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Skylum, the makers of Luminar Neo photo editing software, announced an expansion for its Luminar Adventures project by adding six new destinations over the next year.

Google's "About This Image" tool, announced last May during Google I/O, combs an image's metadata to find context and identify if it's an AI fake or not. The tool is now rolling out as part of Google's updated search tools.

After California signed its "Right to Repair" bill into law, tech giant Apple today has come out in full support of a nationwide federal law and is ready to share tools, parts, and documentation with consumers and repair shops.

A new tool created by a team at the University of Chicago can add undetectable pixels to images to help creatives protect their work from AI image generators by effectively poisoning (corrupting) the AI's training data.

Major United States chipmaker Western Digital (WD) is finalizing plans to "spin off its semiconductor memory business" and merge with Japanese company Kioxia Holdings Corporation.

German stock photography company EyeEm has been purchased by Freepik, a platform that provides images and other media.

A wedding photographer from Sydney, Australia has disappeared with his clients' money, despite previously running a seemingly successful photo business.

A stock photographer has revealed the results of his experiment that saw him upload 100 images to free stock photo websites.

An Irish photographer has defended her $63,000 (€60,000) salary after a senator compared the job to taking photos on a smartphone.

Yesterday, Blackmagic Design announced its first-ever full-frame cinema camera, the Cinema Camera 6K. The camera is significant for many reasons, not the least of which is that the full-frame camera sports an L-Mount, marking Blackmagic Design's entry into the growing L-Mount Alliance.

Throughout the history of photography, few names have endured for as long and few have left as significant of an impact on the medium as Olympus.

The Royal Photographic Society (RPS) surveyed its members about their views on generative artificial intelligence (AI), how these AI models are trained, and how AI affects the value of photography.

This week, Adobe announced the public release of Adobe Firefly, the company's generative artificial intelligence platform, and updates to Premiere Pro. Adobe has also announced a price hike for Creative Cloud subscription plans and record revenue for its third fiscal quarter this year.

At the CP+2023 Camera & Photo Imaging Show in Japan earlier this year, I had a conversation with Keiji Oishi, Manager in the UX Planning Department of Nikon’s Imaging Business Unit.

Today, most of the consumer-grade camera landscape is dominated by less than half a dozen brands. Canon, Sony, and Nikon take the lion’s share in terms of sales and public recognition, while almost all the gaps are filled by smaller companies like Fujifilm and Pentax.

A new creator's guild that aims to represent a spectrum of content makers, including photographers, has been launched.

Shipments for digital cameras are at their highest point since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and that boom is being largely driven by China, Sony and Nikon say.

Tamron has announced that its President and CEO, Shiro Ajisaka, has resigned. Mr. Ajisaka is currently under investigation for allegedly using company funds for personal gain.

Canon executives have definitively stated that the company has no intention of releasing lens roadmaps, stating that it instead prefers to surprise customers.

Canon executives in China were asked by local journalists when the company might consider opening the RF lens mount to third-party optics, and the company confirmed that it is currently evaluating options -- just on a case-by-case basis.

XP-Pen has announced the second-generation, $599 Artist Pro 16 display tablet for artists and retouchers. The updated tablet boasts a 2.5K resolution with a stylus that leverages an X3 Pro Smart Chip with a "world-first" 16K pen pressure technology.

Intel is walking away from its plans to acquire Tower Semiconductor, a chip and CMOS sensor manufacturer that Panasonic once owned a major stake in.

Eastman Kodak will continue to manufacture film as long as there is demand for it, the company's executive chairman said on a conference call to shareholders this week.

California-based drone maker Skydio has announced that it will "sunset" its consumer drone offerings.

The world's leading photo agencies and photographer associations have co-signed an open letter calling for legal protections against artificial intelligence (AI).

While attending the CP+ 2023 show in Yokohama earlier this year, I met with representatives of Fujifilm and had a chance to ask them about the reasons behind some camera features, the details of a recent firmware update, specifics about some of their future plans, and some more philosophical questions about 8K video and whether there’s still a place for “entry-level” models in the industry these days.

A photographer has shone a light on the "underwhelming" pay sometimes offered by huge fashion magazines after revealing she was paid $300 by Vogue for a full day's shoot and edit.

The Eastman Kodak Company has signed a perpetual licensing agreement with EssilorLuxottica that grants the massive eyewear company exclusive rights to use Kodak's brand for any products or services in connection with its business.

Couples increasingly want instant images from their wedding photographer so they can update their social media pages immediately after the ceremony.

Incredibly popular wedding site The Knot has been accused of cheating advertisers and creating a hostile workplace for its employees.

Shutterstock's Contributor Fund aims to give back to photographers and artists whose work has been used to train generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools -- such as the AI image generator the company is currently promoting.

Researchers at the streaming powerhouse Netflix have discovered an innovative way to quickly, easily, and potentially more accurately remove green screens from a scene by turning their actors a bright magenta using red and blue foreground lights.

A commercial photographer has taken to YouTube to debunk some of the myths that exist around high-end food and drink photography -- perpetuated by a TikTok account.

Instax is no doubt a popular product line for Fujifilm, but the company has recently revealed that it is even more valuable than some might realize: it is one of the most important for its entire imaging division and accounts for a majority of sales.

National Geographic, a magazine renowned for its photojournalism and wildlife photography, has laid off the last of its remaining staff writers and a number of other employees, according to multiple departing staff writers. The move signals a possible decline for the publication.