/1.8 prime.
Japanese stationery and electronics company Nakabayashi Co. Ltd. is all-in on fun cameras. The company recently announced a wide-ranging line-up of cameras that runs the gamut from keychain toy cameras to point-and-shoot film cameras.
The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards have unveiled their highly anticipated winning photos. The annual competition, sure to put a smile on everyone's faces, garnered a record-breaking number of entries this year.
Alongside a new wide-angle conversion lens for Fujifilm X100-series cameras, Viltrox, maker of great optics, has also launched a new telephoto conversion lens for X100 models. The lens offers a 1.4x magnification, delivering a 50mm equivalent focal length on the X100.
Viltrox, best known for its excellent camera lenses, has announced a new Wide Conversion Lens that attaches to the built-in lens on Fujifilm's popular X100 compact cameras, including the newest X100VI model launched last year. The conversion lens turns the X100's 35mm equivalent lens into a wide-angle 28mm prime.
The winner of the inaugural Tom Stoddart Award for Excellence is Laura Pannack for her project ‘The Journey Home from School,’ which portrays the perilous journey children in the Cape Flats, South Africa, face while traveling to and from school.
Godox announced the AD300Pro II, a new all-in-one outdoor flash arriving five years after the original AD300Pro.
Google Photos may have "photos" in its name, but recent and upcoming updates focus on powerful new video editing tools. Leading the charge is a new feature to let users create an automated highlight reel of their video clips and photos in just a few clicks.
The Italian coffee brand Lavazza hired street photographer Alex Webb to shoot its 2026 calendar, using his colorful aesthetic to capture the essence of life in Italy.
Leica Sports Optics, which makes the legendary photo company's binoculars, spotting scopes, and weapon sights, announced a pair of new Leica Ultravid White Ocean binoculars. The 7x42 binoculars are designed to be a powerful and elegant companion for people's luxurious outdoor adventures, especially those on the ocean.
McDonald's released an AI-generated Christmas ad featuring morphed faces and mangled bodies, but the filmmakers behind it insist they "hardly slept" for seven weeks while adding, "AI didn't make this film. We did."
The window to enter the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards 2026 is quickly closing, and photographers have about a month left to enter this year's competition. Entries remain open for the Professional, Open, and Youth competitions until early January, and there are some fantastic prizes up for grabs. The Sony World Photography Awards have shared 21 entries from the upcoming competition to inspire other photographers to join the competition.
Capture the Atlas has unveiled the winners of its eighth annual Northern Lights Photographer of the Year contest, and the 15 award-winning photos below are as beautiful as they are inspiring.
Based on the novella of the same name, Netflix's new film "Train Dreams" is shot to look like photos from the era in which the movie takes place: the early 20th century. Although shot on modern Arri Alexa 35 cameras, the film employs a 3:2 aspect ratio, is almost entirely lit with natural light, and has an exceptionally filmic, beautiful appearance.
Sometimes the universe has a sense of humor. Other times, it hands you a $10 cinema lens that shouldn’t exist outside a collector’s dream and whispers, “Here, go make magic.” This is exactly what happened to Mathieu Stern, the intrepid lens hunter who just scored cinematic history for about the price of a nice latte.
Last week, photographer Dan Martland published a video on Instagram where he claims that a two-day old Hasselblad X2D II 100C that he purchased from Pictureline started to significantly malfunction. After trying to work with Hasselblad directly to resolve the issue, the camera company and Pictureline both declined to replace the unit, citing severe water damage.
A rarely seen seven-arm octopus known as “the blob octopus” was captured on camera 2,300 feet below the surface in remarkable deep-sea footage.
A photographer has captured a series of exquisite images of foxes in snow to highlight each of their personalities and to show they don't deserve their "sly" and "cunning" labels.
A volcano in Hawaii sent lava spewing toward a remote camera recording the eruption, engulfing it in ash and knocking it offline.
After renaming his company to reflect its shift toward the metaverse in 2021 when he declared it as the next frontier, Mark Zuckerberg is now set to make big cuts to Meta's Reality Labs.
A new Netflix documentary about Sean “Diddy” Combs features never-before-seen footage shot by an unnamed videographer who was allegedly never paid for the work. Combs is now arguing that the footage was never authorized for release.
2027 will mark 50 years since the release of the very first Star Wars movie and Lucasfilm has officially announced it will re-release the original 1977 version in theaters for a limited time.
Trains in the United Kingdom were delayed after someone shared an AI-edited photo showing damage to a railway bridge, prompting officials to stop rail services so they could carry out an inspection.
Celebrated British photographer Martin Parr, routinely listed among the best and most influential photographers in history, passed away this weekend at 73 following a multi-year battle with cancer.
A national Canadian magazine has apologized to a photographer after drawing her images when she declined to license them.
Last month, The Dream (The Bed) by Frida Kahlo sold for $54.7 million, breaking the auction record for a work by a woman. Fascinatingly, Kahlo's 1940 painting was created for -- and inspired by -- American photographer Nickolas Muray, who produced some of the most iconic portraits of the artist.
When someone says Slovenia, what comes to mind? Dragons, mountains, craft beer? Maybe so, but Slovenia is a country that no one really talks about. Originally part of Yugoslavia, Slovenia became independent in 1992, and few travelers have mentioned whether they’ve been to Slovenia.
